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Re: New member? READ THIS!

ThatOldGuy — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:20:02 GMT

I've been experiencing this for the last week or so- hopefully this can help anyone who may be encountering the same difficulty.

I'll finish a post, look at it on the thread and notice some error. I'll edit the post to correct the error and I won't see the post or the cursor in the field. This used to lead to my refreshing the page over and over in hopes that the cursor and the text will return (the entire post is usually in the lower quote-field).

The way I've fixed it is to click "New Page" in the tool bar above the text field (it's the white square between the square with a magnifying glass on it and the floppy disk on the top toolbar). By clicking that, the cursor should return to the field and allow you to type/edit the post.

Re: New member? READ THIS!

John James — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:41:14 GMT

Good call. Let's start a thread.

Re: New member? READ THIS!

grant.w.underwood — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:37:21 GMT

In one of the many reading list recommendations threads can I/we get a section for recommended fictional reading? All I really know about is the driver and atlas shrugged. Thanks.

Re: New member? READ THIS!

ThatOldGuy — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:06:43 GMT

John James:

sonofabitch.

Maybe this explanation (linking to another post) should be put in the New Member post? Can it be added? For the longest time, I thought I was the only user who didn't know how to do this.

Re: New member? READ THIS!

hashem — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:47:59 GMT

If you look at the top left of each post, there's an image of a paper with a folded top-right corner (to the left of the poster's username).
I need to take a step back and reevaluate how I could have missed that for so long................

John James that would be an interesting thread. I have a lot to say on that topic. At least I feel Occam's Razor points to intentional or at least willful mismanagement and disrepair. The existence of this thread is a tribute to that fact. I could write a book about the new navigation for the main mises.org website alone. Names come to mind like...

How to Infilitrate and Wreck the Management/Oversight of the Anarchist Hub of the Internet
or
How Not to Develop Website Navigation

Clearly if the website was just completely ruined that would be too obvious. So they just crippled it instead.

Re: New member? READ THIS!

gotlucky — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:00:28 GMT

+30 ThatOldGuy for providing priceless information!

Re: New member? READ THIS!

DanielMuff — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:53:54 GMT

John James:
(b) what else are you gonna do?

Winner!

Re: New member? READ THIS!

John James — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:41:20 GMT

sonofabitch.

Re: New member? READ THIS!

ThatOldGuy — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:30:44 GMT

John James:

Anyways, how do you link to someone's post? I know a few workaround ways to do it, but normal forums just have a button or link at the top of each post that says, for example, "Post #12345".

I know exactly what you mean. And as far as I know, there is no direct way to do it. The easiest way is if you're lucky and someone has already replied to the post you want to link to. In that case, the "replied on" link is the URL you'll need. You can just copy that link and use it in your own post. If you can't find a reply to the specific post, the only way I have found is to manually enter the post ID. And of course, the only way to find out the post ID is to hover over the "reply" button of the post you want to link to and look at the URL. You copy the six digit number and then insert it into a URL using the same syntax as the "replied on" URL.

Yes, you can only get this down to about a 4 step process, and yes it's utterly ridiculous, but (a) it gets the job done and (b) what else are you gonna do?

That's funny... I was wondering the same thing a few weeks ago and tried the same process you outline for a bit. If you look at the top left of each post, there's an image of a paper with a folded top-right corner (to the left of the poster's username). If you right click that and select "copy link" you copy the link for that post. I started laughing when I found it because, for the longest time, I either paid no attention to it or thought it was just an image with no purpose- but it's exactly as hashem says with regard to a button at the top of a post in other forums.

Re: New member? READ THIS!

John James — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:14:51 GMT

hashem:
A few things: the points system is amazingly useless, plus you can't respond to a thread without contributing points to someone, even if you would prefer to subtract points or at least not add to anyone. Also, call me a conspiracy theorist but I grew up on the internet and its my opinion that the new mises.org navigation system as well as the new community as well as the disrepair of this old community are entirely intentional. The new navigation of the main website is a brilliant way to shut off anyone trying to find media on mises.org, it wasn't always like that. And since these forum problems can be noticed by a 5 year old and fixed by a high schooler I feel its reasonable to conclude that they remain unfixed intentionally.

This is an interesting take. I'm interested to hear more. I'll create a thread for further discussion (and we'll just have to hope it doesn't get ghosted like a number of other discussions about things like this).

Anyways, how do you link to someone's post? I know a few workaround ways to do it, but normal forums just have a button or link at the top of each post that says, for example, "Post #12345".

I know exactly what you mean. And as far as I know, there is no direct way to do it. The easiest way is if you're lucky and someone has already replied to the post you want to link to. In that case, the "replied on" link is the URL you'll need. You can just copy that link and use it in your own post. If you can't find a reply to the specific post, the only way I have found is to manually enter the post ID. And of course, the only way to find out the post ID is to hover over the "reply" button of the post you want to link to and look at the URL. You copy the six digit number and then insert it into a URL using the same syntax as the "replied on" URL.

Yes, you can only get this down to about a 4 step process, and yes it's utterly ridiculous, but (a) it gets the job done and (b) what else are you gonna do?

Re: New member? READ THIS!

hashem — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:48:07 GMT

Let me retry that because the forum won't let me edit that post...

John James:
and it will look like this.

That is an example of linking someone's post, like I was referring to. How do you get the link to that post?

Re: New member? READ THIS!

hashem — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:37:18 GMT

A few things: the points system is amazingly useless, plus you can't respond to a thread without contributing points to someone, even if you would prefer to subtract points or at least not add to anyone. Also, call me a conspiracy theorist but I grew up on the internet and its my opinion that the new mises.org navigation system as well as the new community as well as the disrepair of this old community are entirely intentional. The new navigation of the main website is a brilliant way to shut off anyone trying to find media on mises.org, it wasn't always like that. And since these forum problems can be noticed by a 5 year old and fixed by a high schooler I feel its reasonable to conclude that they remain unfixed intentionally.

Anyways, how do you link to someone's post? I know a few workaround ways to do it, but normal forums just have a button or link at the top of each post that says, for example, "Post #12345". You would right click that and copy the link location to produce something like the OP did here:

John James:
and it will look like this.

Re: New member? READ THIS!

Johan Barry Matthew — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:28:10 GMT

You're Welcome ;)

Re: New member? READ THIS!

ThatOldGuy — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:04:43 GMT

Thanks, Johan Barry Matthew!

Re: New member? READ THIS!

Johan Barry Matthew — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:00:57 GMT

I was browsing around and found 3 funny guys here :) ThatOld Guy and James Both thumbs up for you :)