[CliffordK]

Is it possible to prohibit "newbies" from posting hyperlinks?

It is important to reference material and sources...  but, what about only allowing users to do so after say...  5 or 10 posts?

For the Newbies, also prohibit using words like http, https, com, www, dot, etc.

Of course, it could backfire and cause determined individuals to fill up the site with multiple posts of garbage  [xx(]  But, with any luck, it might discourage some of the spammers.

[CliffordK]

Now, that's odd.

Click on "My Posts" in white, under NAKED SCIENCE FORUM header and it takes you to a couple of pages of recent posts.

In black, there is a sub-header:
The Naked Science Forum - My Posts

Click on "My Posts" again in this second level (BLACK) header, and it takes you to "Recent Topics" instead of refreshing the "My Posts" page.

However, this is a chronological "Recent Topics" list, which is actually kind of a good format, perhaps easier to use than the "Recent Topics" arranged by category.

[CliffordK]

I found an excellent review article about AIDS and HIV that was "blocked" by TNS:

http://ezinearticles.com/?HIV-AIDS---Immunity,-Eradication-and-Its-Disappearing-Victims&id=3871400

I'm not sure how it got on the list....  should the site be blocked?

[CliffordK]

For some reason, today I am having a lot of problems opening the page:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/

Which in many cases is the main shortcut to the forum.  It is in the hyperlinks on the left side of the page.
I see a perpetual busy symbol, with nothing happening.  It doesn't refresh, but doesn't see to time-out either.

However...

I can open most other pages just fine, as well as:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php

Which takes me to where the above link should take me. 

[yor_on]

Same here tonight, couldn't reach TNS for? 15 minutes or more..
And it seems to happen a lot. Other websites was no problem though.

[Geezer]

Yes, I'm seeing the same thing. It was working very well for a while, but it seems to have deteriorated a bit in the last month or so.

[neilep]

Yep ditto the above !!


Although with my new ultra high speed connection (Have I ever mentioned that ?  [])...I no longer have all the issues that I did once before !

[neilep]

From 04:45am to 05:34am I could not log in and received these bountiful messages !


 [ Invalid Attachment ]

 [ Invalid Attachment ]

 [ Invalid Attachment ]

 [ Invalid Attachment ]


WHY ?

[Geezer]

I could not get to TNS around the same time.

[yor_on]

Maybe it was this then, the upcoming hardware failure that crashed out tries to connect? Or is it something totally unrelated, as in the software?

But it's been so for several months although lately it was worse. I first thought it had to do with TNS going through itself, cleaning up so to speak, but I don't know?
==

BTW: Dave, really well done, restoring the last two weeks or so. Losing one day won't kill us.

[Don_1]

There still seems to be some problems posting on the forum.

I have posted this logged in through IE.

Smiley faces don't seem to work and posting a picture from my own files can only be done by using alt+s on the keyboard. This results in the post being submited, rather than the picture being added to the post. If I then go to 'Modify post', I can only post modifications before the picture, not after.

Take this shot of my recent adventure into the skies:

EDIT
Strewth! Now I can't even see that! What's more this edit will doubless come before where the pic should have been.

So now, I will try the same post, this time logged in through Firefox.


EDIT AGAIN
Ah! The picture just appeared, but I can still only get that small pic shown off the attachment, not the picture in the body of the post.

OK, here goes again, this time with Firefox.

[Don_1]

Right, here I am again, this time using Firefox.

First off, is it me or the forum running very slow? I am having no problems loading pages on other sites, but TNS is very slow.

OK, so back to the original problem.

I'll just cut and paste the text of my previous post and try the smilies and picture attachment in the normal way.


There still seems to be some problems posting on the forum.

I have posted this logged in through IE Firefox.

Smiley faces don't seem to work and posting a picture from my own files can only be done by using alt+s on the keyboard. This results in the post being submited, rather than the picture being added to the post. If I then go to 'Modify post', I can only post modifications before the picture, not after.

Take this shot of my recent adventure into the skies:

 [ Invalid Attachment ]

EDIT

Again, I could only upload the picture by using shift+alt+s on the keyboard, which submitted the post, not, as used to be the case, insert the picture at the designated position. All I see is the attachment at the bottom of the post, and this edit will come before that.

Now for a smiley picked from the forum's own listed smilies: 

Somehow I get the feeling that only the code (I just typed that in) will appear. Lets see.....

[imatfaal]

Sorry Don we are working it.   

There are work arounds, but they are fairly tedious [ 8D]  - I thought square brackets, but obviously not

 [ Invalid Attachment ]

[Don_1]

 - modify the post and insert into message is now available[/attachment]

Yep, that worked.

Thanks for the info.

[RD]

[ 8D]  - I thought square brackets, but obviously not

If you remove the space between  [ and 8 ... [8D]

Take this shot of my recent adventure into the skies

I though my computer screen had a mark on it, but it's on your photo Don.
Cleaned version below ...

 [ Invalid Attachment ]
 

[imatfaal]

Nice protip there.  [] - hopefully I got it this time.

Were you flying or just along for the ride Don?

[Geezer]

Still, I don't really understand why we have smileys that still don't friggin work that appear to be dysfunctional 

[RD]

Still, I don't really understand why we have smileys that still don't friggin work that appear to be dysfunctional 

The square brackets do prevent accidentally creating an emoticon, e.g.

without the brackets " (score " could appear as  " (score [] ".

[Don_1]

Nice protip there.  [] - hopefully I got it this time.

Were you flying or just along for the ride Don?

I was indeed at the wheel, or joystick I should say. Hmmm, the term 'joystick' has some rather suggestive connotations, perhaps I should just say, I was flying the plane.

[RD]

"Preview post" isn't working the last few days : it gets stuck ...

e.g. whilst logged in , go to the advanced post editor here ...
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?board=3;action=post2
then click on "preview" ...

"Fetching preview..." is displayed , but the actual preview never arrives,
( i.e. it gets stuck on "Fetching preview..." ).

Maybe this fault is specific to me ?

[ BTW whilst on the advanced post editor page the characters "array()" appear in the top left corner of the screen,
and  if the browser is refreshed on that page, the screen monetarily goes white,  it didn't used to do that ]