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Selkie

12-30-2009, 01:49 AM

OMG you can get a reputation :D

Will it evolve into forum cliques? ;)

I'm old fashioned and am not into Facebook or social networking. Therefore, I admit to being ignorant of the advantages.

tulip

12-30-2009, 04:50 AM

I hadn't noticed, since I just click on New Posts...I'll have to check it out the old school way.

KnottedYet

12-30-2009, 06:04 AM

I couldn't figure out what or where it was... until I clicked on your name, Tulip.

It's a different way of displaying the profile, and it keeps a tally of who's been peeking at you (and their name). I guess you can leave notes on someone's profile, too. Like a public PM?

I got to be the first person to peek at Tulip! Recorded for all posterity! :D
"Knot, the Peeping Tom!" :rolleyes:

Not quite sure what the "friends" thing is or the purpose it serves. I'm sure someone who does Facebook or Myspace or something will come along and explain it all.

Cataboo

12-30-2009, 06:12 AM

I am a technophobe who doesn't like change.

I am pretending that nothing is different.

KnottedYet

12-30-2009, 06:19 AM

I am pretending that nothing is different.

Me, too.
I read posts and reply to posts. That's plenty.

Crankin

12-30-2009, 06:29 AM

Me too. I don't see any changes.

OakLeaf

12-30-2009, 06:33 AM

It records who's visited your profile too. :)

I can't see where reputation is supported here, though - which is fine with me, but it can be useful to people who are new to the forum.

Trekhawk

12-30-2009, 06:42 AM

Stuff and nonsense.... (http://forums.teamestrogen.com/faq.php?faq=vb3_user_profile#faq_vb3_social_groups)

:D:D;):D:D

I started reading the info but I thought my head might explode so I had to stop.;)

SadieKate

12-30-2009, 08:17 AM

I agree with mickchick, tulip, Knotted, Catriona, TrekHawk, etc.

I'd suggest we start a group for Luddites but that would involve change. :eek: :eek: :p

maillotpois

12-30-2009, 08:18 AM

I like that they use the verb "befriend".

jobob

12-30-2009, 08:23 AM

Heh, the stuff I have to wade thru at work makes this look like ... um ... the stuff I have to wade thru at work. :cool:

Trek420

12-30-2009, 08:32 AM

I'd suggest we start a group for Luddites but that would involve change. :eek: :eek: :p

I agree. Will there be a team wool jersey?

SadieKate

12-30-2009, 08:37 AM

It couldn't be the new washable wool, and it would need to be men's sizes only that go down to your knees when the pockets are loaded.

Cataboo

12-30-2009, 08:39 AM

I think it can be the new washable wool, because us luddites don't have to bother trying to understand that, we just know it's magic and it works.

The forum changes, we gotta try to understand and it requires thought.

SadieKate

12-30-2009, 08:45 AM

. . . and it requires thought.No. :)

I have to do that at work.

Crankin

12-30-2009, 09:09 AM

I found the new stuff; it lists one person as a "contact." How did she get there?
It's all a mystery to me.
Don't think I need to join new groups.

Zen

12-30-2009, 09:22 AM

i started reading the info but i thought my head might explode so i had to stop.;)

i know!

Irulan

12-30-2009, 09:43 AM

jobob

12-30-2009, 09:46 AM

I'm gonna start smoking and skipping homeroom and hanging out with the OE kids.

administrator

12-30-2009, 09:55 AM

I had to upgrade the forum software to get the latest security patches for VBulletin. Our ISP was reporting some hacking activity that appeared to be coming from the machine that hosts the forums and forced us to immediately upgrade VBulletin.

Turns out it wasn't us, just someone spoofing using a forged IP that happened to be our IP address.

I'm still exploring all the new features - another upgrade from 3.8.x to 4.0 series of vbulletin is coming, so if you don't like the new features, just ignore them. It'll probably change even more with the move to 4.0.

Pax

12-30-2009, 09:59 AM

oh lord, this was done at another site I frequent. The "reptuation" stuff was deemed a failure after a year, and social groups thing was also removed after it was discovered that no one really used it.

have fun.

Ditto.. The "reputation" stuff was just goofy, and loads of social groups were started...then abandoned within weeks. :p

Irulan

12-30-2009, 10:27 AM

Ditto.. The "reputation" stuff was just goofy, and loads of social groups were started...then abandoned within weeks. :p

Well in the case of this other site, people were having way too much fun with the negative reputation feature, but regardless it was all abandoned after a while.

katluvr

12-30-2009, 11:40 AM

Ok, so I checked out my profile...I have no friends and no one has visited me.
That makes me feel so lonely and unloved. :(
Guess I should not have checked! (I never would have w/o this thread!)

And I guess now I better becareful checking profiles...folks may think I am stalking!

Pax

12-30-2009, 11:53 AM

ok, so i checked out my profile...i have no friends and no one has visited me.
That makes me feel so lonely and unloved. :(
guess i should not have checked! (i never would have w/o this thread!)

and i guess now i better becareful checking profiles...folks may think i am stalking!

Look again. :D

katluvr

12-30-2009, 11:55 AM

I feel SSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much better now! Thanks!:)

Trek420

12-30-2009, 12:55 PM

Ditto.. The "reputation" stuff was just goofy, and loads of social groups were started...then abandoned within weeks. :p

I thought we are a social group. :confused:

roadie gal

12-30-2009, 04:30 PM

I thought we are a social group. :confused:

LOL. So true.

I, too, am friendless... *sigh* A girl could get a complex...

Veronica

12-30-2009, 04:43 PM

"Will you be my friend?" :D

Veronica

Trek420

12-30-2009, 05:34 PM

I feel like I'm back in High School and not in a good way (like I still had working knee joints) ;)

Catrin

12-30-2009, 05:41 PM

Indeed, shades of High School (won't someone be my friend) :p

It would be fantastic to have teenage joints again!

Trek420

12-30-2009, 06:01 PM

Yes, but with grown up money and relationships. :D ;) :p

OakLeaf

12-30-2009, 06:21 PM

Eh, any problems I have with my joints now, I can thank high school injuries.

I have been sweating the Facebook friend thing. :o

Zen

12-30-2009, 08:03 PM

It would be fantastic to have teenage joints again!

I think I'd rather have that than any amount of money:rolleyes: :o:(:mad:

Trek420

12-30-2009, 08:24 PM

Were you in a clique in HS? Which one? I was sort of with the bookish geeky nerdy bunch. We looked like the kids who hung out in the smoking area 'cept with great grades.

Zen

12-30-2009, 08:54 PM

i was a stoner/jock:eek:. I had friends in both groups but I think I was the lone member of this particular clique

Selkie

12-31-2009, 01:24 AM

I feel like I'm back in High School and not in a good way (like I still had working knee joints) ;)

That was my first reaction. My High School years were not the high point of my youth.

Trekhawk

12-31-2009, 03:06 AM

"Will you be my friend?" :D

Veronica

Snort:D
I wonder just how many friends you can have before the system has a melt down.

Pax

12-31-2009, 05:03 AM

I think I'd rather have that than any amount of money:rolleyes: :o:(:mad:
Right there with you! Added to the knees and hips...I just found out my aching hands = arthritis. I can barely make a fist in the mornings.

Were you in a clique in HS? Which one? I was sort of with the bookish geeky nerdy bunch. We looked like the kids who hung out in the smoking area 'cept with great grades.
I was in the Jock clique, but was also on the chess team so I hung out with the nerds and band geeks as well.

Snort:D
I wonder just how many friends you can have before the system has a melt down.
When they added the "friend" option over on Scubaboard two of the guys decided to make a competition out of it, they added everyone who would take the request and every single newbie that joins...they have a couple of thousand each.

bmccasland

12-31-2009, 05:38 AM

Were you in a clique in HS?

I was a band kid, but didn't think it was a clique either. Went to two different HS, started in Michigan, finished in Arizona. Never did fit in to the AZ school, the school I landed in didn't like military kids. Like it was my fault my Dad flew planes for Uncle Sam. But I liked Band. Mr LeFevre's marching circus.

owlice

12-31-2009, 05:52 AM

There've been changes to the forum????

Catrin

12-31-2009, 05:57 AM

Were you in a clique in HS? Which one?

I was a stoner/nerd/bookworm :eek: My grades were very high, and I was pretty much in my own clique. I had friends in both groups. High school is far from a favorite period of my youth...

Bike Chick

12-31-2009, 06:05 AM

I have no friends either:( but just like high school, I was friends with everyone. I went to a small school where everyone knew everyone else. I hung out with the NHS, chorus/musicals group. It was before Title IX so there weren't many jocks and I didn't think I had any athletic ability anyway. . Who would've thought that 35 years later I'm running, biking and swimming???

Crankin

12-31-2009, 06:13 AM

I started out in the popular, preppie group and morphed into the "intellectual, but not super brilliant" group of 5-6 girls who hung out in Harvard Square and were semi-stoners (i.e., we had good grades, but liked to party). There were no female jocks in the late sixties, early seventies. Then I moved to Florida. They were still wearing Villager dresses, carrying their Aingier purses. I was considered seriously radical. I refused to go to school, so I finished my last 2 years at a very small private school. I had friends, good ones, but it was never the same as when I lived in here.

roadie gal

12-31-2009, 07:33 AM

OMG, I still have high school nightmares.

I was in the "smart but weird girl" group. I had very few friends until I joined the theater. Then I had a *few* more. UGH!

Thanks, Veronica. Back at ya.

VeloVT

12-31-2009, 04:14 PM

so how do we find out what our "reputation" is?
And I like the quick reply box, but can we make it so that you can just type in the box, without clicking anything in any of the other posts? And can we include emoticons in the quick reply box?

:)

snapdragen

12-31-2009, 04:45 PM

Where are y'all seeing this reputation thing? I want to make mine "trashy".... :D

Zen

12-31-2009, 06:19 PM

Well, OK then (http://popup.lala.com/popup/360569488122542621)

see also http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://hillbillybible.com/hb198/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/trailer-trash.jpg&imgrefurl=http://hillbillybible.com/trashy-women-i-want-trailer-trash-as-a-wife/&usg=__9l4y4wyrN1rjf8yCdzPwXaMnt68=&h=510&w=341&sz=71&hl=en&start=51&um=1&tbnid=5uGfD3Hrsym6LM:&tbnh=131&tbnw=88&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtrashy%2Bwomen%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rlz%3D1R1GGGL_enUS344US344%26sa%3DN%26start%3D36%26um%3D1

Trek420

12-31-2009, 06:30 PM

so how do we find out what our "reputation" is?

This is a little too much like work :o "you may get a survey call so did you like my post? Huh? Huh? I hope you really like it, is there anything I could say in this post so that you would rate my reputation with a green dot? Cause I really hope you rate me with a green dot, I'd be really sad with a grey dot or worse a red (from the admin) so I really hope that you give me a green dot and ...."

oh sod it. I don't care what dot you use:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIWC8gV7RuE

Zen

12-31-2009, 08:18 PM

Which makes me think of this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RAQXg0IdfI)

KnottedYet

12-31-2009, 08:42 PM

Frick it all! BIKE ORGY!!!!!

Let's all ride to a great chocolate factory (www.theochocolate.com) and a great brewery (http://www.redhook.com/AgeCheck.aspx?p=36) while wearing our utilikilts (http://www.utilikilts.com/)

HS sucked, now it's time to have the life you always wanted! :D

Aggie_Ama

12-31-2009, 09:07 PM

I don't know what I was in high school, me? I knew the popular kids and we would talk in classes but we weren't friends. I was a newspaper editor, voted best female youth bowler in the state and in all the honor societies.

I didn't go to my 10 year this year. I don't talk to anyone from high school unless I run into them at the store. Whatever high school was I am happy to leave it back in the 90's!

OakLeaf

12-31-2009, 09:53 PM

The green/grey dots have been there all along, and they just indicate whether the person is online...

I still don't see where reputation is enabled here.

snapdragen

01-01-2010, 08:11 AM

I might have been there, but now it's gone. We can set aside the old high school demons....says the girl who dyed her hair to match her outfit. :o

VeloVT

01-01-2010, 10:23 AM

The green/grey dots have been there all along, and they just indicate whether the person is online...

I still don't see where reputation is enabled here.

Exactly...

Crankin

01-01-2010, 01:41 PM

Wow, I think that my basic self hasn't changed at all since I was in HS. Perhaps I am a bit nicer??? I've never cared much what others think, but despite that, I was always popular, though as I matured, I separated myself from the silly, princess types and basically have been friends with anyone who had a common interest.
I thinking moving in HS and living in 3 different states has given me a different perspective than if I had just stayed in MA my whole life. Although, I have to say that I always felt different from most of the people I worked with in AZ; there definitely was a cultural thing that made me feel different. In the end, I ended up becoming friends mostly with others who had migrated from the northeast and were in the same stage of life. Then I decided that I wanted my kids to be brought up in an environment like the one I grew up in. So, I guess I eventually did turn into my mother!
Yeah, well that worked with one kid and worked not so well with the other.

maillotpois

01-01-2010, 03:28 PM

I wonder why I have to sign in verytime I come to the forum now. I tell it to remember me and it doesn't. I wonderif this is related to the upgrades - or whether it's because of my reputation.

snapdragen

01-01-2010, 03:53 PM

I wonder why I have to sign in verytime I come to the forum now. I tell it to remember me and it doesn't. I wonderif this is related to the upgrades - or whether it's because of my reputation.

It's your reputation, we all know about you...

//check to see if you are deleting cookies when you sign off....I have no problems with TE remembering me.

jobob

01-01-2010, 04:11 PM

//check to see if you are deleting cookies when you sign off....I have no problems with TE remembering me.

The same thing is happening to me, and it only started up after the upgrade.

(OK Ms WebCaptain, how does one check to see if they delete cookies when they sign off?)

maillotpois

01-01-2010, 04:24 PM

The same thing is happening to me, and it only started up after the upgrade.

(OK Ms WebCaptain, how does one check to see if they delete cookies when they sign off?)

Glad it's not just me!

And yeah - how do I check to see if I am deleting cookies? I love cookies.

salsabike

01-01-2010, 04:29 PM

It's happening to me too. I emailed admin about it.

OakLeaf

01-01-2010, 06:14 PM

I'm not having that problem, but what browser are you using?

In Firefox, it's Preferences>Privacy
then keep cookies until (anything except for "I close Firefox")
and if you've checked "Clear history when Firefox closes," then make sure "Cookies" is unchecked in the Clear History settings.

I don't know much about Internet Exploder, but I think v.8 is pretty new, and I know it has a lot more privacy options than it used to, so that might have something to do with it as well. Maybe you downloaded the new version and it defaults to deleting more cookies than you used to?

snapdragen

01-01-2010, 07:19 PM

Check your privacy settings if you're using IE 8 -- mine is set at Medium
(Tools, Internet Options, Privacy)

jobob

01-01-2010, 08:00 PM

Ah, in my case it's definitely a Firefox issue.

When I brought up the TE site in Internet Explorer, logged in and clicked the "remember me" box, and then shut down IE, when I re-open it and access the TE site again I'm still logged in.

I've been trying Oakleaf's suggestions (thanks!) and playing around with my Firefox privacy / cookie settings, but so far no dice -- whenever I close Firefox & then open it up again, I'm logged out of TE.

Eh, I'll figure it out eventually.

salsabike

01-01-2010, 08:42 PM

I use Firefox and I keep cookies, so that's not the problem. I think something about the new forum software is interacting differently with Firefox. TE still recognizes me in Explorer 7. I'm hoping the admin will have some ideas about what might have changed with the new forum software.

BleeckerSt_Girl

01-01-2010, 09:00 PM

Firefox, windows XP here.... I'm not having a log-in problem. Nothing new or unusual has been happening for me.

OakLeaf

01-01-2010, 09:05 PM

Or maybe you somehow got a setting to accept only session cookies from TE. In that case you don't have to find and delete the preference, just click on cookie Exceptions, then type in forums.teamestrogen.com and click "Allow."

snapdragen

01-01-2010, 09:15 PM

Check this setting in Firefox....otherwise I'm stumped.

administrator

01-03-2010, 07:52 PM

please email me about them so I can help resolve the issue and also see how widespread of a problem it is. So far I haven't been able to duplicate the problem on my end...