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  • 19-05-2010 6:50pm
    #1
    Dude111
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭


    Hello everyone how are you?

    Would the staff please consider making Quick Reply "OPEN,NO CLICK REQUIRED"??

    It would just make it easier when replying to a thread :)

    You can set that in the control panel!!

    Thanx for considering........ This is the BIGGEST vbb site i have ever found!! (So many message bases here,so much to discuss :))
    Post edited by Shield on


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    You have a point.

    unfortunately a point for the feedback forum


  • #3
    murraymarmalade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 218 ✭✭murraymarmalade


    Dude111 wrote: »
    Hello everyone how are you?

    Would the staff please consider making Quick Reply "OPEN,NO CLICK REQUIRED"??

    It would just make it easier when replying to a thread :)

    You can set that in the control panel!!

    Thanx for considering........ This is the BIGGEST vbb site i have ever found!! (So many message bases here,so much to discuss :))
    perhaps you should get useto the place first.


  • #4
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    murraymarmalade wrote: »
    perhaps you should get useto the place first.

    I'm used to it, and it's hella annoying.... And hella's not even a word!


  • #5
    Dude111
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭Dude111


    murraymarmalade wrote:
    perhaps you should get useto the place first.
    Ah i love it here!!

    It would just make things even better is all :)


  • #6
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,351 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Moved to Feedback


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  • #7
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    That's what I thought the 1st day I got here.

    "Why wont it just let me post? Why do I have to click on the icon on someone else's post before I can post?"


  • #8
    Gordon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Yeah, never understood that one! Well, then I kinda did because it's to allow for easy quoting, but default to open text would be nicer.


  • #9
    Dude111
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭Dude111


    Thank you Gordon im glad you agree :)

    Are you gonna change it to OPEN,NO CLICK REQUIRED?


    I just cant believe how many message bases you have on this site!! (SO MUCH CONTENT,ITS HARD TO KNOW WHERE TO BEGIN :D)

    Thanx again my friend for such a wonderful site!


  • #10
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Is it not one of the anti spambot measures?


  • #11
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    Thaedydal wrote: »
    Is it not one of the anti spambot measures?
    Bubble = Burst. :pac:


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  • #12
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Thaedydal wrote: »
    Is it not one of the anti spambot measures?

    I think it might be. It's the only logical explanation. I have no idea how this prevents spambots though.

    Shouldn't the thread be here?


  • #13
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Thaedydal wrote: »
    Is it not one of the anti spambot measures?
    No, not really. Any spambot will ignore that input fields have simply been disabled and use them anyway.

    At the backend, the system might check to see that a postref has been included, but any spambot written to target vBulletin specifically could easily spoof a postref.

    The idea of a "thread" is that you're responding to something, whether it be a post in the thread, or the OP. So having to say, "I'm replying to this post" is logical even if it doesn't reflect the reality of how people use the site.

    What the box should do as default behaviour is to be open (i.e. not disabled), and with the postref of the OP as the default postref for the box. The "Quote message" box should be disabled unless the user clicks the Quick reply button on another post.


  • #14
    Dude111
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭Dude111


    Ahh yes mate,i didnt see that section before.. (Would be best there i think)


  • #15
    SugarHigh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,265 ✭✭✭SugarHigh


    I think this also creates a bug in the spell checker of opera. To get the spell checker working the quick reply box I have to right click and turn it off and and on again which I don't have to do on other forums that have the quick reply box enabled by default.

    Not really boards fault but if there isn't anything to be gained by having the quick reply box disabled why is it so?

    Why is it even a feature in VB? There must be some use I suppose.


  • #16
    Dude111
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭Dude111


    I have noticed guys that the SSL side of the site keeps dropping me..

    If i go here for example > https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/index.php


    It usually lets me stay on but if a do a SEARCH for example,i get thrown back to the unsecure side....... (Sometimes other stuff throws ya off as well)


    I cant believe how fast the site loads ON THE SSL SIDE!!


    This really is a wonderful place..... Thank you again Gordon :)


  • #17
    Spiritoftheseventies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,082 ✭✭✭✭Spiritoftheseventies


    Isnt there a quick reply button at the bottom of the page.


  • #18
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »
    Isnt there a quick reply button at the bottom of the page.

    Have you never clicked on it?


  • #19
    Spiritoftheseventies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,082 ✭✭✭✭Spiritoftheseventies


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Have you never clicked on it?
    yes just now. And there is a post reply tab at the bottom of the page as well. Got the two confused for a second


  • #20
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    The quick reply should have more icons, nomnom


  • #21
    Spiritoftheseventies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,082 ✭✭✭✭Spiritoftheseventies


    folks while we are on the same subject of icons, in disabling the avatar image (one was annoying me) the other day on my mozilla browser it took out all the other icons in the process so have had to swithc to windows explorer. Anyway how do I undo the action.


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  • #22
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »
    folks while we are on the same subject of icons, in disabling the avatar image (one was annoying me) the other day on my mozilla browser it took out all the other icons in the process so have had to swithc to windows explorer. Anyway how do I undo the action.
    that depends on what method you used to disable the avatars. Adblock?


  • #23
    Spiritoftheseventies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,082 ✭✭✭✭Spiritoftheseventies


    Overheal wrote: »
    that depends on what method you used to disable the avatars. Adblock?
    yes i disabled the avatar the same way i would disable a graphic on sig on Mozilla.


  • #24
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    unblock boards in adblock, add the block in user settings on boards.


  • #25
    Spiritoftheseventies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,082 ✭✭✭✭Spiritoftheseventies


    working now. thanks.


  • #26
    Kirnsy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 970 ✭✭✭Kirnsy


    Dude111 wrote: »


    This really is a wonderful place..... Thank you again Gordon :)
    Dude111 wrote: »
    Thank you Gordon im glad you agree :)



    Thanx again my friend for such a wonderful site!
    Dude111 wrote: »
    Ah i love it here!!


    Gordon's getting a lot of praise here....wait until DeVore arrives and tells the OP it is he who owns the site:

    OP: *explodes*

    :pac:


  • #27
    Gordon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Heh, not sure why I'm getting praise here either! But, hey, I don't mind :)


  • #28
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Don't be silly, thanks again Gordon. x


  • #29
    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    Dude111 wrote: »
    I have noticed guys that the SSL side of the site keeps dropping me..

    If i go here for example > https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/index.php


    It usually lets me stay on but if a do a SEARCH for example,i get thrown back to the unsecure side....... (Sometimes other stuff throws ya off as well)

    HTTPS has only been recently added. It was added in order to support some other stuff that isn't done yet. It's not really intended for general use.

    We might patch vBulletin to keep people on HTTPS some time in the future, but we have no plans to do so yet.
    Dude111 wrote: »
    I cant believe how fast the site loads ON THE SSL SIDE!!

    It shouldn't be any faster. When you arrive with HTTPS, your connection is just decrypted and passed to where you would have arrived if you came in via HTTP. You're using the same machines, at the same priority. (EDIT: If anything, it should be slightly slower, since more is being done.)

    Perhaps your ISP is doing traffic shaping of some sort?


  • #30
    Dude111
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭Dude111


    Well it loads the same (Some sites on SSL are a little slower)
    Kirnsy wrote:
    Gordon's getting a lot of praise here....wait until DeVore arrives and tells the OP it is he who owns the site
    Oops im sorry DeVore,you have an xcellent site!

    Your just a co-admin then Gordon huh?


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