Another thing too MB is that I don't know how many people read the Testing board and where you make the requests. I rarely ever looked at those.......Until recently, as I said, I didn't read those posts even the ones above the Current Talk board but I started to recently realizing I was skipping important information such as the bandwith saving measures you wrote about. I wonder how many other people also have ignored the sections thinking it only applied to those who were having problems??
I'm glad Nancy brought this up.
MB....I rarely read the Testing section either or the top flagged posts in Current Topics area. My eyes just have a tendency to glance over them - simply because I've maybe read something there in the past and don't realize there's a new issue or request. I bet many people do the same thing.
It sort of upsets me that you may be thinking the worst of people because they're not responding to your requests. I think there are probably quite a few who aren't aware of them. Not everyone reads EVERYTHING that's posted on this board. (I certainly don't - I don't have the time. It's a busy board and I can't keep up).
Also, not everyone understands everything they're reading. If they don't, they'll have a tendency to skip over it.
Example: Yesterday I asked my daughter if she'd collapsed her categories and she didn't know what in hell I was talking about. I had to explain everything.
Also, the issue of your thinking some members are spiteful and turned the smileys back on after you turned them off....think about it.
You have to realize that you know this board intimately, how everything works, what everyone is doing, etc.
WE, on the other side, see the board differently.
It's obvious to me, that someone has logged on, gone to type a post in, and seen that their smileys are missing. So they check in their profile and it's like, "hey - something weird happened" and they go and turn them back on -- NOT realizing you turned them off to save bandwidth 'cause they
never read the message.!!
Most of the people on here aren't programmers, computer wiz's, etc. Some of us are in the dark in certain areas (and at times, a bit thick)(at least I am).
Please don't think badly of people because it "appears" that they've deliberately done something out of spite.
I think the overwhelming majority of board members are good people with no spiteful intentions at all.
Don't mean to sound like I'm lecturing or anything....
Just wanted to give you my take on what I think happens -- on the "other side of the screen" from you, so to speak, ya know?
-CLC
Who still isn't familiar with ALL the features of this board!