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Politely Cynthia?

And now I am going out too.

No sooner posted the above when I opened this:

Thanks Cynthia

It was my first time.

What struck me was that most of the posts had little or no info in the topic so had to open them to find out what folks were looking for.

I will now go and try and find my post and any replies.

Thanks again for the advice



Right, I am now going out but would appreciate some advice on how to formulate a reply later tonight! Cx.

Have to admit I get some corkers from the replies I get.


Just had one in fact. I sent someone a message last night advising that they had some replies to a query they posted the day before. Today, I get a response telling me that they always respond to info found for them and that it's there, underneath the replies and why can't I see it?

Having looked earlier, and knowing full well there is no response, off I potter to look....yep, it's there, added 2 mins ago!


lol

Cx.

Fanny will take a bow then Jeanie,and one for Choccy whilst at it....and thank you.

The exercise is good for me !


Hope you dont get that Ginny person too often,cheeky monkey she is !

Thanks for your reply FBG. I had a look at the thread you mentioned. I do see what you mean. Know I'm an idiot too. I've only recently realised what the 'n' stood for. Have used it once myself now to get to the top of the Board when I was looking for Choccy to help me. She came back to me very quickly. Must say she's a wonderful helper like yourself.

Thread number sent to all the Parker family..(Nosey)

er......wot have I missed FBG or is it one I will catch up on when I do tonight's batch????? It didn't give you the 'hump' did it??? lol (It's all to do with camels folks). FBG knows what I am on about. Cx.

and I've asked for more information!!!!!!

Sorry I missed it !

Fanny
I thought it was very funny, but that is after 2 glasses of wine, and my daughter just makes very rude comments, but that is teenagers for you.
I am still laughing, because it is better than crying.

So Ginny
Am I right or wrong in thinking its very rude of the person then.
I mean...
I am not expecting effervessent?thanks or anything as I do this because I enjoy it,but in fact would rather the poster had not returned at all in this case.


But honestly !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This one takes the biscuit home for me..

Edited <<Thread number on application ...

The best in plain ignorance I have seen for a while.

And when you have noted it I am deleting this as I do not wish to start an in depth war of words,but I am slightly,,LIVID.

Nightime nudge. Cx.

Cynthia

Thanks for replying. Think that ought to do the trick. I was really dumb when I started. That would have been a great help.

Must admit the first time I posted a Trying to Find message I had absolutely no idea there were people sitting there waiting to help out. I was expecting to wait days, weeks or months to get a reply. Didn't get a result from that one. Guess what - my fault again. Had the surname spelt wrongly and Uncle Sid's name was actually Henry Sidney!

Know now to click on FAQs just to see whether there is anything in there to help with a particular problem. Quite a lot of the time there isn't.

Now If I've had to leave the Board to do things try to return to check on my threads as soon as I can. While on the subject I thought the little icons next to the threads were supposed to show whether new post had been added. They do not seem to - unless of course I'm misunderstanding. Perhaps I'm being an idiot on this as well.

Regards

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Spot on Cynthia.
In the meantime we'll just have to keep refreshing this post.

Hi Jeanie, Genes steadfastly refuse to do do anything about this problem but I think something similar to what you suggest should appear on all the boards - maybe as a permanently 'open' message from GR; perhaps something like this:


"Please stay online for a while after posting your message as you may receive a response within a short space of time.

Also, please be aware that we do NOT alert you to replies on your thread, you need to check for yourselves.

As a matter of courtesy to our helpers, it would be helpful if you could acknowledge the work done for you.

To find your message again, click on Community, Board summary, My Threads. To reply, click on the Reply or Add button."


What does anyone think? Cx.

Do you really beleive it would be read ? !!!

Guidelines for newcomers would be great! At first I thought I WAS replying when I clicked on "Add". Of course, I now know better. Perhaps if Genes did something that when you click on "Trying to find" the first thing to come up would be an Advice message on how to use this Board. What do you think Cynthia?