I think you could include both polls (the precision one and the stimulation type one).
Personally I prefer the second one with the description (broad, medium etc) because it’s hard to tell the size of the toy from the picture in some cases (the squishy wand is a lot smaller than I had imagined until I saw it in someone’s toy box photo.). I’m also lazy and can’t be bothered to click on all the links to look up the sizes! On the other hand it’s nice to have the link so that people can have a look if they decide they like the look of one of them that they hadn’t come across before. Pros and cons!
@Ian_Chimp or anyone else who might know…How do I reply to a post in a different thread? Say there is a post in one thread but it is starting to go off topic, how do I reply in say, the lounge thread? I’m sure this has been done before but I’ve not worked it out yet!
The easiest way is if you pull up your reply editor and drop the quote in as normal, and then copy it. Then go to the Lounge, open up a new reply window and paste the quote in there. Then reply and post as normal.
And there’s also this tip from the Tip Topic. It’s about how to quote from a closed topic, but it uses an alternative method.
@anon8189768, it seemed appropriate to reply in here.
The way you did it was fine. You thought there was a bigger conversation to be had, and that it would take it off-topic if you had it there. And you included a link to the original post, which joined it all up.
There is a button that will do that for you called ‘Reply as linked topic’, and that pretty much does exactly as you’ve done. You can find that in your reply window, above the format bar in the very top left. If you tap the swoosh arrow it will bring up the option ‘reply to topic’, or ‘reply as linked topic’ (the menu is a bit squiffy, but it’s the + symbol). If you tap that it’ll convert your window into a ‘create topic’ one, and insert something like:
@anon8189768 I try and pop all the ad hoc forum help in here to make it easier to find/keep it together.
To embed a link you can use the icon in your reply editor’s format bar. That will bring up the link wizard. Simply put the URL in the top box, and the text you want to display in the bottom one. And that will give you something that looks like this in your reply window:
I use Chrome on android. If you go to the product page you want to link and tap once on the address bar you should see a little share icon, a copy icon, and an edit pencil on the righthandside. If you tap the copy one (the two sheets of paper/rectangle one) it will copy the link. You can then long-press in your forum reply window and paste it in.
That’s the simplest way. It’s not as pretty as some, but it works. But once you’ve mastered that I can show you how to make it into a hyperlink.
Let me know if your browser is different, and I’ll try and talk you through an alternative way.
I’m trying to remove a lot of my old posts on here but I seem to accidentally end up bumping them onto the current page when I do. I don’t know why it keeps happening with some and not the others. I’m not aware of doing anything differently when I mark them for deletion.
@Ian_Chimp Have you any ideas what I am doing wrong so I can try to avoid doing it again?
It’s when it’s the last post in the topic. If you edit it (or withdraw it) it counts that as ‘latest activity’ and it spins it to the top of the list again.
If you really want to get rid of those without bumping then you can flag them as ‘something else’ and ask Brenna to do it instead (as she can reset the ‘bump date’). I’m not sure how many she’ll want to do in one go, but you can always space them out. Brenna will be back in on Tuesday so may be able to add a bit more info.
Ah, that makes perfect sense as I did notice some of my replies were the last one on the thread but I didn’t realise how that would mess up the forum if I then deleted it.
There’s a few different ways depending on what you want, but the easiest one is by either grabbing the topic/post address by long-pressing on the timestamp at the top-right of the post you want to link to, or by clicking on the icon at the bottom of the post - and choose ‘copy link address’.
With that you can either just drop it into your post on a line all by itself to ‘onebox’ it, or turn it into a hyperlink.
But you can also quote as well (as I’ve done above). One way is to highlight the text you want to quote and press the floating quote box to automatically insert it into your reply editor. Select all, and copy, then navigate to the topic you actually want to reply to and paste it into your reply there.
icon in your reply editor’s format bar. That will bring up the link wizard. Simply put the URL in the top box, and the text you want to display in the bottom one. And that will give you something that looks like this in your reply window:
