I just noticed that there is a way (for admins, anyway) to MOVE "off-topic replies" to their own (new thread) .. altho I'm not sure exactly how I did it. Must have accidentally clicked a stray button somewhere. I deleted the subsequent post & thread, since the previous post is not "off-topic"

Oh, I see .. there's a "split" button next to the "modify" button. It "splits a thread, start with current post, and starts a new thread. (I do a lot of post-modifying.) I must have accidentally clicked that button.

Okay, the default was set to 1 day (stingy).

I changed it to 9999 days.   (I love to edit.)

See if you can edit now.

That took care of the old post editing.  Thanks.

John. wrote on Mar 26^th, 2007 at 8:25pm:

Are there any utilities in the yabbforum that would facilitate this?  The fear I would have is that someone would get referred/linked to an old-board-post and then reply on the old board.

No such utilities that I am aware of, but it can't hurt to ask around.

After I finish deleting all current memberships at old forum, I am going to "lock" it (tho I haven't yet determine exactly how I'm going to do that). Folks attempting to register there will be presented with a page informing them of the new forum's location .. which is what I did, editing the "agreement" text there:

oops, wrong forum. here's the register button to OLD forum:

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi?board=;action=register

Rad wrote on Mar 27^th, 2007 at 12:27am:

The only downside I have seen by allowing it (and it's a minor one) is that if you purposefully put something in the clipboard and are switching between different screens, I have a couple times accidently pasted a posting, when I had intended to paste what I *thought* was in the clipboard.

That happened to me when I was updating all the url's in FAQ and had the new string in my clipboard.  Again minor point, but one to be aware of.

Finished combing thru the Ghost guide, looking for links which pointed to threads in the old forum (found many) and redirected them to the same threads in THIS forum.

http://ghost.radified.com/

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1174945931

this forum uses a simpler url structure. (simpler = better)

Ghost4me

John. wrote on Mar 27^th, 2007 at 1:43pm:


Instead of *Enable* for *Allow Programmatic Clipboard Access*--you can select *Disable*--now the program acts like the old Forum and your message does not get pasted to the clipboard!

So it depends on whether you want the forum to automatically backup your message before posting as a protection against loss during the process of the posting of the message--and having your current clipboard data over-written--or simply preventing the forum from accessing the clipboard!

[From Rad's other account.]

I have used it a few times already, with PM messages. Was sweet.

CTRL-V .. and I'm golden.

I don't think there is an on/off switch anywhere. I'll post a message for others.

See here:

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1175144143 (stickified)