Forum: About Mellophant

Hello! I notice I'm a *member*. What does this allow me to do? What does it prohibit me from doing? How many posts do I have to make to change my *status*? Thank you!

For some reason I can't change it. I uploaded a new one (or rather my old one), but it doesn't want to change.

If you've noticed any, post about them here and try to be as descriptive as possible. We're on our own server now and it went fairly smoothly, but there are always little things that end up being "off." We'll be working the bugs out as we find...

There were some issues earlier today, so for now we're leaving it down until they're resolved. Those of you pining for it can meander over this way. It's up now. More details below.

Possibly a bit better joke than last year... I'm curious, though, why am I Carl and Lennie?

...for just a few hours, that is. We're moving onto our own server and off of elmwood's generously donated space. Starting Sunday at midnight Eastern time (04:00 GMT) the site will be down. At worst we're looking at 24 hours, but it's likely...

Hey, artifex switched to the mobile Mellophant interface on her iPhone, she's decided she wants to change back. In her own words, "it's stupid, dumb, and I don't like it." But we can't figure out how to change it back. Help? :sci:

Posts: February 26, 2009 108 February 27, 2009 499 February 28, 2009 527 March 01, 2009 1291 March 02, 2009 1684 March 03, 2009 1720 March 04, 2009 1754 March 05, 2009 1325 March 06, 2009 1273

Well, sort of. See, there used to be this board called Domebo. And that board was built on the principles of fair moderation, honesty and democracy. :: Cue swelling violins, shots of waving flags, and teary-eyed SDMB veterans with their hands...

We're coming up on the first birthday for Domebo pretty quickly here. We're not really the same board anymore, since the name/membership/rules/administration are all entirely different, but it is how we started so I was thinking some sort of...

No, no, there isn't a staff change because of extreme laziness. The announcement just took so long because of mine. :D NAF1138 has stepped down as a moderator, as having a new baby around has cut his free time. We knew this was coming a while...

How do you get the replies to a post to propagate on the message board from the front page? Are people cross-posting responses or is this done automatically? This is something I've wanted to do in Drupal for a while, so what's the skinny?

I suddenly can't log into Mellophant on my Blackberry. I've been logging on and posting that way for months, it stopped working sometime in the last week or so. When I try to log in I get the "Thank you for logging in, Laughing Lagomorph"...

Does anyone know what is wrong with the board at the moment?

I've got the "remember me" box checked. I stay logged in during the day, but have to log in again the next day. Firefox 3.5.7 Any idea what the problem is? Thanks!

Whenever I look to see who is on line here, it is at least 2:1 guests to members. As I write this, I think there are 13 guests and 4 members on line (well, it IS the middle of the night for most of you). If we were more snarkworthy I would think...

I went and changed my theme/skin/thingy from "pachyderm green" to "mobile" How do i undo this?

Here I am doing my part.

Is this an available search I can perform without waiting for the New Posts to exhaust?

If chat isn't loading for you, clear your cache and then try again. We did an update last night and it appears to be causing a few issues for some people. If clearing your cache doesn't solve the problem, post here with more details and we'll try...

http://www.mellophant.com/node/16 For some reason, the comments and story are mixed up when I try to see the page. I'm looking forward to the story.

The word "Mercatus" is supposed to have a u with macron in it, but it was changed to a question mark in the change-over, and vBulletin won't let me put my signature back in because it's more than 4 lines. Can someone just change the question mark to...

I'm just curious - what keeps people on "active member" status? Is it based on having posted or logged in within a specified time frame?

The title says it all. Well maybe not since I'm still typing. My example is the "Stand Up" thread. How do you guys do that?

Ever since I was a very small child, Halloween has been my favorite holiday. There's literally nothing I don't love about it. So while my friends look forward to Christmas or the 4th of July, I count down the days to candy, ghosts, goblins,...

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...

It was on people's profile page, and then moved to being displayed next to regular posts along with post count. (And I believe it has been displayed at various times on both and neither.) Why does it keep changing? I like having it on the...

First of all, the new update is looking good. I have a small question or a comment on the front page. If I understand things correctly then the actual frontpage shows only articles from the current issue - currently four of them. The older...

What do you have for us? What are we missing? Will the The Spooky Elephant/Electric Elephant help? Will the Ask the Experts eventually help if we grow enough?

Title says it all. If I want to embed a youtube video in thread how do i do it?

I don't know if it is still a WIP but the frontpage (imho) looks ugly and is a bit of a mess. 1 The news feed stuff at the top should be elsewhere on the front page. 2 I think also it should just be called "the spooky elephant" and not have...

Hmm, something very strange is going on right now. Not only did I get an unexpected message after submitting a post (saying it would be reviewed by an administrator before being added to the thread), but my avatar has vanished, as have the avatars...

This is part of the process of my stepping down. More to follow as Zuul and the rest of the team feels ready.

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...

I was going to open a thread for Ask The Martial Artist and got this Clothahump, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons: 1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access...

I don't find myself having any fun on the board. That is not good. I dread the next problem. I am frustrated by so much. I'll stay on a few more months but then ask to be just a forum leader of G&S and the subforums of it. The board is mostly up...

... but perhaps we could give it a friendlier name. In light of recent and less recent events I think we should create a position for someone whose main responsibility is keeping track of disciplinary matters. One person could record of concrete...

When I look at image threads, I only see links to images, not the images themselves. Testing to see what happens when I post an image. I've used the insert image button, the image is showing up in the compose window, let's hit post and see what...

Some area of the sites are barred to me because it says I am on a blacklisted open proxy. I am using Singapore's SingNet broadband. Can someone help me?

I notice that there is a blog for Mellophant now. Is there a RSS feed for it. If so, we could put the feed on our blog sites and that may catch the attention of other people.

ChrisStarr, Mr Chuka, Red Denim & The J Word have all been banned as the first three were all socks of The J Word and used to chat while he was banned from chat. He was also harassing Myrnalene and thus first came to our attention. Also Red...

I was thinking about an Ask the (semi) Expert section of the board. Users with an expertise would run threads in probably a forum that allowed review guest questions. As an example. Sarahfeena and pepperlandgirl would have a Beatles thread. A...

Come on, man. What is up with the random sig line beneath my posts?

Is there a way i can chat up in here without y'all given me special authorization? I have almost 10 posts now plus i know people here. Where is the chat room?

Just making sure that y'all can see me here!

Why not the elephant?

I figure elmwood & What Exit? don't have enough to do, so thought I'd ask for a favor. Any chance we could get a style that's easy to read on a phone? :)