Welcome message

[anotheoldgit]

Why has the News section and the ChatterBank section got a welcoming message and a pretty picture, when it seems other haven't?

Oh dear the pretty picture has just vanished while I have been constructing this question.

[anotheoldgit]

The pretty picture has been replaced by an advert.

[AB Editor]

The pretty picture may also have been advert.

We've been rolling out the square adverts (MPUs) across the site instead of horizontal adverts for a little while (they've been on every question for the last month or so I think).

Just a bit of the reasoning behind it:

* The ads are usually better
* The ads are worth more/make more money
* We gain a nice editorial area next to the MPU

Making more money means we can invest more into site development, which means we can, hopefully, improve the site for everyone.

Let me know if you have any further questions.

[anotheoldgit]

Thank you for that answer AB Editor, but you still have not addressed the fact that the news section and the ChatterBank section have a welcome message but none of the others have.

[ChuckFickens]

So has motoring, body and soul and law has a disclaimer,

[AB Editor]

"you still have not addressed the fact that the news section and the ChatterBank section have a welcome message but none of the others have."

As Chuck says, various sections have welcomes, other have disclaimers. I'd like to use the "welcome" space for orientation and section specific rules. For example, I think it is helpful for a new user to know that posting a story in News without a link to a news item impedes debate.

It's something which will roll out to the whole site eventually.

[rowanwitch]

What has happened to the little row of shorcuts I have to use the search option to find apotheosis now

[B00]

Stop pouting AOG, doesn't suit ya :P

Ed? How about giving AOG a personal "pretty picture" each time he posts? I dunno what of mind, maybe a jolly Santa type piccy considering the little ray of sunshine he always is?

;-)

[rowanwitch]

And you should have a big pink cupcake Boo....

[B00]

don't mind if I do Rowan!

Send it first class before stamp prices go up though, save yourself a bit of dosh :-)

[AB Editor]

"What has happened to the little row of shorcuts I have to use the search option to find apotheosis now"

Oh bugger.

I'll find some fresh links.

[jno]

this do, B00?

http://tinyurl.com/ck2b337

[anotheoldgit]

AB Editor

/// various sections have welcomes, other have disclaimers. I'd like to use the "welcome" space for orientation and section specific rules. ///

Obviously your rules go unheeded ED.

I refer of course to Boo's personal and offensive post, there are no need for such remarks when one as asked a perfectly legitimate question.

[jno]

"offensive"?

[andy-hughes]

I think Boo was just being a little light-hearted AOG - I am sure no offence was intended.

[Nibble]

Seems perfectly reasonable for the most useful links to a new user should be highlighted to facilitate easier searching on the entire site, IMO. As the first link in this box, on chatterbank is to contact the Ed (pbuh&his......), then this seems eminently sensible.

[andy-hughes]

AOg - referring your reference to Boo's 'personal and offensive post' -

"What a load of piffle you do spew out." is your response to another poster on another thread - nothing light-hearted about that is there?

If you do not wish to be on the end of posts which you perceive as personally offensive, then you should refrain from issuing the same - lest you be thought of as a hypocrite.

Hoist by your own petard I believe is the expression.

[B00]

Seriously AOG? you thought my comments followed by a wink to show I was being lighthearted offensive? Wow!!!

In case you really were upset- i'm errr sorry?

[AB Editor]

Obviously your rules go unheeded ED.

I refer of course to Boo's personal and offensive post, there are no need for such remarks when one as asked a perfectly legitimate question."

Nonsense.

[naomi24]

^^ Agreed. This constant petulant cry of 'offence' where there is none, drives me nuts!

[ChuckFickens]

Pffft, that's just typical of B00, always being insulting and offensive.

(you might want to duck, B00, just to avoid the toys being thrown from the pram)