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Peter,
I just checked and there isn't an mp4 media tag.
Another approach would be to upload your video to YouTube or Vimeo and post a properly-formatted link to the video there. I know it's more work...
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You might consider converting your AVI file to an MP3. I located a YouTube video that indicates VLC Media Player will do that conversion and there is at least one free online site that will as well.
You should be able to embed an MP3 file, as I am pretty sure that the IP.Board default install includes an MP3 media tag.
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Beat you to it, Steve. LOL!
What are you confused about please?
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You're very welcome, Bob.
Just to define my position, there are a handful of decent forum or community software packages on the market. vBulletin was at least equal to the best of them until recently. IP.Board is certainly at the top of the pile. Xenforo is another that's up there, as was SMF. There is free forum software, like phpBB, but it's less secure. At this point in time, the AACA made a good choice IMO.
Right now, I feel IP.Board is the best of the bunch. It's so highly configurable it's silly, and I can't believe any other company has better support.
Keep asking questions. IP.Board isn't fully intuitive. If you don't go exploring and clicking on things to see what happens, it will take you a long time to fully appreciate its functionality. And on the admin side, it takes a long time to fully understand what can be done.
IMO, as always....
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Okay, here's why...
The thread was moved to the Forum Support area, evidently almost as soon as it was posted. That's what the arrow highlighted in red is indicating. What remains in that forum is simply a link pointing to the new location of the thread.
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Steve,
The first sentence you quote refers to deleting posts or topics. The second refers to editing posts. Sorry for the confusion.
The middle ground is probably to allow members to delete posts but not to allow them to delete threads they started. The point I wanted to make was that at 300 posts per day, the moderation deleting "load" isn't that significant IMO.
Yes, there will always be malcontents who cannot be pleased.
With apologies to Groucho Marx, I try to admin my hobby forum in such a manner that I'd want to be a member if I wasn't running the silly place...
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Matthew,
Unfortunately, it is a group level setting, i.e. if someone is in the "Members" user group, he will be limited by whatever edit limit is specified for that user group. I don't think it can be set differently for a specific forum, but I'll check on that.
On the subject of deleting, there are separate checkboxes for allowing members to delete posts they made and for allowing them to delete topics (IPS-speak for threads) they started. I believe I am correct in saying that if members are allowed to delete topics they started, then all posts made to that topic also are deleted. -
Thanks, West. Just trying to help out.
I didn't have an IP.Board "mentor" when I moved to the software almost nine years ago and I recall how tough it was getting up to speed on the admin side.
"... other than the few users who seem to think the whole world revolves around them."
Yeah, that's the hardest part of running a large forum like this, dealing with the very diverse viewpoints and personalities of the membership. I just run my forum to please me and hope that it pleases the majority of the members, too. Don't know that there's any better way to do it.
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Terry,
Just Google "ad blocker" and you'll find dozens of them.
See this thread regarding the IP.Board warning system:
http://forums.aaca.org/topic/256963-user-warnings-and-points/
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The better question is, why does this post show 0 views?
Where are you seeing a view count for a single post please?
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John,
Online advertising is not generally on a "pay for exposure" model but rather is typically a "pay per click" model.
Obviously, even without an ad blocker, if you don't at least click on an ad, no income for the forum is generated.
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If you have admin privileges, a member's email address is visible in the box that pops up when you hold your cursor over a member's name.
This is the quickest, easiest way to access a member's email.
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West, because I have been helping Peter with IP.Board and responding in the admin vein over in the Forum Support area, Peter granted me admin rights to enable me to more easily assist him in some tasks.
That's why I am able to post here. If my occasional input here is not desired, I will quietly go away... I certainly do not plan to be an active admin or mod here; too busy with my own forum!
So no worries about regular members being able to view the mod's forum.
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At my IP.Board forum, members cannot delete their posts and can only edit their posts for eight hours (after which time the edit button disappears).
In the past, we had a very prolific member who had posted a lot of informative material delete every last bit of it for some unknown reason shortly before he passed away. We also had members creatively revise old posts in an effort to "rewrite history" or to "prove" they never said something they wished to deny.
In terms of the mod/admin workload, a check of the forum statistics indicates an average of just over 300 posts per day for June 2015 (9,137 posts, high of 409 on 6/9, low of 119 on 6/30). It's unlikely more than a few percentage of posts would need deleting in a day...
"Giving people the right to edit and delete their own content is almost seen by some as a first amendment issue." If they think that the first amemendment applies here, they are simply incorrect. It does not.
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I don't pretend that I have any detailed knowledge on the topic, but I am pretty certain Peter is simply doing what the AACA's upper management is instructing him to do to generate revenue from the forum. Thus IMO complaints to Peter about the ads are misdirected.
With 1.3 million posts and over 72,000 members, the AACA forum is not inexpensive to keep online as a free resource and the funds have to come from somewhere. The ad supported model is embraced by a large percentage of the web, as anyone who has watched YouTube videos or Ustream feeds certainly will know.
To specifically address Terry's question, IP.Board's ad integration scheme has default locations for ads in each page's header and footer areas, after the first topic in a forum, after the first post in a topic, and in the sidebar below the "recent topics" repeater. So Peter is not even close to populating all of the available ad slots.
At my forum, there are nine ads per page, though some are text ads rather than display ads.
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Not for the needed level of revenue, Lamar. I'm not any happier than you are about the situation, but it is what is is.
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Ed,
I'm almost certain the AACA fourm uses syndicated ad feeds, which means that the ads that appear are determined by third-party algorithms, which are based on your browsing history, the cookie folder in your computer, and other factors thay they don't reveal.
Bottom line is this: Peter and the AACA have little control over what ads are served to you. The reason the ads are present is to help the club in financially covering the cost of the forum.
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Ronnie,
If you have Internet Explorer or Chrome loaded, try one of them and see if that makes a difference.
I'm pretty sure the problem is on your end, as opposed to the new forum software, since it works as it is supposed to for me (and I assume most others).
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Ronnie,
Using my new admin privileges (thanks, Peter!) I had no problems deleting your second picture in post #8; see above.
Here's the procedure I used:
Clicked "edit" to open the post.
Clicked "Use Full Editor" to make the attachments visible beneath the text block. Here's what that gives (now that I deleted the second pic):
I clicked the highlighted red "delete" word for the attachment I wanted to remove and the pic went away.
Is this the procedure you tried? What happens when you click "Delete" for the pic you wish to remove?
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Just to test...
No problem uploading multiple images from my end. These were uploaded using the advanced uploader and were done in a single action.
If your computer has Flash 9 installed, suggest trying the advanced uploader option. It works a treat!
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Just to follow up, below is a screenshot of the notification email the AACA forum sent me to inform me that Layden had replied to my PM. It does include the content of Layden's reply within the notification.
Also note that it warns me not to reply directly to the email because Layden was not the one who sent the notification email, thus a direct reply would not reach Layden.
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Ronnie,
I also sometimes get an "upload failed" alert as well, usually when I have taken a long time to create a post. Simply making the post and going back in via edit almost always allows me to upload additional images to the post.
If you can't delete a pic using the delete button, there's some problem I haven't seen before. My first suggestion would be to try using a different browser. Internet Explorer is the most troublesome in the regard, so if you're using IE, I suggest you try Firefox or Chrome.
"Action not allowed" messages most commonly occur when one is not logged in, so be sure your display name shows at the upper right indicating that you are logged in.
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Layden,
Let me see if I can clear up some confusion for you.
I might be wrong, but I think what could be done on the old vBulletin forum was to send a Private Message by clicking on a poster's name, and that is still possible with the new forum.
If I hold my cursor over your name in the above post, I get this pop-up box:
If I click on the highlighted "Send Message" button, a blank PM form opens and I can send you a Private Message (which I have just done). This is a message within the AACA forum, i.e. it is not an email. If you look at the top right on any page, you'll see a little open envelope icon. If you have an unread PM, you will see a red number one atop the envelope icon.
If you have your notifications matrix set to do so, you will receive an email from the forum software telling you that someone has sent you a PM. Depending on how Peter has configured it, that notification email may or may not show the actual message that is in the PM you were sent.
The important thing to keep in mind is, if the PM content is repeated in the notification email, you cannot simply hit reply to respond to the person who sent you the PM. The sender of the notification email is the AACA forum and if you simply hit reply, your email with go most likely to Peter.
To reply to a PM, you need to go into your Message area on the forum and reply from there. There should be a link in the notification email that will take you directly to the PM so you can reply or you can click on the envelope icon at the top of the page to enter your Message area.
To address your subject line question "Why no email", in general forum software packages like vBulletin and IP.Board do not expose (make visible) members' email addresses in order to prevent spammers from harvesting them to use for their slimy activities.
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Larry, can you expand on what "photo tab on the home page" you are referring to?
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Probably the most popular of such apps for IP.Board is Tapatalk. At a member's request, I installed it on my hobby forum a few years ago and it gets a fair amount of use. A user can post pics too, which not all of these kinds of apps can do.
It's free for users and forums, but does require a server-side install, i.e. the AACA forum would have to install Tapatalk here first. It's a reasonably trivial install and has not caused any issues on my board to the of best of my memory.
Peter and the AACA management would need to make the call as to whether to go that route, but I'd be happy to do the install if so directed and to upgrade the Tapatalk hook as new versions are released, which happens 2-4 times a year historically.