[Karen W.]

Well You boys are doing a teriffic job.. LOL Keep up the good work!!

[neilep]

yes...you boys are all so luffly we could cuddle you and eat you up ...after making a pie from you that is !!

[Karen W.]

yes...you boys are all so luffly we could cuddle you and eat you up ...after making a pie from you that is !!

Your so bad!!LOL You know you were included in that pie Kind Sir! LOL...

[Seany]

yes...you boys are all so luffly we could cuddle you and eat you up ...after making a pie from you that is !!

Your so bad!!LOL You know you were included in that pie Kind Sir! LOL...

Ermm.. No, Neil was making a pie within that pie.. So thers a pie in a pie, to eat? []

[Karen W.]

ok..LOL

[Seany]

LOL *smacks forehead*

[lyner]

Not an error, but a slight problem and suggestion:
On long threads and particularly the very long threads, like  Question of the Week, it is a long way to go, to get to the current topic or post. Have you thought of arranging things the other way round?.
Perhaps the introductory question could be at the top but the current posts would be easier to find if they were near the beginning.
I bet you get this suggestion all the time and have considered it - if so, sorry.

[another_someone]

You can go directly to the latest post.

If, rather than clicking on the thread title, you click on the icon on the right that looks like this: , then you will be taken directly to the most recent post in the thread.

[rosy]

Or you can click onto any page of a thread, next to the title there's a row of numbers which are all links.

[lyner]

"You can go directly to the latest post."
Cheers - RTFM as usual!

[jolly]

It doesn´t tell you when your post gos over the 20,000 chacters, and you can loss you info if your not careful; could it not be possible to either give a warning when the limit is reached, or increase the post size?

[Karen W.]

I have never had that happen.. You could write it in word also, but maybe Dave could help.. I am not sure about the mechanics of that as I have never experienced that! In the mean time you could put it in a word program and maybe split it into two posts..until we find out! THanks Jolly for letting someone know!

[paul.fr]

It doesn´t tell you when your post gos over the 20,000 chacters, and you can loss you info if your not careful; could it not be possible to either give a warning when the limit is reached, or increase the post size?

20,000 characters is over generous. If you or anyone is seriously submitting a post of this length then i would suggest the following:

1. always save your text before posting to either a word (microsoft) or text document before posting, should you encounter a problem, you will always have a copy of your text.

2. split the post in to two posts.

3. to post such a large post, i would assume that it is full of quotes. if this is the case then slim down the quote, any part of the quote you are not directly replying to can be omitted and substituted with; ...

[another_someone]

I have gone over the limit, but I thought (it was some time ago) that I was given a warning when it was too large.

But, as people have suggested, any large submission like that I will always first create in a separate document (Open Office rather than Microsoft Word - but the same idea, just my own preferred WP).  Even if I were to type it straight in, and lose it, I would normally be able tp recover it key going through the 'back' key on the browser until I get to the page where I created the post.

[another_someone]

Incidentally, one thing I have found is that the rules about size limits seem to be more relaxed when modifying a post than when creating a new post (so, if i want to create a large post, it is sometimes easier to create a smaller post, and then click on the in line modify button, on the bottom right of the post, and then insert the larger chunk of text into the post).

[Karen W.]

Well That is interesting! So I guess Paul and I and George do similar things in those circumstances.. I think most word programs, do word or character count don't they?

[another_someone]

Well That is interesting! So I guess Paul and I and George do similar things in those circumstances.. I think most word programs, do word or character count don't they?

Have split the discussion on WP's to a separate thread (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=8538.0) to prevent cluttering the error log.

[neilep]

What is going on here ?

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[neilep]

This is happening on most pages I look at.....The 'stuffonmycat' is from my profile


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[another_someone]

Yep, we have a problem - I see it too.

The web links seem mostly to be links that are elsewhere on the page, but are inappropriately slipped as well in between table rows.

Not sure there the suffonmycat is from, but seems associated with you, Neil.