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Just to let you all know, this new board DOES have spell check capabilities. It's just that each individual poster has to download it. Just click the little ABC button above your post and follow the directions. It took less than a minute to download the plug-in.

And I was going to give you crap about not having a Bolt related avatar yet

LOL...Well you had the bolt thing down so it took me awhile to find something different. PR will work for now.

Just to let you all know, this new board DOES have spell check capabilities. It's just that each individual poster has to download it. Just click the little ABC button above your post and follow the directions. It took less than a minute to download the plug-in. cool.gif

what ABC button?

I can't find an ABC button either, though I never use spell-check anyway so it doesn't matter to me. However, I did find the "change display name" option, and since the signature function is still in use, that means...

Joe in Philly is BACK!!!

The threads seem to be here right now (scroll down below the list of forums). One of those early glitches with the new board.

Still testing things out so don't have an opinion yet. Seems like there is such a wealth of options it's hard to know what to do or where to start.

One thing: on the old board the background for each post alternated between white and grey, which I thought set off the posts more. Now when you scroll down you just see a solid wall of blue-grey and nothing pops out visually. Perhaps if the separator line (or the background behind the screen name) was darker (or lighter), just to delineate the posts more distinctly...

How do you add a link..I tired entering the url within the body of my reply, but it did not work.....is there something else you need to do or? Thanks!!!

having trouble getting back to active topics after making a post. it isn't obvious how to do it. or rather, after going to the discussion board I'm not finding the way to active topics.

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When you get to the enter message screen, look on the top row of functions. You'll see an ABC with a little check mark underneath. It's right next to the scissors icon. Click on that and it takes you to the plug-in information.

How odd. I see no ABC.

When you get to the enter message screen, look on the top row of functions. You'll see an ABC with a little check mark underneath. It's right next to the scissors icon. Click on that and it takes you to the plug-in information.


I see no ABC or scissors and I would REALLY be happy with spell check.............not my forte!

Hmmm...

I wonder if it has something to do with the programs already installed on your computer. The ABC icon looks just like the MS-Word icon for spell check so I wonder if you need to have that program to have that function with the board. I have MS-Word installed at home and at work so I have no way to test it out.

I do have Word. When you go to My Controls, you can change board settings to allow for Rich Text formatting, which gives me the scissors, but no ABC.

But changing to Rich Text made typing this a real pain since the cursor crawled, so I am going to disable that on my profile.

I haven't changed any settings on here at all. The spell check has always been there.

I just sent you a screen cap. Hopefully that will help in my case that I'm not completely crazy.

I wasn't able to log in with my previous screen name--which is the same as my current one. I had to re-register and I'm back to post #1......however, I'm now member # 99,496. Are there really over 99,000 members on this board ???

Wanna know what's really creepy?


The text ads above have all now changed to offer MS-Word and Spell checkers...lol. Big brother is definitely reading these posts.

I'm finding this to be a little more cumbersome as well. I usually have to backtrack a lot to return to the active topics.

Also, speaking of today's active topics, it used to be nice when we had a few lines of preview before actually delving into the topic. Is there anyway to get that feature back.

Josh

There's a little symbol of a planet with a chain link (link -- get it? HAHAHAHA! ) -- click on that, and a little box opens up for you to put in the url, then some text to describe the link or whatever. Just like on the old board.

I'm sure its gonna be a good change but its gonna take a little while to get used to!

Hey Everyone:

Someone posted this on another thread: Sorry, I tried to use the insert link function, but like many things on the board, it doesn't appear to be working yet. Hopefully the link above will work.

Use this thread to post on problems or any issues you see with the board. It doesn't help to say it in an unrelated thread.

You will see that we can now "pin" certain threads at the top of a forum, meaning they always stay at the top. This will be one of them. We can do the same for others when approrpriate.


Thanks!

PS: We will soon by posting a New Features list.

The insert link function on this board works the opposite way it did on Ultimate.

First you type the link heading in your message...say for instance "Jay Williams Signs with New Jersey Nets".

Then highlight it and click the link button which looks like the earth with a chain link fence. That will open up a box for you to cut and paste your link.

And then presto...

Jay Williams Signs with New Jersey Nets

It also works the same way. You can click the planet-with-chain-link icon first if you want.

I don't think the pin feature is working. This topic wasn't first on my list.

Josh

Hmmm...really? I couldn't get it to work that way....very strange. When I click on it first it pops up a window telling me to "You must highlight some text before making a link"

It is working. It pins the thread to the top of the forum Just like this.

OK..i see the difference now. It doesn't go to the top when you are on "Today's active topics", but when you are specifically on the about the board page, then this topic is on top....

Thanks

josh

What about the time on the Latest Active Posts page? It says the latest post was made a 6 something pm while it only 2:37 Eastern time right now. I know the time on the old board was Pacific time but you could still calculate it.

George,

You can set the time to match your own time zone. I believe the default is GMT. Look under My Controls->Board Settings.

Something I've noticed about some of the options when you make a post, such as making text bold or underlined, etc. For example, putting something in bold text -- sometimes you can click on the button and you get the set of bracketed commands, one to show where the quote begins and one where it ends (the bracket with the slash like this / ). Other times you only get the first bracket set and you have to click it again to get the second one. I'm not sure if it depends on if you type your text first and then highlight what you want in bold, or if you click on the B and then add your text. It seems to vary. I just thought I'd mention it in case anyone's having some issues with them.

This "strikethrough feature" is lots of fun :

Charlie Manuel is a great manager -- extend his deal moron -- even though it's way too late for 2006, fire him NOW!

Why is the board doing automatic censoring of the word f**k (at least it did on the baseball boards).

We are all adults here, and some people (like myself) just curse a lot more than others (especially when I'm excited). But as adults, do we really need this board censored?

Josh

Yes, most of us are adults. But I don't see the need for graphic swear words.

Speaking of adults, I'm still having to go through the "register" process to be able to make posts, every single time I log in. I don't actually register again but apparently have to confirm that I am over 13 and agree to the policies, then I sign in with my old username and password.

Is anyone else having this problem?

Is there an easier way to do this?

No one else has reported this problem. Emailing you separately.

I have noticed the "flood control" or flood prevention or whatever its called seems somewhat aggressive of late. Like you have to wait 60 seconds after each post. Is that normal? I don't recall it being exactly that way before. I could be wrong though.

The problem seems to have righted itself since my last post. If you did anything, thanks. If not then I'll let you know if it occurs again.

They had the same "flood control" on the old board. It helps prevent spamming posts as I understand it.

Plus, the delay gives you time to think about it...

OK, about the new format..........it's a little busy. But I will get used to it.

Tom

When I click on Today's Hottest Topics on the home page I get an error message. I can still then click on View New Posts, but often get the error message again when I try to see beyond Today's posts. Any idea what's happening? Thanks!

I just tried to link to the discussion board from the "dirty dozen" and got a "board is down" and then I went to the home page and came on

My bad -- I had the link pointed to the old board.

beautiful kitty Jim

again I just tried to enter a website link, and it wouldn't allow me. It said you must enter an address, and/or title. Well I certainly tried to, but it didn't work. This has happened a couple of times now.....

I am entering A website address here.

Not sure what problem you're having but it's very easy. Just click on the the icon that looks like a globe with a chain to the right of the A.

Jim, I got it, thanks. It has something to do with my anti/virus/firewall I think. I noticed when I clicked on an area that said something like "allow scripts", which popped up before I could enter the url, then it is okay and I could enter the url and link. Thanks.

Does anyone else have a problem with your cursor turning invisible occasionally when trying to type in the reply post field? It's still there, it just can't be seen until you restart IE (and lose your post). Maybe it's a bug in IE7 because i don't remember it happening last week.

There are two ways to view the list of active topics from the board's home page.

Just below the banner ads at top of page, clicking View New Posts will display all topics updated since your last visit.

Near bottom of page in the "Board Statistics" box, clicking Today's active topics will list all topics updated in the last 24 hours.