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HAMMER77777
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« on: May 09, 2020, 09:26:18 PM »

Probably stupid questions but I'm new here.  How to multi-quote so I dont have to make 10 posts to reply to 10 different dudes in 1 thread? 
How to make it so when I post in a thread, my computer stays IN THAT THREAD, and doesn't kick me out to the main page full of thread lists?
     How to set personal settings such as Time Zone, & disabling personal messaging as I can do in many other forum sites?  Thanks.
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HAMMER77777
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« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2020, 09:39:44 PM »

Probably stupid questions but I'm new here.  How to multi-quote so I dont have to make 10 posts to reply to 10 different dudes in 1 thread? 
How to make it so when I post in a thread, my computer stays IN THAT THREAD, and doesn't kick me out to the main page full of thread lists?
     How to set personal settings such as Time Zone, & disabling personal messaging as I can do in many other forum sites?  Thanks.

If you enable quick reply, you can just hit the quote button on the same page and it'll add it to the quick reply box at the bottom instead of opening a new page. If you're trying to reply to posts on different pages, then there is no easier way.
I was trying to do it on the same page.   SO again thanks for your reply, but how do I do this?  When I hit quote, it just opens a quote page right away.  How do I multi quote?
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HAMMER77777
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« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2020, 09:59:59 PM »

I was trying to do it on the same page.   SO again thanks for your reply, but how do I do this?  When I hit quote, it just opens a quote page right away.  How do I multi quote?

Enable the quick reply box on the profile settings page I linked you to:

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;sa=theme

It's near the bottom: "Use quick reply on topic display:"

Set to "show, on by default". From then on every time you click the quote button, it will put the quote into that box. If you only want that to happen sometimes, set it to "show, off by default" and just expand the quick reply whenever you want to mass quote people.

Awesome!  Any ideas for my other questions?  Thanks again buddy.
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HAMMER77777
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« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2020, 10:19:33 PM »

Awesome!  Any ideas for my other questions?  Thanks again buddy.

Thanks man.  Sorry, I don't Know who you are.  Are you and Dave the Creators of this page?  Yes I didnt explore the options much.  But I have used other "forum" type sites such as Citydata, Tennis forum, Boxingforum24, Etc., & those options were usually more obvious.  Yes, shutting off PM's would be great.  Random clowns message me asking me to join this or that, Discord (whatever that is), etc..  It would be great to shut it off LOL!  I self-figured out how to change Time Zone.  Smiley

- PM blocking

Well, you can block certain users from sending you PMs, but you can't disable it entirely:

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;sa=pmprefs

Maybe disabling PMs altogether is an option worth having. I'm not sure. Maybe worth a poll in FC, although I'm a supporter of Atlasia so I wouldn't want to do anything that would harm their game either.

- Return to thread after posting

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;sa=theme

Check "Return to topics after posting by default.", click "Change profile"

I take it you probably haven't explored the options too much. I know it can be kind of confusing.. A lot of this forum's features were added after-the-fact by Dave and I, and in an ad hoc manner, so it's not neatly organized or anything. You may want to check these out and just scan the page to see if it's anything you might use:

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;sa=atlasmod
https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;sa=customized
https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;sa=notification

Welcome to the forum btw!
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HAMMER77777
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« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2020, 04:55:47 PM »

Few other odd things.  On the rare occasion I report a post, after doing so it again kicks me out of the thread, so I have to go back in.  Not the biggest deal, but it's annoying and I haven't seen it happen in any other forum.  Also, on pages such as this, how can I set it to show threads in order of most recent activity (as most others forums do)?

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?board=101.0

In other words, have the most recently active threads show up on top of the screen?
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HAMMER77777
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« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2020, 05:39:52 PM »

Oh OK, maybe just the pinned ones were throwing me off.  Never mind.  Smiley
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