Message of Tolerance [Archive]

William

12-09-2006, 12:30 AM

I just wanted to ask everyone on the forum to try to be more tolerating against other members, their mistakes, typos and poor grammar.

Many members don't have English as a first language so why don't we just try to avoid typos etc the best we can and tolerate when other makes them. One can usually understand what another member is trying to say even if there are typos and it isn't written in perfect English.

It will make the forum a friendlier place for everyone.

Lady Hobbs

12-09-2006, 12:48 AM

It would also be nice if we didn't see "arguements" cropping up over people who do things different than we do. Offer them a better way of doing things then let it go at that.

Let's be a welcoming place and not one that runs others off because they do things differently than we do.

Cichlid_Man

12-09-2006, 01:37 AM

Hi folks...

I am always friendly and accomodating as I was raised to be.
My job here is to learn, and to teach from what I learned.
Thanks for remindig us all about tolerance.
Have a great evening

crackatinny

12-09-2006, 05:12 AM

I agree, also worth a mention here is, in some cultures what may be regarded as humour or a complement may be taken out of context by people from another culture, so when reading and replying, this should also be taken into consideration.

f1oored

12-09-2006, 06:16 AM

I think this is what is happening to me. People don't find my post funny when that is what I intend them to be. It must be a cultural thing!

kimmers318

12-09-2006, 03:13 PM

I haven't seen anyone being mean over typos, and have only seen a few "arguments" so I think we are doing pretty good :). It is always good to be reminded of these things though....so thank you for the reminder William. I have been in forums where some people are just ridiculous how they talk to people.....they seem to forget they were new once, this one is much nicer which is why I am so active here and just browse some of the others off and on.

NorthernBoy

12-09-2006, 08:44 PM

Wait are we saying we have no tolerance for intolerance or we have an intolerance for no tolerance?

Abbeys_Mom

12-09-2006, 08:50 PM

I think it's about tolerance of people not having tolerance for no tolerance people who have some tolerance. Or is it no tolerance of lactose intolerance?
Either way I'm not tolerating it!

Shoot, now the word has lost all meaning.

NorthernBoy

12-09-2006, 09:06 PM

Lactose intolerance is the worst form of not tolerating. Sheesh. I am becomeing totally indifferent....wait wrong word....I am becoming totally intolerant of all this untolerance.

Lady Hobbs

12-09-2006, 09:22 PM

I heard Lactose Intolerance and thought someone had called me.

Abbeys_Mom

12-09-2006, 09:35 PM

lol. Wasn't me, I was in the bathroom.

NorthernBoy

12-09-2006, 09:49 PM

No No No I said who wants a Intolerance Milk Shake.

Lady Hobbs

12-09-2006, 10:03 PM

This is what I've missed on the forum. This camaraderie and pointing fun at. All we needed was NB to get it going again.

Severus

12-09-2006, 10:49 PM

I think all of the currently active members are all good people and fairly tolerant of eachothers mistakes. If we keep up with how things are going the site will be in great shape. We just have to make sure we are intolerant of non tolerant individuals in the future as the site grows.

Abbeys_Mom

12-09-2006, 10:54 PM

That enough! I can tolerate all this silliness. It's really hard to type from the floor. I will not tolerate any more!

Lady Hobbs

12-10-2006, 03:19 AM

kimmers318

12-10-2006, 03:39 AM

Hey....William...now would be a good time to give me back my smileys!!! This way, if I ever say something someone isn't sure of how I am feeling I can give a smiley!
I MISS MY SMILEYS!
:)
:(
;)
;(

William

12-10-2006, 09:39 PM

Which smileys do you miss?

kimmers318

12-11-2006, 02:52 AM

There used to be a box on the left of area posting in that you could choose from many different smileys to place whenever you wanted one. I can't find it anymore! :(
My hard drive (brain) is too full already to try to add and remember all the different symbols that do different emoticons so I need the "emoticons for dummies" version! LOL

jeffs99dime

12-11-2006, 06:06 AM

usually, i can't even see the smiley's when i go to post because they won't load.

William

12-11-2006, 07:17 AM

Hmmm I thought I psoted this but seems like I didn't
There are more smileys if you click the more smileys link in the smileys box. You only se this box if you use the post reply function not if you use the quick reply function.

Allthoug after reading jeffs post i see that many of them don't t load like they should. I will look into it.

William

12-11-2006, 07:38 AM

I fixed some of the smileys that didn't work and removed the rest. I'll try to introduce some new ones soon. Any ones in particular you want kimmers or just the old ones back?

kimmers318

12-11-2006, 03:16 PM

Any and all you can give me makes me a happy girl. I am not even seeing the smiley box anywhere :(. I guess I am just an expressive person who likes to brighten things up :)

William

12-11-2006, 04:58 PM

Click the post reply button and you should see the smiley box on the right side of the screen next to the message field.

kimmers318

12-12-2006, 01:55 AM

I am still not seeing the smiley box anywhere...can you come over and show it to me :)
And I have been using the "post reply" button since you pointed that out to me last time.
I can't scroll any farther to the right...here is a pic of what I see when I post a reply....
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h216/kimmers318/100_2231.jpg
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h216/kimmers318/100_2235.jpg
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h216/kimmers318/100_2234.jpg

So either I am being a COMPLETE dunce, or they are not on my puter!

NorthernBoy

12-12-2006, 05:05 AM

Try clicking go advanced.

William

12-12-2006, 05:33 AM

Aha ok. I think I know whats wrong.
Go to the user CP
Edit Options
Miscellaneous Options (near the bottom)
Message Editor Interface
Change to Enhanced in the Drop down box and save and you'll get a lot more options and smileyes.

kimmers318

12-12-2006, 10:12 AM

AHA! William....you are the bomb:hmm3grin2orange:

I have my smileys....I have my smileysthumbs2:

Life is good! I am a happy girl now, and you can save the trip to Streetstucky Ohio! See, it doesn't take much to make me happy:thumb:

William

12-12-2006, 03:59 PM

Glad to hear that it worked.

Abbeys_Mom

12-12-2006, 04:05 PM

Did you remove the :) one? It used to show up as a smiley.

jeffs99dime

12-12-2006, 05:19 PM

yeah. thanks for fixing that william

Severus

12-12-2006, 05:34 PM

I had the same problem as kimmers. lol. Thanks william

jeffs99dime

12-13-2006, 03:15 AM

as did i. not anymore!

William

12-13-2006, 05:49 AM

Glad to be able to help.

kimmers318

12-13-2006, 12:26 PM

Hmmmm.....seems I wasn't the only one having a problem with the smileys. Glad I finally broke down and admitted I needed "smileys for dummies" so William could find the problem for me.:19:

Severus

12-13-2006, 04:10 PM

hahah. Seems like half the members here had the same problem

William

12-13-2006, 04:39 PM

Well. If you miss anything that You had in the other forum (or that you have in other forums) contact me. Odds are that it allready exists if you just know where to look.

Severus

12-14-2006, 03:17 AM

i have figured most everything out on the new setup i think. I almost forget what it was like before