abecedarian
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I noticed when looking at various profiles, there's an option to add this person to my buddy list. What's that?? Does this mean I have to sit with them during lunch, or share a locker? What?
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Buddy List?
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abecedarian
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Thanks Ice, I just wondered.(she Skips back to the playground..)
abecedarian
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Ronny said:You forgot presents, you must send presents on B'days, Xmas and such. Do you want to add me to your list? chocolate will do for my gifts
Sure, although the chocolate might be a bit yucky by the time it got to your house..maybe I could just clip coupons
Sitaram
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my understanding is...
To further elaborate, it occurs to me to mention that forum software allows the creation of both PUBLIC and PRIVATE groups. A public group might be, e.g., in a sports forum,.... baseball as one group, football as another, cricket as a third. A user can join but must be okayed by a group moderator, and upon approval, those "hidden" private forums become visible to that user, and if the elect to leave the group (which requires no mod approval) then they no longer see those forum on their main forum index page. So, it is a way to keep a large message board with many many forums, less cluttered for users who may only desire to join a few groups. The nonpublic groups are not user joinable but only assignable by admin or mod,... and the idea is that you define rights and privileges to the group.. then you assign dozens or hundreds of members to that group, and they inherit those rights, privileges to post, edit,delete, etc.... and one change to the group ripples to all members.
hope that helps in some fashion
That question was asked at another vbulliten literary forum, and the admin answered that the feature is built into Vbulliten by Jelsoft, but he did not use it, because, in his mind, it would lead to partisanship (my group is better than your group)... and the buddy list does not pop up a window, but just displays their name in special bold, when on line... which i guess would be helpful if you had 1000 people out of 50,000, that you needed to recognize, but if you only have 50 buddies... then you see them on line, and recognize by memory.Ronny said:
To further elaborate, it occurs to me to mention that forum software allows the creation of both PUBLIC and PRIVATE groups. A public group might be, e.g., in a sports forum,.... baseball as one group, football as another, cricket as a third. A user can join but must be okayed by a group moderator, and upon approval, those "hidden" private forums become visible to that user, and if the elect to leave the group (which requires no mod approval) then they no longer see those forum on their main forum index page. So, it is a way to keep a large message board with many many forums, less cluttered for users who may only desire to join a few groups. The nonpublic groups are not user joinable but only assignable by admin or mod,... and the idea is that you define rights and privileges to the group.. then you assign dozens or hundreds of members to that group, and they inherit those rights, privileges to post, edit,delete, etc.... and one change to the group ripples to all members.
hope that helps in some fashion
Sitaram
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Flash Tutorial "Movie" of msg board guts
A quick and easy way to see the inside guts of a message board (not vBulliten, but perhaps similar) is to view these flash "movie" tutorials, which show on your screen all about groups, and various admin and moderator functions.
http://www.phpbb.com/support/tutorials/
I would be curious to see such a tutorial on vBulliten.
(before my 15 minute edit window expires..)
Notice how everything is "table driven". Most things can be done without writing some kind of pHp code.
I know and outfit which sets up companies, who want commercial websites, with exactly the same kind of table driven end user (non-programmer) modifyable website, to quickly add products , change prices, as a clerical function.... but you have to host on their machine. The wrote it all in some MS web language (cant remember name).
Phpbb techs acknowledge that Vbulliten has the edge over phpbb on speed, but many Vbulliten sites run on servers which are maxed out (need more memory, diskspace, bandwidth, processor speed, whatever
Sitaram said:
A quick and easy way to see the inside guts of a message board (not vBulliten, but perhaps similar) is to view these flash "movie" tutorials, which show on your screen all about groups, and various admin and moderator functions.
http://www.phpbb.com/support/tutorials/
I would be curious to see such a tutorial on vBulliten.
(before my 15 minute edit window expires..)
Notice how everything is "table driven". Most things can be done without writing some kind of pHp code.
I know and outfit which sets up companies, who want commercial websites, with exactly the same kind of table driven end user (non-programmer) modifyable website, to quickly add products , change prices, as a clerical function.... but you have to host on their machine. The wrote it all in some MS web language (cant remember name).
Phpbb techs acknowledge that Vbulliten has the edge over phpbb on speed, but many Vbulliten sites run on servers which are maxed out (need more memory, diskspace, bandwidth, processor speed, whatever
Kookamoor
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I'm sorry, what world do you guys live in?! My mother sends me Australian chocolate and timtams (Australian chocolate biscuits) throughout the year, and it usually makes it here in excellent condition. The only problems I have are when the chocolate isn't sealed overly well (particularly Furry Friends, but you don't have them here of course) and it goes white. Still tastes better than North American chocolate thoughRonny said:
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Ronny
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Kookamoor said:I'm sorry, what world do you guys live in?! My mother sends me Australian chocolate and timtams (Australian chocolate biscuits) throughout the year, and it usually makes it here in excellent condition. The only problems I have are when the chocolate isn't sealed overly well (particularly Furry Friends, but you don't have them here of course) and it goes white. Still tastes better than North American chocolate though
I have gotten some melted and some of that filmy white chocolate over the years in the mail. My hubby sends me truffles that he orders online and they always come just fine. So I'm not sure why sometimes it's good and sometimes it's not. I'm willing to do a study though so feel free to send me some and I'll tell you how it is when it gets here
MonkeyCatcher
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MmMm.. Tim TamsKookamoor said:
I sent my brother chocolate when he was in America at a summer camp, and he said that it turned up fine. But then again, any chocolate would taste like heaven next to that nasty American chocolate
direstraits
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Are you guys talking about the same timtams that I have here? What the - they are not *that* nice.
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direstraits
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MonkeyCatcher
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We are talking about the same ones and they are /delicious/. Are your ones made in America, though, because then they would be coated in yucky American chocolate.direstraits said:
direstraits
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I don't really know, actually, and more than likely they were made somewhere in the region rather than all the way from Oz or the States.
Of course, let it be known that people designated in my buddy list will not get yucky American chocolates (a valiant effort to yank the thread back on topic).
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Of course, let it be known that people designated in my buddy list will not get yucky American chocolates (a valiant effort to yank the thread back on topic).
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