Attention Displaced DP Members

[acptulsa]

Oh, and a word about polls. When you post a thread with a poll, first you tell it to advertise the thread as having a poll on the menus, then you write and post, and then it asks you if you really want a poll or not.

If you see a brand new thread that claims to have a poll attached, and you find no poll within, be forewarned that the first to reply with, 'Where's the poll?' is liable to be hazed as a n00b.

People have been known to post their thread while confused as to why they haven't had a chance to set up their poll yet, and hit edit or something, and lose their chance to do it because they missed the prompt. So when posting a poll, make your post, follow the prompts, and hit this button:

 

[ChristianAnarchist]

It would be nice to get a notification when someone replies to your reply.

Amen to that. Before I came here I posted ALOT on the freetalklive forums and I really liked them the best. Anytime someone responded to a comment you made, that response is listed in your control panel. I went from there to the DP and here and couldn't figure out for the life of me why neither forum has such a basic and valuable feature...

 

[Unknownuser]

Amen to that. Before I came here I posted ALOT on the freetalklive forums and I really liked them the best. Anytime someone responded to a comment you made, that response is listed in your control panel. I went from there to the DP and here and couldn't figure out for the life of me why neither forum has such a basic and valuable feature...

Even with the DP all one had to do was check in your account to see if there are any replies. That's a nice feature. Seems to make it a faster pace.

 

[jct74]

Even with the DP all one had to do was check in your account to see if there are any replies. That's a nice feature. Seems to make it a faster pace.

The "My recent posts" tab on Daily Paul is basically the same thing as the "Subscribed Threads with New Posts" section when you click "Settings" on RPF. The key is you have to be subscribed to the threads you would like a notification for, otherwise there will be no notification when the thread receives new posts. You can subscribe to any thread by going to Thread Tools --> Subscribe to this Thread. But most people are set up to automatically subscribe to any thread they post in (Settings --> General Settings --> Default Thread Subscription Mode --> Through my control panel only), that way they do not have to manually subscribe to every thread they post in.

So I do not really see an advantage to the Daily Paul in this regard. In fact, RPF has the additional feature that you can subscribe to threads you haven't even posted in, at Daily Paul you cannot.

 

[Unknownuser]

The "My recent posts" tab on Daily Paul is basically the same thing as the "Subscribed Threads with New Posts" section when you click "Settings" on RPF. The key is you have to be subscribed to the threads you would like a notification for, otherwise there will be no notification when the thread receives new posts. You can subscribe to any thread by going to Thread Tools --> Subscribe to this Thread. But most people are set up to automatically subscribe to any thread they post in (Settings --> General Settings --> Default Thread Subscription Mode --> Through my control panel only), that way they do not have to manually subscribe to every thread they post in.

So I do not really see an advantage to the Daily Paul in this regard. In fact, RPF has the additional feature that you can subscribe to threads you haven't even posted in, at Daily Paul you cannot.

I just want to know when some replies to my comment...not when some replies to a post I subscribe to. The DP is efficiant in that you can see when someone replies to you. It makes the low of communication more efficient.

I had to scroll to see that you responded to me.

 

[jct74]

I just want to know when some replies to my comment...not when some replies to a post I subscribe to. The DP is efficiant in that you can see when someone replies to you. It makes the low of communication more efficient.

OK, I see. And actually I remember now that there is a feature on Daily Paul called "Recent comment replies" that shows when you have been directly replied to.

I had to scroll to see that you responded to me.

Wouldn't you have clicked the thread anyways though, whether you knew you had been directly replied to or not? I am usually interested in following the conversation in a thread that I have already posted in, so whether or not I've been directly replied to doesn't make a difference, I still would click on it and see the newest posts. But of course everyone has different preferences and different amount of time that they can spend looking at threads. For my personal preference, that kind of feature would not even be that valuable.

BTW, if you click on the blue arrows circled in red below it should take you to the last post in the thread so you don't have to do any scrolling. Or just hit "End" on your keyboard.

 

[William Tell]

I just want to know when some replies to my comment...not when some replies to a post I subscribe to. The DP is efficiant in that you can see when someone replies to you. It makes the low of communication more efficient.

I had to scroll to see that you responded to me.

That system would not work here, because each comment stands on its own. At DP a reply to someone goes right below a comment. It works differently here.

 

[Unknownuser]

Wouldn't you have clicked the thread anyways though, whether you knew you had been directly replied to or not? I am usually interested in following the conversation in a thread that I have already posted in, so whether or not I've been directly replied to doesn't make a difference, I still would click on it and see the newest posts.

Depending on how much time I want to spend on a thread. There's a lot of content to read through in a day. Not enough time.

 

[Unknownuser]

That system would not work here, because each comment stands on its own. At DP a reply to someone goes right below a comment. It works differently here.

Why couldn't we be notified if someone responds to our replies? Seems simple to me.

 

[William Tell]

How could you? not every person who replies even clicks and quotes your comment.

For example, I did not just now. How would the system tell you I just replied?

 

[HVACTech]

How could you? not every person who replies even clicks and quotes your comment.

For example, I did not just now. How would the system tell you I just replied?

like this. I just replied to YOU bad giraffe.

(and the horse you rode in on)


notice that just below and on the left.. there is a .
"button" that says reply to thread.
if someone clicks reply, instead of "reply to thread" they get a notice?

what if I offended your horse?

 

[Unknownuser]

Yeah. ^^^^^^^^

 

[William Tell]

Yeah. ^^^^^^^^

We don't all use that button all the time, sorry.

 

[ChristianAnarchist]

I just want to know when some replies to my comment...not when some replies to a post I subscribe to. The DP is efficiant in that you can see when someone replies to you. It makes the low of communication more efficient.

I had to scroll to see that you responded to me.

Exactly... If I want to see if anyone "quoted" something I said in a popular thread I literally have to look at EVERY post after mine to see if anyone responded to what I said. A simple "notice" that someone had quoted you makes it easy to keep a tit-for-tat going. Here I usually lose track of what's being said after a bit because I keep having to go to "subscribed threads" then try to find my last post there and then scan everything posted since then to see if anyone has addressed my post... I really don't want to spend that much time chasing posts. Even the old usenet worked better for following comments and replies. If some administrator wants to see how it should be done they can go to "freetalklive.com" and see how their forum works. I'm sure that same software is available and could be ported to the database of existing posts here at RPF. Freetalklive is dead now though. Hardly anyone posts there anymore because it was virtually unmoderated and the trolls took over...

 

[mwstroberg]

Hi ChristianAnarchist,

Just came over from DP. You are probably familiar with my posts there. I need a little help on this site. Every time I click on "Mailbox" it says I don't have sufficient permissions to view that page. How can that be, if I can post?

 

[acptulsa]

Hi ChristianAnarchist,

Just came over from DP. You are probably familiar with my posts there. I need a little help on this site. Every time I click on "Mailbox" it says I don't have sufficient permissions to view that page. How can that be, if I can post?

Welcome.

If I remember right, that one comes after a certain number of posts, but I don't think it takes as many as a hundred.

Maybe you should try it again now that you've posted once.

 

[ChristianAnarchist]

Hi ChristianAnarchist,

Just came over from DP. You are probably familiar with my posts there. I need a little help on this site. Every time I click on "Mailbox" it says I don't have sufficient permissions to view that page. How can that be, if I can post?

I do believe that's right. It takes a certain amount of posts before you have full access to everything...

 

[rg17]

The Daily Paul is down right now.
http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/dailypaul.com.html

 

[Suzanimal]

The Daily Paul is down right now.
http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/dailypaul.com.html

Came up for me.

 

[rg17]

Its working again,it was down all morning.