[gnasher]

 gordontd, on 2010-October-29, 04:26, said:

Thanks for this. Yet another Firefox problem for me - I don't have the buttons. I can see them if I go over to Safari, which it seems is what I'll have to do when reading the forums.

They work for me in Firefox. I realise that this information is of no use to you whatsoever.

[TimG]

 diana_eva, on 2010-October-29, 03:55, said:

There are two buttons in the bottom right corner of each post
- one green with a plus sign on it (if you mouse over it the explanation "vote this post up" appears)
- one red with a minus sign ("vote this post down")
Immediately next to them is a "reputation" counter. At the moment reputation is 0 for almost all posts, since the feature is brand new.

Oddly, I have such buttons for most posts, but not all. (I'm using Firefox.) Diana_eva's post being one of the posts for which there is no "+/-".

Edit: I'm guessing it is a yellow/admin thing -- no voting up or down on the the officials.

[Gerardo]

 gordontd, on 2010-October-29, 04:26, said:

Thanks for this. Yet another Firefox problem for me - I don't have the buttons. I can see them if I go over to Safari, which it seems is what I'll have to do when reading the forums.

Are you using TylerE's skin?

It does not show these buttons.

[cherdano]

 gnasher, on 2010-October-29, 03:44, said:

It seems to me that negative votes will just provide an anonymous way to "LOL" people. Don't we already have more than enough of that?

Personally, I don't have a problem with bad or nonsensical postings. If it's from someone who always posts nonsense, I wouldn't have read it anyway. If it's from someone who's usually sensible, then someone else will point out what's wrong with it, and the original poster will either defend their views of concede that they were wrong. That is, we have a conversation.

If we have negative votes, we'll get this:
- Poster A posts an opinion
- Widely respected Poster B disagrees
- An invisible horde of sycophants award negative votes to Poster A
- Poster A feels stupid and stops posting, or (even worse) he starts trying to post views that he thinks the majority will agree with, instead of telling us what he actually thinks.

I think that would be bad.

If there are a few negative votes available per week, I don't think people would waste them on posts they disagree with. Rather, they would be used for posts that are off-topic or insulting or outrageous in other ways.

[gordontd]

 Gerardo, on 2010-October-29, 07:10, said:

Are you using TylerE's skin?

It does not show these buttons.

Ah, that's the explanation. Still, it's worth the tradeoff.

[NickRW]

 gordontd, on 2010-October-29, 04:26, said:

Thanks for this. Yet another Firefox problem for me - I don't have the buttons. I can see them if I go over to Safari, which it seems is what I'll have to do when reading the forums.

They appear on the left for me. I'm using an old version of Firefox.

[pooltuna]

 gordontd, on 2010-October-29, 03:22, said:

Can you explain how this voting works? I can't seem to find the facility anywhere, and it's not mentioned in the help file.

look over to the right I just voted on your post except you have to look at your post not my reply
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[gwnn]

I reached my + quota quite quickly, thanks, that was fun. I misclicked on a post though, I wonder if it was possible to implement cancelling a + vote?

[Rain]

Cancellation of a vote is not possible.

[gnasher]

 gwnn, on 2010-October-29, 11:30, said:

I reached my + quota quite quickly, thanks, that was fun. I misclicked on a post though, I wonder if it was possible to implement cancelling a + vote?

I still have all of my votes. Would you like to buy them?

[Aberlour10]

Who cares about all these +-+-+-+-? I think anybody who is for the while in BBF has his own reputation ranking and it's enough or?
Anyway I give my annual contingent of (+)'s in advance on several experts who answer in B/I forum any question (even so trivial sometimes like mine)

[mgoetze]

 Rain, on 2010-October-22, 08:31, said:

although forum passwords are case sensitive and BBO ones are not.

Uhhuh... this implies a major security issue with the way BBO handles passwords. I would like to strongly encourage you to stop storing plaintext passwords ASAP, if that is what you are currently doing.

[mgoetze]

 Gerardo, on 2010-October-26, 16:52, said:

The CSS data is no longer inline. Sorry.

No problem, thanks for fixing it!

[TimG]

I think someone said there is now an "ignore" feature. How does it work?

[hotShot]

 TimG, on 2010-October-30, 14:03, said:

I think someone said there is now an "ignore" feature. How does it work?

If you click on your name at the top right position of the page, you get a list of options, the last one is the ignore list.
You can enter the name of the poster you don't what to see, and i guess you no longer see his posts .....

[TimG]

 hotShot, on 2010-October-30, 14:07, said:

If you click on your name at the top right position of the page, you get a list of options, the last one is the ignore list.
You can enter the name of the poster you don't what to see, and i guess you no longer see his posts .....

Thanks. I was looking for a button on one of their posts or something in their profile.

And, it does appear to work, I don't see the most recent post from someone I ignore tested.

[TimG]

When I clicked on the "View New Content" link today, I was shown a list of topics, some of which had been read (and had no new-to-me content) some of which had new-to-me content. Is this the way it is supposed to work?

[Gerardo]

 TimG, on 2010-October-31, 09:34, said:

When I clicked on the "View New Content" link today, I was shown a list of topics, some of which had been read (and had no new-to-me content) some of which had new-to-me content. Is this the way it is supposed to work?

Think you need to mark the board as read (there is a link for that at the very bottom of any thread).

In the "View New Content" page, in the View New Content title line, there is a "mark all boards as read"

[Bbradley62]

I finished reading new forum posts at midnight, and clicked "mark all as read". When I signed onto forum at 11am, I clicked "View New" and got a list of about 30 threads. I started with the oldest of them and worked my way up. I only have time to get to anything that was posted prior to 7am. I would like to mark everything I have seen as "read", but not the newest stuff which I haven't yet gotten to. I'd like to either (i) mark a thread as read, or (ii) adjust my "last read" time to 7am, so that when I come back later only things posted since 7am appear on my "View New" list. Thanks!

[Gerardo]

 Bbradley62, on 2010-November-01, 09:54, said:

I finished reading new forum posts at midnight, and clicked "mark all as read". When I signed onto forum at 11am, I clicked "View New" and got a list of about 30 threads. I started with the oldest of them and worked my way up. I only have time to get to anything that was posted prior to 7am. I would like to mark everything I have seen as "read", but not the newest stuff which I haven't yet gotten to. I'd like to either (i) mark a thread as read, or (ii) adjust my "last read" time to 7am, so that when I come back later only things posted since 7am appear on my "View New" list. Thanks!

• Use the "Mark board as read" link, in each thread, at the very bottom.
  
• View New Content->Mark all threads as read, does exactly this, unless I am mistaken.