[neilep]

Guys and gals ..if you go to your PROFILE,,,then just move your pointer over PROFILE INFO it displays a menu which ewe can use to display MY POSTS !! (SHOW POSTS)

...also..Dave...not too sure if this has been mentioned yet but if you can place NEW TOPIC at the top of the pages too then that would be nice !

[RD]

Security breach !

a spammer "uktrvel" has managed to start a thread in QOTW, (see attachment below).

[ Their text is a verbatim copy of a previous QOTW ... http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=41120.0  ]

[Karen W.]

Hey Neily....didn't you mean hair brained??? Loll...loll... J/K....HEE HEE HEE...

[Karen W.]

BY THE WAY DAVE...THE NEW SITE IS LOOKING GOOD..SORRY I WAS AWAY..I FORGOT MY PASSWORD...TWO TIMES NOW....LOL.. ME BRAIN IS HAIRED ALSO!!!

[RD]

I noticed duplicated posts in a thread from 2004 ... http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=775.msg5833#msg5833

#8   = #11
#9   = #12
#10 = #13

[CliffordK]

Censored Words?

I was posting in another topic:
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=33918.msg377822#msg377822

And...  inadvertently I wrote the sentence....

A little pin was in the lid to ***** the fat end of the eggs.

And... to my surprise, the word "p r i c k" was censored.   [xx(]

I suppose I understand the necessity to censor some words, I am just surprised about which words get censored.

[SeanB]

Rather like the council where the word e rect ion was censored, which did cause a lot of problems for the planning department as they got no mail at all.

[rosy]

Sigh. That's not technically a problem with the new forum software... I'm reasonably sure it'll be an over-zealousness of the wikipedia blacklist. What /is/ an issue with the new software is that I don't know how to get to the whitelist to put in an over-ride... I'll have to figure that out.

[Geezer]

It should be allowed as long as it is not preceded by "ewe little".

[RD]

... I am just surprised about which words get censored.

That's a recognised phenomenon: the Scunthorpe problem.

[CliffordK]

... I am just surprised about which words get censored.

That's a recognised phenomenon: the Scunthorpe problem.

Ahhh...  Sending me off to a whole web page that has been censored!!!!

But, I know the issue with filters...  often something was ok in one context, and not good in another context.  For example when doing Tech-Support, I would routinely filter out any message that contained the word "Viagra".  But, I knew that this would mean that I would miss any messages that would be sent to me complaining about the issue.   

I chose to archive all the SPAM, and then would scan the spam archives every few weeks for missed messages.

I tried to only blacklist suspicious external mail, and whitelist all internal mail (as well as mail from know acquaintances), but was only moderately effective in doing so.
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Sorry if I've led this off topic.  I see that some issues are being resolved such as missing topics, and people seem to be fairly good at the work-arounds.

Should I mention that I can't use the smilie..          
[:-[]

A couple of other "enhancements".  It would be nice to flag "new" topics on the main Forum page, as well as the recent topics page.

I would prefer a reverse chronological order by default on the recent topics pages.

As mentioned earlier, I liked the GREEK & scientific letter shortcuts that were available earlier.

I've gotten used to typing in URL links by hand, but some websites effectively use pull-down menus to encourage a person to put in the link + description.

Anyway, thanks for all the hard effort in getting the website back up.

[CliffordK]

For some reason, "Recent Topics" aren't so recent today.
It was working fine this morning.

[RD]

Hurrah "My Posts" is back !

[neilep]

shpeil chquer pleeze

[RD]

shpeil chquer pleeze

spellcheck in the browser is quicker than the old TNS spellchecker ... http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=42525.msg375919#msg375919

[CliffordK]

Topics posted under "Just Chat" don't seem to always show up under "Recent Topics".  Or, there may be a delay until a new topic is posted after them.

Anyway, I've posted some replies under "Just Chat", then don't see them showing up under "Recent Topics" until after a bit of a delay, if at all.

[neilep]

shpeil chquer pleeze

spellcheck in the browser is quicker than the old TNS spellchecker ... http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=42525.msg375919#msg375919

Thanks RD. I notice 'Speckie' is for IE. Is their one for Firefox ?..I have checked in the advance tab within Firefox for it to actually check spelling but it does not !!


OK...I found one..installed it..then had to install a dictionary too !....Thanks for the prompt !

[CliffordK]

I was throwing together a diagram with the new graphics program, to illustrate some calculations.



Whenever I tried saving the image, the rotated square (yellow) seemed to vanish.  I was only able to get my image to show up by saving it as a png, then inserting the png into the page, which means I could have done the same thing with any graphics program.

Nothing subtle about the images created by the TNS graphics program.

Also, taking the yellow square and rotating it, it always seemed to mess up the aspect ratio, but perhaps that is a side-effect of the way the graphics are laid out.  It was a pain because it was cumbersome to fix the aspect ration of the now rotated square to fit it inside of the circle & outer square.