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I can't edit my signature tells me i've too many lines!?
hi all, I'm unable to change/edit my signature, i know the new rules came into play a while ago and i changed it then in accordance with this (6 lines) the thing is i only have 4 lines and i want to chage the amounts but when i click save it tells me i have too many lines ie 6 or more even when i havent?! :mad: can someone…
my report button doesnt work
been getting some abusive comments from the poster on this thread http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=12919805&posted=1#post12919805 the report button comes up with something isnt installed on my comp? whats that about then
Long Time Reader, First Time Poster
Hi everyone :cheesy: I have been reading these forums for a good few months and the money saving ideas are great. As a student I find it very useful and there are some excellent tips on here. Martin is an actual God:money: Know, id like to make a suggestion, but before people go all negative and dispose of it straight…
Want to tell newbies where to go?
Hi folks, It occurs to me many times people lose their rag and course rows out of frustration of things that newbies and other do that breaks etiquetter without knowing it. Of course its annoying for regulars but the nature of a growing forum is that there are always new people and they allways make the same mistakes. I…
Complaints/Report Button
It is not often, but every so often i see a post or thread that is either directly in breach of forum rules or is highly offensive. I would complain about these posts but rather than having a simple complaint button this site opens up outlook express to email the complaint in. I don't believe outlook express is that…
Whats going on with the Freebie Board?
Newbie here :) , So i have just signed up to mse.com... and I honestly can't work out whether this is either: A friendly site where we share useful and money saving finds? OR A site where we have endless rants and b**ch fights with fellow money savers? how about we all make a pact? to try and make this forum as pleasant…
Not a freebie, but please read.
I started using this site a few months ago and love the freebies board! People are friendly and helpful to newer users, but I've noticed in the past few weeks some posts that are continually rude and abusive. It looks like it's being done deliberately to provoke a reaction. New users will start not wanting to post in case…
Is it just me?
I still keep getting HTTP 500 error and cant access most of the threads. very frustrating. is it only me getting this? I can see from the last post time that people are posting on my favorite threads but 90% of the time I cant access them anymore.:confused:
Are You Allowed Links To Your Own Website In Your Sig?
Thanks as I dunno :confused: Mark
Preventing spammers
Is it not a good idea to have one of them boxes when signing where you have to enter random characters as shown in a box,
MSE flightchecker problem
There is a statemet saying that 'Ryanair website is currently having difficulties, so unable to show ryanair flights.'. FYI, the flightchecker has been showing this for the past one week and the ryanair website is working fine. They are still not showing the full price of the price, but I think MSE Flightchecker should…
Private message I just received:
Can you report/block spam private messages? Sorry if the answer is out there somewhere obvious, just haven't had time to look much yet. Thanks folks.x
Why aren't refferal links deleted more quickly?
I am aware that this post will be moved, but I do feel upset by this, and it was posted on the freebie site, so other regular posters will be aware of what I'm saying. I reported a certain Perfume thread at 1.30pm today, it is now 9pm and the thread is still going! 2 pages long now, and regulars have signed up to it! Why…
MSE attacking my PC??
I have noticed that whenever I browe MSE I get loads of inbound connection attempts blocked and logged by my firewall. They all come from the same DNS. I have had over 300 attempts in the last 15 mins. Every single log comes from the above address, and I only get these messages when I am browsing MSE, when I am not on this…
spam bots
Can the bb not be set to 1 min intervals between posts and 30 posts to links being allowed. surely that would prevent the mulit level bots of late?
New Site Charities
Congratulations to the new site charities.... * Capuk * Help For Heroes * Re_Cycle * Samaritans * Shelterbox Thanks very much for all who voted. These five site's will receive one third of the sites charity money. The remaining two thirds will go to the MSE Charity which helps a whole range of charities in itself. All the…
Members being deleted???
Ok. It took me ages to find a name on here and, afer looking at your members list, there are loads of folk who's made one post then nothing more for 2 years plus???? can you not run a "delete members" after, say, a year of non posting? that way it would free up some space and leave some decent names to choose from?…
Spammers!
Just a suggestion. There must be a way to ban I.P's on this board! I spent ages tonight following a spammer around, the same one I might add. Think so far they have 3 usernames, by banning the IP that would stop most of them joining again. I no you have more problems with servers that use ghosting IP's, but surely it would…
problems with site?
I keep getting Unable to display web page messages when I try to open a thread. also the format has changed when i do open a thread. anyone else getting this?
Martin's Clinic Section?
I don't know if it's ever been suggested before but would Martin ever consider having a "Clinic" on MSE? I don't mean a medical clinic :rotfl: I know he has a Q & A section but he could have a special Clinic (or Troubleshooting) Section where he could give detailed advice to particular posters questions.....maybe someone…

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