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Please can someone explain what Karma is about and also what does logged mean?
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Hi Jill :smiley: If someone clicks "Like" on one of your posts you gain Karma and similarly if what you say upsets someone for some reason and they dislike what you've said your minus karma tally goes up by 1. So at some time, I've annoyed at least 2 people. Actually it's much much higher than that :rofl:
If you see a post that you feel needs to be drawn to the attention of a moderator/admin on the forum, you click "Report to moderator". The IP address from which you are connecting and posting to the forum is logged, you can see your own and the posts by other users simply record the fact their IP address has been logged.
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Thank you very much George. Another question - what sort of thing would you need to draw attention to the moderator about?
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Well.. such as abusive, threatening, illegal etc posts to be honest not something that you're likely to come across here. We all feel the need to vent our feelings sometimes so I suppose it would only be stuff directed personally. Everyone sees things differently so the idea is that you're always free to report an item but then it's up to the moderators to decide what, if any, action to take.
I moderate on another forum where by far the biggest problem is people spamming. Not something I've ever seen here.
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Thanks for explaining that George, much appreciated.
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- Jill just to clarify Georges posts admins/moderators are here pretty much every day and if necessary we filter out spam or inappropriate posts before they appear on the general boards -occasionally though we dont get there in time - and members report it first - which is where the link comes in, but generally we do get there early.
Very occasionally we get some one who joins for the wrong reason - a young Russian female apparently looking for a new husband - people advertising escort services - people advertising counselling which may be genuine and may be helpful but whose qualifications we know nothing about. - people who join but would be better placed on dating sites etc - and occasionally some-one who has other issues but unrelated too a loss, we might point in the direction of other forums more fitting to those issues.This is why we also have the rule on not allowing posting links to outside resources without asking us so we can check them more fully.
Occasionally as well as what is posted on the boards here people have sent inappropriate private messages - we dont ever read private messages between members unless some-one reports them and forwards their content too us -so its not that we are snooping at all and again it is really rare that it happens,I have been an admin for five or six years and can only think of a couple of times that has happened so please dont worry about it.
Extremely rarely in busier times than now there has been a squabble between members or a member has taken offence at some-one elses post reported it too us and we have mediated and sorted it out.
The reason we do it is because people who are here genuinley, are often in a very vulnerable situation - and because of that we sometimes might appear stricter than other forums or social media here -but please rest assured the idea for is purely to do what we can to protect our members because we feel it needs to be a safe space and that is important to keep it safe to the best of our abilitys.
Not everyone in cyber space is a charlatton but as with many things in life those that are, spoil it for the rest - and sometimes as you will know, grief can mess with our normal thinking patterns or for some maybe they are not used to the internet at all and dont know the potential pitfalls - so if for example,at the extreme end of cases you for some reason wrote your adress and phone number openly here or if you were a small business as well as a grieving member the adress of your own website where they might be available, we would remove them and send you a message saying why but just to keep you safe not as any kind of criticism.
We dont take arbitary decisions about people or field normal posts from genuine members - we are not here to judge you or what you write.Occasionally (and compared to another non related forum i moderate on extremely occasionally) we need to troubleshoot.
But we are primarilly here to help, because we are all in this same journey ourselves but are further along it and stronger now than we used to be - Admins and moderators are always without exception also existing members who joined the forum ourselves when we were also very vulnerable and had others looking out for us in the same way. :hug:
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Thanks Karena. I expect there are other members who wanted to know the same thing. It's nice to be protected.
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Hello I have another question I hope someone can help me with. How do you do a message in larger print please?
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Hi Jill, I think the answer may depend to some extent on what sort of device you're using to access the forum.
I only use a Windows PC and when I compose a new post, all the formatting options are above the input area above the emojis. There you can change the size, colour, emboldening, italicising, underlining,etc. etc. and some other attributes.
I can't see a way of changing your profile so that your posts always appear with the same formatting from the outset, but that doesn't mean to say that there isn't a way that I've overlooked :smiley:.
For viewing, the easy way to increase the size is by holding the CTRL key down and then rotating the mouse wheel.
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What ever. Whatever
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George, I thought no idea what I am doing but let's just try this and it worked.Now I have everyone's attention! Thanks.
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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: When you press reply at the top there are three drop dowms font size font face font colour just highlight your text then
select what you want
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How's that Karena?
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That one didn't work Karena!!
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Come on George tell us what ya two thumbs down for? I didn't have you down as being a trouble maker lol your not turning into one of those hooligans? and I wouldn't have thought you would be posting Russian Dating services or bad language but annoying two people on here makes me into a saint lol to be honest I am shocked George i always thought of you as being a great role model for us in our 30's lol what nest Sooty and Sweep getting arrested for drug offences? what's this world coming to lol x
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There are some things in this life that we're not allowed to know Brian :cheesy:. For example when and why I got the thumbs down or from whom, perhaps it was on a day when I got out of the bed on the wrong side :cheesy:.
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LOL I must remember not to upset ya lol Hope ya keeping well anyway, I forgot to tell you i got a real bargain last month a Panasonic G3 complete with a Panasonic zoom and two batteries in mint condition for £26 on Ebay only had two bids and that included postage, I love it very well built and have since got some adaptors to use my Canon lenses and all my old manual focus lenses its definitely a keeper.
Cheers and don't go offending anyone else lol
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:rofl: you two made me giggle :smiley:
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How odd its working on my pc screen. mind you i am at work and i have the oldest PC in the building so maybe not an option on more modern systems.
I hear theyre coming to take me away soon.
[glow=green]AWAY AWAY AWAY AWAY HA HA HE HE
[/glow]
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GLOW 'wrapped' in Marquee tags.
I've tried various ways but I can't work out what went wrong for you Karena :smiley:
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to the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time.
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I think these lot have been wine testing again Jill lol they have lost me.....think your right the funny farm is calling lol x
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GLOW 'wrapped' in Marquee tags.
I've tried various ways but I can't work out what went wrong for you Karena :smiley:
GLOW 'it is not automatically adding all the code. this is your code which is working in preview
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The "glow" tag in your original post was missing 2 parameters. You'd got "glow=green" which doesn't work whereas "glow=green,2,300" does like so - I don't know what the parameters do by the way.
I'm borderline nerd now, better shut up before I get another thumbs down :grin:
How odd its working on my pc screen. mind you i am at work and i have the oldest PC in the building so maybe not an option on more modern systems.
I hear theyre coming to take me away soon.
AWAY AWAY AWAY AWAY HA HA HE HE
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I work in a building full of programmers - they do the clever stuff i just make it look pretty -my technical prowess except with photoshop is considerably less than yours. :rofl: