Ground Rules & FAQ

xtrev

Common Sense
Help restore my faith in humanity by showing we all have some :-)
This is now hosted on a decent server (thanks Eythian) and it's going to be backed up regularly, but it's still all a bit new to me. If you post anything you don't want to risk vanishing in an unfortunate 'oops' moment sometime, I'd recommend keeping a copy somewhere yourself.
But then backing up is something that we computer users do all the time anyway, so I'm sure you don't need me to tell you again.</sarcasm>

Naughtiness
Please don't post anything illegal or *too* offensive.

List of all users
You can either do a blank search with the 'users' button selected, or use the 'Member List' tab when logged in.

Name changing
I have to turn on the option, which then applies to everybody. This can be fun, but I don't think it's a good thing generally. If you know what you want to change to I can do it for you. Just email or post.

Feature requests
Post your suggestions/requests in the 'Suggestion Box'.
There are a lot of additional features (add-ons, extensions) available at the vanilla site (http://getvanilla.com/). Have a look if you have time, the assorted user comments are worth a scan through as well. They're mostly pretty easy to install, but some depend on others to work and some of the instructions start to sound like hard-core geekery, which I don't do.

Log-in problems
If you have trouble logging in, it might be a cookie/browser security issue. Possibly connected with the frame masking used to display 'emusers.org' instead of the free hosting address. This will hopefully be a non-issue very soon when the domain finishes its switch over to the new server. If there is a problem, the direct address is:
http://www.kallisti.net.nz/emusers/forum/

Pretty pictures
I'd like to keep this board relatively graphic-free, so no big sigs/avatars etc. Displaying images using BBCode links in comments is now activated, so let's see how we all get on with it.

Links
BBCode is now enabled. Should be similar to what's available on eMusic's message board but with more options. I'll test assorted common tags (as found on Wikipedia) and post a list of what works.

Why no Preview?
There is a conflict between Preview and the member list. This is likely to be fixed through the magic of Open Source.

Contact me
benevolent_dictator@emusers.org

xtrev

BBCode - available tags. See next post for samples.

[b]bold text[/b]

[i]italicized text[/i]

[u]underlined text[/u]

[url]http://wikipedia.org[/url]

[url=http://wikipedia.org]Wikipedia[/url]

[img]http://image.bayimg.com/oajpdaabh.jpg[/img]

[quote]quoted text[/quote]

[code]monospaced text[/code]

[size=15]Text size[/size]

[color=red]Red Text[/color]

[color=#FF0000]Red Text[/color]

[s]strikethrough[/s]

xtrev

bold text

italicized text

underlined text

http://wikipedia.org

Wikipedia

quoted text

monospaced text

Text Size 25
Text Size 15
Text Size 10
Text Size 5 - size 5, I wouldn't recommend this.

Red Text - using HTML color name

Red Text - using hex code

strikethrough

xtrev

Just a quick word about the 'whisper' feature here.

It's a sort of private message system, put the user's name in the 'Whisper your comments to' box then post as usual.
The result is a post in the same thread that is only visible to the recipient, yourself and Admins (but I won't read them, honest!).
It displays in a different colour to the usual posts, as does your whispered reply.

[edited by Dr. Mutex] Please note that none of the other admins have promised not to read whispers

brittleblood

xtrev - do threads die?

xtrev

No idea I'm afraid. Can't see why they would, I always assumed the emu boards were just broken rather than made that way.
Had a quick google and didn't find anything about that happening, so hopefully all will be well.

Dr. Mutex

At the moment xtrev has had to disable preview. If you want to test something out you can use http://www.bbcode.org/playground.php. I don't know how closely Vanilla follows the BBCode spec, but the commonly-used stuff seems to work.

mommio

LOL - I hardly ever use preview on any board. I just post and if it doesn't look right, I do a quick edit. Doesn't happen very often -- I guess because I have been using BBCode for several years now.

jonahpwll

I need to have the preview functionality restored asap. People are posting all willy nilly, and I haven't been able to preview their posts before approving them for submission. Perhaps it would be best if we simply turned off posting functionality until my oversight role may be resumed. This seems like the only plausible recourse.

jonahpwll

Just a test...

Pursuit

jonahpwll

Cool.

Kenny

Can I change my username? I'd prefer to just use my name.

Thanks,
Kenny

Katrina

I can certainly look into that, sir. I suggest you use the whisper feature to tell me what new name you want, and we shal see what we shall see.
All the other admins can see your whispers, so if I am not around, it won't matter that I don't know what I am doing. We shall help one another.

xtrev

All done. Daytripper is now officially 'Kenny'.
And the other Kenny is now 'Kenny (2)'.

Katrina

I am glad at my confusion. OK.It will not matter 6 months from now.

Kenny

Thanks for the help.

Also, I don't know what whispering is.

Also, the other Kenny might be me. I tried getting a new name, but got confused.

xtrev

Yes, the other Kenny was you with a different email address.
Whispering is a 'private' comment that only you and the named recipient (and we admins) can see.

jonahpwll

All done. Daytripper is now officially 'Kenny'.
And the other Kenny is now 'Kenny (2)'.

All we need is one more and we'll have all the ingredients of a Threekenny Opera.

Ba-da-dum. Thank you folks.

jonahpwll

All we need is one more and we'll have all the ingredients of a Threekenny Opera.

Ba-da-dum. Thank you folks.

Almost two months gone by and not one damn lol. Sheesh, tough crowd.

Germanprof

Sheesh, tough crowd.

Lol.

jonahpwll

Now that wasn't so hard, was it?

jonahpwll

Okay, I want to see what this does.

It's
true.
I
am
totally
wicked
awesome.
Wait
I
Don't
Get
it.
What
is
the
purpose
of
the
Code
language?
It
only
seems
to
be
blocking
off
the
text,
which
I
could
do
with
the
Quote
function.
Lame.
Doesn't
it
do
something
else?
It's
gotta.
Maybe
a
scroll
bar?
I
could
see this being useful
if I had
a long list
or something,
and it gave me
a scroll bar
y'know?
Nope.
Nothing.
Totally lame.
So so lame.

Ah
I see.
Wikipedia.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monospaced_font[/url]
On AAJ, it does other things.
Oh well.
What a letdown.
It's gonna be months before I find something to excite me again.
Hm.
Bored bored bored bored bored.
Bored.

If a mod
wants to delete my post
Please be my guest
As it has served its purpose.
I was going to add that it may rest in peace,
But that made me sort of sad,
So we'll just say it can live on
in any form
Code

jonahpwll

Whispered Discussions.

Okay, I understand what they are and see how they work now. My question is this...

How am I supposed to be aware that they're happening?

For instance, as far as I know, I've received two whispers. The first one, and I think I'm remembering this correctly, I saw that I had because it appeared on the side of my screen along with board options and a list of my recently created threads. Here's a copy paste of the left hand side of my screen.

Start a new discussion

*
Discussion Filters
o Participated Discussions
o Unanswered Discussions

*
Your Discussions
o Throwing Punches at the Hurricane: Jazz at Bandcamp
o End My Pain: A Forum Q&A, for when Google just isn't good enough
o I am Pitchfork
o It Must Be Spring: Falling in love again with the Flaming Lips
o Listen before it's gone (NPR, Spin, etc)
o Show all

*
Whispered Discussions

And then directly underneath the Whispered Discussions header is my first (afaik) received whisper (and, no, I'm not gonna tell you what it was. It's PRIVATE, you nosy bastards. Focus on my question!). It has the first sentence of the whisper and if I click on it, then the string of whispers from that discussion shows up on my screen. Well, I just found another whisper directed at me, and it was in a thread, but it didn't show up in that sidebar, even after I replied. Why is that? And how many other whispers are out there that I don't know about? What if people are warning me about something critical to my ongoing life as music genius and leader? I've got to obtain that information. I've got to be able to track it. What the hell are my monthly emusers dues paying for anyways?!

cafreema

You have sidebar that lists "Your Discussions" and "Whispered Discussions"!?! I do not have such a thing! What the hell!?!

Craig

mommio

If there is a new post in a thread, it should show up like any other "new Post" thread. You will know it is whispered by the color of the message. I don't remember, but I think it has a pink or yellow background. It may be that your whisper is one color, and the whispered response is the other color. I just don't recall, but it is the colored background that lets you know it was whispered.

If you don't recognize that it was whispered, and you respond as if it were a normal post, everyone sees your response, and it won't always make sense because the rest of us can't see the post that was whispered to you.

You have sidebar that lists "Your Discussions" and "Whispered Discussions"!?! I do not have such a thing! What the hell!?!

Ditto.

greg

Ditto quote and what monthly dues???? You mean you have to pay to be here - I'd be worried if I was you Jonah, as the rest of us don't pay anything. Ah, it's what you have you have to pay to get the extra down the side.... I understand now

Germanprof

Go to Account tab at the top, then Forum Preferences on the left - the side bar options are there under Control Panel

cafreema

Yeah, I found it Germonprof, but thanks!

greg - Don't you remember the discussion about dues when we agreed we'd "all" pay them? You remember that...right?

Craig

greg

No - I'm fairly new here, must still be my first free year ....

jonahpwll

amclark2 wins the free Sizzler gift card...

The difference in where the whispers appear is determined by whether the whisper is executed directly on an existing thread vs. a non-thread whisper.

Bravo! That was the kind of shit that would drive me batty til I figured it out.

bremble

Well, I keep quitting and then Emusers offers me a free month trial offer - I'm sure that it'll end soon but as long as I can take advantage of the deal it'll be fine.