New feature: sticky posts

Peter (Moderator) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Sep 26, 2008, 03:37:

I also removed the list of new users from the hompage to here: http://poorbuthappy.com/users/

Poor but snappy

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lpdiver says on Sep 26, 2008, 03:49:

GREAT...I have wanted that for a long time.

ts

"cook some rice!"

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Bill Turley (☼Travelguide writer) says on Sep 26, 2008, 09:09:

Mononoke28 says on Sep 26, 2008, 09:58:

All I know is that when I tried to open the first sticky post it hosed up my computer so badly that I had to shut down and restart. NEVER AGAIN.

Diana

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Desi1 (Moderator) says on Sep 26, 2008, 10:15:

That's because it contains so many photos. It takes forever to open it on mine too.
Bill, a sticky post is a post that has been made to "stick", stay at the top of the page until one of the mods or Peter "unsticks" it. (Only the mods and Peter can make a post a sticky.)
The feature is widely used on discussion forums when the mods have something important to announce or there's a post that contains some very important information to users.

A fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi

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Mononoke28 says on Sep 26, 2008, 10:16:

In other forums they call them "Pinned Posts", so they never move and are always on top.

Yeah Desi, I'm never opening that one post ever again.

Diana

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Bill Turley (☼Travelguide writer) says on Sep 26, 2008, 15:15:

rocinante says on Sep 26, 2008, 21:50:

Can we allow Bold Italic and blockquote tags? We already have IMG and OBJECT and EMBED.

We are experiencing confusion with he said she said. People are misinterpreting quoted material as belonging to the poster.

Peter you can embed in every post from the serversice closing tags for all three of these - in case the user forgets to close. This way the whole thread doesn't go bold or italic.

"World economic indicators point to a democrat winning 2008. It will surely be Obama. Not that the US president actually runs the US." Feb 5, 2008

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