What are you up to Tech?

[SaintGeorge]

Messages all vanishing and now strange new 'report this post' boxes coming up.

Are you tinkering?

Oh,not good,not good at all.

It's just a blimmin link not a flashing ticker!

dont like report this post..think it is horrid

like on the back of vans/lorries

it says well driven? and the phone number

what about fair comment?

I don't see what's wrong with it. We probably won't even notice it's there after a while.

It would be useful for posts like the one yesterday that was clearly advertising in the guise of a genuine post (bankruptcy).

I can why some of you are worried though!

joke! joke!

I think it should be in brackets, or a symbol, and I don't think the table divider between the two resulting cells is needed. Also, I think it will result in an awful lot more spam to the contactus address as google caching will present hundreds of instances of the e-mail address to spam harvesters.

(all a bit geeky I know).

It lacks punctuation.

LGJ legs it.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~#

Just "report" would be ok

If you jsut need the url then surely it isn't necessary to have it on every post then. Report this thread would be enough, wouldn't it?

The link refers to the exact post though - saves wading through the entire thread.

Each link has a post ID on it so that MNHQ can locate the exact post

ok, they could put a link to report the thread, which goes to a email form and one of the fields can request the time of the post in question. That would also solve the problem of not using outlook. That wouldn't be so much hassle and better than having mn looking like something out of 1984.

I'm reporting Sherlock for being rude and answering back to teacher!

Sorry Miss.

i really feel the need to click it, for no reason at all...............................

I'm reporting DC, he called me a knob gobbler!

isn't this a bit like what colour shall we paint the living room? ask 100 people and get 100 different answers.

I don't think they're asking for our advice

I think it's horrible. It will lead to lots of petty reporting and it spoils the tone of MN. IMO.

I don't think it automatically goes to Outlook - it goes to the default email programme on each PC, so if you don't like Outlook change your personal defaults.

JJ took ages working on this last night, trying to help MNHQ have a little bit of an easier life.

I've just checked that - it does go to the default email, so just change in Internet Options to your preferred programme.

That's right StG, and it will work for the majority of people. I think it's a good idea, and well done to JJ for doing it. It wouldn't be hard to replace the clunky text with a small icon, so hopefully she could do that when she has time?

SG - can you help me - my email internet options doesn't list my 'favourite' how do I get it to select my own email?

TIA

Doesn't list gmail on there.

No, this is the problem, afaik it won't work with webmail, just programs like Outlook etc

Tools
Internet Options
Select Programmes Tag
Insert email programme in relevant box