For some reason i thought that when you posted a question on the forum that it stayed posted and thats how people respond to it.It seems to me that whenever i post something and then go offline and come back to check responses i can never find my post.I guess that my questions are either to boring or i dont understand how this thing works!
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Can you imagine how big the screen would have to be, if every post ever posted stayed up in view forever ?
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When you make a post, it is posted. When the next person posts one, yours is moved down. When the next person posts, both the previous get moved down again.
Do this enough times, and your post dissappears off the bottom of the screen.
If someone comes along and reads your post, then replies, the whole thing gets sent back to the top again.
It is nothing personal. The software moves the newest to the top, and the rest take a step lower.
I can peacefully choose, to peacefully do, that which I do not want to do.
quittintime
makes sense but is there a way to find it after it has been bumped off the screen?
More likely as a new forum poster, your posts are delayed for Moderator review dur a heavy troll infestation a few months back. Give your posts a day....that's not a mistake, it's rustic
The search function here really sucks, but you could try that.
The best thing to do is to remember where it was. Then search that particular section for it later. If you click on the head of the section, you will get a screen full of posts for that section only. If you don't find the post there, go to the bottom and check for the next 50 for that section.
I can peacefully choose, to peacefully do, that which I do not want to do.
quittintime
hey thanks for the tip on clicking onto the heading to get the folder of posts.found my post but still no responces to it but at least i know that its still floating out there.thanks for the help.
No problem.
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I can peacefully choose, to peacefully do, that which I do not want to do.
quittintime
The screen we are talking about is the main screen titled 'Recent Discussions'.
Once a post exits this screen it is placed in the appropiate file under which you originally posted your question ie 'general discussion' or 'tools' or 'construction techniques' etc.
Those subtitles can be found listed one following the other after clicking on the tab titled 'start reading'.
Those post stay listed there under the subtitles for a certain length of time before entering the collectic which can be found by clicking on the small red typed '### msgs' wording at the top of each listing directly beneath the title.
Edited 2/11/2004 12:53:56 AM ET by rez
Edited 2/11/2004 12:55:26 AM ET by rez
Edited 2/11/2004 12:56:52 AM ET by rez
I haven't allowed your posts to stay up because you haven't sent me the membership fee that allows you to post.
Just kidding.
First, if you haven't posted in a while, or if you deleted cookies, the next time you log on, if Taunton/prospero doesn't recognize you as a good guy, your post may get delayed. This is so the Powers That Be can review it before it gets posted. If you post friday night? You may have to wait until monday.
That said, here's an alternative method: Your screen should have two windows. The window on the left shows the different folders and the titles of the different threads. The right window displays the discussion you have selected to read.
At the top of the LEFT window, there is an item called SHOW DISCUSSIONS. Underneath the SHOW DISCUSSIONS there is a drop down window, to the right of the window there is a drop down arrow. Click on the drop down arrow to display the drop down menu. Select "of High Interest" and, wonder-of-wonders, all the discussions that you have recently posted to (that you have a "high interest" in) should appear in the folder menu in the left window.
After you've been here ten years, you may not want to see all the threads you've posted to. So in that same drop dowm menu, select "Unread messages to: me" and you'll see...messages to you that you haven't yet read.
If you just read a thread and want to revisit it, click on "recently seen" or something like that.
Viola!
Edited 2/11/2004 1:32:14 AM ET by Mongo
The older posts getting bumped off the bottom of the list is half the answer. The other half is that after you've read all the messages in a thread, the thread is no longer visible to you until someone posts another message to it. So even if your post is still among the most recent posts, like if you post at midnight and come back to check at 4AM, you won't see it.
As far as finding your own message again, somebody already suggest remembering which folder it's in so you can search for it. You could also change your interest level on the thread. Near the bottom of the message reading screen it says Rate My Interest and three buttons, High, Neutral, and Ignore. If you mark the thread as being of high interest, then you can go to the Show discussions pulldown menu near the top of the left hand frame and select the of High Interest menu entry.
Also, after you post a message, on the continue screen, there's a link that says click here to receive e-mail when anyone posts to this thread, or something like that. Getting the e-mail indicates that someone has posted. Not getting any e-mail doesn't necessarily mean that no one has posted, because the feature isn't 100% reliable.
Another thing to keep in mind is that most times of the day, you can't expect a real quick answer. Sometimes you'll get one, but sometimes the guy who can answer your question doesn't log in until after the kids are in bed, or whatever. Some people don't log in at all on the weekends. Some people are unemployed and have constructed their entire social lives around the Taunton forums, so they can answer your questions almost instantly. But their answers may not be well grounded in the consensus reality.
So tell us daddyjim,
What your post was and which folder so we can converge on it with an answer
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What ?
You lost your job again ??
he he he
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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Posting at Breaktime should not be a full-contact sport.
quittintime
Searching under "daddyjim" I found one thread about using a router to trim window jambs with about three replies.
Al Mollitor, Sharon MA
I can't help him, but one of the pro's here should be able to.
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=39814.1