Re: Newbie sticky suggestion - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / beginners

author: PedroDaGr8
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 28, 2013, 10:51:06 pm
content: Since that thread is locked I am posting this. Dave one quick suggestion: Please recommend newbies set their country. Many of their questions have to deal with things that are geographically dependent (price, availability of parts, etc.)Maybe others have some suggestions as well.Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk

author: Rerouter
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 28, 2013, 11:18:10 pm
content: My suggestion as dumb as it sounds is to point out the search in the menu bar in an image, I've been here this long and didn't even notice it existed

author: mariush
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 28, 2013, 11:36:46 pm
content: My suggestion would be to add a script to the forum that would automatically ban users for one day when there's "Sent from my something" in the message.

author: dr.diesel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 28, 2013, 11:40:46 pm
content: Quote from: mariush on December 28, 2013, 11:36:46 pmCan we allow an exception for f_e if it says "Sent from the dashboard of my car"?

author: liquibyte
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 29, 2013, 12:33:57 am
content: I don't know about SMF but most forum software either has or has a plugin for requiring certain "forced" settings in the user profile upon signup. I agree that, given the international nature of this forum, the country flag should be set. This doesn't mean that people will even pay attention to it. For instance, in a topic in FS/Wanted I specifically set the title to read US/Lower 48 and the only response I got was from Morocco. I'm fairly certain this wasn't a comprehension issue but rather an "ignore past the parts I want to read" one.

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 29, 2013, 12:37:08 am
content: Could just add all this "Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk" stuff to the forum software's swear filter and set auto replace to blank.Or set it to refuse posts that contain swearing and add Tapatalk as the only swear word in the DB.That way anyone trying to post it will have to go into their Tapatalk options and remove the sig before the post is accepted.That should work perfectly and the forum already has the functionality. (well, i think it does, ive not checked. But swear filtering is pretty common)

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 29, 2013, 01:03:33 am
content: Quote from: Psi on December 29, 2013, 12:37:08 am+1Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

author: sdg
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 29, 2013, 09:21:12 am
content: Quote from: mariush on December 28, 2013, 11:36:46 pm+1Sent from my Keyboard using Fingers.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 29, 2013, 09:29:19 am
content: Quote from: wilfred on December 28, 2013, 11:50:34 pmthese things usually appear automatically by default as in our wonderful modern world of commercialization is seems to be the accepted thing that manufacturers of pointless smartphones will try and get their name in your every message so as to let the world know that they made your pointless device. Finding the options that turn such rubbish off can be tedious. Taptalk and similar apps are also doing this as are email "apps".

author: Jon86
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 29, 2013, 09:33:15 am
content: Come on don't be hard on people that have the 'Sent from my' at the bottom of their post. Sometimes my Nokia does it on emails and it pisses me off no end having to keep deleting it.

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 29, 2013, 09:39:53 am
content: Quote from: Simon on December 29, 2013, 09:29:19 amEven better, catch and change that phrase to a variety of random ones, such as"Sent from my device that wants everyone to know I bought one""Sent from a user that doesn't know how to remove this string from every post"

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 29, 2013, 09:52:43 am
content: unfortunately the forum software can't do that much but yes the swear word filter could be used to take them out but it would take some of daves time to identify them all and put filters in for removing them.

author: apelly
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 29, 2013, 10:55:44 am
content: There's aswear wordfilter?Edit: Remove swear word... Just testing

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 29, 2013, 11:24:15 am
content: Quote from: apelly on December 29, 2013, 10:55:44 amThere is one, but it isn't enabled/setup.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 29, 2013, 03:11:40 pm
content: quite so, it was felt that we could rely on users to be judicious in their language, one occasionally used appropriately will not bring the roof down but if people were to start swearing too much it would have to be looked at, freedom of speech is one thing, a forum full of insulting language is another. however the functionality offered by the swear filter would also work very well for removing silly phrases that tablet and email programs put in automatically.

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 29, 2013, 09:26:18 pm
content: Quote from: Simon on December 29, 2013, 09:52:43 amI'm sure i've seen forums that reject your posts and ask you to remove the swearing before accepting it.Doing it that way means no-one needs to spend time collecting every single Tapatalk line.Just trigger it on the word Tapatalk itself.But if that is impossible, just auto replace"Sent from my" --> null string"using Tapatalk" --> null stringIt will still say iPhone or Nexus 5 etc.. but that is much less annoying.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 30, 2013, 08:28:48 am
content: as far as i know the swear filter will delete the offending word or replace it, so yes it could work but you also want to be careful you don't set it off inadvertently.

author: cs.dk
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 30, 2013, 08:36:53 am
content: I wonder how that little line can piss people off?- Sent from Denmark using a carrier pigeon

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 30, 2013, 08:41:33 am
content: fast carrier pigeon

author: Smokey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2013, 08:48:34 am
content: So I'm too busy for a couple weeks to read the forum a lot and a newbie sticky shows up? What set that off?

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 30, 2013, 08:54:14 am
content: some "seasoned members" seem to think that new users should be as clever as them and hurl abuse at them for asking basic questions. Some new users also need to grow up a bit too but that's just life.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2013, 04:08:08 pm
content: Careful of filters, especially if you are from the Scunthorpe building regulation office and have people sending email all the time requesting permission to erect a wall or fence.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 30, 2013, 04:11:40 pm
content: spare us no details

author: AG6QR
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2013, 04:51:18 pm
content: My e-mail sig for certain ham radio related lists says "sent from my J-38". For those not in to radio, the J-38 was a very common telegraph key, widely used by the US military in WWII, and by many radio amateurs after the War. It's a joke, son.One correspondent made the observation that a "sent from my ..." line in the signature often really means the following:If you send more than a one line reply, I probably won't bother scrolling through it and reading it on my device. Don't bother embedding any images in your reply, because I probably won't download them, or if I do, I'll see them on such a tiny screen that I won't be able to resolve anything. And don't send me on a link to a website that requires more than 150x300 resolution.sent from my J-38 using Morse, the ORIGINAL tapatalk.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2013, 06:30:46 pm
content: Quote from: Simon on December 30, 2013, 04:11:40 pmThey had a default email filter setting, and this meant they got no email at all from the outside, as all was dropped due to the scanner detecting false positives in the email addresses of all of the inside. When they fixed that the building dept was embarrassed to find that the locals could not send in electronic requests ( which was the only method they allowed) for building alterations due to the format of letter they demanded triggering the filter again.