1992casey

I know someone who tells people she doesn't know what her natural hair color is.

There's already some very good information in various parts of this site's FAQ, but the FAQ could stand for some modifications and additions. I think this thread is as good a place as any to list those things. ------------ EDIT: I did another edit on the thread title. If another mod or staff member can think of a better way to approach this, I won't be bent out of shape if the title is edited again. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif Should this thread be in Issues?

The CBA is full of stuff like "before" June 16th or "after" June 15th. It's too much to remember and not worth looking up when you can safely post "around" June 15th.

Players signed as free agents can give written approval to be traded before June 16th. Craig has no-trade protection going above and beyond that, though. If he's traded, the third year of his contract automatically vests.

To me, these are some of the high standards this site should be known for:NetiquetteRespectDecorumA degree of substance to a postAvoiding serial one-linersA cursory effort to spell, punctuate, and paragraphNot repeating the same thing over and over Exactly. The new member who "inspired" this thread did just about everything he could have to not endear himself. In addition to some of the issues mentioned, I believe he also scolded "everyone." We've seen longer-term members do this, too, of course. The flaw is that not everyone is on the same page. I certainly do recall threads where people were unduly harsh to newbies who were being sincere and just trying to join in. However, in many (most?) of those cases, those being overly harsh would be rebuked by another member or a moderator. While one opinion generally shouldn't be considered better than another, I guess the reality is that some opinions probably are fatally flawed. The trick in those cases would seem to be to respond with a bit of dignity and grace. We don't need to strip a person of his/her dignity in the process. And even though some opinions may be fatally flawed, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's an embarrassment that they're posted here. The embarrassment comes in some of the responses. As far as the stat stuff, I think it'd be cool to offer something that has more depth than what we have now. I don't have any suggestion as to how to best achieve that end, though. Maybe for starters, people can add links to the SABR FAQ - First Draft thread, or even re-organize what's there right now. A quick glance suggests that there are probably some threads right in that forum that could be linked to via the FAQ draft.

Re board guidelines, I think the general political whine is probably OK, but the 'left wing agenda' stuff is likely to cause trouble.

I'm tired of smallball love.

Yuku pushed a new navigation bar last week. Logout is now right in the bar and is easy to find. No more digging. I didn't report back on the WYSIWYG editor because it was changing daily for a while. I'll look for any bugs we might care about when I get a chance.

I whined about plastic packaging somewhere in this thread, too. It's not just CDs or DVDs. It's a host of items. I taken to asking someone in the store open packages like this. I'm tired of breaking scissors and knives, not to mention the occasional bloody finger that may result from trying to deal with those things.

I tend to agree. Political talk can be a really tough call around here because some stuff is borderline and because the staff and moderators really do wish to keep threads open. In other words, sometimes it's tough to decide what's crosses the line and what doesn't. I'd submit that when an article or post names politicians' names or names political groups, then rips on them, we're running into something troublesome. Let's move on and talk about other things that bug us.

I don't know of a way to access messages that don't appear. But I also don't think ezBoard deletes messages automatically. I see stuff in my Inbox going back to 2005. Since it sounds like you're dealing with an ezBoard member, maybe you can PM him again through his profile. Since this a fit for the Issues forum, and since Brian has fixed the forum's shadow feature, I'm going to move this thread over there.

XBH% would count all extra base hits equally. Isolated power weighs them.

Quoth the FAQ: The image hosting service request is included because it eats up other sites' bandwidth when you link directly to their graphics. Of course, photobucket and imageshack are designed for this purpose. That'll cease to be an issue when we migrate to Yuku. When we migrate, all current avatars will be copied to yuku.com; future avatars will be uploaded directly to Yuku. The name of the option varies from browser to browser more than it does from OS to OS. But the bottom line is that you can right-click on an image and copy its address. In Firefox, the right-click menu option is "Copy Image Location". Note that this topic is a perfect fit for the Issues Forum. Now that Brian has given us the capability to 'shadow' threads without breaking anything, I'll move it over there. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

Sorry for not disregarding. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif But until we migrate, you might find the second last post of the Subforum question (PMs when recipient has Yuku profile) thread useful. Because it might save you a trip, I'll quote hawing:

Where's the link to find the audio feed? I'm getting irrelevant stuff with everything I try.

Yes, previous years' subscriptions expire on April 1st. The last time I signed up, I was told that MLB now automatically renews whatever services you have each year on April 1st. In other words, if you want to cancel, you have to call. ----------------- EDIT: This press release says the spring webcasts are free. I hope that doesn't mean the misleading definition of 'free' we heard two years ago.

I probably should have known the answer to the profile question without checking. This is something that will confuse a lot of people until they "get it." (Note that this applies to editing your profile, making posts, and writing PMs. The editor is essentially the same for all three tasks.) You put HTML into the WYSIWYG view of the editor. In WYSIWYG, you have to use the little tools to create your image link. Straight code posted into the WYSIWYG view will show straight code. The button to the left of the Spell checker will switch you to HTML view. Code pasted into the HTML view will be processed. Here's what you would have wanted to see in the WYSIWYG view: Editor in WYSIWYG view And here's what you would have wanted to see in the HTML view: Editor in HTML view Once all is said and done, you'll get something like this: Russ' HTML box By the way, the WYSIWYG editor we're seeing is a brand new one 'pushed' within the past day or two. I've spotted a couple of bugs. I'll fill everyone in a little more once I get a handle on them.

I just saw it. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/embarassed.gif I posted the message, walked the dog, saw the error, edited, had my internet connection go down, then finally corrected the message. I'll play around with your specific question when I have a little more time. There has to be something you did that we can tell others not to do. Or, of course, there's the possibility of a bug. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

I haven't run across this issue. I get e-mails informing me of PMs and a 'daily digest' when there are responses in any threads to which I subscribed. You might want to check the help forums to see if this is a new issue. lobby.yuku.com gethelp.yuku.com ---------------------- EDIT: Did you play with the Find Friends page? I haven't tried that, so I'm just guessing. EDIT 2: Eliminated question that you had already answered.

When you first go to log into ezBoard, there's a graphic link inviting you to migrate your profile to Yuku. Follow that. The same thing may be available in My Control Center. I can't tell you for sure because I have a migrated account and it may not show up for me. Yuku has reserved all ezBoard usernames and e-mail addresses for their current users. A migration will automatically pick those things up and they'll be the same on Yuku. The only people who'll notice a difference in their username will be local users. In those cases, "brewersfandemonium" will be appended after the username. (Gypcasino, you're a global user rather than a local one.)

1. Click on the menu button in the navigation bar (top or bottom right). 2. Click on the logout button in the Account box (the second box below your avatar). From Chris W962, with pictures: Logging out of your yuku account

You're the only person I've ever heard of with that particular combination of sex, status, and orientation. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif Basically, you just wait unless you want to play with your profile, post on other Yuku boards, or take advantage of being able to upload images. Or you can start a blog in your profile. I can't tell you how that works, though.

I should have mentioned the e-mail confirmation when I posted above. It's there to prevent spamming. ezBoard does the same thing. I see you got in and played around with your profile. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

Do you remember what the error was? I could probably find out if I had more information. Also, you could try going to yuku.com and logging in to see if your migration "took" despite the error message.

This seems like a good time to pass some stuff along about Yuku. Brian indicated in another thread that he doesn't know when this site's migration will occur. I don't see that as an issue. The cost is the same either way. Brewerfan.net user accounts will be migrated along with the site. In other words, once Brian migrates, each of us will have a Yuku account. The big difference is that with Yuku, we'll be logging in with our e-mail addresses. If you happen to have forgotten which e-mail address you've associated with your ezBoard account, you should check. If you'd like, you can migrate your profile early. The main benefit that I can see is that you'd have the ability to post under your current ID on Yuku boards. New users will need to be careful when signing up for a new account. It's really easy to end up posting under one's real name. Yuku's staff members have acknowledged that the sign-up system is screwy, so it's not like they're pulling something over on us. The trick is to note that a username is picked on page 2 of the signup. If you accidentally miss this, all is not lost. You can create a second profile with the username of your choice and set it as your default. Yuku lets you store images right on its site. You can choose whether or not to share them with other users. However, even if they're hidden from view, you can link to them. The system is pretty basic. You can put images into folders, but you can't create subfolders. The file name is changed to a long number and a picture's URL doesn't make a lot of sense. Still, because the post editor gives you direct access to your images, this is handy to have around. Additionally, there's no limit to the number of images you can upload. Yuku also offers users the ability to link to a Photobucket account. Like images stored on Yuku, you can access your Photobucket images right from the post editor. There's a bug, however, in that people can't currently unlink their Photobucket accounts. I don't know when that'll be fixed, but I do know that it's been going on for a while. Avatars are also uploaded to Yuku. What actually displays in your posts will be a 100 px by 100 px thumbnail of your image. Your ezBoard avatar that's migrated to Yuku will be stored in some undetermined place in Yukuland. If you don't have any other direct access to that picture, you may want to make sure it's uploaded via your profile. Your profile will contain ads. Unfortunately, the ads probably won't reflect your interests and a lot of them offer opportunities to meet people you won't care to meet. Yuku is aware of this issue. They've suggested putting some kind of bio in your profile that outlines your interests. I wasn't up for doing that, but I did stick a bunch of "keywords" in a box. I subsequently hid that box with CSS, meaning 99% of users aren't subjected to it but Google will still see it. I haven't seen any of this helping, though. By the way, don't even consider attempting to hide the ads themselves. That violates Yuku's terms of service. The WYSIWYG post editor is definitely beta. There should be a new one soon, though. Problems with horizontal scrolling will be eliminated. You'll no longer have to scroll back and forth to read each post of a thread containing a single wide image or table. Images or tables that are too wide will place a scrollbar in the individual message. That scrollbar will only move the image/table. You won't have to scroll to read the text of the message itself. This is pretty slick. I've never seen a message board effectively deal with this issue before. You can have up to 5 signatures. You set one as a default, but each time you post, you can flip over to one of the others via a popup. You also have the choice not to use a sig in a particular post.