Greg

I'm afraid you're going to see a lot more posts remain, even if there is a moderation action. I've never really felt comfortable removing posts just because a small portion of the post breaks some type of rule. Particularly when there has been some time lapse between when the original post was made, and when the moderation action happens. Inevitably, people engage with the post, and then when the moderators remove the post, there is a glaring hole in the middle of the thread.

There is nothing wrong with linking to your own website on these forums, we just ask that you refrain from flagrant advertising and or making the focus of your postings about your external websites. However, you are free to post whatever you want in a club that you can create.

You can also stripe out formatting using the stripe formatting button in the editor toolbar. See attached image.

It's can't be too difficult to provide some reference/context to the link, can it?

You shouldn't presume that no action was taken.

FYI, the best way to alert me (or anyone else) is to add a @ symbol before their name... See @Charles Anthony

That is because they are disabled. They can be a HUGE distraction and difficult to moderate. If enough people want signatures to return, just post a note below and I'll reconsider, but otherwise I'm going to keep them disabled. BBCode is a legacy markup language that is being depreciated and because of that I've disabled it in the forums. It also can affect forum performance, and the functionality will likely be completely removed in the next few months/years. Is there a reason you want to edit the source code of your postings? If you're trying to stripe out the formatting when cutting and pasting, you should select "paste and match style" in the edit menu (in Apple)... I can't remember if it's called the same thing in Windows machines. This article should be able to help: https://www.themuse.com/advice/copy-paste-same-formatting-trick-how-to-do-it

@Great American Thanks for bringing this issue up. Charles is correct, the Canada / US relations was merged, but the old forum section shouldn't still be visible and old references to it should redirect. I will fix this issue and update this thread shortly. Thanks!

Personally, I'd rather give someone that benefit of the doubt (a private warning to calm down and relax), than kick them to the curb (i.e. ban them) and never hear from them again... But that's just me, the guy that's been running this political forum successfully for the past 22 years. Cheers!

Did anyone send him a PM and ask him?

Ok, if it happens again, update this thread.

20 reactions is the daily limit... Are you still getting that error? The server is located in the ET timezone, and the stats should reset each night at 12AM ET.

I've gotten a report that 504 Errors are happening once in a while. Can anyone confirm whether they've seen the following errors (or any other errors) when trying to access the forums? And if you ever get an error, please feel free to post a report in the Support section of the forums. Thanks!

Can you provide a screenshot? I'm not exactly certain what you're talking about...

Yes, most definitely. Google bot is just an ignorant spider that crawls the web indexing what it can, no amount of engineering (or magic) can allow it to better understand what someone is trying to say if the forum topic/post is an inconsistent/unstructured rant.

Yes, very much. It's the reason why Charles and I appreciate it when people correctly structure the opening post of any new thread - including a descriptive topic title, etc. While the IPB software isn't the most SEO optimized forum software in the world (by a long shot), the most recent update attempted to "fix" a lot of the issues. They still don't use header tags, and other vital markup that Google (and other SE like Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc) use to better understand what we're all talking about, but it's an improvement nonetheless. And for me, it's way down at the bottom of the first page. Google personalizes search now, so it highly unlikely anyone will get the exactly same result as someone else. Much depends on your prior searches and the whether you're logged into your Google Account, etc.

@cougar, @Aristides, we all get it, you disagree with each other. Now lets try to do it without all the insults and otherwise bad behavior.

Take a breather folks, less insults and more discussions, please!

Cool down guys, drop the insults.

No problem, this is one of those things that can be difficult to figure out if you're not already familiar with the views functionality. Thanks!

It sounds to me like you've accidentally switched the forum layout to "fluid" rather than "table". Please review the screencap below: If you have the fluid button selected (red arrow), please select the table button (green arrow) and the forums should be presented in the format you mentioned above. Give that a try!

I've turned that type of ad format off, you should not see these types of ads anymore.

Can you be more specific? I haven't noticed any issues with the forum categories - has anyone else?

NOTE: The support Issue related to the new ads on the forums has been moved to it's own thread here.

Ok, let me look into it! This is just a test, if these ads are too annoying, I won't continue them. But thanks for being it to my attention! Charles - I'm going to split this thread into two seperate threads.