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Crazy girl! Lol! 

Whoop whoop it's gone!  Thank you for listening to us

Actually you can do that now. I fixed an obscure setting today. Click on recombinantsocks's forum name to go to his profile page. Then look at the Questions tab (under More). I'm trying to get it set to a more sensible name, but that setting is even more obscure.

The Activity tab is like the activity stream on the home page, and shows updates from all users in the threads in which recombinantsocks has participated. The Questions/Threads tab shows his updates only.

Hello Community Members, 

Yippee!

Well, as for keeping the Leader Board, the votes came in at

5 % . . . Yes

21 % . . Don't Mind Either Way

71 % . . No

I don't get how I've got so many points.....thought it might be that I usually type, hit reply....then realise I've made a typo...correct it and the hit reply to post my correction....am I getting double-bubble?

Thank you.

Hi ) ( and Spotty Tortoise,

I will pass your queries on to the Community Manager, who should be able to address them for you.

Best wishes,

Nellie-Mod

Please can you provide more detailed information about the 'Friendship Request' process, thank you.

I don't use Facebook or social media and therefore I am not familiar with the process and I can't seem to find much information to help me further with this.

Things I would most like to know are:

If you accept a friendship request, does this mean that the requester has access to your personal contact details?

If I accept a friend request, what will happen, what does this mean exactly?

Also, on a different but related issue; I still think the colours and lay out of the 'new' community site are not very user friendly in comparison to the old layout. I especially struggle with the big purple bar in the way, and the lurid pink repeatedly drawing my eye away from the comments, and how the comments drift into the background of the page as they are both the same background colour now and not in clearly defined boxes like they used to be.

Thank you.

All valid 'points' Lone! Please Mods, can we have some explanation what is going on with the votes and why some people aren't appearing on the leader board and some are? And make it go away.

I hope you are asleep now Mr Warrior as you appear to have been fretting over all this in the middle of the night.

So if I have achieved 891 points then I should be between Daniel at number 4 with 772 points and spotty tortoise at 3 with 1154 points,I am number 3.5? Still no further forward on the silly leader board.

Well after fishing around it seems I now know what the points are for.

I noticed if you go to for instance my profile! It will have a total points score, if you click on the number i.e. Points 886 it will bring up every reply I have made and every thread I created.

so for replying to a thread you get=5 Points.

creating a new thread=7 Points.

simple as that. So I have replied to 159 threads.159x5=795.

I have created 13 threads,13x7=91.

Total 886.

Oh and two days ago I kindly asked what the points were awarded for ? Still no reply.

Well found the old"should the leader board be kept" post.it was locked by Holly-Mod who then suggested we post comments or improvements on this post. Having visited it I cannot tell if anyone has voted since it was locked? If someone can vote since it was locked would it update and come to be at the top of page one?

last post on it by holly mod was eight days ago.now on page four of posts and gradually disappearing,maybe that is the idea?

Appears we were given the choice but not given any information as to wether it is voted for or against? Not very democratic. No idea what the majority think.

Maybe one of the kind mods could explain to me how the voting is going?

wether voting is possible now it is locked?

If it can be still voted on will it become a current up the front latest post?

I still struggle as to why the whole thread was locked? Care to explain?

i thank you for your time.

One thing for sure the points cannot be for length of one initial post or I would be king of the board? In fact when I was posting lots I never got on the leaderboard? .I don't want to be on it but just trying to find out what those points are for? I actually asked the mods and got no reply?

So come on folks please vote one way or another.

LIKE.

Top of my list is that beeping leaderboard and I notice that as the vote thread was locked to be replaced by this thread, that one has slipped into the background so people may not be seeing it, the vote isn't closed yet, please vote to get rid of the leaderboard people!

It has been said before, but I cannot see that it serves any useful purpose and makes it appear like some kind of competitive sport being on here. Elephant and I have only been here a couple of months and are in the top three, we have no authority and are less experienced than many others on here, just our own sweet selves to offer.  So what are we leaders in even, no one appears to know, pointless.

That brings me to the points system, no idea what that's about either, it seems a bit arbitrary, can we not just have 'number of posts' and how long they've been a member?  It's easier to get a sense of where someone is like that, or maybe someone has a better idea...

I also agree with those above who would like a 'like' button on all contributions instead of the slightly strange 'vote up/down', which is again kind of competitive and feels uncomfortable. 'Like' would be much more gentle and useful to indicate you've read something if you don't have enough energy/spoons to respond another way.  Thank you for listening and your hard work Mods. 

I think this is a really good point, it is useful to get an idea of where someone is coming from before, as you say, jumping in 'with both feet'.

Misfit61 said:

Thanks Deepthought I'll practice that when I feel up to joining in again. Some days I'm slower than others and it's surprising how quickly some of the conversations go. 

It normally takes several hours up to a number of days to write stuff in my case, and I generally refer to my written work as mind babies ~ labour of love and all that; what with the delivery being rather exhausting from time to time.

So as the saying goes ~ "Rest up Buttercup!" ~ and have a good one and many more.