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[color=#000000]New member and trying to learn the forum details. Have participated in forums before, so some of this is familiar but lots of other questions as I try to get the hang of it here. I have printed off and read the Forum Help Guidelines but do not find the answers to my questions in there. Is there a more in depth source of info. pertaining to the forum itself? Just for starters:
1. WHY is my text in this new thread red when I selected black?
2. Posts that indicate they have three, four replies, etc but when I click on the post to read it, there are no replies shown. ???
3. WHY are some of the icons to the left of the Topics GREEN and some of them are BLUE? All replies and help will be appreciated.
This will be my first post and I guess it is a text to see if I have created and submitted it correctly. Thanks for your time!
Thanks for your prompt reply and warm welcome. I had noticed when scrolling through lots of the posts that your name had shown up a LOT. Appreciate your active participation. I was disappointed that so many posts never got any replies at all. It would seem, as many participating members Kovels has world wide, that lots more replies and answers to inquiries would be forthcoming. OF course they may all be new like me and not KNOW the answer or have a clue. I am so loving my new world of antiques and collectibles though and looking forward to the learning curve process!
Your reply helped answer my confusion in regards to the KOVELS GENERAL forum and the KOVELS DISCUSSION BOARD and what their separate purposes are suppose to be. Really confusing though to have those topics have to be searched in both places. I notice at the bottom of the KOVELS GENERAL section it does indicate that it was for “General Area for Discussion about the Kovels.com website” which is what you explained. Would offer as a suggestion that Kovel consider showing the TWO separate locations at the beginning of their Forums link with specific instructions that IF a question is in regards to website navigation, guidelines or help about the use of the website, to reply to THAT forum area. And IF our questions are in regards to products (categories) to reply to (Use that link). That could help reduce or eliminate the cross referencing searches now required.
It appears also that the FORUM HELP GUIDE is quite out of date and not in sync with the actual website at this time. I.E: first instruction in the HELP GUIDE says log in and then see the BLUE Forums tab at the top right. There is none. Finally found the FORUMS link at the very bottom. Then it says that currently the ONLY forum available is “Kovels Discussion Board”. ??? Then it says I will see a green “New Thread” button…..do not see or find that either…..unless that is referring to the blue and the green folder looking icons I had questioned. If you look at the Kovels General forum, the first topic shown is KOVELS DISCUSSION BOARD and it has the BLUE live folder looking icon. Then the second topic shown is POTTERY & PORCELAINS and it has a GREEN live folder looking icon. Could it be that GREEN is to notate that that particular category has some new posts???
Then go to KOVELS DISCUSSION BOARD – first column to the left shows # of Replies. Then the second column shows greyed folder icons or a blue circled question mark (?) or a red circled exclamation mark (!). What do these two indications?
An Icon legion on the home page would be helpful.
Sorry for the long reply and questions. Will try to not be so lengthy in future postings. Thanks again for your help.
I did answer my own original question about my text showing up in RED. Thank goodness, when it posted, it was in BLACK! 🙂
Not sure what you were asking me as to “WHAT TOPICS” I was looking at. I am assuming it was relating to my question about why a topic showed a certain number of replies, but then, when I clicked on the topics sometimes it did show the replies and other times they did not show any replies. For example: