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It’s Surprising Who You Meet Online

12/07/07

08:15:46 pm, 187 words, 370 views

Categories: Miss Hale's Diary

It’s Surprising Who You Meet Online

I received a pleasant little message from the Nigerian Finance Minister who wants to put $125,000,000 through my bank account, in return for which he’ll pay me 10%. They must be having some problems with the International Monetary Fund.

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I have no need of money at my age, but I did think of my sister’s children and grandchildren. It would have given them a good start in life. Fortunately, Darrel stopped me. He told me the message is Spam and the people sending it are crooks. Now there’s a novelty. When I was a young girl, just after the war, Spam was something we put on our sandwiches. It just goes to show, you’re never too old to learn.

The village is alive with the excitement. Police officers everywhere, rumours flying round fifty to the dozen. If only they knew what I had seen, the rumours would fly. I could hardly believe my eyes. That flighty Brenda Simpson from the Bull’s Head. And who was she with? Harold Walters. And him a man …

Oh dear. Someone at the door. Better see who it is.

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Help?? Where does this go???
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Marilyn, the particular post your referring to is not visible at all. No heading, no teaser, nothing.
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I've written a post to the help pages. It is headed, Testing private posts. I can see it both in help and in blog all. Can anyone else see it?
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Sorry Sarah, that was my fault. What you need to do when editing it, is click on your own blog tag at the top of the edit screen. Where it says "new post in blog" in red. then save it to whatever category you want.

... Except of course that you don't get those boxes when editing in linkblog, and yet, I did it earlier today.

I'll get back when i've fathomed it.
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Marilyn, it's David.

You'll find your categories on the third tab of the edit screen(Backoffice). As far as I'm aware you cannot rename a category. You have to delete it and then create it again with a new name. Don't worry about any files you may have in it. When you delete the category, the work is automatically transferred to the parent category.
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Marlyn, I've just sent you an email covering some of the points you raised in your last post.

For anyone else looking in, if you want to email an author, you usually find an envelope on the bottom line of the post which opens an email window.

David
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Marilyn Said

I've recently recieved a comment on a submission and found that I could actually edit it. I'm wondering about this with respect to the possible consequences and why would (is it ethical?) a recipient of the comment want to edit someone elses comments if you see what I mean?

Admittedly, you might not like a particular comment and therefore you have the option of deleting it. But supposing a member liked part of the comment, yet found parts of it not to their liking, they could then alter the senders comment to suit their intent and purpose.

I've just checked this out and you're right. I was able to edit any comment from anyone on my posts. I can see a lot of gerrymandering with comments if we're not careful.

David
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Marilyn and the anonymous visitor, it's David again. I inserted the teaser break in the post below for two reasons. 1) it was taking up too much room on my screen and I have enough problems with the wife taking up too much room in various locations and 2) I was checking to see whether I really could edit posts in the help section.
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Re Spam karma, I'm guessing that it's a spam rating of some kind. AOL have a brilliant spam filter, but it sometimes gets it wrong and puts kosher emails into the spam box. I figure this karma is something similar; a kind of flag to warn you that a comment may be spam. the higher the karma, the greater the likelihood, and you can take appropriate action.

Kay, I checked on the email thing. I've been a member of blogger for a long time, and over there because your username is your email address, you're up the creek without the proverbial. I haven't checked to see whether we can disavble email addresses here, but if not, I'd advise using a hotmail account or similar.

David
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Whe you save something as draft, Marilyn, it's not published at all. Draft copies are for unfinished pieces. When you deprecate an item, as far I can gather, you withdraw it from publication, but not necessarily from your files.
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It's David again, Marilyn, (It usually is. I have such a sad life.)

The only way I can figure to get the word count is to preview the page before you save it. The preview opens as a fresh window.
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May I just have a moan? (With or without your permission I'm going to)

Members keep posting to Linkblog, which as the category implies is for links. Now it's fine while we're in the testing stage, but when the blogs go live and we have thousands of them here, the linkblog is going to be pointless.

Sue, Rob, I don't know how others feel, but it might be better if bloggers have the facility to set up their own links alongside or near to their profile. How do other testers feel about this?
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Maria

That's the only way to deal with it, but don't forget to delete the copy in Linkblog.

I said further down that this is going to be a problem when the blogs go live, because it is too easy to post in the wrong blog, the reason being that when you go to your backoffice pages, they default to whatever blog you were reading, be it linkblog or help, rather than defaulting to your own blogs.

I have visions of thousands of WL bloggers looking for posts that are in Help and link.
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Hello,

I need a bit of help? When I log into my blog I cannot see the last post I made to it "Poetry Day at Chesterfield Library". I've tried refreshing the page, logging in and out etc and nothing will bring it onto the Blog page?

I can access it if I go to Linkblog and look for it, Marilyn has commented as I've received email notification and I've published her comment but nothing will appear on my Blog.

Any help appreciated?

Maria
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Maria

You can't see the post because you posted it to Linkblog instead of one of your own categories.

It was that, plus one or two other extraneous posts there that prompted me to comment on the inadvisability of linkblog.

David
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I have never come across a blog that can be accessed back to front. The reason being that blogs are now! and meant to be read now, not in a year's time. They are news. And quite frankly a reverse blog would be useless to me because it's rare that two posts are linked, other than in my "log" category.
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Hi Dids

I have tried every way from Sunday, but the posts still appear in the order they were posted, as they do on every blog.

I wouldn't see the blog as an extension to Arena but a replacement (for those who want it). I treat blogs as I would a magazine. If you put a series of articles in a magazine, the buyer may buy the latest edition and have to backtrack to earlier issues for the previous articles.
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Dids, it's David. With a little detective work, I tracked you down as Alter Ego.

The reason you can;t find your posts to edit is because they're all posted in Linkblog instead of alter ego's blog. You need to move them.
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I understand about a blog being more immediate, so bow to the fact that a reverse posting system isn't what blogs have, but if we're to be using it as an extension of arena, and the star system indicates we can, if someone was doing a series of poetry with a central theme, or even book chapters, some sort of facility for moving work around would be useful.