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Post by cosmic on Apr 9, 2012 11:23:45 GMT -5
If you missed Ellen Degeneres in her lead role as the venerable Margo Van Meter, do NOT worry www.rantfinance.comThere's lots of dust, a few nails still being found in the yard (new roof!), and not all of the plumbing has an inspector sign-off. Be careful if using the sinks - last we checked Hawaiian Punch was flowing from the cold faucet. Go ahead and sign up! "You've been selected to participate in a brief Survey at the end of this message. You cannot press '0' to avoid the survey."
= How easy was it to create your new account and upload your avatar? = Could you find the different types of information you were looking for? = What are 3 suggestions of things to Add or Change?
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Post by yjfang on Apr 9, 2012 11:29:58 GMT -5
Oh...it's on like donkey kong!
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Post by brosin on Apr 9, 2012 11:50:10 GMT -5
If anyone's looking to change their publicly displayed name, here's a screenshot: Go to "My Account" in your member bar - this takes you to your personal profile page: then click Profile, and then "Edit"
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Post by natsalilfly on Apr 9, 2012 11:53:59 GMT -5
OK I did that but I think my dob is still public? I can get anal about that real quick...
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Post by exabi on Apr 9, 2012 11:58:45 GMT -5
OK I did that but I think my dob is still public? I can get anal about that real quick... Nats, Just select the series of dashes at the top of each drop down for date entry.
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Post by novice08 on Apr 9, 2012 12:05:31 GMT -5
What are money makers & money breakers? Are you asking for specific past trades? I'm a little slow.
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Post by Rich on Apr 9, 2012 12:08:01 GMT -5
I think they're talking about specific stocks and etfs
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Post by natsalilfly on Apr 9, 2012 12:11:50 GMT -5
the sinks - last we checked Hawaiian Punch was flowing from the cold faucet. Is the punch spiked? ;D = How easy was it to create your new account and upload your avatar? Very easy to upload avatar, although experienced some confusion about registered name and username. = Could you find the different types of information you were looking for? Yes, with a little help. (I'm such a grandma!) = What are 3 suggestions of things to Add or Change? I like the plentiful news headlines. Change the Mission 3.0 copy to the edited version, if so inclined. The look is far superior to another WP board I visit. I will have to get used to navigating around.
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Post by brosin on Apr 9, 2012 12:14:01 GMT -5
What are money makers & money breakers? Are you asking for specific past trades? I'm a little slow. Oops doesn't look like the field settings transitioned over correctly from the test site. Now if you go there it should say what they are supposed to be for. Thanks N!
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Post by Rich on Apr 9, 2012 12:14:40 GMT -5
It would be cool if we could get it to automatically refresh
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Post by brosin on Apr 9, 2012 12:16:07 GMT -5
I updated my screenshot above for how to update your public name - it wasn't the activity screen you go to first to get at your profile settings. To be honest, I'm not sure where I had gone - even I'm still getting the hang of all that this has to offer ;D
There is an easier way though if you go in through your User bar / Notification bar - see screenshot above
Nat did you figure out how to wipe out your birthday?
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Post by Rich on Apr 9, 2012 12:22:29 GMT -5
Rant finance is on google search, not yet on yahoo search
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Post by brosin on Apr 9, 2012 12:24:24 GMT -5
Rant finance is on google search, not yet on yahoo search Yahoo's a little slow LOL
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Post by novice08 on Apr 9, 2012 12:32:09 GMT -5
Great looking site with incredible info...congrats to you both! Looking forward to being able to navigate and post.
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Post by brosin on Apr 9, 2012 12:32:15 GMT -5
The groups area is one of the really cool things - you can decide what things you want to see and what things you don't. www.rantfinance.com/groups/Then once you're a member of the group forums you want to be, you can look at activity from just the things: You can just go to the groups list from your member bar, or you can go to your member activity screen and then click "my groups" to display just that type of activity. And then you can even take it one step further to show only the forum topics, or all replies, etc etc etc within that drop down box
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Post by brosin on Apr 9, 2012 12:38:39 GMT -5
Great looking site with incredible info...congrats to you both! Looking forward to being able to navigate and post. Congrats to everyone! This is going to be a fun and -- hopefully -- successful venture for all contributors, the sort of model that doesn't exist elsewhere on the web And the info is not even too good yet - speaking of, I/we need to get to work writing more article Tough to get work done, although wait..this is work
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Post by natsalilfly on Apr 9, 2012 12:49:40 GMT -5
Great looking site with incredible info...congrats to you both! Looking forward to being able to navigate and post. Congrats to everyone! This is going to be a fun and -- hopefully -- successful venture for all contributors, the sort of model that doesn't exist elsewhere on the web And the info is not even too good yet - speaking of, I/we need to get to work writing more article Tough to get work done, although wait..this is work You're working super hard Brosin - Exalt!
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Post by kryptos2009 on Apr 9, 2012 12:58:05 GMT -5
Bros, Is the "Trading floor" the equal to the "FME" ? Is this where the PPDT thread would be placed?
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Post by brosin on Apr 9, 2012 13:05:38 GMT -5
Bros, Is the "Trading floor" the equal to the "FME" ? Is this where the PPDT thread would be placed? Yep you got it Krypt (FME = Trading Floor) although the PPDT will also be a featured area of the Traders page as you can see there with the other daily traditions: www.rantfinance.com/category/traders/I'll send you a PM here about how that works. You'll want to start it up as not only a forum post but also an article post so that it gets fed into there each day.
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Post by kryptos2009 on Apr 9, 2012 13:43:27 GMT -5
= How easy was it to create your new account and upload your avatar? Easy to create account, confusing on what name would appear, User vs Real
= Could you find the different types of information you were looking for? Need to spend more time learning the site. Will there be a "Recent Posts" section or link?
= What are 3 suggestions of things to Add or Change? Will the "Fastopia Logo" be shown on the page? I already miss seeing it.
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Post by novice08 on Apr 9, 2012 15:20:42 GMT -5
Will we be able to pm one another?
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Post by cosmic on Apr 9, 2012 15:35:25 GMT -5
Recent Posts and Recent activity are all available to Members! You can find all of this information on the Member Activity page. There you can sort and filter in ways we could only dream of here (but which had been developed in pre-industrial times but we still don't get them here ) Novi there is an entire PM system built in. If you'd like to send a Private Message to someone, you can do this in the Members area by clicking on your Profile, then selecting Messages. *You'll probably see a number next to your Messages to help you know they're waiting for you.
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Post by maxi on Apr 9, 2012 16:01:07 GMT -5
What I think would help me a lot ( and others) is if we had a couple of "road maps" for the places we are used to wanting to visit. Like you just did for Novice....
I keep getting lost over there. Seem to trip over stuff a lot. If the aisles were cleaner and maybe wider it would be easier to get around.....
Right now I feel like I am in a huge supermarket and do not know where the dairy section is!
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Post by dino on Apr 9, 2012 16:22:52 GMT -5
= How easy was it to create your new account and upload your avatar?Easy to create account, confusing on distinguishing between your login name vs. your screen name. = Could you find the different types of information you were looking for?Kind of - still trying to feel my way around. I'm not a big fan of the menus and sub menus. There's too many and it's unclear if there are sub menus to the main menus unless you hover over a main menu item. Maybe add right arrows to main menu items indicating there are sub menu options available? = What are 3 suggestions of things to Add or Change?1. Re-work the menus. Add indicator of sub menus and maybe move all menus to the top of the page so they're out of the way? Something like: One row of Rant Global menus, one row of Rant Finance site menus then one row of Page menus? Or incoporate a left navigation pane. (just thinking out loud). 2. Wasted real estate. The white area where I made my comments in the screen shot below has way too much white space imo. That whole area could be condensed which would bring more content to the top of the browser. 3. Don't have a third yet but I'll let you know if I come across anything else! Don't get me wrong - I understand the things I pointed out are not easy changes but I didn't want to hold my opinions back because they would be hard to implement. Remember: you only have a few seconds to win over a new user and if they are confused, odds are they will never come back to your site. Think Google home page: it loads fast, you know what to do without much thought process and you get results all in a few seconds.
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Post by brosin on Apr 9, 2012 16:23:52 GMT -5
What I think would help me a lot ( and others) is if we had a couple of "road maps" for the places we are used to wanting to visit. Like you just did for Novice.... I keep getting lost over there. Seem to trip over stuff a lot. If the aisles were cleaner and maybe wider it would be easier to get around..... Right now I feel like I am in a huge supermarket and do not know where the dairy section is! Yep definitely Maxi - those are all in the works. A bunch of 'how to's' are being put together. This first week is more about getting the food onto the shelves and figuring out what else is needed especially from an instructions standpoint
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Post by rex on Apr 9, 2012 16:25:34 GMT -5
I'm having a problem creating the profile...it won't allow me to type my name.
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Post by cosmic on Apr 9, 2012 16:33:19 GMT -5
I'm having a problem creating the profile...it won't allow me to type my name. Rex, thanks. Please drop me a note at doug.jones@rantfinance.com
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Post by rex on Apr 9, 2012 16:35:58 GMT -5
I just back spaced and started all over again. Apparently, if you hit the "enter" key when registering, it screws the page up.
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Post by yjfang on Apr 9, 2012 19:19:07 GMT -5
I have a tip for people interested in viewing member posts. I would start from the Groups Directory page from the Member Activity drop down menu. Make sure you have joined all the groups that you're interested in. You can see which groups have been updated with member comments.
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Post by maxi on Apr 9, 2012 20:22:42 GMT -5
It's tough not knowing who people are. The names are different. I guess I know them but do I? Everyone knows me as Maxi.
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