KasperVld Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Break stuff? What kind of stuff? The accounts of people who ask too many questions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alphasus Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 That,and little sections of the forum with certain tags. They also break those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endersmens Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 (edited) Break stuff? What kind of stuff? Its easier than you think to break things in admin control panel. (I'm an admin on another forum)Like yesterday, while trying to get the forum to auto-prune spambots, I nearly kicked the founder of the project off the forum. Edited August 28, 2015 by Endersmens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starwhip Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Its easier than you think to break things in admin control panel. (I'm an admin on another forum)Like yesterday, while trying to get the forum to auto-prune spambots, I nearly kicked the founded of the project off the forum. Yeah, as admin of the War of Insanity forum I can also attest to the "easier than it looks" fact."What's this button do?" Breaks forum headerNote to self, study HTML before you go and mess with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sampa Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Yeah, as admin of the War of Insanity forum I can also attest to the "easier than it looks" fact."What's this button do?" Breaks forum headerNote to self, study HTML before you go and mess with it. I think i should give you some rep for that statement. Moderation in itself is harder than it looks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Rocket Scientist Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Its easier than you think to break things in admin control panel. (I'm an admin on another forum)Like yesterday, while trying to get the forum to auto-prune spambots, I nearly kicked the founded of the project off the forum. I guess I'll never be an admin. I couldn't resist pressing everything. For science! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claw Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 That,and little sections of the forum with certain tags. They also break those.We have to keep the forumites on their toes as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starwhip Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 What's the background color of the bit with your avatar? (If you wanted to make "transparent" avatars, for example)I'm very close but just a tad off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
windows_x_seven Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 What's the background color of the bit with your avatar? (If you wanted to make "transparent" avatars, for example)I'm very close but just a tad off.Make a PNG with transparency?Or does that not work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starwhip Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 Make a PNG with transparency?Or does that not work?Not for me, no, it just defaults to a white background.Right now I think the background is probably #f4f4f4 (The sidebar, the text window is #fafafa) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Iron Crown Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 On my avatar it is F2F6F8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starwhip Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 On my avatar it is F2F6F8.Yep, looks like that's done it. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinkAllKerb'' Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 Yop, this bug me since a few week: ability to re-rate a thread (you own previous rating replacement) ... was thinking about that for a few thread i rated lately just to modify my own vote by one usually after thinking / brainstorming : rethought about the things / reading what's everyone say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkman Briton Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 I'm trying to post an update to my mission report, every time I try to go advanced on the reply it says the token has expired. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal_vager Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 I'm trying to post an update to my mission report, every time I try to go advanced on the reply it says the token has expired.Hmmm, this may be a browser cache thing, please clear your browser cache and try again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjwt Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 I'm trying to post an update to my mission report, every time I try to go advanced on the reply it says the token has expired.Also, are you doing a really long write or edit? if you take too long your login will expire due to lack of activity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdusacconBR Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 can closed threads be 'opened' again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMoonRover Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 Have there been any incidents where a moderator or admin has accidentally broken the forum or messed something up in a massive way? As an example of the sort of thing I mean, a wikipedia moderator once deleted the main page after another moderator jokingly told him it was impossible - he didn't realise it was a joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernovy Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 can closed threads be 'opened' again? Yes.Have there been any incidents where a moderator or admin has accidentally broken the forum or messed something up in a massive way? As an example of the sort of thing I mean, a wikipedia moderator once deleted the main page after another moderator jokingly told him it was impossible - he didn't realise it was a joke.Ask Red Iron Crown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sampa Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Do moderators sometimes disagree about the closing of a thread? How often does this occur? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Iron Crown Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Ask Red Iron Crown.? I have not broken the forum to my knowledge since becoming a moderator. I've had some minor snafus, like accidentally moving things to the wrong place and such, but nothing that broke anything.Do moderators sometimes disagree about the closing of a thread? How often does this occur?Rarely. Since becoming a mod last January I can only recall one time where a thread was locked and then later reopened (no specifics on this one, sorry). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technicalfool Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Have there been any incidents where a moderator or admin has accidentally broken the forum or messed something up in a massive way? As an example of the sort of thing I mean, a wikipedia moderator once deleted the main page after another moderator jokingly told him it was impossible - he didn't realise it was a joke.A certain fool may have been doing naughty things with html in messages at one point. Just to demonstrate the silliness of allowing html in messages.This resulted in a hasty patch by someone else to block all <div> tags. Because along with all kinds of other bbcode elements get converted into a <div> in vbulletin, this... broke the forums. Quite badly, for about five minutes until the mistake was realised.And let's not get into the Great Purge of 2013. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sampa Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 How,are people able to post youtube videos directly onto their threads or onto,threads in general? All i get are URLs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superfluous J Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 How,are people able to post youtube videos directly onto their threads or onto,threads in general? All i get are URLs![noparse] [/noparse]does this: And to get the above code to show up in the forum, you do:[noparse][noparse] [/noparse][/noparse]And finally, you can tell how anybody does anything in their posts by clicking the "quote" button and looking at the code./notamod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Rocket Scientist Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 I just joined the wiki! Is my obsessive adding of links to the Kerbal Astronomical Society okay? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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