Stuart

How do I get the quotes to look like quotes, for example ? It looks so elegantly professional - but highlighting what I want to quote and hitting the Reply button isn't doing it.

Where did my yellow lightbulb avatar thingy come from ?? Did I choose it, way back in July, when I first tested Max ? (I wasn't sure, heroin or MaxMSP - I think I made the wrong choice). Where are the yellow lightbulbs now ?

Why am I now a member, instead of a junior member, although I've hardly aged ?

And why does everyone else know all this ?

ot-the-mechanics-of-a-forum

> How do I get the quotes to look like quotes, for example ? 

> It looks so elegantly professional - but highlighting what I want to quote 

> and hitting the Reply button isn't doing it.

Currently, only ASCII text is allowed in forum posts. This is to ensure

maximum compatability with the mailing list. It's for this reason that

you can't use the quoting mechanism that some other forums allow for.

We're working on figuring out how to enable HTML in forum posts, as most

modern mailers will interpret HTML formatting properly, but we're being

very cautious about it's deployment and doing a lot of testing beforehand.

> Where did my yellow lightbulb avatar thingy come from ?? 

> Did I choose it, way back in July, when I first tested Max ? 

> (I wasn't sure, heroin or MaxMSP - I think I made the wrong choice). 

I'm not quite sure what you're talking about here. The lightbulbs next

the forum topic names are indications of whether or not a topic has

threads in it that you've seen. A yellow lightbulb indicates new threads

or replies to existing threads have been posted since you last visited.

The forums have only been up since January, and are in no way, shape or

form, connected to the Max/MSP application.

It's formatting code employed by FUDforum.

> Why am I now a member, instead of a junior member, although I've hardly aged ?

These "rankings" are based on the number of posts you make to the

> And why does everyone else know all this ?

I'm not quite sure what you mean, but if you are asking why "rankings"

are listed to the right of member aliases, it's a "feature" of the

forum, to give an indication of how active any member is. I suppose that

knowing how active a member has been in posting is supposed to give an

impression of credibility, or lack thereof.

Lots of these questions can be answered by either reading the FudForum

> How do I get the quotes to look like quotes, for example ? 
> It looks so elegantly professional - but highlighting what I want to quote 
> and hitting the Reply button isn't doing it.

Currently, only ASCII text is allowed in forum posts. This is to ensure
maximum compatability with the mailing list. It's for this reason that
you can't use the quoting mechanism that some other forums allow for.
We're working on figuring out how to enable HTML in forum posts, as most
modern mailers will interpret HTML formatting properly, but we're being
very cautious about it's deployment and doing a lot of testing beforehand.

> Where did my yellow lightbulb avatar thingy come from ?? 
> Did I choose it, way back in July, when I first tested Max ? 
> (I wasn't sure, heroin or MaxMSP - I think I made the wrong choice). 
> Where are the yellow lightbulbs now ?

I'm not quite sure what you're talking about here. The lightbulbs next
the forum topic names are indications of whether or not a topic has
threads in it that you've seen. A yellow lightbulb indicates new threads
or replies to existing threads have been posted since you last visited.
The forums have only been up since January, and are in no way, shape or
form, connected to the Max/MSP application.

These "rankings" are based on the number of posts you make to the
forum/list.

I'm not quite sure what you mean, but if you are asking why "rankings"
are listed to the right of member aliases, it's a "feature" of the
forum, to give an indication of how active any member is. I suppose that
knowing how active a member has been in posting is supposed to give an
impression of credibility, or lack thereof.

Lots of these questions can be answered by either reading the FudForum
FAQ, or just doing a bit of Googling.

[OT] The mechanics of a forum