Welcome to finiki - The Do-It-Yourself Financial Webring Wiki.
As this forum has grown larger and more complex, it becomes increasingly difficult to find authoritative information. There has been some consolidation of similar type threads into single threads but that just leads to huge threads. Because of the chatty nature of forums, threads contain huge numbers of off-topic posts which make mining for gold difficult.
Since FWF opened, it has run on what are called shared hosting services, where a company sets up its web-connected computers to offer websites for many of its customers. We use such a service today, at a company called bluehost, having switched from another shared hosting company for arcane technical reasons. Hosting companies have an incentive to load as many customers as they can onto each computer they own, because their hardware and software...
Hi,
Issue report: When reading FWF on a Blackberry Bold, I can't see part of the text of many posts, perhaps about 40-50% of them. What tends to not be visible is multiple lines of the text in a post, often a response portion to excerpts from another person's post. The text is in fact there but not visible. I know this because if I highlight text starting with the last line above it which has visible text and select down to the first line below...
The forum has been successfully ported to the new version of phpBB. This version contains many new features, all of which we're sure you'll enjoy discovering.
In the interests of getting the forum up and running quickly for members to use, we have left unfinished tasks. Those include ...
The search indexes must be rebuilt. Until they are, searches will fail. ETA tomorrow night.
No links to the home page or finiki. ETA later today.
No google...
We're having a difficult time reproducing the homepage and finiki links that we had at top left on the old forum. Almost everything we try results in a display problem, typically making an already long page longer. Instead, we want to try something else.
We'll put the home page link, with the old graphic, at top left. That seems to work for both prosilver and subsilver2 themes.
The link to finiki has been added to the menu line below the main...
A week ago, this forum was moved from a shared host to a virtual private server to attempt to address some performance and reliability problems.
We are interested in member's impressions of whether things have improved on that front. A few members have reported no discernible differences. A few say FWF is much peppier overall. A few have reported problems at certain times of day. Many have said nothing at all.
I hope the better news is that there will be an upgrade to the version of phpBB the forum uses!
One of my long-standing (but until now unmentioned) annoyances has been the function of the bold , italic , URL , etc, buttons above the post area. When you use one, your cursor is reset to the top (end??) of your reply box, requiring you to laboriously find your spot again (OK, it's not too hard if it is at the end of the text, but this isn't always...
For about the last month or so I haven't been able to sign on to this site. I would go to financialwebring.com and get a nice white blank page with the DIY logo up on my address bar. The logo let me conclude I had made it to the site but it was just not working for me for some reason. First it disappeared for me at work. Then a few weeks later at home.
I was about ready to give up on the site when tonight I decided to try to get into the site...
This forum has the feature that you can see which messages are new since your last visit. That's great, but IMO it would be better if showed you messages that are unread, regardless of when you last visited.
But even going with the last visited behavior it acts up if you leave your browser open too long.
I often seem to have the problem where I'll turn on my monitor, look at the FWF forum, see a whole bunch of unread messages, but the next time...
The new management has adopted slightly modified rules for posting on this forum. You will find a copy of the rules as amended here .
More importantly, we are going to insist that members explicitly acknowledge acceptance of the amended rules before posting any new messages. You must do that by going to this webpage , reading it through, and following the instructions on the page. Until you have done so, you will be unable to post a message at...
Ever since I got the XP installed, this is the only site that refuses to remember my log in. I have to log on each time. Of course I do instruct it to remember me each time. :((((
We have modified the forum software to allow members to give karma to other members. We are feeling our way with this change as much as you are, but here are some frequently asked questions and answers.
What is karma?
Karma allows registered members to vote on each others' posts. Only one vote is allowed for each post and you can't rate your own stuff.
Should I vote on every post?
No. Voting should be reserved for exceptional posts - either...
First off, I love this website. However, I am a total beginner when it comes to computers. I tried to look up these questions in the search function but got more confused. Here goes! 1. How do you post a link to another website? ie a lot of good resposes have a blue line--linking to another site. 2. How do you take a certain phrase or paragraph from a person's response and put a square box around it. ie bill22 wrote:---paragraph or sentence etc...
Has anyone figured out a quick and easy method of copying an Excel table to a Code block? Something like this:
Fund name 3 mo % 6 mo % 1 yr % 3 yr %
CIBC Asia Pacific Index 0.23 -0.45 -2.03 2.37
CIBC Canadian Bond Index 3.98 4.85 10.70 7.70
CIBC Canadian Index 3.36 7.63 16.98 12.57
CIBC Cdn Short-Term Bond Index 2.01 2.30 5.48 4.82
CIBC Emerging Markets Index 5.78 7.04 21.72 14.19
CIBC European Index -0.45 0.91 5.15 3.56
CIBC Global Bond Index...
What a load of crap. The correct cheapest way for the authorities is for the offenders to fess up, accept that they are in the wrong, and pay the damn fine. Not challenge the violation in court and incur for all taxpayers the costs. I am sick-and-fukkin-tired of captializing other people adventures.
You break the law, you get caught, you fess up, accept YOUR responsibility, pay the fine, and smarten up. Simple.
The management tried to ban discussion of contentious subjects and many members objected. So we introduced karma and members objected to that. But keeping contentious areas from degenerating to repetitive flame wars is difficult on the moderators and leads to burnout.
Will you participate in a financial forum that allows discussion of non-financial 'lifestyle' areas but bans discussion of contentious subjects like politics, religion, or global...
This is my first poll. Hopefully everything went ok
A few long-time but assidute members with few posts have mentioned that they weren't aware of certain issues with moderation because they do not frequent the soap-box nor the Administration sub-forum. This is why I chose to post this poll in the General Finance section. I hope the moderators allow this poll to be left here. As this is an anonymous and stress-free way to post their opinion, I...
Seems I have missed quite a bit lately. I have checked, but cannot find a definitive answer. Yesterday I saw a message in my mailbox from the forum
You have received a new private message to your account on Financial Webring Forum and you have requested that you be notified on this event. You can view your new message by clicking on the following link:........
when I went there and signed in to my mailbox, the message line was shown as...
We are impressed by all the opinions expressed and the work being done since the Free To A Good Home thread began. One group has gone public already and private communications indicate at least two others are on their way. We're sure that we will see some terrific proposals. We're also becoming concerned that we will end up with a very difficult choice and those not chosen will end up with very bruised feelings.
Per Mike's announcement , things are changing at the Webring. First of all, individually and collectively, we thank Mike for all his time and effort keeping the place running for the past 4 1/2 years. Wise advice and counsel isn't so easy to come by but we had it in spades from yielder. Mike discussed his decision to withdraw with all of us a few days ago. We understand why he's made it and it has also given each of us a few days to think things...
Chalaine magazine did an informal poll survey which found Canadian women fake orgasm and English speaking women have less orgasm than French women
this is old news by at least a year. This poll isn't scientific since it doesn't list the stats test and standard deviation of error. however it is funny poll. :D :lol: :lol:
If one is being personally attacked, and one reports every instance, how many times must one endure this before the moderators act? Can we get a maximum number of offenses by which point, clearly the offending party is being noncompliant(....say 2,3,4...10) and the moderators should act decisively?
Just curious what the best way to track new posts is?
I do use the View posts since last visit link which does work, but if its multiple pages you have to jump to the last page and scroll back and figure out which posts are new.
Personal attacks are not allowed on this forum. Referring to another poster as a troll is not acceptable . A further reference of that nature will result in a suspension with no further warning.
Posters who have difficulties with other postings should either send a PM to the moderators or The Management, or put the poster on Ignore.
Other posters are expected to heed this warning.
I apologize to everyone (well not quite everyone). BTW, I'm...
No person shall transmit the result or purported result of the vote in an electoral district to the public in another electoral district before the close of all of the polling stations in that other electoral district.
No one may post at FWF results or links to results before 10 p.m. EST . Even though the Act doesn't apply to websites or broadcasters outside of Canada & some American blog may post...
For instance I want to search for the exact phrase 'home insurance' but the best I seem to be able to do is find messages that have both the words home and insurance but not necessarily the phrase 'home insurance'.
I wasn't aware that the posts to this forum are indexed by Google -- at least some of them are. And the personal profiles are indexed, which gives access to all one's posts.
I get notification emails on topics I've posted to. Sometimes I have to login after clicking the URL in the notification email, other times the login is not required.
I haven't fiqured out why the difference. Does anyone know why?
(I prefer not to login when clicking on a notification email, as my view posts from last login is then not reset to the new login time.)
All members should be aware that others may be posting under multiple ids. We encourage members to post under one name but there is no rule against multiple handles. Members may request - by PM to The Management - that multiple user ids be merged or they may reveal multiple identities in a public post, in which case it is forum policy to inquire whether two or more ids should be merged. Normally such mergers are only done with the approval of...
Yesterday, some joker submitted a complaint about naked short selling to the TSX using FWR management's email address as contact information. We're not happy about having our email used to spoof someone. We have informed the TSX that it's a spoof and asked them to provide us with the originating IP address for the complaint.
We expect this never to happen again.
If the offender was a forum member, we expect an immediate apology and an...
I would like to start up a thread where I discuss my progress over time in transferring my investments from one brokerage to another, and the trades I make. Which forum would this be most appropriate for?
If none of them seem like a fit, how about creating a new My Investments subforum?
I got home from work tonight to see 42 new posts on the site.
I can't keep up! :shock:
Congratulations FWF! You must be doing really well. I see a lot of new names and interesting posts from the new members. It's making it harder, though, to follow up on all my posts. Particularly since some of us :roll: still work for a living.
How about a state of the Union address from the management? Everything going ok?
We have taken the unusual step of banning a member based on expected behaviour rather than actual behaviour. Based on what we have seen elsewhere and at his own blog, we have permanently banned hocus from FWF. What we have seen unfolding in Technical analysis anyone? is consistent with what we have seen unfold at other forums. Rather than wait and incur similar chaos, we have acted now. We accept that this will probably not sit too well with...
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