I continually see threads started (deleted) started (deleted) started (etc..)

A word of advice..

I understand the problem. I've been through it myself.
You start a new thread and 'rosity doesn't (seem to) respond.

So you re-post...
And repost...

What is actually happening is that 'rosity is waiting to update its database. And your initial post has been accepted, but you won't get back into 'rosity until "your turn" comes back up in the list...

Try:
Create your post.
Select all your post and copy it to clipboard.
Hit create message.

Wait for 20-30 secs. (Or if you have any form of firewall or traffic monitor, watch the traffic. When the lights (LEDs) stop flashing, then 'rosity has recieved your post.)

Hit "Stop" in your Browser.
Hit "Back".
Hit "reload page". (or whatever, depending on Browser)

If your new post/thread shows up, then 'rosity got it.

If your post/new thread doesn't show up, then you need to try again. But this time all you have to do is "Start new thread"/"Create new message", paste into the Body section and it'll get there... (can be a little more complicated if there's links/pics attached, but you get the idea, I'm sure.)

Now, I know that I'm teaching the old hands how to suck eggs, but this post isn't aimed at them....

Cheers, Diolma PS. It might take as long as it did before to get 'rosity to respond (you are still in the 'rosity "queue"), but at least you don't have to delete threads...:-))

Message edited on: 10/12/2005 17:24

Good advice. Especially the "copy to clipboard" part!

LOL @ ockham. It's become such a habit with me now that I do it everywhere.. even in e-mails and IM's, where it's not needed. Cheers, Diolma

I often find that after I hit "post reply" that it hangs and hangs and hangs. I've learned to open a new tab (I use Mozilla-Firefox), and look to see if my post was submitted or if it's hung up. Usually the post has made it to the thread even though it's still showing as waiting to get there. In that case I just delete the tab with the hung up message.

Yep, I copy and paste all the time.

I have my own problem. My hands are kinda messed up and I didn't learn english in school, between these two things my mispellings and typos are terrible. I used to write my posts in a word procesor, spell check, then Cut&Paste. But really on my machine this is no fun. There was a free application I used back when I had a Mac that would spellcheck the clipboard on the fly... I sure wish I could find that for PC! Then my real problem is in posting to a thread... my typing is so slow that when I hit submit I get bounced for too much time elapsed, unless I have remebered to copy the post to the clipboard it is lost... I wonder why there is that time limit on posting?

momodot, if you don't want to do it in Word, you can do it in NotePad. At least you can take all the time in the world and check your spelling yourself. When you're satisfied, you copy/paste it in a message on the forums. I do that when I intend to write a long message (it has to be very long though because even if my hands don't have the dexterity I had before, I still type over 100w/min) lol

What I should do is shell out $40 or whatever for EditPad Pro... I use the free EditPad Lite and it is amazing... realy small but can open many files in tabs and can open and edit a 30Mb .cr2 in an instant. $40 a great price but hard to get out of me. Anyone editing HTML, or Poser files like .cr2 and .pp2 should at least get the Lite.

Attached Link: http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadpro.html

Attached Link: http://www.iespell.com/

I'm a notepad junky too. I type everything in there before posting to a forum and just copy and paste it. I've been bitten on the butt way too many times with "words of wisdom" being eaten by gremlins while the thinking process is still processing :)

Half the time my post gets killed I'm happy I think. I butt in far too much given my endowments. lmckenzie, thanks for the link but at least for me I use Mozilla Firefox. I wish I could get MSIE off my sytem... mainly I am afronted by it but also it is a wonderful coduit for MS viruses and worms. I gotta check the Firefox extensions for a spellcheck.

I did a whole webpage in Notepad..;) still do some stuff along those lines..old dog..old tricks..;)

momodot there is a Firefox extension called SpellBound that adds spell checker support to web forms and extensions, it works just like the IE spell checker and uses the dictionary from Thunderbird you just right click on the page you have just typed on and check spelling pops up in the menu. hope that helps

Graham, wow! Thanks. SpellBound wasn't at the main Mozilla extension site but Googled and it is great.

Attached Link: http://www.crimsoneditor.com

I've become very fond of the free text editor called Crimson Editor. It has a spell checker built in, does multiple tabs for open doucments, and can also do color-coding of things like HTML and Python script. The website touts it as a source code editor, but I find it's great as a general purpose Notepad-killer.

The other thing you might want to check is the SessionSaver extension for Firefox. SessionSaver's main purpose is to let you "undo" the closing of a tab, but it has other cool tricks, and one of them is that if your browser crashes or hangs, it can get back all your tabs exactly as they were - INCLUDING any text you've typed into a form.

Not quite a replacement for backing up via copy-and-paste before you hit the Submit button, but a handy thing to have anyway.

"Backing it up" is one of the first rules of PCism. It only took one or two 'dropped in the bit bucket' messages to convince me of this in regards to forum posts. Unless if the message is a particularly short one, I'll make a copy of it before hitting the "Post Reply" button.

Hmm. Interesting replies. I'll make a note of some of those freebies... But may I respectfully point out that the reason I started this thread was to help people avoid multiple posts? For some reason, it seems to take 'rosity a lot longer to respond to a "Post Reply" than it does to respond to the sequence I posted at top. I don't know if it's just me, or if it's a subjective thing or if it's real, but it seems that way. (I'm no real expert on these things). Maybe it actually takes the same length of time in total, but it gives you something to do in the meantime:-)) Cheers, Diolma (About to copy...)

OK, just found out. No it's not quicker (still gives you something to do, tho'..) Cheers, Diolma

Diolma, sorry, I was just now thinking how your OT went OOT :)

LOL, momodot. No Problem... If the thread helps (in whatever way), then side-tracks are welcome. If it doesn't then it should be left to die a natural death. (I was being a bit too "tongue in cheek" when I posted #19 - I sometimes let my enthusiasm get the better of me, and also forget that I'm talking to an international audience.) Cheers, Diolma

Thanks Diolma.

SpellBound is so great to work with!!!

Crimson editor is nice but it ain't worth giving up EditPad Lite... the latter takes maybe 1.5 seconds to open a V2 .cr2 while with Crimson I had to go off and do something else while I waited... it also clutched once the file was open too, but as a text editor and spell check it looks good.

Hi, momodot. This won't help you in the least, but I do most of my text editing in Microsoft Visual Studio (which is for programmers and costs a lot). It has nifty things like "find matching bracket" (for C/C++ programs, but also works on any text stuff). But thanks for your input, anyway:-)) Cheers, Diolma

If 'Rosity merely took a long time, that would be one thing but unfortunately it plain loses the post half the time. Something (maybe the DB) apparently isn't up to the traffic the site receives.

...and then people won't have to go into "I'm surfing R'City now so I need to pull out my basket o' software tricks so I can experience some actual success" mode. Oh, and then the mods of (insert various forum name here) won't have to keep parroting the line they're commanded to repeat--"Yes, they know there are problems and they are working on it"--into a second year.