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Post by pdh54 on Oct 19, 2012 23:10:19 GMT 8
Just a quick question I've had for awhile with nowhere to ask it.
On the NEW TOPICS page, why are some of the folders in the left hand column plain and some look like they have flames moving?
Patty
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Post by EXO on Oct 20, 2012 4:49:24 GMT 8
Good question.
A thread becomes a "hot thread" and has this image displayed next to it when the number of messages it contains exceeds a pre-set number. (The default is 15, and I haven't changed it.)
There is a second type of flame animation which indicates a Very Hot Thread. The number of posts required in a thread before it becomes a "very hot thread" is 25.
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Post by pdh54 on Oct 20, 2012 5:58:45 GMT 8
Thanks
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Post by The Phantom on Apr 13, 2013 3:48:36 GMT 8
I have been a contributor for some time but am not as computer literate as I'd like. So I have a question. I can deal with the new format but why do I now have to keep scrolling along the bottom, forward and backward, to read entire posts? Is there a way to get the posts to fit on my screen, as they used to, so all the information is on the same screen at the same time? It is now difficult to read who did the post and when, while you read the posts. Is it just my computer setup? A little help please.
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Post by The Phantom on Apr 13, 2013 3:56:46 GMT 8
Have any of the new or old contributors done any recent "Thread Mining"? Lots of interesting threads beyond the first pages.
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Post by okla on Apr 13, 2013 8:20:55 GMT 8
Hey Phantom....I am very glad that you brought this problem up. I was too embarrassed to ask the same thing for fear of being thought of as being as dumb as "a box of rocks". I guess this is a case of "misery loves company", but this new format, at times runs me nuts. Thanks for the "company". As for "thread mining", I have found some "gems" that I somehow missed when they first were posted. I still don't see how I missed them the first time around. I check this forum a minimum of twice a day and usually three or four times. I suppose these "misses" were when one of my "senior moments" had kicked in. Cheers.
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Post by The Phantom on Apr 17, 2013 3:34:33 GMT 8
Okla, you're one of the premium contributors on this site, but we are among the oldest and least computer literate. We do well for all the formal training we have had. I was doing my math on paper with a pencil in school. I remember when the first calculator came out. I still have a "National Semiconductor" model with liquid display, made in Japan! As A district manager for a large corporation they handed me a laptop and told me to use it to help me do my job, what, how does it work?
I guess we get used to the scroll button my friend..............
"Thread Mining" is a good way to catch up and review past topics so you can have informed comments.
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Post by okla on Apr 17, 2013 9:01:34 GMT 8
Hey Phantom....Thanks for the kind words. Believe it or not, I made my living as a Computer Operator for twenty years, but those clap traps called computers in the 1970s and early 80s were just that..clap traps. All magnet tape, disks, etc. I wasn't retired but a couple of years and I was obsolete dinosaur big time. One last thing....you should have seen me attempting to master the Abacus (sp???) at the knee of a Korean Josan during my hitch in the "land of the Morning Calm" back in 1952/53.. It was a "keystone kops" epic and I gave it up. I will just continue to flounder with this apparatus that I now have tucked away in my den. Cheers.
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