MEMBERS helping MEMBERS: General Help and Assistance Thread

[Jper]

Sorry jper, this is incorrect. If you go to "find all posts"
The rep messages show in order of time they were given in among your other posts. ( check your VM for proof)

Nope, it is you who are mistaken. Reputation messages are private. What you are seeing are not my reputation messages, but my public posts. Your proof is in fact a post that I've made here, which reads:

Almost ascended sounds about right.

The thread I posted this is in is: What was your last rep message?
A thread where one can choose to reveal his last rep message, at that time, by posting it. That's what I did.

[planet_tv]

If it only happens when using Firefox, try using FireFox in safe mode:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode

This is not so hard to try.

Please let me know if this solves your problem? Has any effect?

Bests,
Jasper

Thanks for the suggestion.
If it happens again I will definitely try running Firefox in safe mode and I'll let you know if that works but right now everything seems so if it doesn't happen again then I'll assume that Google took care of the ad that caused it.

[Alan Wake]

Why isn't there an option to totally delete a visitor message? Unless I'm missing something.

To a degree, deleting it... but leaving the names behind... kind of defeats the purpose. I'd like it totally gone.

You know the saying.

Out of sight, out of mind?

In the case of having the names remain behind, I'm always reminded of that message I wanted gone. until it gets bumped off the wall, which could be awhile.

[Pharaoh Atem]

Why isn't there an option to totally delete a visitor message? Unless I'm missing something.

To a degree, deleting it... but leaving the names behind... kind of defeats the purpose. I'd like it totally gone.

You know the saying.

Out of sight, out of mind?

In the case of having the names remain behind, I'm always reminded of that message I wanted gone. until it gets bumped off the wall, which could be awhile.

most likely the same reason the mods can still see our posts after we delete them. accountability and a record of what was said in case of a he said she said type situation

[Skydiver]

That's why we don't allow you guys to delete messages totally. Because if you could, then you could start a 'he said/she said' situation where you claim someone posted something nasty 'but you couldn't stand it so you deleted it'

Admin are the only folks that can 'hard delete' stuff, as in make it totally go away. And, honestly, it's not somethiing we do very often. In fact, I think the last time I hard deleted something was during one of our porn spam attacks and that stuff was sooooo raunchy and vile it had to be totally eradicated.

[Alan Wake]

Thanks for the explanation. At least I know the reason now.

[Pharaoh Atem]

Thanks for the explanation. At least I know the reason now.

your welcome

[planet_tv]

If it only happens when using Firefox, try using FireFox in safe mode:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode

This is not so hard to try.

Please let me know if this solves your problem? Has any effect?

Bests,
Jasper

I'm replying to this again because the problem happened again so I ran Firefox in safe mode and it still happened. I'm lot more sure now that's it's ad causing the problem so again thanks for the help.

[General Jumper One]

I'm replying to this again because the problem happened again so I ran Firefox in safe mode and it still happened. I'm lot more sure now that's it's ad causing the problem so again thanks for the help.

it's because of one of the ads, it happened to me to, i have Firefox 4.0 beta 4, closed the tab and it was back to normal.

[Jper]

Well if the same thing happens in safe-mode, too it certainly seems to suggest it is not one of your add-ons or extensions or theme. Other possible causes could still be plugins or changes you've made to the Firefox preference settings.

It certainly must be a browser-related issue 'cause it only appears when you use your browser. It seems strange, though, that it would be an ad making your cursor disappear. If you could find out which add is responsible, you could post the link and details and Darren could block it.

Find out the source-link for the add, and possibly take a screen-shot.

If the issue really persists, and you keep having troubles with it, and if you're convinced it is an ad, then you could try installing Ad Block Plus.

If that doesn't help it is not an advertisement, but a plug-in problem.

[SaberBlade]

Apart from Adblock Plus, also try IE Tab or using the IE Browser and see if you get the same results. If it's an ad, you should still get the same results regardless of browser.

[Jper]

If it's an ad, you should still get the same results regardless of browser.

No that's not necessarily true. Firefox uses another brower-engine. Results could be different.

[SaberBlade]

No that's not necessarily true. Firefox uses another brower-engine. Results could be different.

Possible, but any ad that is capable of screwing with a users cursor through Firefox is more than likely designed to be more than a typical ad. Screwing with a cursor isn't exactly something a standard linked image ad does.

[General Jumper One]

my antivirus and firewall blocks one of the ads. it says that it is bad

[webxro]

That's because it's bad , you could try a add-on blocker and set it to block most of the adds but to keep some of them .