Warning text in DIY section is REALLY annoying.
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Luckily we don't have toilets that pop a warning sign out over the bowl every time we go to use them. 
Seems like ECF would be covered just as well if a person checked a box one time acknowledging that they understand the warnings.
Seems like ECF would be covered just as well if a person checked a box one time acknowledging that they understand the warnings.
First the classifieds, now this? Who needs FDA regulation we are doing ot to ourselves.
It may be annoying but nic is really toxic pure or near pure. I watched something about a mob hit man that used nic for his hits..just a drop or 2 on the skin on in some food and bye bye. I think maybe making it collapsible using a check box where you agree you read the warning might come in handy or some other thing like that.
But if it isn't feasible for the forum implement it's not going to bother me having the warning there too much as I know someone who doesn't read it could poison themselves or someone else..some could even unintentionally poison even after knowing/reading it. The warning protects the forum from liability and being shut down. I would rather have the warning than lose this good forum because someone was careless...
But if it isn't feasible for the forum implement it's not going to bother me having the warning there too much as I know someone who doesn't read it could poison themselves or someone else..some could even unintentionally poison even after knowing/reading it. The warning protects the forum from liability and being shut down. I would rather have the warning than lose this good forum because someone was careless...
There is nothing wrong with some regulation..without regulation of things corrupt people tend to take advantage and there are a lot of corrupt people out there. There are a lot of corrupt ecig suppliers (This forum does a good job of weeding some of them out
) also and it makes it harder for people to switch to ecigs. Although I believe the FDA is trying to over-regulate and is somewhat corrupt in itself.
The other notices they have had since I joined you could read and click off, off to investigate.........
OK, just went to see, that is one of the most annoying things I have seen on here and long, just because a lawyer recommends something doesn't mean it isn't idiotic, its gotta go!!!! Does anyone in their right mind really think this would be read multiple times? Way too stupid for mere words.......
I shall stop there as I have been rule-reminded lately......
OK, just went to see, that is one of the most annoying things I have seen on here and long, just because a lawyer recommends something doesn't mean it isn't idiotic, its gotta go!!!! Does anyone in their right mind really think this would be read multiple times? Way too stupid for mere words.......
I shall stop there as I have been rule-reminded lately......
Calm down, calm down. Somehow the 'Dismiss' X button at the top right was omitted.
Fixed now. Of course nobody wants Notices displaying unnecessarily. Please folks all you have to do is Like the first post, then we get the message. In this case it was a mistake, all Notices have (or should have) a Dismiss button. Now we have to work out if it was Spaky or j0ker who did it to ruin my morning coffee. Or the ghost of Angus.
Fixed now. Of course nobody wants Notices displaying unnecessarily. Please folks all you have to do is Like the first post, then we get the message. In this case it was a mistake, all Notices have (or should have) a Dismiss button. Now we have to work out if it was Spaky or j0ker who did it to ruin my morning coffee. Or the ghost of Angus.
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Could have been a visit from the Dark Lord Elendil (hope all is better, dude) 8-o8-o8-o
And where would the fun be if we all didn't overreeact, Roly?!?!?!?
Due to the nature of the message and the obvious reason behind them - would it not be possible for anyone wanting to access the DIY or whatever other forum deemed necessary to have a "Read the warnings prior to accessing the part of the forum" and "I have read the warnings flag" acknowledging such. That should cover the safety and the lawyer side. Browsers not logged in (Lurkers) would not have access to these areas since there is no way to record their acknowledgement tied to an ID.
This would be great, but I managed to get to an open computer to see if it was just my phone that did not have the dismiss button to discover that there still is no way to dismiss the DIY forum's header. I appreciate your efforts on this Roly and hope your coffee time recovers.
I just went there and there is no X to dismiss the warning..not that it matters much to me but in case others have the issue still. I logged out/in to see and no X still. FYI I'm using Firefox 9.0.1 with an x64 Win7 computer. I'm a pretty advanced user and know clearing the browser ect... can fix issues just haven't tried it. Will try to check if it shows up later if I remember. Anyways thought I'd let you know
Ah, sorry - one of our servers takes 24 hours to update and sync with the others. Unfortunately you must be on that one.
You are 'locked' to it by a cookie, the reason being that the load-balancer tries to preserve your login session so that you do not see anomalies ( posts not updated or whatever). You can sometimes get lucky and break away from the non-synced box by flushing your cookies and restarting the browser.
Otherwise I'm afraid it will be 24h before you see it correctly.
You are 'locked' to it by a cookie, the reason being that the load-balancer tries to preserve your login session so that you do not see anomalies ( posts not updated or whatever). You can sometimes get lucky and break away from the non-synced box by flushing your cookies and restarting the browser.
Otherwise I'm afraid it will be 24h before you see it correctly.
Yeah clearing my browser did nothing..no big deal I don't go into that board at this point anyways..might go there later if the FDA makes e-liquid too much a pain to buy though. I might reboot everything and see if it changes anything (probably not)..it's time to update,do some maintenance and reboot anyways as my computer has been up over 12 days (only rebooted then because I upgraded my RAM to 8gb) and I don't remember the last time I rebooted my modem/routers..used to reboot everything a ton when I gamed lol. Thanks for the info
Edit: Rebooting didn't seem to do it..then I went away for 20 mins or so to get ready and the X showed up
Edit: Rebooting didn't seem to do it..then I went away for 20 mins or so to get ready and the X showed up
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The dismissal x now works for me. Thank you for fixing this so relatively quickly!
It was highly annoying, especially as I mainly read ECF on a small-screened netbook, where this warning took up a bit more than the whole screen.
But from a safety (if maybe not liability) POV, this:
is a good illustration of what I was thinking (I'm sure araczynski is joking here). Warnings, disclaimers etc are all very well, but they lose their effect when they get too long or too frequent.
The liability angle I can't comment on, not being a US-ian, but from a safety-angle I think the warning as it was was actually counter-productive.
I don't know exactly how ECF is run and/or moderated, but admirably actively from what I've seen so far. As this is the case, may I propose a perhaps more effective way of getting people to actually read important safety notices:
For the subforums where this is important (DIY, MODs, maybe swaps, maybe other?), do this kind of "annoyance" every six or three months, make it relatively short, and include a link and a note about when the most important sticky/stickies have last been updated.
Even though I am very new _here_, I know well from other forums that updated information in stickies can easily be missed by old-time regulars (especially in large forums where you only look at your list of subscriptions when you're in a hurry...)
Since the moderating here is so impressively active and stickies usually very high quality, a periodical reminder to check them out again would be both a good safety feature and a nice extra service (noting the last edit date in the "annoyer").
It was highly annoying, especially as I mainly read ECF on a small-screened netbook, where this warning took up a bit more than the whole screen.
But from a safety (if maybe not liability) POV, this:
is a good illustration of what I was thinking (I'm sure araczynski is joking here). Warnings, disclaimers etc are all very well, but they lose their effect when they get too long or too frequent.
The liability angle I can't comment on, not being a US-ian, but from a safety-angle I think the warning as it was was actually counter-productive.
I don't know exactly how ECF is run and/or moderated, but admirably actively from what I've seen so far. As this is the case, may I propose a perhaps more effective way of getting people to actually read important safety notices:
For the subforums where this is important (DIY, MODs, maybe swaps, maybe other?), do this kind of "annoyance" every six or three months, make it relatively short, and include a link and a note about when the most important sticky/stickies have last been updated.
Even though I am very new _here_, I know well from other forums that updated information in stickies can easily be missed by old-time regulars (especially in large forums where you only look at your list of subscriptions when you're in a hurry...)
Since the moderating here is so impressively active and stickies usually very high quality, a periodical reminder to check them out again would be both a good safety feature and a nice extra service (noting the last edit date in the "annoyer").
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