Forums 101, lessons on forums.

Very valuable information. Yes this should be a sticky at the top of every forum or certainly included with the FAQ's.

Of course if I had seen this way back when I started with BFC I would have only four posts and not the thousands I have. :D
 
The only thing I learned was that the website will not download on my system. Is there a bargain-basement version available?
 
That was excellent. We should make viewing this a requirement of our member registration process.

n2s
 
No, I don't think it should be required reading, or stickied to any forums, until I get some idea why it not only won't load but actually interferes with my internet connection. All three times now that I've tried to connect to it, it failed to come up. All three times, nothing else would come up afterwards, even after I closed that browser window. I had to disconnect and then reconnect to the internet.

You may have the programs to run this, but for those of us who do not, it is virulent.
 
HAHAAH, yes, make all users watch this before signing up...

Whoever made this is a genius and has been saying what senior forum members and moderators all over the internet have been wanting to say...
 
Is that like the great quake of '76? ;) :D j/k

Aside from shockwave, which was my first thought, it could be just random glitchy browser issues, or something. What os/browser/shoes/beard&moustache trimmer are ya using?

Or, it coulda just been planet alignment issues?

This is a very funny file. I've already been sure to post it to other forums I post on...shhhhhh, don't tell...
 
It must be planet alignment issues. Nothing else bothers my system like this. If it's shockwave I would have appreciated a front page loading and leading me to the program or plug-in I might be missing, but I get nothing, a blank page.

So have fun with your invisible genius.
 
My thought was you might have a very old version of Shockwave -- I haven't heard of it happening with Shockwave specifically, but it often happens that software companies don't test for backward compatibility with very old versions, and odd things can go wrong.

Now I'm thinking, though, maybe you don't have the plug-in at all. If so you would only get a page telling you that if you went to the webpage. The link Saunterer posted goes directly to the .swf ShockWave File. If you don't have the plug-in you can't read that and can't get any error message from it either.
 
If I get around to it, I'll look into shockwave. I don't spend much as time paying attention to graphics as to text.
 
Good stuff - not enough of it though....and painfully slow.

How would you enforce it?

Sure wish there was a way.....but to be honest, newbie-itis on this forum is nowhere near as bad as many of the other forums I've visited...!
 
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