Hullo, I have a Q: I just spent a bit of time writing a longish thing about 3 books in Literary and when I went to post it, it vanished at the same time that it told me I'd flipped into guest mode. It's not the first time it's happened, and it's really frustrating. What's happening? Do I have only a certain amount of time in a message block before it self-destructs?
Sex with robots is more common than most people think.
Spike ,'Lineage'
Buffistas Building a Better Board
Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Java cat - Dec 10, 2002 7:48:37 pm PST #1972 of 10000
Not javachik
Cindy - Dec 11, 2002 4:37:55 am PST #1973 of 10000
Nobody
Java cat - I have no technical information for you about this problem, but have had similar problems at other boards.
For the meantime, as a work-around, you might want to consider either composing your posts in a word processing program or on your PC's notepad. If you can't be bothered or forget in the heat of the posting fugue state, try to make it a habit to copy your message before you post it. If something goes wonky in the posting process - you'll still have it. Good luck. That's a really frustrating thing to have happen. It hasn't happened to me here, but it used to happen to me at other boards and made me completely nuts.
DXMachina - Dec 11, 2002 5:55:32 am PST #1974 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Java, a lot of us have had similar problems, but ita has so far been unable to duplicate it so that she can work on a fix. Cindy's advice is good, or else make a habit of copying the text of your post to the clipboard becore hitting the Post button..
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 11, 2002 11:00:56 am PST #1975 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I just got this quote:
Hey, man, where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity!'
Oz, ''
Fun punctuation.
ChiKat - Dec 11, 2002 4:27:45 pm PST #1976 of 10000
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
FYI: I just got the following error (since I know nothing about technical stuff, I don't know if this is important or not!):
December 11, 2002, 6:26 pm ChiKat[39]: ERROR [2] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) line 72 of file /home/buffist/public_html/classes/giles.php
December 11, 2002, 6:26 pm ChiKat[39]: ERROR [2] MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) line 72 of file /home/buffist/public_html/classes/giles.php
There has been an error. It's of the type we call fatal. Please don't be scared. You're not the one that's going to die.
Okay, where the $$&#&(@#& are the developers?
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 12, 2002 9:26:06 am PST #1977 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
I've just had a funny thing happen in Natter: SA posted, billytea posted a reply, I wrote a reply and posted it, to see that billytea had deleted his post, so I edit mine accordingly, but now I see no SA post, no billytea post, and not my post either. Where did they go? I think they should have come after post 2495.
Hil R. - Dec 12, 2002 9:28:03 am PST #1978 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The posts you replied to were in Beep Me, not in Natter, and yours and billytea's got deleted for nattering in a no-natter zone.
§ ita § - Dec 12, 2002 9:28:28 am PST #1979 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Am-Chau, that wasn't Natter. But it was natter. That was in Beep Me, and billytea deleted his post, and DX deleted yours.
billytea - Dec 12, 2002 9:30:05 am PST #1980 of 10000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Am-Chau, that wasn't Natter. But it was natter. That was in Beep Me, and billytea deleted his post, and DX deleted yours.
Yup. I posted without noticing what thread I was in. Deleted it once I realised. (Read New's a great function, but I'm still coming to grips with one or two of the implications.)
DXMachina - Dec 12, 2002 9:30:10 am PST #1981 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Am, both you and billytea posted your responses to sa in Beep Me, not Natter. Beep Me is a no natter zone, which is why billytea deleted his post, and I stompied your's.