Steve, at least they didn't demote you to Junior. That was done to me, but I was then promoted to Seaman the next day. Perhaps your promotion to Skipper is right around the corner.

Allan and Steve,
Alex Lynch and I were pondering what the best titles might be for the new forum, and came up with Seaman, Petty Officer, and Captain. They have something to do with the number of posts, but I don't know the details. No offense is meant. If you have better ideas for the titles (limit of three, unfortunately), speak up!!!

Actually, we're not limited to 3 titles. As Tom says, your rank is determined by the number of posts you have made. It takes 30 posts to make Seaman, and 100 to make Captain.

At this point, everyone's a Seaman, except for Tom, Sean and I, who seem to have been assigned the title of Administrator.

We're open to ideas for titles and the post counts required to achieve them.

Alex.

I understand what you mean Steve. Being retired now I thought I would get a job as a Skipper as my rating was that of one as well. But now like you being only a Seaman we have to start swimming up stream again to reach our rank and file.

But it is all a good thing as there were a lot of hours and hard work put into the new web site and I thank all that helped to do this.
Randy Sherwood

Only three possibilities? Well lets have some fun anyway.

1st is "Deck Ape", 2nd is "Naviguesser", and the top rank is "Cook", "Ships Cook" or "Cookie", etc. After all, the cook has the most important job on ANY boat.
I happen to occupy all three positions on Solla Sollew - plus a few others I dare not mention.

Marc
Mortgagor-in-Charge
Solla Sollew #1473
Ventura, CA

Tom, no offense was taken, only having a little fun with it. I do however like some of the alternatives suggested.

Hey Tom it has been awhile since I have been on the forums. It was mentioned in another post but if I'm correct we now have three sites that still contain good information and was wondering if you and Alex plan on combining the old and very old site data and roll it forward. Hope your well.

Regards, Mark

[QUOTE=mutualfun;44]...we have to start swimming up stream again to reach our rank and file... Randy Sherwood[/QUOTE]

And don't forget to take advantage of any spawning opportunities along the way. :)

You need to set up a signature in your profile on the forum site, changing on the main portion of the site doesn't seem to do anything for this part.

Go to quick links then select edit signature. I don't have the ability to add a picture to my signature, looks like it's blocked. Hope this helps, tutoring is not one of my better qualities if I even have any.

Did you go to quick links, then control panel then edit signature? All these are on the top of this page (close to it). You also then need to go to edit options and check where it asks about signature in threads.

I am confident a man of your stature will succeed, you only need to "endevour to persevere". Kudos if you can tell em where that line was from?

Mark,
To the best of my knowledge, the content from the oldest site, and the older site, has all been moved to this newer site. A couple of officers (including myself) spent a bunch of time in the spring moving and copying articles from the old sites to the new one. A couple of features have not yet been moved. We are in the process of archiving the old forums to be searchable on this one. Take a look around the new site. It has a LOT of info!

Looks like you got it Steve.

Allan,
Alex has changed the signature permissions for all registered users. We should now have the ability to include a picture along with our signature. I've attached one from the "Unfortunate Archives" in the Test Member account. Ouch!

Tom Soko

It works, thanks :)

Ok, but... Why am I seeing "I lost 12 lbs in 12 weeks...READ NOW" garbage at the top of our web site? Must we have that junk on the page? I think we can eliminate the tacky advertising and limit the site to C-36 related items only.

Is there anyway to at least make the ads sailing related?

Steve,
Alex is in the process of "tweaking" this new forum site. The goal is to have the forum open to everyone (not just C36IA members), yet not have it filled with spam. It seems like we need a little tightening to the current settings. As soon as I see spam on the site, it gets deleted, and the poster is permanently banned, but I'm not on the site 24/7. Please be a little patient.

Tom, is there a way that we could [U]report a post[/U] that flags for someone to look at on your end?

Steve and Allan (and everyone else),
Please feel free to send me an email any time you see a spam posting. I normally check email several times a day, but don't get to the forums as often. You can reach me at:
tjsoko (at) aol.com
I deleted two today, and Alex said he tweaked the site a little tighter, so we'll see how it works.

If you look inthe upper right corner of each posting you'll see a tiny "caution sign with an exclamation point". This is the Report post icon. I used this to report a spam post, but I don't know whether anyone got it. Tom? Alex?

Larry,
You are a brilliant person! I had not noticed the (!) icon. Please use it. I sent a test message on it, and it said that the report went both to Alex and myself. I'll start a new thread to bring it to everyone's attention. Thanks again.

A real test

Yes, there is a block called "Who's Online" block in Drupal core that can be enabled. This displays only registered users and you can click on any name to see the users' profile. This profile can be a Public profile that user has created. This block can be displayed to registered users only - that is a visitor can not see this block. Or it can be setup so that if the block is visible, the visitor can not click on the user name and view the profile.