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Well, today was a hell of a day. The forum went through a little trauma that left it dead and seemingly irretrievable. Our ancient server died, and our new server spat on us for being too old. Which, okay, we are, softwarewise. Still, ageism is...
Small site notes and modly things that aren't big enough for their own threads go here.
The Rules Post Content: Don't be an obnoxious twit. Posting illegal content, harassment, spam, concern trolling and extremely disruptive behavior are the big things to avoid. The Thunderdome is the forum for fighting and personal attacks...
Hey folks. I am wildly out of the loop here, so I'm not sure who is still around in all. I know things have dwindled to a small core crew at this point. Even though I'm no longer involved here, I want to make sure as long as you guys want this...
*banging pots and pans* Now that I have your attention Before I pitch my tent on your lawn answer me this. What is a Mellophant? I imagine it's how a deaf child would say elephant.
Why not the elephant?
The snarkpit is all over some security issue, and I'm hearing it's malicious, I'm hearing it's a misconfig, and I'm hearing it's not anything at all. So what's the deal? What's going on with this? Is there really some kind of security issue that...
Can only Mods/Admins create polls? If not, where am I missing the button? If so, why?
I think that would be swell. :) I almost NEVER went to GD over at SDMB because it was filled with political threads that aren't that interesting if you're not from the US. Any chance we could have a politics forum here? I have that sense that...
I may have overlooked a really obvious button, but I miss the vBB thing where you could subscribe to a thread and later go to the user control panel to see which of your subscribed threads had new replies. I depended on that use case every heavily...
Not sure if anyone else is experiencing this but starting today everytime I open up a thread it automatically jumps to the quick reply box at the bottom. It is annoying as I have to scroll up to the top everytime. Is there a fix for this?
Is there anyway I can set my user cp so that I don't see chat? I understand that the image rules are relaxed there "after hours" but your after hours is my 10am and I'd rather not see porn or shock images when I look at the board index from work....
For the last two weeks, possibly longer, every night between 9pm & 10pm EDST, the server refuses to connect. During that time I cannot even get to the Mellophant home page. Did I miss some sort of "daily maintenance" annoucement?
Twice this afternoon I have been flamed outside of Thunderdome. I've reported both instances. One appears to have gone unresponded to, and I understand that not every report can be addressed immediately. In another I seem to be involved in a...
This discussion was split from The Devil Went Down To Georgia. (Jim) Further discussion of the personal history or crimes of posters are to be moved to the Rage Pit. Do not continue this line of conversation here. Oh, really? The Rage Pit is...
How do I do it? Just using the quote tags leaves out who I'm quoting and the old SDMB method of using doesn't seem to work here.
:hoj: Where is the pissed off buddhist smilie? Or the mildly irritated christian smilie? Am I missing some backstory here?
Am I blind? I can't seem to find where to shut off email notifications for new posts in subscribed threads.
I can't for the life of me figure out how to post an image. I know it must be easy, but hell if I can do it. Can someone 'splain it to me?
I see some red ones, I see blue ones. I see some of them scrolling and some of them remain still. Some of them have a little bubble on the bottom right hand side, but most don't. Break it down for me baby.
With the avatars. I looked and looked for a thread regarding this wide-spread surprise, but have found nothing on it. Perhaps I have just stolen some of Lib's meds and am imagining all this. As always, ignore me. Ooh! New smilies too! ...
I'm really enjoying this place. So first of all, thank you. I was just wondering if there is, or will be a feature to be able to browse the newest updated threads regardless of which forums. I see that there is an option to view the threads in...
I ? maps, so here's the DoMeBo Map. Who wants in? This is via request only. I won't be looking through the members list to start pulling locations. I can also include pictures, whether it's your avatar or another one you'd like me to link to. ...
hi from phone world!
Is this an available search I can perform without waiting for the New Posts to exhaust?
What do all the various icons by thread titles mean? There's a light bulb shaped one, in red or blue, sometimes it has a star on the top right side. There's a circle with text, again in red or blue, sometimes with the star, and sometimes the text...
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I didn't see it in the FAQ. I tried to post a picture in the boobs thread but it gave me an error message. I was using http://enxstatic.com/images/adlt/simply ... 829746.jpg without the spaces. I made...
A day or two back I tried using Google to find this site (without looking through you-know-where), with no success. A few minutes ago I glanced at "Who's Online" at the bottom of a page and found I was sharing the forum with a character called...
I can't believe this board has been up for days now, and the greatest ruination of the Dope has not yet been discussed, not to mention corrected: Can we get Wally and Happy Jewish Man smilies added?
I don't like having the posters info on the right side of their post. I prefer it on the left, it feels more "natural" to me, and is more logical. Is there a way to change how it shows to ME in the preferences? Or is it a global setting in the...
I'm really not sure if it's an option on the board's end or on my job's IT guy's end. But, a whole new slew of sites got blocked at work a couple of weeks ago. Domebo got blocked. The reason? It is "uncategorized". The dope isn't blocked. I have...
Instead of on the left? Just seems awkward to me to have to look over there to see who is posting. Is there a control panel option to change it?
I think that there should just be one rule - "don't be a jerk". Other rules may need to be implemented as the need arises, but I sure can't forsee any.
I can read a few threads and jump a forum but sooner or later I keep getting a 'page expired' notice and have to refresh to go back to the board. Is it just me?
To avoid real-life stalking from any butthurt anti-snark mods, I'm using anon proxies to post. My favorite is anonymouse, but all its IPs are blocked from even viewing dumbo. Really? You can't even LOOK at the site if you're from an anonymouse...
I won't lie, I'm a snarker who thinks this site is fucking retarded. Can I post here if I openly admit that or will I be banned?
Does that not work, or have I just not set it correctly? Thanks!
No clue why it says what it says under my User Name. How do I control that and can I edit it?? If not, could a P.T.B. please alter it to read as follows: Go Phillies !! Thank you :) Cartooniverse, living proof that you can take the boy...
The Board would like to apologise for the following problem. Due to an administrative error while clearing out old spam and bot accounts, several valid accounts with zero or one posts were deleted at the same time. We would invite you to...
What Exit? The NSFW tag is downloading images for people who have images turned off, i.e me, and has already been used in the front chat window by Excalibur. I'm going to disable it until we can sort it out. Otherwise people will use it...
Ok, I have not made the switch to the chat code to make it vanilla, mainly because it does not appear to be affecting the people it was affecting. But the vanilla code is in place should it need to be switched. I suggest that when we next get...
Welcome to the tower Sarahfeena. Any questions, don't hesitate to ask.
The forum has now been upgraded to Vbulletin 4.0. If you notice any bugs due to the upgrade, or if you have any suggestions, please list them here. We will be looking to put the original style for the site at some point, so you will have to...
Since the upgrade, we appear to be missing Nested quotes. Ok, you can do them manually themselves, but I prefer not to have them removed when using quick reply, so I will be turning them on tomorrow, ie a code hack as it is not an option in VB4,...
The BBCode should now underline the link as well, just to make it easier to see. That is all. It will not affect previous uses of the code, but should take effect from this point on.
I have added a new Melloween style to the list of choices. If you find any problems with it then please post here, otherwise enjoy.
Just to get everyone in the festive spirit, there is a new style available to be chosen. So have a very Mello Xmas :)
Regardless of what you follow (or not as the case may be), have a happy holiday and a great end to the year. and may next year be better than the last.
There have been a couple of outages today and we apologise for the interruption to the site. We are currently following up on possible causes.
To assist in running their RPG's, Elendil's Heir and Ramses have been given permission to edit and delete posts in their game threads. They will be appearing as forum leaders in the Role Playing Games Forum.
For anyone using phones, Nooks, iPads etc. etc, the Light and Mello style has been updated. Enjoy.
In the spirit of the upcoming event, I added a spooky new skin for Halloween. Enjoy.
As several people may already know, November is NaNoWriMo month, where lots of people slave away to produce 50,000 words, or 1600 words a day, of their novel in one month. Now there are plenty of creative writers on the board and several who have...
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