Tomorrow's "Cash & the Gang" thread

[Mikey]

I'll be in NYC tomorrow at a traders expo but figured I'd throw out a few questions/comments for discussion, to get the ball rolling:

1) Should we give Cashfilly her own private section? Maybe if it were restricted from public bashers and crazies she'd be more comfortable coming back...we miss her and I think we should do whatever we can to create a nice environment here.

2) If not her own section, maybe we could make a live/trade-day observations section? For now we can post in the CME section, though we're not trading beans or pork bellies so it might not be appropo.

3) For tomorrow, any volunteers for posting the pivots? Kryptos you mentioned you have a template in the works? That'd be cool if you posted an Excel doc in the morning that we could print.

4) For those of you familiar with this m/b system, our thread sometimes gets 150-200 replies, and so far it seems you can only view like 10 posts per page then you have to click a link to view the next 10, and so on - is there a way to change your settings to make it more readable?

5) I think it'll be cool that we'll be able to post attachments. One quick thing you can do if you're looking at a chart is take a screenprint, paste it in a Word doc, save the Word doc, then upload it with your post so we can see what you're looking at...

That's all for now...wifey's asking me to get off the PC, will check in tomorrow morning, GN all

[cosmic]

Feb 15, 2010 20:39:09 GMT -5 Mikey said:

I'll be in NYC tomorrow at a traders expo but figured I'd throw out a few questions/comments for discussion, to get the ball rolling:

1) Should we give Cashfilly her own private section? Maybe if it were restricted from public bashers and crazies she'd be more comfortable coming back...we miss her and I think we should do whatever we can to create a nice environment here.

2) If not her own section, maybe we could make a live/trade-day observations section? For now we can post in the CME section, though we're not trading beans or pork bellies so it might not be appropo.

3) For tomorrow, any volunteers for posting the pivots? Kryptos you mentioned you have a template in the works? That'd be cool if you posted an Excel doc in the morning that we could print.

4) For those of you familiar with this m/b system, our thread sometimes gets 150-200 replies, and so far it seems you can only view like 10 posts per page then you have to click a link to view the next 10, and so on - is there a way to change your settings to make it more readable?

5) I think it'll be cool that we'll be able to post attachments. One quick thing you can do if you're looking at a chart is take a screenprint, paste it in a Word doc, save the Word doc, then upload it with your post so we can see what you're looking at...

That's all for now...wifey's asking me to get off the PC, will check in tomorrow morning, GN all

Mikey,
How many do you want for the # of posts per page within a thread? I can configure that quickly.

I think we can experiment with different ways of doing those threads. I spoke with Kryptos about also doing some moderation on the FME board, and he would then be able to sticky Cash's thread each day (the current day's thread) after she posted it. (taking down the previous day thread as a sticky)...

Or we can do a separate section, but I don't want to get too divided up yet (they warn about that in the setup) so let's definitely play around.

Since I know you had to log off, I'll change that setting and up it right now, maybe 25. I'm sure there's a "max" number.

You can also bookmark the thread and that retrieves it more quickly.

[Mikey]

Sounds good Cos - let's try 25 and I'll let you know if it gets time consuming scrolling thru the thread. I'm sure there's probably a setting to view most recent posts within a thread first, that's what I did in Yahoo which worked pretty well.

Good call showing discretion on the # of categories, I've seen mb's with too many and you have to click all over the place to see the most recent posts. There's also a feature on here I saw to just view the most recent 100 posts or something like that. We'll get it wired.

Are y'all going to have the thread here or try to brave the FAS board tomorrow? Elle, if you and UK can carry the thread here I'd say go for it...that 1-star crap got old quick. I sent the link to Merrill and Cash, maybe they'll check in.

OK going to be for real now...

[cosmic]

Ok, a few things to try.

Yes there's the View most recent 100 posts (it was at 10 but I upped it a bit.)

Then, when you're in the FME board, you'll see page numbers that you can click on to go to a specific page within the thread. It's now set to the max of 30 posts per page... so in a 100 post thread that would put you on page 4, 10 posts down, and you could go directly to page 4.

Also, after you click a thread, on the top left side is a page jump that lets you pick the page to go to.

I will look around for hacks that allow what we're talking about - I bet they have them.