Posted on 08/09/2005 5:18:14 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
Edited on 08/09/2005 6:51:08 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
We've had many new folks join up recently. Welcome aboard, this thread is a gentle reminder of some basic posting guidelines. (And for some of you old timers as well) Please read the follow, and ask any questions. We will all try to help you out. Anyone who has a link that might be useful, feel free to post it.
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Who should I address this question to:
On my "comments" page, underneath the 20 comments shown, it says "overload: 20 results shown (prefer 250.)" I can't get it to show more than 20. But because I run two ping lists, I have so many comments that stuff gets lost all the time.
Is there any way to get my comments page to show more than 20? Pretty please?
Thanks for the friendly reminder. Vanities have been getting out of hand lately.
Just damn.
triplets...there can't be another one out there as pretty as us....
I've been posting gun questions under General Chat. Is that the right place? Can we have a topic for "guns"?
Unnngh!
You didn't post a link to the Freeper Lexicon thread.
That could cause a lot of beebers to get stuned, and as we all know, that is vey series.
Dear Lord... help!
If it's just a generic question, chat is the right place, what's a good gun to buy. If it's a 2nd amendment issue, news is the right place, ccw laws etc.
John Robinson has several methods of reducing the load on FR's servers when needed. One of them is to reduce the number of responses you get to various pages. You may have set your 'comments' to 250, but it's obvious that the programming is reducing the number returned to 20. I don't know when you may see any change in this
Olive signing off for the night. Goodnight all. If other mods don't chime in, I'll try to answer stuff in the morning.
Thanks - if I could even have 50 it would be a great help!
heh heh...
Am I an official 'old timer' yet? or do I still have to suffer being called a newbie? ;)
Being here over a year should move you out of the 'newbie' class, but considering the first users signed on in 1997, you may not qualify yet as an 'old timer' ;-}
"Then again, there's only 12 or so mods, and 200,000+ posters. We're never bored."
I tell ya, Olive, that information leaves me Popeye'd! J.R. must be brutus. ;)
Night sis....see ya around the threads...
Now there, youv'e hit on it, We need the poster sign in number again, Please!!
"It's Bush's fault.
If I see this lame ass comment one more time - I swear on my mother's grave. I am going to nuke this site."
Uhhhh, if you "nuke this site", will it be Bush's fault? ;)
Are you trying to say It's Cheney's fault? Now there's a novel idea.
Even after being around for a few years it doesn't hurt to get a refresher on the established rules. Especially when new features and capabilities are rolled out that some of us may sometimes miss due to being away on holiday, business, or whatever.
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Thanks to Jim, John and all my FRiends!
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