Why Aren't the Forum Guidelines Showing Up?

[Diane_]

My apologies if I should've added this to another thread. I've posted three or four times already and I haven't seen hide nor hair of the forum guidelines. I was assuming that they hadn't been implemented yet, but others in the Homework Helper's forum indicated that they've seen way too much of them.

 

[Tide]

I have the opposite problem - the "agreement" keeps showing up when navigating to a different area - even if I've already been there and already agreed to it! I think I've agreed about 8 times already in the last half hour or so.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I have the opposite problem - the "agreement" keeps showing up when navigating to a different area - even if I've already been there and already agreed to it! I think I've agreed about 8 times already in the last half hour or so.

I admit I've had to agree twice to the global agreement, but since then it is fine. Is anyone else having this problem?

 

[mattmns]

I have yet to see anything also.

 

[Lisa!]

I have yet to see anything also.

It says in you profile you've agreed with Forums Global Guidelines and Philosophy Forums Guidelines! So you'll never see any of them. Perhaps they're only for misbehaved members like me. And base on what I said, Greg is even...

 

[Moonbear]

I have yet to see anything also.

Thanks to Lisa! for pointing out they're in your user profile.

So, if for some reason you haven't seen them, or want to refresh your memory on them, look in your user profile and it shows what you supposedly have agreed to. Click on the link and you can read the guidelines again (or for the first time).

 

[Diane_]

OK, I'm feeling stupid. I've looked in my profile and I don't see anything there about the guidelines - no agreements, no links, nothing. Would someone be kind enough to check for me and tell me if I'm right that there's nothing there or if I'm just not looking in the right place? If the latter, if you could let me know where to look I'd appreciate it.

I don't suppose this is a major problem, as I have no intention of violating the forum guidelines, but it bugs me that I can't figure out what's going on.

 

[Lisa!]

Yes, it says you've agreed. It's the left of page under your name.

Join date

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Diane Agreed rules

 

[Diane_]

Thank you, Lisa!. This is just plain weird. I looked again - there's nothing there. I copied the top of the page: let's see if I can paste it:

Diane_
Last Activity: Today 01:43 PM
Warn: (0%)
Viewing Thread Guidelines not showing up @ 01:43 PM

Add Diane_ to Your Buddy List Add Diane_ to Your Ignore List


And that's all that shows up. It's also odd, as the only time I agreed to the rules was back in April of 2004 when I first joined.

I guess I won't worry about it. Well, that's a lie - it's still going to bug me. But I guess I'll shut up about it. :)

Edit: Out of curiosity, I looked. I'm not seeing it on your profile, either.

Argh! Let it go, Diane.

 

[Evo]

Thank you, Lisa!. This is just plain weird. I looked again - there's nothing there. I copied the top of the page: let's see if I can paste it:
Diane_
Last Activity: Today 01:43 PM
Warn: (0%)
Viewing Thread Guidelines not showing up @ 01:43 PM
Add Diane_ to Your Buddy List Add Diane_ to Your Ignore List
And that's all that shows up. It's also odd, as the only time I agreed to the rules was back in April of 2004 when I first joined.
I guess I won't worry about it. Well, that's a lie - it's still going to bug me. But I guess I'll shut up about it. :)

Diane, click on your name and it will take you to your Public Profile page. you'll see it there.

 

[Diane_]

Thank you, Evo. That's what I've been doing. Clearly, I've offended the forum gods, and they've decided to make me feel like a doofus. :)

Well, it's not the first time.

 

[Lisa!]

Thank you, Lisa!. This is just plain weird. I looked again - there's nothing there. I copied the top of the page: let's see if I can paste it:
Diane_
Last Activity: Today 01:43 PM
Warn: (0%)
Viewing Thread Guidelines not showing up @ 01:43 PM
Add Diane_ to Your Buddy List Add Diane_ to Your Ignore List
And that's all that shows up. It's also odd, as the only time I agreed to the rules was back in April of 2004 when I first joined.
I guess I won't worry about it. Well, that's a lie - it's still going to bug me. But I guess I'll shut up about it. :)
Edit: Out of curiosity, I looked. I'm not seeing it on your profile, either.
Argh! Let it go, Diane.

Yeah, they're in my profile too, but under them on the left side it's said:

Forum Info:
Join Date:04-27-2004

Posts


Agreed rules

 

[Evo]

Join Date: 04-27-2004

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Agreed Rules
Diane_ has agreed to the following rule(s):
Physics Forums Global Guidelines
Independent Research Guidelines

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I copied and pasted that from your profile Diane, that's weird that you can't see it.

 

[Gokul43201]

Diane, have you tried clearing your browser cache ?

 

[Diane_]

No - I didn't think that was an issue, since I never visited some of those forums until last night, but I'll give it a try.

Edit: No soap. But a good suggestion, anyway.

 

[Moonbear]

What operating system and browser are you using? We should find out if this is another browser issue. Do you have an alternative browser other than the one you've been using here that you can try?

 

[Diane_]

OS - WinXP Home, SP2
Browser - IE6

I keep Firefox on my laptop - I can try that, but it'll be tomorrow before I get a chance to. I'll keep you updated.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

OS - WinXP Home, SP2
Browser - IE6
I keep Firefox on my laptop - I can try that, but it'll be tomorrow before I get a chance to. I'll keep you updated.

Close your browser and reopen to a blank page and type in https://www.physicsforums.com/index.php into the address bar and press enter.

 

[mattmns]

ummm I don't see anything in my profile, and I have cleared my cache on that page.

Here is a screenshot of what I see: http://img417.imageshack.us/img417/2760/pfprofile3st.png

Firefox Beta 1, Windows xp.edit... I clicked on Greg's link and I got the guidelines And it shows up in my profile too

 

[Diane_]

Close your browser and reopen to a blank page and type in https://www.physicsforums.com/index.php into the address bar and press enter.

That seems to have done it. At least, I'm seeing a section called "agreed rules" in my profile now. It only shows the global rules at the moment, but that's a sight better than it was before. Thanks!

 

[Diane_]

I apologize for sounding like a broken record, but even though Greg's suggestion got me the "General Physics Forums" guidelines, I'm still not seeing any of the specific ones. Given the responses from earlier posters, I take it that I've agreed to specific guidelines in other forums, although I never saw them and they aren't showing up for me in my profile. For what it's worth, I did try it out with Firefox last night - it showed up exactly the same as with IE.

This seems to imply (to me, anyway) that there's a bug somewhere. It really doesn't matter to me, as it doesn't stop me from posting pretty much anywhere I like. Besides, if you tell me I've violated the forum guidelines somewhere, I'm not going to claim "But I never saw them!". However, if it's working this way for me, it seems reasonable to assume it's working this way for others, and they may not all be Paragons of Sweet Reason like myself.

Anyway - consider this just an FYI post. If I can do anything to help resolve it, assuming you feel it needs resolving, let me know.

 

[Moonbear]

There are only two forums (as far as I know) that have specific guidelines in addition to the general ones: Philosophy, and Independent Research. If you've been in those and have not gotten additional guidelines, then you're right, something is wrong there. But, if you haven't been in those two forums yet, then there were no other specific ones for you to see.

There is another known bug related to the guidelines that Greg is working on.

In the forums that have specific policies, they are posted as sticky threads in them, so you can still view them if you haven't gotten the agreement to check off.

 

[Diane_]

I have been to the Independent Research forum, although I haven't posted anything there. That was one of them that (I think it was) Lisa! said was showing up in my profile. I went back just now, and still didn't see anything. However, I made a quick visit to the Philosophy forum and got the posting guidelines right off the bat.

I'll let you try to figure out what that means. :)

Thanks.

 

[Lisa!]

I have been to the Independent Research forum, although I haven't posted anything there. That was one of them that (I think it was) Lisa! said was showing up in my profile. I went back just now, and still didn't see anything. However, I made a quick visit to the Philosophy forum and got the posting guidelines right off the bat.
I'll let you try to figure out what that means. :)
Thanks.

I didn't post anything, but I saw that when I click on "IR forum".Although I myself didn't know it is 1 of those forums that we should agree with its. Anyway I think you don't need to be worried about that. As I said before, only misbehaved member should agree with rules again.