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[IH Geek [Meatloaf]]

The only time you might see that is if you're replying to yourself.

[4Godnwv]

Not sure of this is a suggestion, or just that I have something configured wrong or am doing something wrong.

When I post a message, My mailbox counts goes up by 1 - it drives me crazy, cause I often see it and click to see 'who posted to me' - only to find out it was ME! Even happens when I 'edit' a post.

LOL, unnerving and disappointing at the same time.

Can this be fixed? Thanks

[gotmilk]

#msg-32080408

[~6979~]

LOL...all jokes aside...I really am interested in the top newest suggestions that would really advance the IHUB experience...I was also thinking that alot of suggestions are made on the Q & A board...but there is so many messages...its a daunting task...

[sidedraft]

Before your post here there were 212 posts. You ask for the top 200, why not take the risk and grab all 212 posts.

[~6979~]

Anybody have a list of the top 200 best suggestions of all time?

If anyone can take the time to create a list like that, I'll make them a deal to carry their signature as my signature for a week.(siggy slave)...LOL...thanks in advance...

[By Any Other Name]

A premium mouse-over for IH

#msg-31673231



Mouseover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouseover
A Mouseover or hover box refers to a GUI event that is raised when the user
moves or "hovers" the cursor over a particular area of the GUI.

Possible Premium-Plus addition for SI.

Rose

[Ruellit]

Just in case you missed this excellent idea!

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=30998123

[ThatHawaiiGuy]

You guys ought to have a button or tab for turn ads on or off for the paid subscribers and grandfathered in guys rather than having to log out to see who is advertising and what ads there are...once in a while there might be an ad we are interested in...

But we never see them...

Most people might set it to off, but some might turn it on once in a while...you never know...

[Hitman]

Suggestion to IHUB.
How 'bout we offer our members with limited english, a function to add a small icon to their alias(similar to the Paid/Free icon).
I believe this would allow our fluent english speaking members a little more patience with the 2nd language posters ie: grammar,sentence structure, spelling etc.
I also feel it would help the Mods with the number of deletions for "Off Topic".
HM

[Phil(Hot Rod Chevy)]

That makes sense.

Never thought about that.

No way to reverse the colors on the bottom toolbars and have them dark into light like the top one?

Phil

[IH Geek [Meatloaf]]

Because the toolbars themselves are reversed. The IHub specific toolbar is always closest to the center.

[Phil(Hot Rod Chevy)]

John, the colors on the top and bottom toolbars are reversed.

On the top toolbar, the colors fade from darker into lighter.

On the bottom one, they fade from lighter into darker.

If you are using the default, white background, the main navigation toolbar on the bottom is hard to find.

Any reason why the colors are reversed?

Phil

[Ruellit]

Click on profile, right above Total Posts theres an entry for Boards Moderated, click on the number and it will show you all the boards that alias moderates.

[sidedraft]

Ok, but my interest is in Boards Moderated strickly.

[sidedraft]

Ok, but my interest is in Boards Moderated strickly.

[Ruellit]

What you are asking for is already available. Go to the members profile, scroll down to the members total number of posts and click on the number. What pops up is that members posts on each board. Click on that number again and you'll get just that members posts on just that board. Very cool little known feature.

[BUBBA]

You can go to total posts and look up the board and it has that information.

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/MemberPostsByBoards.aspx?userid=70762

[sidedraft]

When you go to a members profile and click on Boards Moderated, why not display that member's last post time/date and the number of posts that member has made, instead of displaying the last post by anyone on one of his boards? The total posts to a board moderated by this member is relevant, as well as when he last posted.

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/boards_moderated.asp?user=91767

[sidedraft]

Once the Keywords are available, have a list that could be browsed.

Find what you want and click on that Keyword to see which boards match the Keyword you chose.

[sidedraft]

How about some way to alert poster#1 that poster#2 wants to engage poster#1 in off topic conversation on the The NEW Parking Lot?

On that board specifically, allow some means of having a mailbox notifier alert poster#1 that poster#2 is in The NEW Parking Lot, and waiting for him/her to start arguing.

[sidedraft]

Many boards get posts that do not belong.

But I am wondering if "part" of the problem is the difficulty in finding the right board for a posters question.

So here is what I propose:

Have the Mods of every board fill in a KEYWORD section attached somehow to every board.

Limit the number of keywords to ten, for instance.

Implement a SEARCH by KEYWORD feature.

So that when I want to know how to do something in the iBox, I search on HELP IBOX, and all the boards that proclaim to offer help on iBox matters show up.

Or if I want to find the latest pictures by Paulie Cashews, I put in the word "LUBE" into the Keyword search.

Might make life easier, all around.

[Ruellit]

In a world where lazy people worry about how many clicks it takes to do something, I've discovered another way to eliminate 2 more clicks.

When viewing the quote page, how hard would it be to put in a hot link that would add the board of the company thats being viewed to the individuals Favorite Page with just 1 click?

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

Shouldn't be timeouts in public search anymore except they might be possible when selecting 2007 since the current version of SQL Server has a bug which requires me creating indexes the hard way and I haven't done it for 2007 yet.

The timespan actually has no impact on how long the search takes. Most of the time it takes (it's along the lines of 90%) is strictly a function of how large the underlying search table is.

It's a real brain-dead part of SQL Server that I hope eventually gets fixed. If you want to find all the messages written in March that have the word "moon", it first finds ALL messages containing the word "moon", then narrows it down to March.

It's much better in SQL Server 2005 (our current version) than it was in SQL Server 2000, but it's still brain-dead. And really hurts on systems this large.

[Susie924]

Is it possible to have the search for public messages work the same way as for private messages?

With PM's you can put in a date range but with public messages you can only pick an entire year.

I get more timeouts with public messages because of the longer time span that it has to look at.

[RG]

Dumb dumb, yes I knew about that, thanks for bringing it back into my brain. lol

[lentinman]

Lucy:

There are 124,000 members. Do you know how long you would have to scroll down to find someone? That's a rhetorical question. It would be somewhere in the neighborhood of ... forever.

I'm sure you know, but just in case you (or anyone reading doesn't), you can type in what you know of a person's handle - say "lucy" or "thesky" - into the search box, click the drop down and click Members. That will narrow the search nearly astronomically. From there, click on the person you are looking for.

Len

[RG]

Is there a drop down window that has the names of every poster, if not it would be nice?

[Ruellit]

I've tried to get that feature for years, but somehow it's considered spam and Matthew hates spam!!! Guess he's never had it for breakfast! lol

[RG]

Currently if I have a PM with the same message for lets say 3 people, I have to send 3 messages with a copy and paste.
Can it be set up that you can just send 1 message and pluck the names from your Favorites, or an member list?

[Susie924]

With all the changes lately, the site seems very sluggish a good portion of the time.

[IH Geek [Meatloaf]]

Sorry, I was working on something and didn't notice.

[Susie924]

I will test it.

In five minutes I will edit this post and you can let me know if it goes back in your mailbox

edit: Did it work?

[IH Geek [Meatloaf]]

It should be working now. Somewhat hard to test though.

[Susie924]

Great idea!

[Susie924]

That would be a wonderful addition.

It would prevent people from posting one thing (usually to get a laugh at someone else's expense) and then editing it so that the mods don't see the original post.

[IH Geek [Meatloaf]]

Yeah, it's possible.

Maybe even probable.

[Tavycal]

Meat is it possible to make it so when I edit a post after the person I was repling to reads it that it would, after I edit go back to that posters mailbox?

[IH Geek [Meatloaf]]

More likely it's Bob.

[Susie924]

Is Matt tinkering again?

Very slow

[Susie924]

I realized what I did.

I sorted it my "oldest messages first" and it only gives me 50.

If I sort it by "newest messages first", it's ok.

Sorry for being stupid!

[Susie924]

I thought that also so I tried another search of PM's to and from Churak and since there are probably about 102,000 it should show me the next 50. The second 50 are exactly the same as the first 50

[IH Geek [Meatloaf]]

I just tried that and it worked correctly for me. Try it again using a different search term. I'm wondering if you happened to search for something that had exactly 50 items?

[Susie924]

In advanced search, if you put in the parameters to search for a PM from a specific time frame it will list all the ones for that time frame.

On the bottom there is a "get next 50" button to click on, but when you click on it, it takes you exactly to where you were and you no longer have the button to "get next 50".

[Susie924]

Can't read the boards.

Why am I posting this? If I can't read, you probably can't either!

[Susie924]

LOL

[Churak]

sure you do - Susie'924

[Susie924]

I guess I finally have a good reason for having gotten married.

I no longer have an apostrophe in my name!

[Churak]

I remember people having a problem with this in siggy's etc but I never realized what a problem this is...

Little apostrophe confounds Information Age


SEAN ODRISCOLL
The Associated Press

NEW YORK–It can stop you from voting, destroy your dental appointments, make it difficult to rent a car or book a flight, even interfere with your college exams.

More than 50 years into the Information Age, computers are still getting confused by the apostrophe. It's a problem familiar to O'Connors, D'Angelos, N'Dours and D'Artagnans across America.

When Niall O'Dowd tried to book a flight to Atlanta earlier this year, the computer system refused to recognize his name. The editor of the Irish Voice newspaper could book the flight only by giving up his national identity.

"I dropped the apostrophe and ran my name as `ODowd,'" he said.

It's not just the bad luck o' the Irish. French, Italian and African names with apostrophes can befuddle computer systems, too. So can Arab names with hyphens, and Dutch surnames with "van" and a space in them.

Michael Rais, director of software development at Permission Data, an online marketing company in New York, said the problem is sloppy programming.

"It's standard shortsightedness," he said. "Most programs set a rule for first name and last name. They don't think of foreign-sounding names.''

The trouble can happen in two ways, according to Rais.

One: Online forms typically have a filter that looks for unfamiliar terms that might be put in by mistake or as a joke. A bad computer system will not be able to handle an apostrophe, a hyphen or a gap in a last name and will block it immediately.

Two: Even if the computer system is sophisticated enough to welcome an O'Brien or Al-Kurd, the name must be stored in the database, where a hyphen or apostrophe is often mistaken for a piece of computer code, corrupting the system.

That's what happened during the Michigan caucus in 2004, when thousands of O'Connors, Al-Husseins, Van Kemps and others who went to the polls didn't have their votes counted.

"It was a real slapped-together computer system the party put together and a lot of people were left out who were registered to vote, it was a real pity," said Michigan political consultant Mark Grebner.

In this year's primaries, the system worked much better, according to the Michigan Democratic Party. There have been isolated reports of problems elsewhere, but nothing on the scale of Michigan.

Still, an apostrophe, hyphen or space can interfere with medical and dental records, gym memberships, online searches or school registration.

Dutch-American proofreader Jessica van Campen has seen her name listed as Jessica Vancampen, Jessica Van, Jessicavan Campen, Jessica Campen and Jessican Kampen by uncertain computer systems. When she went to her finals in college, she was listed under Campen and was told Jessica Van Campen had dropped out of the course.

"It was another moment of panic," she said.

All of this confusion has prompted some people to surrender to technology. Iraqi immigrant Lina Alathari was once known as Lina Al-Athari, but dropped the hyphen in America. "There is no pronunciation difference, so I'm fine with it," she said.

Erin Carney D'Angelo, a lawyer in New York, was born apostrophe-free, but took one on when she married her Italian-American husband. But "he told me to drop the apostrophe when filling out forms so to computers I'm just a `Dangelo,'" she said.

The problem is difficult to correct because computer systems have many different ways of recognizing names, Rais said.

"It depends on the form filters and it depends on the database program," he said. "Basically, there are a lot of programmers out there who forget that a growing portion of the American public are not called John Smith or Mary White.''

The Irish apostrophe began with the British, who put it there because they believed the O looked odd without a link to the rest of the name. Many Gaelic speakers in Ireland refuse to carry an apostrophe, considering it a vestige of colonial days.

"Maybe that's the solution," said O'Dowd, who just last week was rejected by an online alarm clock service. "Maybe we should just drop the apostrophe altogether, not just as a nationalist statement but because I'd like my alarm call to work in the morning.''

For my part, I've already thrown off my apostrophe. From now on I am Sean ODriscoll.

[Phil(Hot Rod Chevy)]

Could you guys add a link to the Q&A board in the "About Us" section of the Home Page?

TIA,
Phil