Thanks Lori for everything... Thought it was because sommat i said--- coz it occured just after i posted a reply..   

Hey Lori---- Don't forget to keep in touch with the start of the Last BB here in the UK... Things should pick up --- begining of June we think.... This is a big thing for us UK addicts, and hope you can promote it to it's full extent.

If you've got that kinda power, we've got a problem!

Lori..... new problem that I haven't had before I can't post in one particular thread..... the let's get one thing clear thread, by Xochi. First it posted a quote, but not my comment... now I keep getting the *you have not provided comment* message. I seem to be able to post in other threads OK.

In the "so, so very Wrong" thread there are 26 replies but I can only see 2, then El Loro's Avi but not his reply as the page stops there

Bazille:
That happens to me sometimes, as well.  Go back and try again.  If it still doesn't work, cancel your comment, and then refresh the page.  Try again.  Note that the last time this happened to me, it posted, even though I still had the "you must submit a comment" or whatever that message is.

Yellow Rose:  The thread and it's responses are definitely there (although you may be better off for not seeing it )  Try refreshing the page, and/or clearing your cache, and see if that makes it better.  I'm guessing that something on that page has corrupted your browser view.

Yellow Rose and Lori

I've just had a look at my first post on the So So Very Wrong thread and can see why Yellow Rose has had a problem. At that stage the top photo could not be seen by anybody as the poster had linked it to their Hotmail account which of course meant that without being logged on that Hotmail account, no-else could see the photo. So I pur a gigantic ? as my post. That ? was large enough that it slighlty extended over the line separating the avatar etc section from the body of the posting. I have now edited that posting to a normal size so Yellow Rose should be able to see the whole page.

Frankly if I had known what the photo actually looked like I would never have come to the initial poster's aid in being able to show the photo.

I tried all that Lori....... but will keep trying

Bazille and Lori, I've had a look at Xochi's thread as I wondered if the problem might have been caused by a similar posting as my gigantic ? mentioned above but couldn't see that problem.

The only unusual thing I have noticed is Xochi's Ranting smiley in the opening post. Unusually if one right clicks over this smiley, the menu which appears shows that not only does it show the usual lines for an image, it also shows the lines for a link to a website address. In other words, this smiley is a cross between an image and a link. I am wondering if that is the cause of the problem, though I have no problem in posting on that thread myself.

Similar here YR. I can see as far as El Loro`s question mark post and nothing past that.

It's not just me then lol. Lori I cleared the cache and refreshed the page but it's still the same although I can see El's question mark now which I couldn't earlier, so the page has moved a tad lol. Edit to add I can see Xochi's thread which some say they can't

Well, this wouldn't be the first time that a posted image has caused trouble for people.  Can anyone reach Xochi and ask her to edit that image out, just for a test?  Then we can see if that's the problem....

I have just deleted my post on the Wrong thread so that Scotty and Yellow Rose should be able to see all the posts.

I had created the original gigantic question mark in Word and pasted it on the thread. I had since got rid of the gigantic question mark and replace it with an oridnary mark, so the post now looked normal and I had assumed that it was OK. However I was not aware that the pasting from Word had included various lines of code which remained even though I had removed the question mark. I am fairly certain that it is these lines of code which were causing the problens rather than the question mark itself. So by deleting the posting has hopefully got rid of the problem lines of coding.

I have sent a PM to Lori about this together with the lines of coding which were causing the problem. I will not repeat the lines here as I do not wish to risk affecting this thread.

Xochi is a creature of the night....  she usually springs to life after midnight GMT

So, that explains a lot, El Loro.  Anytime you copy and paste from Word, it includes all kinds of extra code that messes up formatting in different ways.

El Loro I can see the thread now  I've noticed in other Forums that if people use Word instead of Word Pad it creates problems, all's well now

I can see it now too El Loro.

Well I'm glad that that's sorted

why cannot there be submit reply to each poster? i find it irritating and confusing to to have to highlight, go to the bottem and click reply before I can, hence rarely come on here any more! this place seems so complcated and never had this problem else where lol! sorry, but thats how it effects me.

I think many of us would like this. Not that it's much comfort but there is also a Post Reply box at the top of the page as well as the bottom one.

Yes that would be good as atm we have to reply on the same page as the message is  posted. Sometimes there are several pages but we cannot reply on the last page once we've read all the posts

Rexi
bazille
brisket
thank you for that, thats very kind! to the lady from live cloud i know how to highlight now and then click at bottem re preply then put in the name(s) but its so usch a ridiculous performance and takes ages. when we had BB chat forum you just clicked on any post you wanted to reply withoput all this rigmerole, its irriating to the extreme and I know so un necessary? I beli=ong toa  group on Face book as well and thats dead simple, so why cannot you make this site easy as well!???

I had just hight ligeted several people to reply to with quotes but they did not appear. I am not interested in longggggggggggggggg instruction Live cloud, sorry, but its so not necessary. I am not completely Ga ga (lol!) as did produce a son who went to uni and works in IT

now i want to go back and sort out spelling typing erros but seems no means to edit either! okay, found that, thanks. but why can it not just say edit and be done with?

In order to correct an error, do this
Move your pointer so that it is over the post you want to correct. At the bottom of that post on the right hand side you shoud see 4 little icons (the two easiet to describe are the second which is a red flag and the third which is a dustbin).
It is the 4th icon you want. Move yoor pointer so that it is over that icon and you should see "Edit Post" appearing. So click on that icon. Note that you will only see that icon on your posts, not on other peoples'.
After a moment you should see your posting comment box with the original text in it.
The process of editing is what you would expect. Move the cursor (the blinking line) to where you want to edt. Use the Backspace to delete the error and tpye in the revised text.
When you have finished, click the Submit Reply button as normal. You should then come back to the forum page showing your revised post.
However you may find that when you click on the Submit Reply button, you get two spinning cogs appear and just stay there. This happens to many of us and has been reported to Gagajoyjoy many times. Hopefully one day they will correct this bug. However if this does happen to you, don't worry because your edited message has been posted. The simplest thing to do is to refresh the screen. If you are using Internet Explorer or Firefox just press the F5 key on your keyboard. You will then see the refreshed screen.

In the very next version, as a matter of fact.

I just had a reason to wonder if in the future it will be possible to add a Preview button to the Forum which other Forums I'm used to have. It can be very useful

Hi Yellow Rose, as I don't use other forums, I'm not familiar with this 'preview' thing. What would it be previewing?

Edit: Oh, I think I've got it! Previewing your post before you send it. A bit like 'print preview' in MS Word.

Well Lori, today I'm not being able to post in the SPL thread in the Sports forum.
It keeps telling me I haven't supplied any content - which of course I have.

But since you can edit at pretty much any time, will it's usefulness really make that much of a difference?

And of course, now it has let me post.

Fluffy, so that's why you set up the Grand Prix Alerts up in Big Brother.

Re: Previewing Post option...

I'd have no problem with it being an optional button that you pressed... say inbetween the Cancel & Submit Reply buttons...   but on some other forums I use you have to preview the post before submitting... its part of the submission process & its a right pain in the rear.... well it is if you have fast moving conversations.

Fluff does the BEST GP commentary!!  Much better than the telly.  If I get up late and need to be brought up to date .... Fluff's your girl!

(I have missed a lot of them this year on account of doing the daughter school run on Sundays)

That would drive me nuts too. And depending on just how it worked I could see it driving me off.

About the preview button:  it's SUPPOSED to be so easy to edit that a preview button would be unnecessary.... and when the edit bug gets fixed, it will be.

Fluffy:  that's a random problem that I think is related to whatever servlet you get (it's a lottery, kind of--roll the dice and it determines your servlet).

I've got lucky dice then, cos that's the first time that one has got ME.

A question about Polls if I may.
When a poll is devised there is a little check box which says
"Allow user to select multiple answers".
So does the poll allow 1 answer or multiple answers (an unstipulated number).
Or would I be able to devise a poll which allowed, for example 2 choices?
(Hope I've explained this ok.)

Hi brisket. If you check the box to permit users to select multiple answers, this means that each user can select as many choices as they want before they click the Vote button. Although users can make another vote, the new choices selected will replace all of the old ones, thus preventing someone from voting for the same choice over and over again. There is no way in which you can restrict the number of choices if more than 1.  I hope that explains it for you.

It does actually, as a tool tip after you put your cursor on the icon.

From left to right, the icons are:-

3 Link chain = Permalink - allows you to set up a link to that specific post.

Red flag = Report Post - alert a mod to a questionable post.

Dustbin = Delete Post - allows you to delete your post in its entirety

Paper and pencil = Edit post - allows you to edit your post virtually any time you want. It starts with a generous 'grace period' when you can edit without it being flagged up that you HAVE edited (though there are some provisos.). After this period you can still edit but it will be shown when the post was last edited.