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[CommanderBond]

WOW!!!! IM SPEACHLESS!!! Its gunna take me a while to get used to but i love the new Monneypenny feature and the ranks!!! Keep up the good work

[Blue Eyes]

Did we loose some posts off of our post count because of the new forum? I thought I used to have over 2600 posts.

Yes, I lost around 200 myself. If you've ever posted in the forum games, deleted threads and so on your post count will now be lower.

[Bondian]

All this, and I'm worried about my 'sperm count'!.

[Blue Eyes]

Well Matey, it's like having to go back wearing a condom, but I'm sure we'll get the hang of it!.

We all will I'm afraid. People always hate change, and I'm one of them. I feel like running screaming from the forums right now (or are these actually forums now? perhaps I feel like running from a debrief - whatever one of those is) but shall have to soldier on.

[The Admiral]

Do we still get e-mails telling us about our subscribed threads?

You can turn on Email notification as default in your Controls. This will mean any post you create or reply to will send you notification emails.

As for any post you don't post in, you can subscribe to the notifications by using the "Track this Topic" link at the top of the posts in a thread.

You can also subscribe to threads by clicking the link "Subscribe to this forum" from the bottom of a forum page.

You can also then manage all of your subscriptions from with the Control page under the Subscriptions section of the menu.

Did we loose some posts off of our post count because of the new forum? I thought I used to have over 2600 posts.

Unfortunately to reduce the strain on the server for the conversion, we had to delete some forums and posts.

It's pretty cool, nice set up. I was curious if we have lost our buddy list feature. I don't see it in my controls.

It's still there in your Controls. Under Messenger -> PM Bussies/Block List

[Righty007]

Are we still subscribed to the threads that we were subscribed to at the other forum?

[The Admiral]

I'm certain that the subscriptions weren't converted.

You'll need to resubscribe.

[Qwerty]

Hi Dave, thanks very much for being so informative about the change and all, I for one appreciate it. I have a question though. In My Controls, it says, you can change the color of the font in your signature, and I've clicked green, and it's showing the command in my sig, but not actually changing the color. Any ideas why?
Thanks.
~Devin

[The Admiral]

Hi Dave, thanks very much for being so informative about the change and all, I for one appreciate it. I have a question though. In My Controls, it says, you can change the color of the font in your signature, and I've clicked green, and it's showing the command in my sig, but not actually changing the color. Any ideas why?
Thanks.
~Devin

You'll need to make sure you have a close tag for it.

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If you have problems, shout and I'll update it for you.

[Qwerty]

Ah, that works! Thanks a lot!

[Sensualist]

Congratulations to The Admiralty and the folks at Naval Intelligence. A job well done on ALL counts. A great place to visit and contribute.

Best wishes to Dave, Daniel, Evan, Brett, Paul, Barbara, Tim, John and anyone else on the team I may have forgotten to mention.

A fantastic web site. A narcotic, really.

[Sensualist]

BTW, what is the "warn" thingy at the very bottom left corner on my posts?

[The Admiral]

It's a warning system so if anyone's bad, we can warn them.

[CommanderBond]

Oh i see but what if their warning system is full. What happens??

[SnakeEyes]

All this 'new' CBN got me thinking about the member number and what it means.

CBN has 2469 members currently. Out of that, over 40% have never posted, AT ALL, and over 70% (including the 0 posters) have less than 10 posts.

What does this all mean? Loads of wasted space lol.

It's only in the last few member pages that the post counts get to the level that shows the person is commited to being an active member, the first 45 pages (out of 50, well 49 and a half (this is with 50 members per page sorted from post count)) have 100 or less posts, and the final 4 and a bit have respectable ones.
Sure you have to have a little leeway for people who just joined, but, looking at the dates, most of the people have never posted and never will.

Why care?
Some of the wasted space have really good names, names people might have wanted when they joined but couldn't all because some [-person-] registered and then didn't post.

I encourage some kind of pruning to be put into action to free up some cool posting alias/handles/whatever and, of course, server space.

Isn't this all interesting? "no we like our delusions of a massive member count thankyou snakeeyes" Ahh well, I tried

[DLibrasnow]

This is going to take some getting used too....jury is still out on wether I like it or not.

[DLibrasnow]

One thing is for certain, my internet browser is having problems with the new site...

It's nice to see the CBN Girl back. I like the fact that the site seems much more colorful.

[The Admiral]

One thing is for certain, my internet browser is having problems with the new site...

It's nice to see the CBN Girl back. I like the fact that the site seems much more colorful.

Could you post a screenshot of how the forums are appearing to you... then we can investigate further.

Are you using AOL? Righty007 has already said he's having problems using it.

[Genrewriter]

Wow! Nice new look, guys. Very cool.

[jwheels]

How come my Book club thing doesn't show up when I post?

[CommanderBond]

its the same with mine

[The Admiral]

How come my Book club thing doesn't show up when I post?

Do you mean the Blades Literary Book Club member emblem?

I'll enable them for you if you let me know that's what you mean.

[CommanderBond]

thats what we mean Dave.

[Blue Eyes]

Oh i see but what if their warning system is full. What happens??

Offending members lose the right to do certain things for a certain period of time - for instance, posting.

[Athena007]

Oh i see but what if their warning system is full. What happens??

Offending members lose the right to do certain things for a certain period of time - for instance, posting.

Just a note on the way quotes are "quoted"...
I'm not sure how to explain exactly but when reading through the forums now it seems difficult to decipher between people's new posts and the quotes. the old forum had a blue boarder around the quotes or something like that which made the forums much easier to read. Is there any way something can be done on these new forums to help this?

[Qwerty]

I just wanted to add that I noticed as I was posting in the CBn Games forum, where the post count IS NOT supposed to raise as you post, it was. This is probably because of the switch of the forums. I just wanted to bring that to the attention of the staff so they can fix it if they like.

~Devin

[Blue Eyes]

Just a note on the way quotes are "quoted"...
I'm not sure how to explain exactly but when reading through the forums now it seems difficult to decipher between people's new posts and the quotes.

I'm having the same problem. They're not as neat. It's something we'll try and address. I also don't like the way you can quote quotes, if that makes sense.

[Blue Eyes]

I just wanted to add that I noticed as I was posting in the CBn Games forum, where the post count IS NOT supposed to raise as you post, it was.

I've addressed that issue Qwerty, cheers.

[Qwerty]

I've addressed that issue Qwerty, cheers.

That's good Blue Eyes, didn't know if you knew or not.

I have one more question, the time is appearing still in "Military Time" on the Forum screen for me, although I think I've set it to my correct time for my time zone, am I doing something wrong?

Ah one more thing, what happened to the 106 umost ever online thing? Will you guys not be adding that up to the new forums?

[jwheels]

How come my Book club thing doesn't show up when I post?

Do you mean the Blades Literary Book Club member emblem?

I'll enable them for you if you let me know that's what you mean.

Yep, thats what I ment Dave, thanks