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People sometimes register with a throw-away e-mail and don't update it if it changes.
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stupid! JMHO of course. Then they deserve what they get or not. :rofl:
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The Management wrote:From time to time, Administrators, Management, and Moderators need to contact individual members by Private Message about certain matters. What we sometimes find is it is hard to do so because members often have their PM User settings set to OFF and thus they seldom/never see PM notifications.
It also helps to know where to look to see if any new messages are awaiting your attention.
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tedster wrote:This is good advice. However, if one is having difficulty lkogging on in the first place, use of a home email by the Moderator as well is probably better.
No, the preferred contact to members is by PM.
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No, the preferred contact to members is by PM.
How does one access PM if one cannot log in?
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Tedster, many people join the forum using a junk email address as their contact. Most rarely check this. If our moderators need to warn someone about a post or notify them that a post has been moved to a more appropriate thread, the logical place to contact them is on the forum through a PM. It's also the easiest and quickest way.

The PM is the primary way forum management and moderators contact members. That is why the duty to check one's PMs or to activate the pop up notifier (see instructions above) of PMs in your preference is a member's responsibility and contained in the Forum Rules. Obviously, if someone is having a problem logging in, we'll use the email address but that is a relatively rare situation. Please don't argue further on this.
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Pickles wrote:Please don't argue further on this.
Not arguing but would a visible email address for FWF solve this problem? If a person has trouble logging in, they could contact this address for help?
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Financial Webring - finiki has a "Contact us" link. (mailto:management@financialwebring.org?Subject=To%20the%20Webmaster).
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What are the various ways posters share stock graphs on this board? In other words what is your favorite site for demonstrating price movement and how do you then go about adding this image to your post?

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Thanks Shakes, some additional questions.

Does yahoo allow you to select start/end dates or are you constrained by preset options? I tried to use Google finance charts earlier but I couldn't save the image since it was interactive and used flash.

The attachment function works on my desktop using IE but does not on my Iphone using safari. The filename box is greyed out. I use the Iphone for at least 95% of my browsing here.
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I have no idea how to use an iphone. For interactive charts, you can on a desktop take a screen grab, crop and resize it, and upload that.
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Over here there is a discussion about citing links. As usual, Bylo's got a recommendation for Chrome user's, Chrome Web Store - Create Link. Firefox user's can try Make Link :: Add-ons for Firefox. Similar tools might exist for Safari and IE.
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I've seen several members post tables of data which can be scrolled through, can someone explain how this is done. The list function doesn't maintain proper spacing for what I'm trying to accomplish.

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Use the Code button at the top of a Reply to wrap the table or data in the same way as you would use Quote around a quotation.

Code: Select all

To be, or not to be: that is the question: 
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer 
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, 
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, 
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; 
No more; and by a sleep to say we end 
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks (70) 
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation 
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; 
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; 
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come 
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, 
Must give us pause: there's the respect 
That makes calamity of so long life; 
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, 
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, (80) 
The insolence of office and the spurns 

That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make 
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, 
To grunt and sweat under a weary life, 
But that the dread of something after death, 
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn 
No traveller returns, puzzles the will 
And makes us rather bear those ills we have 
Than fly to others that we know not of? (90)
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution 
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry, 
And lose the name of action.-- Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons 
Be all my sins remember'd. 
IOW use something like this:

[code]
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
...
Be all my sins remember'd.
[/code]
Sedulously eschew obfuscatory hyperverbosity and prolixity.
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Thanks bylo. :thumbsup:
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Here's an old thread which discusses how to display Excel tables with

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A few tips that I've shared via PM recently that might be useful to wider audience.

When posting, there is a Preview button beside the Submit button. Helpful when you're doing a reply that involves quoting other posters and you don't want to include the full text of the quoted message.

If you just want to quote a small portion of the previous post, underneath the edit area is a Topic Review section that shows previous posts. You can select text from any of the previous posts, then click the Quote button for that post and only the selected text will be inserted into your post as a quote.

If you are the last person to post on a topic, you can Delete your post using the X button that appears beside the Edit button. Helpful if there is a communications glitch and you make a duplicate post, or perhaps you decide to move a post elsewhere.

As there topics you'd like to keep track off? Did you know that in the footer there is a Bookmark topic button. The forum software maintains the bookmark for you. To see the topics you have bookmarked, go to User Control Panel->Manage bookmarks, the direct link is http://www.financialwisdomforum.org/for ... =bookmarks
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One more, help with "Native Search" courtesy of Bylo
Bylo Selhi wrote:When a word is "too common" you can search for its root using the * wildcard character. For instance try passwor*. That does a search for all words that start with "passwor" followed by zero or more other characters. You may get some false positives, e.g. passwort or passworms, but you'll also get instances of password as intended. This also works with search words that are otherwise too short.
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Peculiar_Investor wrote:If you just want to quote a small portion of the previous post, underneath the edit area is a Topic Review section that shows previous posts. You can select text from any of the previous posts, then click the Quote button for that post and only the selected text will be inserted into your post as a quote.
Trying the tested tip. Very useful.
Also works to quote multiple authors in the thread, viz:
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It is really easy, Shakes!

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It is really easy, Shakes!
I should add that I also don't care. :wink:
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Shakespeare wrote:
It is really easy, Shakes!
I should add that I also don't care. :wink:
Does your feature phone still do everything you want? :shock:
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I neither have nor need a wireless phone.
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When posting something that includes the characters "8)", you will get a smiley. See Schmucks post in the IPL thread:

Does anyone know why IPL was down sharply this morning (Nov. 8)? (A kind moderator fixed this for you, Schmuck.)

To avoid this, click on the box beside Disable smilies at the bottom of your post, and you will get the correct characters. This happens a lot when people post numbered lists.
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Or put a space between the 8 and the ).

8) (no space) or 8 )
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