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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
 Posted - 13 Nov 2010 : 00:22:08
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I finally figured-out HOW I lost my big 3 page post about three weeks ago.
PLEASE get rid of the 'Reset Fields' button!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just lost another HUGE post! Just what the heck is that for, anyway? (aside from causing me endless aggravation).
Reminds me of the 'self-destruct' button every super-villain puts on their 'doomsday devices' (and then wonder afterward why the hell they did that).
I'm done for today... I'm actually having chest-pains over this one now... 
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Daviot
Senior Scribe
USA
372 Posts |
Posted - 13 Nov 2010 : 03:40:09
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Markustay, I can empathize, although I tend to lose important/long posts via forum hiccup than the DOOMbutton. As a workaround, if I know I'm going to be a making a long post, I write it in a text editor/word processor (huzzah for spellcheck!) and then once I'm done with it, I copy/paste back into the forum window, so if it self-destructs, I'm covered.  |
One usually has far more to fear from the soft-spoken wizard with a blade and well-worn boots than from the boisterous one in the ivory tower.
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 13 Nov 2010 : 07:04:45
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My problem Daviot is that I intend to make a short answer, and then suddenly find myself typing several pages once I get on a roll.
This time it wasn't just a post - I was starting a new thread with a new epiphany I had, and since the 'creative spark' has now left I'm not sure if I want to bother trying to re-formulate it.
It was along the nature of 'game theory' - which is another sub-forum I'd love to see make its way into CK2.0. Although it related heavily to some of my cosmological musings, it was more of an 'applied divinity' for gaming.
What I may just do is take the entire theory and slip it into my mythological piece (although I wanted to keep 'hard facts' out of that, which would certainly include game-rules). I found some info today that tied-together two different ideas I had from two different threads (the drow and the fey ones), which rather then further complicating things (as usual), it actually 'boiled-away' all the 'fat' into a compact yet coherent line of reasoning.
But you are correct - I really need to write in WORD and then paste it into the post when I go into 'lecture mode'.
That will fix that pesky 'self destruct' button.  |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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Brimstone
Great Reader
USA
3287 Posts |
Posted - 13 Nov 2010 : 09:43:44
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Admit it Markus, you are long winded!! |
"These things also I have observed: that knowledge of our world is
to be nurtured like a precious flower, for it is the most precious
thing we have. Wherefore guard the word written and heed
words unwritten and set them down ere they fade . . . Learn
then, well, the arts of reading, writing, and listening true, and they
will lead you to the greatest art of all: understanding."
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
7989 Posts |
Posted - 13 Nov 2010 : 17:25:53
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Brimstone
Great Reader
USA
3287 Posts |
Posted - 13 Nov 2010 : 19:53:57
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"These things also I have observed: that knowledge of our world is
to be nurtured like a precious flower, for it is the most precious
thing we have. Wherefore guard the word written and heed
words unwritten and set them down ere they fade . . . Learn
then, well, the arts of reading, writing, and listening true, and they
will lead you to the greatest art of all: understanding."
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 13 Nov 2010 : 20:00:49
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Originally posted by Brimstone
Admit it Markus, you are long winded!!
Absolutely.
Thank goodness I have that one single fault, or someone might nail me to a cross.  |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
USA
4211 Posts |
Posted - 14 Nov 2010 : 06:59:17
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Try this one:
Open a Word Document on your desktop, write there, save, copy/paste.
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
7989 Posts |
Posted - 14 Nov 2010 : 11:41:19
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That's what I do, though I use Notepad++ for this purpose because I can configure it to include and display CK forum formatting codes (found in the FAQ). I do the same thing when posting at any forum or writing my email, it never hurts to have a "backup" of what you've just written in your clipboard so you can prevail against internet hiccups.
Yet I still find myself sometimes having to edit and re-edit CK posts countless times, to correct sinister typos and scribe my scrolls correctly. I'm just too neurotic to casually dismiss any obvious little errors I see posted. |
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Brimstone
Great Reader
USA
3287 Posts |
Posted - 14 Nov 2010 : 13:41:35
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Originally posted by Dalor Darden
Try this one:
Open a Word Document on your desktop, write there, save, copy/paste.
Sound advice!!
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"These things also I have observed: that knowledge of our world is
to be nurtured like a precious flower, for it is the most precious
thing we have. Wherefore guard the word written and heed
words unwritten and set them down ere they fade . . . Learn
then, well, the arts of reading, writing, and listening true, and they
will lead you to the greatest art of all: understanding."
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Azuth
Senior Scribe
USA
404 Posts |
Posted - 08 Feb 2011 : 19:21:02
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3243 Posts |
Posted - 08 Feb 2011 : 20:30:54
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Originally posted by Azuth
Would it be possible to add the "&whichpage=##" to the URL received in messages so that the most recent page in the scroll opens?
If you use "Active Topics", there's a little blue arrow next to the most recent poster's name that will take you to the most recent post.
Note, however, that it's the most recent post, not the first unread post, so if there were 10 posts since you last checked in and click on the blue arrow, you'll go to the last post and have to scroll back for the other new posts. |
I actually DO know everything. I just have a very poor index of my knowledge.
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Hawkins
Great Reader
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2131 Posts |
Posted - 08 Feb 2011 : 22:12:37
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Originally posted by The Sage
Hmmm. Have no fear, Markus. It's now on the list of recommendations to consider for Candlekeep 2.
I am not sure what seems more likely to happen, Candlekeep 2 or anything on the Sage's To-Do List. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31727 Posts |
Posted - 09 Feb 2011 : 00:17:40
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Originally posted by HawkinstheDM
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Originally posted by The Sage
Hmmm. Have no fear, Markus. It's now on the list of recommendations to consider for Candlekeep 2.
I am not sure what seems more likely to happen, Candlekeep 2 or anything on the Sage's To-Do List.
Oh, I think the rise of Candlekeep 2 is entirely more likely... than my accomplishing anything on the famed "Sage's To-Do List." |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
3054 Posts |
Posted - 09 Feb 2011 : 12:08:55
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Originally posted by Ashe Ravenheart
If you use "Active Topics", there's a little blue arrow next to the most recent poster's name that will take you to the most recent post.
Note, however, that it's the most recent post, not the first unread post, so if there were 10 posts since you last checked in and click on the blue arrow, you'll go to the last post and have to scroll back for the other new posts.
I did not know about that arrow. Thanks Ashe! |
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Zireael
Master of Realmslore
Poland
1190 Posts |
Posted - 09 Feb 2011 : 12:34:46
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| Wasn't Candlekeep 2 scheduled to come in the first quarter of 2011? Or at least some features we were requesting? |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31727 Posts |
Posted - 09 Feb 2011 : 14:47:06
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| That depends, largely, on the amount of time Alaundo can devote to getting the basic foundation for the upgrade, up and running. The Quarter 1 date was tentative at best, like I've said before. It really does all depend on just when and where we can implement te new stuff. |
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
7989 Posts |
Posted - 09 Feb 2011 : 15:01:04
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Markustay
Reminds me of the 'self-destruct' button every super-villain puts on their 'doomsday devices' (and then wonder afterward why the hell they did that).
A little OT here, but the answer is simple.
I call it the Achilles Heel Contingency. The Big Red Self-Destruct Button is a control to prevent the unstoppable machine of terror and destruction from turning against it's creator (and possibly also destroying the entire world/cosmos without authorization). AHC has profound philosophical and paradoxical implications (especially when a doomsday superintelligence surpasses its creator), though it is ultimately a matter of personal preference for each evil genius as to whether he will install an AHC on any given project.
Alaundo has clearly chosen to implement an AHC on the Candlekeep editor, to prevent the chaos and destruction which might ensue when bad text gets posted. |
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Zireael
Master of Realmslore
Poland
1190 Posts |
Posted - 27 Feb 2011 : 09:58:21
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| Still, I think this button should disappear. |
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Matt James
Forgotten Realms Game Designer
USA
918 Posts |
Posted - 27 Feb 2011 : 16:06:32
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Zireael
Master of Realmslore
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
7989 Posts |
Posted - 27 Mar 2011 : 16:32:11
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Are we there yet?
How long?
How much farther?
Sage is poking me! I'm telling! |
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 27 Mar 2011 : 17:35:59
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Ahem ... sorry about the above, I couldn't resist.
I'm also sorry to report that the search genie appears to be sick. I have been experiencing great difficulty with the search function in recent days; I most often see "server busy" ASP messages unless I refresh numerous times (and the search result pages load with painful slowness when they do actually work); even while Active Users reports minimal numbers of scribes and guests within the keep. External searches are of little help since recent google crawls (and caches) also quite often seem to link to "server busy" pages. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31727 Posts |
Posted - 28 Mar 2011 : 01:57:40
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Originally posted by Arik
Ahem ... sorry about the above, I couldn't resist.
I'm also sorry to report that the search genie appears to be sick. I have been experiencing great difficulty with the search function in recent days; I most often see "server busy" ASP messages unless I refresh numerous times (and the search result pages load with painful slowness when they do actually work); even while Active Users reports minimal numbers of scribes and guests within the keep. External searches are of little help since recent google crawls (and caches) also quite often seem to link to "server busy" pages.
Hmmm. That's strange. I haven't been encountering any problems with the Candlekeep Search function.
Which browser are you using, Arik? |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 28 Mar 2011 : 03:14:13
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Same problem in about a week ago. I'm using Firefox and G-Chrome. |
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Fellfire
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 28 Mar 2011 : 03:17:57
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| I too had the same problems about two weeks back. In Firefox and Chrome. Like most gremlins I encounter here, they got bored and wandered off of their own accord leaving me in peace. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
7989 Posts |
Posted - 28 Mar 2011 : 04:14:49
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I'm mostly using IE8 on Win7 (Ultimate-64 on main machine, Premium-32 on laptop), sometimes I've tried run-from-disc FF3 with the same results, sometimes a KDE (xwindows) browser on my pimped X51v PPC (ancient PDA device). It's certainly not my cookies and security stuff. Other sites (including another Snitz) still work well.
The problem seems to have magically corrected itself (again). Did ye fix something, Sage? |
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