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Title: What bells and whistles do you use on the Message board? Post by: bsfins on March 06, 2009, 09:59:14 pm I was thinking,What features do you use the most on the Board?
I use the quote post button,spellcheck (amazing my posts are still horrible) when I've got a moment....I like the As soon as I log in I get the pop up telling me I've got a PM.... Title: Re: What bells and whistles do you use on the Message board? Post by: stinkfish on March 06, 2009, 10:01:15 pm I was thinking,What features do you use the most on the Board? :) ;) :D ;D >:( :P :'(I use the quote post button,spellcheck (amazing my posts are still horrible) when I've got a moment....I like the As soon as I log in I get the pop up telling me I've got a PM.... Are you bored tonight B? Title: Re: What bells and whistles do you use on the Message board? Post by: bsfins on March 06, 2009, 10:10:00 pm I didn't get to go to my rock climbing gym tonight.... :-\ I'm in a strange mood....hard to explain I guess...
Title: Re: What bells and whistles do you use on the Message board? Post by: fyo on March 07, 2009, 08:49:46 am I rely almost exclusively on quick reply and the "quote" buttons. Spell-check is handled by my browser (Firefox).
Oh, and the "edit" button is quite nice. I use it a lot within the first minute of posting. Instead of using preview, I hit post and THEN read my post, often prompting small edits. *shrug* Title: Re: What bells and whistles do you use on the Message board? Post by: Sunstroke on March 07, 2009, 01:02:18 pm I'm pretty much right in line with fyo as far as site usage goes... I'll sometimes click on the "users online" link as well when I'm about to leave the site, to see if anyone is currently posting in a thread I may want to read. Title: Re: What bells and whistles do you use on the Message board? Post by: Dave Gray on March 07, 2009, 01:30:08 pm I do what FYO does, to the letter.
Title: Re: What bells and whistles do you use on the Message board? Post by: Spider-Dan on March 07, 2009, 06:16:26 pm I would use the search feature more if it was usable.
I like the feature of checking my last posts, so I can keep up with threads I've commented in. Title: Re: What bells and whistles do you use on the Message board? Post by: bsmooth on March 07, 2009, 06:20:26 pm I like to don a nice purple feather boa when I am posting ;)
Title: Re: What bells and whistles do you use on the Message board? Post by: Sunstroke on March 07, 2009, 06:39:59 pm I like to don a nice purple feather boa when I am posting ;) I wanna party with you, cowboy... ;D Title: Re: What bells and whistles do you use on the Message board? Post by: Frimp on March 07, 2009, 10:49:13 pm Where is the quick reply?
Title: Re: What bells and whistles do you use on the Message board? Post by: fyo on March 08, 2009, 08:03:17 am Where is the quick reply? Someone asked the last time it was brought up as well... If you don't have a "quick reply" box at the bottom of every thread (below the last post on the current page), you need to enable it in your preferences. Specifically, go to Profile -> Look and Layout Preferences. Select "show, on by default" in the drop-down selector next to "Use quick reply on topic display". Title: Re: What bells and whistles do you use on the Message board? Post by: StL FinFan on March 08, 2009, 06:14:28 pm quote, quick reply(once I knew it existed), pm, and of course, the smileys :)
Title: Re: What bells and whistles do you use on the Message board? Post by: Frimp on March 08, 2009, 06:29:52 pm Awesome! I love the quick reply! Thanks!
Title: Re: What bells and whistles do you use on the Message board? Post by: fyo on March 08, 2009, 06:38:55 pm I'm kinda curious about the quick reply thingie... I never "activated it". It was always just there. How come it wasn't there for a bunch of other people? At first I thought maybe you guys were registered a long time before me or something, but Frimp registered about a month before me and StL FinFan two years AFTER me, so that doesn't seem a likely culprit.
Title: Re: What bells and whistles do you use on the Message board? Post by: Frimp on March 08, 2009, 08:43:39 pm I just never knew it was there. Maybe STL joined the board after dave changed servers?
Title: Re: What bells and whistles do you use on the Message board? Post by: YoFuggedaboutit on March 08, 2009, 08:55:33 pm Quote, font options, posting pictures, and the PMs.
Title: Re: What bells and whistles do you use on the Message board? Post by: MaineDolFan on March 09, 2009, 11:43:49 am I miss "go to last post." That was a great feature.
Cough cough...hint, hint... Title: Re: What bells and whistles do you use on the Message board? Post by: fyo on March 09, 2009, 12:49:19 pm I miss "go to last post." That was a great feature. There is the "NEW" icon that jumps to latest unread post in a thread, providing there are any. I use that extensively as well, so if that counts among the "Bells and whistles"... Title: Re: What bells and whistles do you use on the Message board? Post by: Tenshot13 on March 09, 2009, 03:41:00 pm I just never knew it was there. Maybe STL joined the board after dave changed servers? I had to activate it just now (really cool by the way) and I'm one of the newer members here. Title: Re: What bells and whistles do you use on the Message board? Post by: Dave Gray on March 09, 2009, 03:54:37 pm We did a pretty major board upgrade a while back that (I think) re-set a lot of settings to a default. The quick reply was one of them. I highly recommend activating it, to those who haven't yet. It's great. You can still reply the other way, if you want to add images and stuff, but for a quick note, it's the bomb.
Title: Re: What bells and whistles do you use on the Message board? Post by: fyo on March 09, 2009, 08:37:37 pm You can still reply the other way, if you want to add images and stuff, but for a quick note, it's the bomb. You can still add "images and stuff", if you know the bbcodes ;). Anyway, even if I do want to use the buttons, I'll just hit Preview (I knew there was a use for it!). |