What happen to Philosophyforum.com?

@William,

I was worried about this, when the two sites merge. If two people have the same name. One will have to be modified, or changed it seems. Im guessing the users at the site we are migrating to will have presidence. People that have uncommon/unusual names dont have to worry.

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@djjd62,

Aye, thanks. More specifically, I was curious about the posts that I entered on another forum and were brought in here - an en-masse removal.

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I got my possible lines of action in line earlier today, ascertained my links to setting up for getting logged on and all, and did some posting earlier this evening from the uni. Now, I don't know for sure (although looking at the times listed on the posts, it seems this was here earlier) if I just missed this, but probably did.

What I'd like to put forward, is that we--those of us who had been aboard that other vessel (if you will)--just keep our heads up, eyes open, cause we may just be slightly disorientated from the suddenness of the slip into the sea...and actually our treasure island is just beyond that bit of fog which hides all the fruit it bears (not to mention all those half-dressed young lasses waiting for us men folk to chase around on the beach) [not to be misunderstood as sexist in any pragmatic manner].

Therefore, as we merge with the motion of the waves, feeling the sea, but not the emotion of how fun playing in it can be, I would humbly like to suggest that we do keep a positive outlook (the natives on the island are to our likings for the far greater part I would tend to think), and try not to allow ourselves to be seen as bashing whatever party may be going on . . . as we slowly adapt to the culture we have sandbared on.

tracks left on the sands of a new wonderland . . . now ain't she a beauty ....

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Gosh! I am tired of change. They should have given us an inkling atleast. Where's the ethics gone?

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@Jackofalltrades phil,

Jackofalltrades phil wrote:

Gosh! I am tired of change. They should have given us an inkling atleast. Where's the ethics gone?

i guess we don't need ethics...

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Jeeprs........ thanks for the apt analogy........ i felt kind of a hard jolt........ air turbulance, perhaps........ but yeah, lets face the inevitables in life........
right now, i am feeling like the trobriand islanders kidnapped and brought to Time Square, New York.

I also felt as though, the cosy little house, with a hearth in it, in which i thought i was in, has been exposed to commercial forces, the roof ripped apart, and made into a public house in matter of a few hours..

Sigh!

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@Krumple,

Here is the ethics forum.
http://able2know.org/forum/ethics/

If you cannot find a favorite subsection, do a tag search for it and it should reveal what you are having difficulties finding.

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@Jackofalltrades phil,

The interesting thing is that the house here is only as big as you want it to be. I was a little surprised at first when A2K switched to this format (there was no end of bitching from old members for a while) but after a few weeks of usage, the site automatically adjusts to your style.

As an example; if you only post in philosophy-related threads, after a while you will see almost nothing but philosophy-related stuff when you log on.

I would add that there are a lot of people here who like to discuss philosophical, moral and ethical issues, and I'm sure they would be happy to provide fresh faces for some of your conversations.

Cheers
Cycloptichorn

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@Jackofalltrades phil,

Jackofalltrades phil wrote:

Gosh! I am tired of change. They should have given us an inkling atleast. Where's the ethics gone?

If you tag any of your old (or new) ethics threads with "ethics" you'll find you create an ethics forum.

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@Khethil,

Khethil wrote:

Well, there are far too many good people here to bail immediately. So I'm gonna give it a shot and see if I can get used to this set up; try and adjust over time.

Yeah, that's what I'm trying to do. Get used to this set up. Man, this is such a change, but it's definitely an interesting forum setup. It looks like more of a message board than a forum.

Eh, where's the quote button again anyone?

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@dlowan,

Jackofalltrades wrote:

If you tag any of your old (or new) ethics threads with "ethics" you'll find you create an ethics forum.

Is that so? It creates a whole forum. What in the world...?

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@Zetherin,

Yes, because then when you look to the right of the page and see a column of "my tags" and click on "ethics", all the posts that have (ever, I think) been tagged ethics will show up..

Once all you folks' tags get transferred onto your past threads here - which Robert plans to do - then the ethics forum will be more complet.

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@Cycloptichorn,

Cycloptichorn wrote:

The interesting thing is that the house here is only as big as you want it to be. I was a little surprised at first when A2K switched to this format (there was no end of bitching from old members for a while) but after a few weeks of usage, the site automatically adjusts to your style.

As an example; if you only post in philosophy-related threads, after a while you will see almost nothing but philosophy-related stuff when you log on.

I would add that there are a lot of people here who like to discuss philosophical, moral and ethical issues, and I'm sure they would be happy to provide fresh faces for some of your conversations.

Cheers
Cycloptichorn

I know I'd be interested in seeing fresco discuss philosophy with some new people here. He's pretty well versed IMO.

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Hi, I am the only one experiencing massive problems since the transfer from philosophyforum?

* Always on the first page of a subject only the first one post gets displayed. The others not. It starts working on the 2nd 3rd,... pages. But all other posts of the first page are not visible. Browser newest Opera. The browser just always shows that it wants to load some ads, but it seems like he doesn't get any answer from the corresponding server. Is it possible that this is a country problem, and therefore the server doesn't deliver?

* They said on philosophyforum, that they will send an email to everyone after the transfer with the instructions how to log in.
Well I didn't get any. And my previous password was not accepted.
Then I tried the "reset password" request. I got a mail. When I go to the indicated link in the mail I shall enter a new password. No problem, I thought. But then I always just get this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function generateSalt() on a non-object in /home/a2korg/public_html/account/index.php on line 79

This is the reason why I now created a new account. Just to be able to write this post. BTW I was "Peace" on the old forum.

* Is it just me, or is the view very chaotic. IMHO on the old forum, the overview of the posts was much much better. Here only very few threads are displayed and everything in one clump. The ordered small excel like view of the old forum was IMHO much better. There you could really see everything with just a short sight.

* A lot of the formatting special codes are not available in this forum. So on some threads you just get wasted with a lot of uninterpreted forum code...
Please filter at least this code out! Otherwise some posts are hardly readable.

* Some parts in the messages have been deleted???
E.g. on my last thread where I posted, one quote by me is completely empty???

* The voting system with good or bad is in my opinion just childish and has nothing to do with a good conversation atmosphere. I absolutely liked the "Thank you" button of the old forum. But this thumbs up and down story is something completely different and shows IMHO also the "romanic empire" style in this forum, whereas on the old forum you could inspire someone and thank him, but not throw him in the gutters. This shows IMHO much about the perspective of mind behind this forum.
This will possibly also be the reason why I will no longer participate.
Hopefully one day I will again find a good forum, with again this perfect group of people and with the right attitude of the forum leader and all the members.
Gee. One only realizes what one had, when one has lost it...

The only positive thing I see about this forum is, that the image tags are enabled...

This post may sound harsh. But that's the way I feel about it...Sorry

Wish you anyways all good luck, Peace and Light.
Maybe we will see us again sometime somewhere in another forum.

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@DoesntWork,

DoesntWork wrote:

* Always on the first page of a subject only the first one post gets displayed. The others not. It starts working on the 2nd 3rd,... pages. But all other posts of the first page are not visible. Browser newest Opera. The browser just always shows that it wants to load some ads, but it seems like he doesn't get any answer from the corresponding server. Is it possible that this is a country problem, and therefore the server doesn't deliver?

I will look into it, it actually could be a bit of cosmic irony, as I turned off ads hoping to make for a better transition, perhaps doing so caused a glitch in Opera so I'll check with that browser.

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* They said on philosophyforum, that they will send an email to everyone after the transfer with the instructions how to log in.
Well I didn't get any. And my previous password was not accepted.

I sent out the email early this morning sometime, but if you go to the contact us link in the footer of every page and submit a ticket I can help you out.

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Then I tried the "reset password" request. I got a mail. When I go to the indicated link in the mail I shall enter a new password. No problem, I thought. But then I always just get this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function generateSalt() on a non-object in /home/a2korg/public_html/account/index.php on line 79

Yeah, sorry about that. Nick (our programmer, who we love but are going to kill for this) was fixing something and broke something else. I forgive him because I get how programming works and know he's pretty damn good, but if you don't I understand and offer to beat him up or something.

Either way, he just fixed that a while ago.

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* Is it just me, or is the view very chaotic. IMHO on the old forum, the overview of the posts was much much better. Here only very few threads are displayed and everything in one clump. The ordered small excel like view of the old forum was IMHO much better. There you could really see everything with just a short sight.

I think some things are better some worse. Hierarchy of forums isn't as good here, and needs some huge improvements. The topic grid can also use a lot of improvement but is actually less cluttered than the VB grids and has about the same information.

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* A lot of the formatting special codes are not available in this forum. So on some threads you just get wasted with a lot of uninterpreted forum code...
Please filter at least this code out! Otherwise some posts are hardly readable.

We are working on this, please give us links to each example you find so we can test our fixes.

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* Some parts in the messages have been deleted???
E.g. on my last thread where I posted, one quote by me is completely empty???

Send them to us, we'll fix them. It's due to non-standard characters that we'll convert to better ones. Sometimes if a post has one of Microsoft's "smart" quotes it will do that and we are going to be running find/replace fixes. The more examples you can give us the better, as we have over 4 million posts in the database and would like to nail the find/replace in as few passes as possible.

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* The voting system with good or bad is in my opinion just childish and has nothing to do with a good conversation atmosphere. I absolutely liked the "Thank you" button of the old forum. But this thumbs up and down story is something completely different and shows IMHO also the "romanic empire" style in this forum, whereas on the old forum you could inspire someone and thank him, but not throw him in the gutters. This shows IMHO much about the perspective of mind behind this forum.

Whether you like the voting or not is one thing but I doubt you've gained much useful insight into "the perspective of mind behind this forum" based on it.

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The only positive thing I see about this forum is, that the image tags are enabled...

This post may sound harsh. But that's the way I feel about it...Sorry

Don't be sorry for giving an opinion, but I think you'd feel differently with a less impulsive reaction (perhaps, for example, you'd find more than one positive).

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Cyclopithorn............. you are very kind.

Genteel........... who ever you are ( you seem to be the nice guy around. PLEASE TELL ME THE RIGHT WAY TO LOG IN!!!....... I tried twice, and my password was rejected........ i went resetting the pw,,,,,,,,,, went to my email a/c...... thru the link........ i managed to get in, thank you, and post some comments yesterday.
But today, alas, again my pw was rejected, and went thru the same process once again..... I think its the software.......... be kind to and guide me or DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT......................................................... please.
by the way, where's the bloody THANK YOU button....... you can't let us nice guys , not thank the other equally nice guy calling himself a philosopher, just like the pretender i am, by depriving us that small innocous looking 'THANKS'button, which was put up by the PF managers so so thoughtfully. ............... please do that......... i dont know about other nice guys, but i surely would not be able to sleep with a thanks to my detractors and fellow argumentators.................so,....................................... please.

anyway, nice meeting you.......... and cyclo.......... by the way, i study plants which thorn is a cyclopithorn........... just kidding......... you know it.

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@Jackofalltrades phil,

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anyway, nice meeting you.......... and cyclo.......... by the way, i study plants which thorn is a cyclopithorn........... just kidding......... you know it.

Naturally.

Re: the 'thanks' button, we have a thumbs up/down instead, right next to the name and icon of the person.

Cycloptichorn

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I'm seeding these tutorial topics in many of the "Help, I'm lost" topics. Hope it makes your first voyage onto the new philosophy forum on A2K an enjoyable tone:

If you see any wandering new members be they philosophical or droid in nature, direct them to these tutorials for a "how to" to help make them welcome:

How to Navigate the New Philosophy Forum on A2K

As promised, here are the links to various topics in the new tutorial I just posted so that when needed, you can navigate directly to the information you seek rather than having to scan the entire thread for the info.

Index of the new A2K site tutorial:

The Registration and Login Screens

Anatomy of the homepage

How to use the Filter/Sort Topics Tabs

Anatomy of the Profile and Preferences Screens

How to initiate a new topic thread

How to send a private message to a member, Anatomy of a topic thread, Anatomy of the post composition screen

How to use the Reply and Quote Buttons in a topic thread

Anatomy of a member's profile page

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@Jackofalltrades phil,

Please use the contact us link in footer and I will help you get your username fixed as well as any login issues.

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Well, I cant say I liked this transition. It was like dying and suddently finding myself in an afterlife where im supposed to eat stones and build my house with dead animals. Except everyone else also died and ended up in the same afterlife.

But, well, I suppose it cant be helped, so I will just have to adapt to it. The function that I havent re-found and that I miss the most is the ability to track threads that you have posted on, but have new posts you havent read. How do you do that there?

Also, thanks for the effort, since I have noticed reading around that this transition is sort of saving philforum from a hacky doom =)

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