How do I? Where do I? What can I? New forum questions

[SiteWolf]

Ok, I'm still learning these things, too....so I'm starting this thread to mention a few things I DO know...if you see something 'neat' you wanna share, do so. I'm also not averse to some changes here....there's a lotta green here, I may take some out for example.

Some tidbits as I think of them, in no particular order:

1.) You'll notice there's currently no IPO Talk or Player Movement forums. But....there is- I opted to put a subforum for those in each individual sport's forum....in large part to increase the activity in those forums

2.) If you're on broadband, you may not use this much....but each group of forums (Game related, etc) is collapsible. You can show/hide them as you like by clicking the button on the right end of each group's header.

3.) I have new user titles in place- you start out as a prospect, then become a 7th round draft pick...working your way up the 'draft order', etc...and up to GM as you accumulate posts.

4.) I haven't yet set details (it's all customizable), but there are user rankings as well as user warnings we can utilize- one being a positive thing, the other not so much (as in we can impose penalty points if a member insults another member...accumulate too many points and you're automatically suspended for a few days or whatever we set).

5.) There is a quick reply option- if you're not gonna use a smilie and just wanna make a quick reply to a post, the far right of the group of 4 activates the quick reply box where you can type your reply, submit, and see it display without having to even leave the page.

6.) You recognize the edit and quote buttons of that group of 4....now I've told you about the quick reply. The 3rd button of that group is multiquote. Sometimes a reply you're making will refer to more than one previous post. Using multiquote you can quote more than one post- click the multiquote button on the posts you want to quote, then click post reply....those posts should now be quoted in your response.

7.) You'll see a 'New Posts' link up at the top- wanna see what all the new posts are since you were last here? Click that...you'll get a display of every thread in every forum so you can pick and choose which you wanna look at.

8.) Next to New Posts is Search- seem to remember a thread with, say, Sidney Crosby in the title but not can't seem to find it? Search for it. I'm not even sure how sophisticated the search (and advanced search) is.

9.) Along that line, seem to remember a specific member posting something? Find A post by them so you can click their name to go to their profile (which is another whole ball o' wax) and you can search for ALL their posts.

10.) You'll notice there's a baseball field icon beside each forum. But...did you notice that the bases were full in a forum with unread posts in it? Bases are empty if there's not.

11.) It hasn't worked in the old forums for a long time, but it works here- while inside a forum, there's a link to mark that forum as read (there's other links as well). If you're catching up on the boards and want to mark forums as read individually as you do, now you can.

12.) There's even more smilies (like we needed 'em) and actually I could put in a ton more (heck I could have 100 bananas alone...but c'mon)....but if there's a smilie you use a lot, I kinda 'ranked' them so that the most used ones show up without having to click the 'show more' link. If I've missed some you use a lot or whatever, let me know- when I set this originally it was 4 rows wide...until I found out that was a PIA for those with resolutions under 1280.

Sidebar: it's always been true...if you know what a smilie is named, you can always just type it in.... if I want to show I can just type : albert : (spaces added so the text shows)

Well that's enough to chew on in one post. Feel free to add to this, feel free to ask questions- I'm learning this thing, too. The idea is to have some fun with this and generate more community activity again. I put this under new members because, at this point, we all ARE re these forums.

[StormJr]

Originally Posted by SiteWolf

5.) There is a quick reply option- if you're not gonna use a smilie and just wanna make a quick reply to a post, the far right of the group of 4 activates the quick reply box where you can type your reply, submit, and see it display without having to even leave the page.

Actually, you CAN use a smilie with the quick reply button. You just have to know the name/style of it. I.E. "; )", or ": einstien :", etc. If you know that, you can just use the quick reply...

[P562045]

Originally Posted by StormJr

Actually, you CAN use a smilie with the quick reply button. You just have to know the name/style of it. I.E. "; )", or ": einstien :", etc. If you know that, you can just use the quick reply...

Like this? :einstein:

[StockTrader]

Except it's : albert :

ST

[P562045]

That is I mean.

Hey wait shouldn't that be a smilie for that el hombre that plays first base for the Cardinals.

Of course we can't call him the man because another Cardinal got that a long time ago.

[bballjer44]

What does 'Subscribe to this forum do"

[StockTrader]

Well, if we charged a fee for certain things. IE - An "Expert Advice" forum or something. We don't have any plans for it yet, but you never know.

Nick

[HOOSIERS]

I've been gone for three weeks. How do I or where do I find the names of the newly added players

[SiteWolf]

a number of ways, really

They may be in your admin messages:
http://jockstocks.com/profile.php

Or, when the market resets at noon eastern daily, most recently added stocks show up first until today's buys bump them out of the top 30

Or, on the Oasis we have an active stock list sorted with most recently released stocks first by sport- http://www.jockstocks.com/oasis/viewactives.php

I'm betting admin messages will get what you're currently looking for