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I'm late to the party, so to speak, but allow me to make a couple of suggestions.

First, straight HTML isn't all that complicated to learn - far less so, I'd say, than learning the nuances of...

User ID changes can only be done by moderators or administrators. Use the "Contact Us" link at the bottom of the page to contact administrators if you still want a change.

Of course, getting...

There is only one owner, Q. T. Luong, who is also a moderator and, thus, included in "we".

Chuckle.

Good suggestion. We'll work on that.

As Rick said, pseudonyms are OK, and we have no plans to change that policy. If you want to change your user ID, just use the "Contact Us" link at the bottom of each page to reach the moderators, and...

Yes, that is possible, but the forum would need to be taken off-line, and then completely re-indexed after the operation.

Under most circumstances, we don't have a problem with requests for deletion of a single post.

We have made a couple of changes in an attempt to address issues with unsatisfactory transactions stemming from the For Sale sub-forum.

1. Unsatisfactory transactions from threads in the the "For...

When the LFPF was first established, the issue of who owns the copyright for postings on forums was being hotly debated. Some sites claimed that the site "owned" the material posted, and essentially...

Kirk has initiated a discussion of the read-only option among the moderators. It should also be remembered that "Newly Registered" members also includes nefarious types - spammers, data miners,...

I, too, am encouraged by the number of new folks taking up LF and participating on the LFPF. Coming from an all-digital, all-automatic background makes the learning curve all the more steep for them....

Messages just include links to the images in the upload area, and the threads retrieve data anew each time the thread is viewed (as opposed being stored as separate data). So, deleting them from...

If the images are in an album that you have created, use "My Profile" to get to the album, open the image, and use "Edit Image". Once there, you can delete the image.

If the image was uploaded as...

We're discussing options.

The random question pops up for new members during the 30-day "probationary" period. You have a few days to go yet, Mike, before you get "promoted".

Nope. The compromised browser idea makes sense. Or, it might be Google's idea of "smart browsing" - similar to the annoying key-word links from Bing.

You don't require further activation, since you just joined. The original post was aimed at folks who were members prior to the software change in 2005.

The "random question" feature applies only to newly-registered members, and is intended to prevent posting bots from filling the forum with spam posts. We still get occasional spam posts from...

Are you clicking the "Remember Me" box when you log in?

Interesting idea, but we generally avoid making custom modifications to the software, as doing so complicates the process of installing updates from vBulletin.

I know that feeling, Will. Just wait until we send out the special vBulletin transparent not-so-dark slides. ;-)

Under Settings -> General Settings, you can adjust the number of posts displayed per page, up to a max of 50.

The little view camera favicon was re-installed a couple of days ago. you may need to close and re-open your browser to get it to show.

That tab is part of the Activity display, so I'm guessing it would show recently posted photos. Albums are separate, and can be created and populated with images through your user profile display.

That's an anti-spam/posting-bot setting.

Interesting conclusion. I thought it was the result of stellar administration. ;)

As I responded in the other thread about this, I believe that functionality was provided by a third-party plug-in for the old version, and the developer of that plug-in decided not to continue...

The following, which could be saved as an individual bookmark, seems to work:

http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/search.php?do=getnew&contenttype=vBForum_Post&exclude=27,17,16

For those advocating that political and religious discussions be allowed here, a little LFPF history lesson may be in order. We tried that, and it didn't work. The Lounge was originally an experiment...

Rick Denney (rdenney) has agreed to be a moderator. Welcome aboard, Rick.

Thanks for the thought, Jan. A membership fee has been suggested in the past, but our conclusion was that we'd rather keep the forum free.

APUG has a different structure because Sean, the owner,...

I was wrong. The Unified View excludes it. Sorry for the confusion.

Sounds like you are using the "Unified View". As I recall, the vBulletin contributor who wrote the add-in for the old version that allowed per-user configuration of what was included decided not to...

The activity and membership stats available through the software are interesting, even if a bit rudimentary. They can also be a little misleading as a result of how the software functions. "Members,"...

Non-LF discussions - topics like MFDSLRs can be discussed in The Lounge, but not in the primary sub-forums. We have no desire to become a "one-stop shop" photography-wise.

Image Galleries - this...

I don't think there is an "aesthetic focus" here that is promoted in any way by the moderators. As moderators, the only thing we care about, image-wise, is that images posted in the primary...

For the record, I'd like to point out a few things.

1. This forum has been in existence, in one form or another, since about 1992. Originally, the forum was part of Lusenet, an early Internet...

The time-out has been changed to 60 minutes.

The narrow strips at either end of the original are likely what woodworkers refer to as "breadboard ends". They are typically joined to the main piece with two or three small tenons that project into...