SCOUTER-Terry

Hmmmm.... can you tell me a bit more? Please email the exact error to us using the Contact Us form. Also let me know what you're placing in each of the fields. We'll isolate the remaining bugs and fix it for everyone. TERRY HOWERTON

OK, I think most of the bugs have been worked out. You'll notice several new features:editing posts worksediting your profile worksyou can subscribe to a thread and receive emails when new posts are made without having to post a message yourself (and unsubscribe yourself from monitoring a thread)you can link to specific posts (copy shortcut from the paperclip icon above a post)you can view other's profilesyou can see the total number of posts of other membersand how long they have been members of SCOUTER.comyou can view all recent posts on one page by clicking the link on the home page that sa

Yes, we're addressing these problems now. Apparently "fixes" that we've been making recently were posted to the live server too early, and have caused a few other problems. Please be patient. Thanks. TERRY HOWERTON Publisher, SCOUTER.com

As you can see, we have been introducing a few new features to the SCOUTER Forums recently. I hope everyone finds these features helpful, and we're still working on a few more tricks that will continue to improve the Forums over the next couple of weeks (including private, member to member messaging). Specifically, two repairs have been made, and I would appreciate your testing and feedback: 1) We have fixed (we think) the problems some were having with editing posts (which you have to do within an hour of making the post). Please let us know if you are still hav

Excellent thread. TERRY HOWERTON

This is a general forum announcement. I have now suspended a member of this forum after warning them for their unScoutlike behavior. This member has been asked to refrain from participation in these forums for a period of no less than three months. This member could not follow the simple rules that were established for participating, and repeatedly violated my request to: (1) keep the debate honest and (2) treat each other with respect. There is no limit on what can be debated in this forum, but there is a basic requirement for decorum. The member that has been banned was warned

Yes, we're working on improving that a lot, including more exact links. Some of the links are exact, others will take you to the publications home page. This harvesting is automated right now, so it's not perfect. Based on feedback, we're working on a more improved version that will search even broader than the current filed of publications. -- TERRY HOWERTON

Photos on web pages are usually JPEGs at 96dpi. At that resolution you have room for dozens of photos within the 1 meg limit. But, ask and you shall receive... I just doubled the free space allowed to 2 megs, so now you have even more room. TERRY HOWERTON SCOUTER.com Publisher (This message has been edited by SCOUTER-Terry)

Some of you have already noticed the Headlines link at the top of SCOUTER.com. This is a new feature that we're slowly introducing to the site. I would be interested in your feedback on this feature. -- TERRY HOWERTON

SCOUTER.com already provides free web hosting to more than 2,000 Scout units. http://www.SCOUTER.com/hosting

Sorry All! I accidentally deleted this thread when I only meant to delete an accidental double post from one of our posters. That will teach me not to meddle! I'm very sorry, please feel free to post your thoughts on this subject again. TERRY HOWERTON SCOUTER.com Publisher

Sorry, I have corrected my instructions on how to edit a post. The instructions on how to do this are CORRECT as listed above (for one hour after you post, there will be a edit icon that will appear above your post). -- TERRY HOWERTON

What you discuss is irrelevant... this is an open forum and the policy is that no poster will be squelched due to their point of view. How you discuss it is all that's relevant. As I have said before: Keep the debate honest - don't state your opinion as fact; don't fabricate data to support your positions; don't claim to speak for "the organization" or the "majority", unless based on fact; don't register as multiple user names and post in support of yourselfTreat each other with respect - don't call each other names, limit the demagoguery, acknowledge that this is just a forum of debate, not

Folks, SCOUTER.com provides this separate Politics and Issues Forum ONLY to protect the value and integrity of the rest of the discussion forums (keeping what some people consider irrelevant and hot headed debate separate from the area where Scout leaders can share information and ideas of value to their daily and weekly roles as Scout leaders). While I don't regularly participate in the forums, I have been receiving complaints and been monitoring them more closely lately (remember, many more people read these forums than actually post). As I said in my previous post, I won't scrutin

This thread has been closed by SCOUTER.com staff. -- TERRY HOWERTON

Good question! Yes, it's accurate, at least usually. The counter displays unique visitors to the SCOUTER.com site within the previous 10 minutes. The average number of visitors on the site is usually around 250, sometimes more or less. Those times that you see the Active User Count spike up to 2000 or 3000 or more is usually inaccurate, and often the result of a visiting search engine or web spider that is cataloging the site. There are nearly 100,000 pages on SCOUTER.com, so it takes a search engine a lot of time to catalog it. People using the SCOUTER Net Compass and Search Engine

SCOUTER.com is an independent community of Scout leaders, not affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America or the World Scout Movement. This site has been the largest community and portal for Scouting since November of 1995 -- the dark ages of the Internet :-) The staff of SCOUTER.com periodically monitors and rarely intervenes in the discussion forums. The Politics and Issues forum was established specifically to provide an area for debate separate from the important matters of Scouting, namely how to have the best impact on a young boy growing into a great citizen - of his family, communi

Yes, thanks for the headstart on the formatting. Let's hold off on attempting image and links for now... we're going to need to add a user friendly way to add those items. Hyperlinks will auto format if it recognizes the URL like http://www.SCOUTER.com -- TERRY HOWERTON

There has been recent discussion on the SCOUTER Forums about how to edit or format posts. Here's an answer to both questions: You can apply formatting to the content of your post (like making words bold, or changing the color of a sentence). Please refer to the F.A.Q.'s for more information on how to format the content of a post. You may also edit the content of a post that you make, as long as you do so within one hour of posting it. Click the "edit" link that will appear above your post for one hour. We're preparing for another significant upgrade to the SCOUTER.com site t

Thanks everyone. Of course, annoyances like this are hard to police, but we'll just keep blocking him out. My guess is his attention span is pretty short, so I suspect he'll tire before we do. And if he persists, it is not too difficult for us to track him down through his ISP (which, BTW coolscout, is Sprint DSL and the process is not difficult for us to identify a user name and contact your parents... Don't you feel grown up?). Nonetheless, if you have any other concerns please bring them to our attention and we'll do our best to respond. These forums are really intended to be self-adm

A new Private forum has been created here for discussing matters relating to the OA. It's entirely appropriate to continue discussions about the OA in public forums that can serve to inform the other members of the Scouting community. However, in order to preserve some of the mystique of the Order, there are some discussions intended only for members of the OA, and as such you can hold those discussions inside the private forum created at http://www.SCOUTER.com/forums The password is the Admonition of the Order. If you don't remember the Admonition, as another Arrowman or look it up in yo