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Stupid Board Tricks

Post by kurtisnelson » Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:07 pm

vBulletin is starting to bug me. It is not always tracking new posts. I am reading a thread and I realize that someone is referencing a post I never saw. Also, it seems to count new posts from your last visit, and not that you have read. So whenever I load the site, if I don't go through all the new threads right then, it looses track of them. Anyone else having similar problems?


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Re: Stupid Board Tricks

Post by felinefan » Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:22 pm

Yes, there have been times I've been reading threads on here, and when I click on "new posts", it goes to ones I've already seen, though it had the whole list before. I notice this seems to happen most often very late at night, around midnight or after. It didn't use to do this. Another thing that bugs me is that it makes you wait 150 seconds between posts; I'm on a half dozen other forums, and this one is the only one that does this. That too, is a recent occurrence. Why?


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Re: Stupid Board Tricks

Post by BriDon51 » Sun Jun 15, 2008 11:14 pm

felinefan wrote:Yes, there have been times I've been reading threads on here, and when I click on "new posts", it goes to ones I've already seen, though it had the whole list before. I notice this seems to happen most often very late at night, around midnight or after. It didn't use to do this. Another thing that bugs me is that it makes you wait 150 seconds between posts; I'm on a half dozen other forums, and this one is the only one that does this. That too, is a recent occurrence. Why?
The posting rule can be changed by the webmaster to as much/little as they deem necessary. My other forum also a vB one has set up a 19 second rule.



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Re: Stupid Board Tricks

Post by hobie16 » Sun Jun 15, 2008 11:22 pm

felinefan wrote:Another thing that bugs me is that it makes you wait 150 seconds between posts; I'm on a half dozen other forums, and this one is the only one that does this. That too, is a recent occurrence. Why?
Because one poster was averaging over eighteen posts a day.


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Re: Stupid Board Tricks

Post by mechurchlady » Sun Jun 15, 2008 11:35 pm

hobie16 wrote:Because one poster was averaging over eighteen posts a day.
You mean a minute, hrmph,
It has gotten that I have stopped coming here that often due to health problems and then there is the chain of posts by one person so that I have lost what the topic was or had become. About ready to quit.


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Re: Stupid Board Tricks

Post by hobie16 » Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:21 am

mechurchlady wrote:You mean a minute, hrmph..
It wasn't quite that bad but eighteen was an average number.


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Re: Stupid Board Tricks

Post by drcorey » Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:37 am

felinefan wrote:Yes, there have been times I've been reading threads on here, and when I click on "new posts", it goes to ones I've already seen, though it had the whole list before. I notice this seems to happen most often very late at night, around midnight or after. It didn't use to do this. Another thing that bugs me is that it makes you wait 150 seconds between posts; I'm on a half dozen other forums, and this one is the only one that does this. That too, is a recent occurrence. Why?
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Re: Stupid Board Tricks

Post by GRUMPY PIRATE » Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:45 am

hobie16 wrote:Because one poster was averaging over eighteen posts a day.
So you're saying that you can only post here as long as its a number of times you agree with?

What if someone else has a different idea on the number?

Or perhaps what if soemone dosn't like the content of the posts?

or perhaps if someone was PNG'd from a park, should they be allowed to post?

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Re: Stupid Board Tricks

Post by CBeilby » Mon Jun 16, 2008 2:14 am

Can we please not have this flamewar again? I don't want to see anyone banned, and last time this happened, that's exactly where it went.


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Re: Stupid Board Tricks

Post by mechurchlady » Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:19 am

Wow we must have some hot smilies, lol.
Hobie started it.
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