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  • RooKRooK Admin Emeritus
    edited March 2018
    lilbuddha wrote: »
    But why on earth should negative opinion matter?

    Let's not dig too deeply into the Moria of the shell game "being enabled" and "mattering". You might not like what you find.
  • RooK wrote: »
    lilbuddha wrote: »
    But why on earth should negative opinion matter?

    Let's not dig too deeply into the Moria of the shell game "being enabled" and "mattering". You might not like what you find.
    Perhaps I am unusually obtuse today, but I'm not certain what you mean.

    I'm ambivalent about polls, I do not really care if they appear or not.

    My response to CK was serious, not derisive.* For optional use features only those desiring to participate and those who must implement, maintain and monitor them are relevant.
    However, negative views can influence implementation. But why should they? If 100 people want such a feature and 150 do not, the only thing that matters is whether 100 people are enough to warrant the effort. The 150 can just ignore the feature.
    Mornington Crescent is probably hated by many more people than actually like it. But it has been allowed from time to time because there were enough that do like it.
    The rest of us ignored it.




    *Though I could have phrased it better. Apologies CK, I wasn't meaning to be rude to you.
  • Drifting StarDrifting Star Shipmate Posts: 22
    edited March 2018
    Eutychus wrote: »
    If only there were some sort of simple means of counting up how many people liked something...
    :grin:

    In answer to the question about polls, not really

    (I tried to find a thumbs down emoji, but apparently that is not an option.)

    @Curiosity killed :-1:
  • Drifting StarDrifting Star Shipmate Posts: 22
    Eutychus wrote: »
    If only there were some sort of simple means of counting up how many people liked something...
    :grin:

    In answer to the question about polls, not really

    (I tried to find a thumbs down emoji, but apparently that is not an option.)

    @Curiosity killed :-1:

    I've noticed this a couple of times - it looks as though the @ function doesn't work when a username has a space in it.
  • LeRoc wrote: »
    Some of the tags on the right hand side lead nowhere. I have a suspicion that some of them may belong to private boards? (for example #anxiety #coping). And are the hosts talking about #deadFridayafternoonatwork?

    Your suspicion is correct.
  • EutychusEutychus Shipmate
    The simple answer is yes: tags from non-publicly visible boards are visible to all. The potential for fuelling general paranoia by this means has already been noted :naughty:
  • @Curiosity killed :-1:

    I've noticed this a couple of times - it looks as though the @ function doesn't work when a username has a space in it.

    Interesting - it must be inconsistent, because I have had some notifications.

    Digging to find out how to set the quote function I also found the default for notifications is the pop up - you have to opt into email notifications. (It is in profile - the additional tabs)
  • Leorning CnihtLeorning Cniht Shipmate
    edited March 2018

    (I tried to find a thumbs down emoji, but apparently that is not an option.)
    :-1:
  • @Drifting Star—the @ function works for usernames that include spaces if you put the username in quotation marks.
  • Drifting StarDrifting Star Shipmate Posts: 22
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    @Drifting Star—the @ function works for usernames that include spaces if you put the username in quotation marks.

    Ahhh - thank you! I hope everyone will realise this is necessary!!
  • RooKRooK Admin Emeritus
    lilbuddha wrote: »
    RooK wrote: »
    Let's not dig too deeply into the Moria of the shell game "being enabled" and "mattering". You might not like what you find.
    Perhaps I am unusually obtuse today, but I'm not certain what you mean.

    Let me rephrase it as two separate, not-needing-to-be-answered questions:
    1) Is there anything wrong with people expressing a negative opinion?
    2) Does anyone's opinion matter?
  • BoogieBoogie Shipmate
    I think polls are fun. I was chatting to a friend about tennis balls. Apparently 40% of people think they look green, not yellow.

    I’d like to make a circus pole to see if that’s true for shipmates.

    Just a bit of fun, nothing wrong with that.

    :+1:

  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    edited March 2018
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    @Drifting Star—the @ function works for usernames that include spaces if you put the username in quotation marks.

    Ahhh - thank you! I hope everyone will realise this is necessary!!
    Technically, it isn’t really necessary to type the quote marks. If I type @ and then start typing your username, a button pops up with your username. If I click on that, it will finish the tag for me, complete with quote marks. If I don’t click on it, I need to type in the quote marks myself.

  • Drifting StarDrifting Star Shipmate Posts: 22
    edited March 2018
    @Nick Tamen - right, thanks :+1: - you have to pause though. I hadn't slowed down enough to realise that the pop-up was available.

    ^ That was done with the button. It looks as though it hasn't registered properly.
  • EutychusEutychus Shipmate
    edited March 2018
    @Drifting Star You have to click on the prompt with the username in, like this: @Nick Tamen

    [ETA @Boogie : The dress is blue]
  • Drifting StarDrifting Star Shipmate Posts: 22
    I did. I typed @ and Nick, his name popped up and I clicked on it. I didn't type Tamen.

    I'll try again (sorry to use you as a guinea pig @Nick Tamen )
  • Drifting StarDrifting Star Shipmate Posts: 22
    Fine that time. :confused:
  • (sorry to use you as a guinea pig @Nick Tamen )
    Happy to be so used. :grin:

  • RooK wrote: »
    Boogie wrote: »
    Will we soon be able to create polls here?

    Not soon, because we've got enough other things to do. However, there are poll plugins that could be tested. Eventually.

    Quick check: who likes polls?
    FWIW (i.e. 0), I could live without them.
  • The one thing I really miss, and I guess its not possible here at all (although I would love to be proved wrong) was the way that on the old board in 'Today's active threads' view you got a taster of the post content (the first line or two). Reading the boards via this method, it was possible to pick up on what topic was actually being discussed in the thread, something that was not always obvious from the thread title. And many times this feature got me following threads that were of interest to me, that I would not otherwise have known about. Does anyone else miss this, and are there any suggestions on how to find out what's actually being discussed without having to open every single thread 'just in case'?!
  • Joan RaschJoan Rasch Shipmate Posts: 24
    I'd guess that some of the tags are just ones that come with the software.
    * A cyclist on the information bikepath
    * AKA Fafnir the Thurifer
  • Gracious Rebel, I miss that also.
  • LeRocLeRoc Shipmate
    The way the new Ship deals with multiple-page threads takes getting used to. When you go to a board, or to Recent Discussions, it doesn't tell you how many pages a thread has. Clicking on a thread takes you to the last non-read post. I've already replied to a post, assuming I was on the last page of the thread, but there were still pages after that.
  • :+1:

    Is that a 'thumbs up' thingummy? Can you tell me what keys you used to produce it, please?
  • EutychusEutychus Shipmate
    SusanDoris wrote: »
    :+1:

    Is that a 'thumbs up' thingummy? Can you tell me what keys you used to produce it, please?

    Colon, plus, 1, colon.

    To find out what keys are used, press the quote button for a post with an emoticon in it and find the relevant piece of text. That's what I just did.
  • Curiosity killedCuriosity killed Shipmate
    edited March 2018
    You can also, if sighted, hover over a emoji and see the code. Thumbs up and thumbs down use +1 and -1, rather than starting with letters. (I did try looking for them with the colon letter trick). As far as I can tell, those are the only two that use symbols rather than letters - and they come up if you try - colon one.

    OK, I've just tried, three edits later, using the usual symbols to get emojis and they all worked - : D for grin, and etc.
  • ClimacusClimacus Shipmate
    edited March 2018
    Sorry if I missed this...

    What will clicking on the star next to a thread name do? I'm on a mobile.

    Edit: oh, I can answer. A notification popped up on my phone that a new post was made. Neat.
  • EutychusEutychus Shipmate
    None of us have dared find out.
  • It adds a bookmark to the thread. It will then be listed under the "My bookmarks" link to the right of the page (non-mobile version only), and depending on notification options you'll get a pop-up notification if someone posts on it.
  • When I am scrolling down, I often find that a chunk of text from a post has transferred to a new post, although I haven't pressed Comment. Then I have to save draft, and delete in draft folder. I'm baffled, any ideas why this is happening?
  • Having mulled this over, and consulted the oracle, (wife), I reckon it's because I'm left handed, so my elegant little finger touches a post , and software sees that as selection. Why it copies that to a new post, well, dunno.
  • You're probably hitting the "QUOTE button on the bottom left of the post, which will quote a chunk of text into a new post.
  • LeRocLeRoc Shipmate
    The elegant thing would be to post on the Ship with your pinky raised.
  • You're probably hitting the "QUOTE button on the bottom left of the post, which will quote a chunk of text into a new post.

    By gum, lass/lad, I think tha's reet. I wonder if the NHS amputates pinkies? Or I suppose as LeRoc has said, I could withdraw it, as if taking Earl Grey at 4pm. Ta, anyway.
  • Eutychus wrote: »
    SusanDoris wrote: »
    :+1:

    Is that a 'thumbs up' thingummy? Can you tell me what keys you used to produce it, please?

    Colon, plus, 1, colon.

    To find out what keys are used, press the quote button for a post with an emoticon in it and find the relevant piece of text. That's what I just did.
    Thank you. I will have a practice.
  • MMMMMM Shipmate
    I asked a few days ago as to why there is now a three letter minimum rule for user names - I would be interested to know, if possible, or have I missed it?

    MMM



  • I don’t remember why we settled on 3, it (and the maximum length) was decided quite a while ago now.
  • MMMMMM Shipmate
    Oh, OK. Just one those things. Thanks for letting me know, M the M.

    MMM
  • QohelethQoheleth Shipmate
    How can I mute certain Notifications after having posted, for example on the catalogue threads such as Prayers of the People, please?
  • There are a variety of options for notifications. You can access those preferences through your profile; alternatively if you click on the notifications icon there's a link to the notification preferences.
  • LeRocLeRoc Shipmate
    When posting from my phone, the messages of draft saving or new posts on my bookmarked threads really mess up the predictive text. Not a biggie, but I need some patience there. (Yesterday I was trying to compose a post while Gamaliel made three posts in a row on the Co-Co-Constantine thread. I found myself shouting "Stop!!" :smile:)
  • PatdysPatdys Shipmate
    I may have missed it, but I can't find the hosts listed on each board. How will I know who to be outraged against? or send gin.
  • EutychusEutychus Shipmate
    They're in the Guidelines thread at the top of each board.
  • We'd looked at listing the hosts in the board description, which would be similar to how we had them listed before. But, anything we put there is also displayed on the categories list. Currently each board has a two line description, with a line for the most recent post (which with long thread titles does roll over to two). Those three lines match the size of the little graphic in a visually pleasing way. Adding an extra line to list the hosts would spoil that.

    Having the guidelines as a stuck thread, with the hosts listed there, is a bit clunky. When the rest of the Ship is ready to sail that will give us a new platform for the FAQs, and perhaps we can find a more elegant solution for the guidelines and listing hosts etc when that becomes available.
  • LeRocLeRoc Shipmate
    What is a bit annoying: I click on the little globe to see my notifications. I have three of them. I want to right-click on all three to open each in a separate tab. That doesn't seem to work. (I use Chrome.)
  • RooKRooK Admin Emeritus
    LeRoc wrote: »
    I want to right-click on all three to open each in a separate tab. That doesn't seem to work. (I use Chrome.)

    Try CONTROL-click, or COMMAND-click.
  • LeRocLeRoc Shipmate
    RooK wrote: »
    Try CONTROL-click, or COMMAND-click.
    Whoppa! That worked, thank you.

  • QohelethQoheleth Shipmate
    There are a variety of options for notifications. You can access those preferences through your profile; alternatively if you click on the notifications icon there's a link to the notification preferences.

    Thanks but I can't find somewhere to mute notifications on a specific thread. I posted once on PotP, and now my Notifications are filling up with every other poster's prayer requests - and presumably will do so in perpetuity?
  • You should have a list of general preferences to notify you of pms, when someone posts on your discussions etc. The bottom of those is "when people comment on discussions I've participated in", uncheck the boxes next to that and the notifications should stop. You could uncheck all the boxes and get no notifications at all if you wish.
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