Time on MCV Forum

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I am REALLY not this computer illiterate but I can’t find a way to change my forum profile to reflect my current time. I need to adjust it +4 hours.

Thanks.

2

Profile > Modify Profile ; Look and Layout Preferences > Time Offset ?

3

The only choices I have when I modify profile are to change my password and security questions. I cannot change the look and layout from the modify profile page.

Thanks. Let’s keep those suggestions rolling. Yeehaw!

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@raisekayn

You can change your profile after you reach 25 posts and your status changes to “Sr Newbie”
Stick with us and you’ll get there!

  • Henk

[quote=“raisekayn, post:3, topic:169179”]The only choices I have when I modify profile are to change my password and security questions. I cannot change the look and layout from the modify profile page.

Thanks. Let’s keep those suggestions rolling. Yeehaw![/quote]

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Ah, thanks Henk. I’m feeling better about myself now that I know I’m not missing something simple like how to update my profile. ;D <singing to myself: Just keep posting, just keep posting>

Have a great day.

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If I might ask, is there any specific reason for hiding such a core setting from new users?

I’ve been here for quite a while, but I haven’t posted a whole lot. I do that in most forums where I’ve registered: contribute when I want to, but otherwise read quietly and get information.

I can’t understand why you don’t let new users set that value from the get-go. It’s annoying to always face time displays that don’t match with your own frame of reference.

(Mind you, I think it’d be great to have a unified time concept for the Internet, like the Swatch Internet Time, but I seem to be almost alone in believing that!)

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It’s due to lack of flexibility in the Forums product/version being used. It takes an all-or-nothing approach to many Administrative settings.

In this case, [more than] a few spammers were utilizing the Profile settings for link-spam, and the Admin options provided by [1.1.13] SMF only let you lock users out altogether (instead of, say, locking out BBCode in Profiles)

You’d be surprised by how many accounts in the system are purely for link-spam…

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I doubt it. :slight_smile: I’ve been running my own forum for ten years now, and lately I’ve been going through a rather massive surge of spam registrations. In fact, I’ll have to sit down soon to write some new code to slow that down.

Thanks for the details. I figured that SMF, being a mature piece of software, would have better control over this. In any case, this is better than letting spam bot register and then post as I’ve seen in the past.

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This stinks, I read alot here and can find most of my answers without posting… Yet now I want to PM somebody and I can’t because of my post count… I’m only at 10 and I probably won’t be at 25 by the end of the year… Seems like i need to post in a bunch of message just to get my post count up… Very frustrating… :cry: