Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

[Birdjaguar]

@J-man

It is possible.

Hit the reply button, highlight the quote and cut it. Then go to the new thread and paste it in place.

For pictures and media, you would most likely need to download the image and then attach it to your post in the new thread.

I have found that once you select "quote", you can then just go to the new thread, and click into the empty post box and the insert post option will appear. Click on that then the selected quote will drop into the box. No need to cut and paste. Quick and easy.

From a thread in OT:

June is our hottest month. It's been in the high 90s all week and we are heading towards 100+ next week. So today we got milkshakes for dinner.

 

[Duke William of Normandy]

Are threadmarks a thing in these forums?

 

[Takhisis]

Could you specify more?

 

[Duke William of Normandy]

I don't really know how to describe it, but something like, if you wanted to direct people to a certain post in your thread, you would mark it as an important part of the thread. Like the ones at Sufficient Velocity .

Example (Right above the first post you see): https://forums.sufficientvelocity.c...antasy-golden-age-dwarf-runelord-quest.63581/

 

[Takhisis]

You can just link to individual posts using the individual post's id and the [ post ] tag. The forum software will render it as a URL that is a permalink to that specific post.

So,
[ post=post number ] text [/ post ]
will be

[post=16134359]a link[/post] to your post above

a link to your post above.

You can also be a lazy bum and copy the link to report post to your clipboard, delete the word ‘report’ from it and place it in a regular URL tag. It should work, most of the time, but CFC sometimes changes its software and the URL system has changed so some earlier links from the past are broken. With the [ post ] tag you always get a permalink to the post with that post ID rendered.

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That said, actually marking or highlighting a post for any passersby to see is not currently enabled as far as I know.

 

[leif erikson]

Just looked it up in the xenForo community boards and threadmark is an add-on that is currently no longer supported by the creator. So we won't use it.

Linking as per Takhisis' post above is probably your best bet.

 

[Duke William of Normandy]

Just looked it up in the xenForo community boards and threadmark is an add-on that is currently no longer supported by the creator. So we won't use it.

Linking as per Takhisis' post above is probably your best bet.

You can just link to individual posts using the individual post's id and the [ post ] tag. The forum software will render it as a URL that is a permalink to that specific post.

So,
[ post=post number ] text [/ post ]
will be

[post=16134359]a link[/post] to your post above

a link to your post above.

You can also be a lazy bum and copy the link to report post to your clipboard, delete the word ‘report’ from it and place it in a regular URL tag. It should work, most of the time, but CFC sometimes changes its software and the URL system has changed so some earlier links from the past are broken. With the [ post ] tag you always get a permalink to the post with that post ID rendered.

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That said, actually marking or highlighting a post for any passersby to see is not currently enabled as far as I know.

Ah, I see. That's a shame. Thanks for the advice to both of you, though.

 

[Takhisis]

One more thing: there's a similar feature for threads, because browsers keep changing the display for threads and what-not but if you want to link to a specific thread by its ID then [ thread ] [/ thread ] is your friend.

 

[Gelion]

I have a technical issue with the log-in. Which of the mods could I contact privately to discuss it?

 

[leif erikson]

Started a conversation with you.

 

[Gelion]

Started a conversation with you.

Thanks a lot

 

[Aiken_Drumn]

What is the purpose of following and followers on your profile? Everyone seems to have a few.. is it automatic?

 

[The_J]

No real purpose, as far as I can see, and no, not automatic.
(why is it there then? No clue, need to go to Xenforo and ask the devs )

 

[Aiken_Drumn]

No real purpose, as far as I can see, and no, not automatic.
(why is it there then? No clue, need to go to Xenforo and ask the devs )

Thanks. Seems a bit like MySpace's top 8 friends Do you remember following the 65 people listed on your profile then?

 

[The_J]

Yes, I do remember that. It was all when CFC was still using vbulletin. There we had a "friends" feature, which was, as far as I can remember, as useless, and got converted to followers here on Xenforo.
I guess it's nice to say "I know this person better", but it doesn't serve a real purpose here .

 

[topsecret]

If you click your username, and then "your news feed", you can see their posts.

 

[Synobun]

You can also restrict certain actions to followers, like PMing and profile posts.

 

[Takhisis]

^Indeed.
In the times of vBulletin we had ‘friends’ and ‘contacts’. The latter were, as far as I remember, simply a handy way of storing other users' names in case you wanted to search for their posts or drop them a line. The former actually was useful in restricting some actions such as conversations PMs and profile posts.
But then everything changed when the Xenfire nation attacked.

 

[Gelion]

Can one make a poll in a new thread that would run indefinitely? With changeable question and poll options?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Can one make a poll in a new thread that would run indefinitely? With changeable question and poll options?

It should be possible to make an indefinite poll, since all you'd need to do would be to not set a closing date/time.

But for making the question and options change over time, you would need to speak very nicely to the moderators, unless editing polls is something the OP can do?


Or so it would seem to me, based on my experience with making polls on various types of forums. The old UBB sites were actually the easiest, since they allowed for multiple questions in the same poll - extremely useful for when I first started running Iron Pen competitions on an RPG forum 15 years ago.