[Eric Bliss]

[Eric Bliss]

Hi Tony!

It’s a cookie thing for each individual forum, so you need to set it in your browser. Make some silly response to this post (and yes, it MUST be SILLY!!! ), and click on the “Entire Thread” button before you submit it. After that, the Cow will remember this as your preference for posts you make in this forum, and that option will be the default one selected the next time you start writing a new post, or making a reply to another post.

You can also set your default preference by using the link from the posting form (where it says “you may reset your account cookies by clicking _here_”). This preference will only be used in forums where you haven’t posted before. All the other forums already are remembering what your last request was in them.

There are a few things to remember about it –
1. It’s browser dependent, so whenever you’re on a different computer or browser, you need to check to make sure that the setting is the way you want it.
2. It’s also forum dependent – it sets the current value to whatever you asked for on the last post you made in the forum, or your global default if you haven’t posted in the forum before. So, you may need to set it for each of the forums that you use, depending on what they are already doing.
3. It only remembers your most recent post – so if you ask to not get a notification on a post, that’s the value that it will hold on to until you change it again.
4. I forgot what four was. Shame on me.

Anyway. Click the button next to “Entire Thread”, and then write something silly. It should work properly (in this forum) after that.

Eric Bliss

systems design and integration
CreativeCow.Net

int main(void) {
printf(“Hello World!\n”);
}

[Eric Bliss]

<innocently>
I don’t know what you’re talking about! It looks fine here.
</innocently>

🙂 No, there was a glitch, but it’s fixed now. Thanks for the heads up.

Eric Bliss

systems design and integration
CreativeCow.Net

int main(void) {
printf(“Hello World!\n”);
}

[Eric Bliss]

Hello Bob.

Well, you can go ahead and change your name back to Bob Vick now. We’ve reduced the number of characters needed in your name back down to six. It’s a bit of trouble, since we want to make sure people use unique names, rather than just say, “Tom”, “Dick”, and “Harry”. Problem is we’ve got plenty of old users who have shorter names, so we’re still trying to find the balance point between making users use longer names and still allowing our old members to keep their names. So, for the moment, we’re dropping the length requirement for old names back down to six characters, which will allow you to go back to your old name.

Also, on a side note, as you can see, I’ve gotten the bug for posting in this forum fixed. Now you’ve only gotta click the “I know what I’m doing, and this is the forum I want to post in” button once. Thanks for mentioning that earlier.

Eric Bliss

systems design and integration
CreativeCow.Net

int main(void) {
printf(“Hello World!\n”);
}

[Eric Bliss]

[Eric Bliss]

[Eric Bliss]

[Eric Bliss]

Hi Bob.

Sorry about the trouble you’re having posting to the Cowmunications forum. What you’re enountering is a bit of trouble resulting from our attempts to get people new to the Cow to put their posts in the correct forum. In the past, you may have noticed coming in from time to time, and finding posts that really didn’t have anything to do with the Cow itself sitting in the Cowmunications forum, rather than the forum for the tool the post is about. While these posts don’t stay active in the Cowmunications forum for long (as we move them to the proper forum), in the past, we would get multiple posts there every day. To try to get these people to post in a forum where their message will be seen by people who can answer the question, we’ve put up the “newbie filter” page in that forum to reduce the incorrect postings. Unfortunately, that “newbie filter” system still needs a little bit more work to smooth it out to – as you’ve noticed. It is actually possible to post in the Cowmunications forum, but you have to hit the “Yes, I really did want to talk to the admins” button for every step of the process – which can get a bit tedious….

Add New Post. (“Yes, I want to talk to the Admins”)

(Fill in post)

Preview Post. (“Yes, I want to talk to the Admins”)

Go Back and Edit Post. (“Yes, I really do want to talk to the Admins”)

(Fix the typos)

Preview Post. (“Yes, I want to talk to the Admins about the Cow”)

Post Direct. (“YES!!! I KNOW WHAT I’M DOING! PLEASE JUST LET ME POST!!!”)

Okay, okay, we’ll let your post go up now.

I know I need to fix this, reducing it to just the one “Yes, I know what I’m doing here.”, but there’s always a ton of things to get done. It will get fixed (hopefully before too long), I just can’t make any guarantees on how quickly. In the meantime, just try to persevere – or, as Walter said, send me an e-mail directly. 🙂

Eric Bliss

systems design and integration
CreativeCow.Net

int main(void) {
printf(“Hello World!\n”);
}

[Eric Bliss]

forumid=02 will get you here, it’s true. But, forumid=2 is the canonical link for the forum. I’m the coder – Trust me.

Eric Bliss

systems design and integration
CreativeCow.Net

int main(void) {
printf(“Hello World!\n”);
}

[Eric Bliss]