Criminy...talk about f'ing up a wet dream...
#1
10-02-2008, 09:12 AM
Criminy...talk about f'ing up a wet dream...
Was that too crass?
*sigh* Here's what I know...let's start from the top. The CAD board has been glitching a lot lately simply because it's grown so large. I was asked about a week ago if I knew anything about VBulletin, an apparent precurser to a changeover. I don't know much. I've browsed a few boards that use it, but know little in the way of how it works. I did ask that they let the board know about the pending changeover, making it very clear that changing over a board without telling anyone will result in problems, e-mails, PM's, and an outright riot. I was right. I'm always right. When will people listen?!? Anyway, Lee had told me that he would have the gurus put together a notice for the board, but he was off work yesterday when they told him to do it, so the changes happened before he even knew about it, therefore no post was made alerting the members of the pending change. As John Madden says..."boom!" So, what's done is done. I'm far from happy with the way it was handled, but hey, poop happens and sometimes we step in it. That said, no one is banned. If you want to get your login back asap, try logging in with it, then click on the link to reset/request your password. It will generate an automatic e-mail to you with your user name associated with that e-mail, as well as another link. Click on that link and it will reset your password and send it to you. You can then log in with that. I haven't figured out a lot of the board yet, but up on the toolbar across the top, there is a USER CP link. That's your control panel. Play around with that as far as changing your password, adding avatars, etc. PM's should also be in there. That's all I know for the moment. On behalf of CAD, I'll offer my apologies. But I'm not really happy about how it went down, either.
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#2
10-02-2008, 09:18 AM
Not too crass at all!
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#4
10-02-2008, 09:33 AM
From what I've figured out so far, Mal, you can do that from your USER CP and edit options. I'm still playing.
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#5
10-02-2008, 09:35 AM
I've tried every setting, it only changes how the posts appear in a THREAD, not how the threads appear in the FORUM.
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. Thomas Jefferson- Democratic-Republican That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Abraham Lincoln "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." -Abraham Lincoln
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10-02-2008, 11:13 AM
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 1,658
Originally Posted by Twilight Flyer
I haven't figured out a lot of the board yet, but up on the toolbar across the top, there is a USER CP link. That's your control panel. Play around with that as far as changing your password, adding avatars, etc. PM's should also be in there.
 ). It is starting to improve the more I mess with it. I think once the glitches are worked through, the board will be easier to navigate.Now, a few things that are nice about boards like this: You have a ignore option(come in handy )You can preview posts without having to open them It has a spell check(sorry Rev., You're now unemployed )Draw back: YOU CAN ONLY HAVE FOUR SMILIES IN A POST WE NEED MORE SMILES
#9
10-02-2008, 12:46 PM
yeah, i'm me again. it took all day, but in the end i got to keep my username and everything. i am happy so far. now to figure out how this works
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#10
10-02-2008, 12:47 PM
and there would be no guarantee that if we all had been notified, it would have gone smoothly.
 considering CAD is paying for the board, we get what we pay for. thanks for making the progress you have, this morning i couldn't log in at all, now tonight i have my bad hairdo, shiteating grin back! i suppose it would be too much to ask for a different skin???? i'm partial to bblast.......hint...hint and btw........ in the WYSIWYG editor, it won't put up the second box to hide the url behind a word or image. but hey, not that i'm complaining or anything, just a little something to do later. 
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