[POfeminist]

pepper, honestly, must you go around saying stuff like that? I will repeat myself that someone who posts things you do not disagree with is not a troll. For someone such as yourself who cannot take any criticism whatsoever it does not surprise me that you think this.

I love how you play politics on this board in a blatant attempt to be liked. You're childfree by choice debacle was a perfect example. I am sure you are a nice person in real life, but you are extremely manipulative on this board. I am sorry you are so insecure that you feel you must be that way.

I also want to clarify that I would never accuse you of being a bad mother to your current child. I did not say that.

[pepper]

Troll Alert:
POfeminist has posted a nasty to me in the mama's thread and another to someone else in the committed thread. see for yourself but i'm using the ignore function for this one.

[sassygrrl]

I just have to think of a cool name. Any suggestions would be helpful.
And I'm not sure how to start a new thread.... Stargazer suggested "Feels like the first time." I mean it doesn't go into the crushie thread or the Committed part 2, b/c Mcgeek and I are still so new. Anyways, if you any suggestions, feel free to PM me!

[emtee]

Sassy, I like your idea of a thread about new relationships. I feel like a lot of the discussion in the crush thread could fit in better there.

[lysistrata]

Thanks RV!

(and thanks for the postcard! I'm not sure on my decision yet though...right now, the nails are tempting...)

[roseviolet]

The Ex-pat thread still exists, but it's buried. Looks like it hasn't been touched since May! You can find it here.

http://www.bust.com/lounge/index.php?showtopic=48487

Finding old threads with this new Lounge software is a bit more complicated than with the old stuff, so here's a tutorial on how to find old threads.

1. From the main Lounge menu, go to one of the topic sections (in the case of the Ex-pat thread, Friends & Family).
2. Scroll down to the bottom of the list of threads & find the drop-down menus on the right side of the page.
3. See the menu that says "From 30 Days"? Click on that and select "Show All". Then click the "GO" button on the right.
4. On this new page, look right above the section title and you will probably see a box that says "2 Pages" (or 3 or whatever). These are the backpages of archives. Ta da!

[tesao]

not at all!! i miss it!!!


ETA: eeps. i just posted over my 666!!! bummer!

[lysistrata]

Would anyone mind if I restarted the Expat thread which I believe was lost in the move to new software? I feel in desperate need of it...

[doodlebug]

Ok, I've started it! Had no clue what to name it...I'm not great at thread-naming. But here it is!

Let The Bettification Begin! (the Ugly Betty thread)

[wombat]

I just assume it's a temporary glitch and try again a few seconds later. I mean, obviously, so do YOU guys, but -- I've had it happen on and off for a long time. Just the server timing itself, maybe?

[doodlebug]

I've had that happen too...thought it was my ISP.

There were some other problems with getting into the Lounge, though. I noticed a couple of weeks ago that some of the links from bust.com into the Lounge weren't working....they were still re-directing to the old Lounge URL (from when we were on the old Discus software). I don't know why it stopped working suddenly, maybe there was a URL re-direction agreement with Discus that finally expired. Anyway, I wrote to LoungeLady to let her know, and it seems to have been fixed.

Well, one vote is enough for me, I'm gonna start an Ugly Betty thread!

[erinjane]

I had it about 5 minutes ago.

I had it happen a couple of weeks ago all weekend, but not again since then.

[bunnyb]

well, last night had the most online users at one time (election excitement) so maybe it is capacity problems? I've been told though that invision is the best forum software though, and it shouldn't crash.

[tesao]

thank all the gods that it is not just ME getting these annoying messages!! anyone have any notion of what this might be symptomatic of???

[bunnyb]

yup, me too, and roseviolet. It's a pain in the bleep.

[pollystyrene]

I'm getting it too!

[falljackets]

mouse, i'm getting a lot of those too. WTF!? i thought it was my IT guys about to snatch BUST from me, since they've taken everything else that's fun!

[mouse]

DOODLE! totally start an ugly betty thread.

wtf is up with all this "service unavailable" crap i keep running into?

[doodlebug]

rose, all good questions! I have no idea on the bandwidth issue. Without mods or explicit instructions to noobs (say, that come along with your registration), it's really hard to "police" (ooh, I hate using that word) the creation of new threads. I don't know the answer to this one. I DO think it's easy to keep doing what most of us do when someone starts a duplicate thread, which is to politely inform the thread-creator that the topic already exists.


On that note, I actually came in here to ask....is anyone interested in an Ugly Betty thread? Because I *heart* the bejeesus out of Betty and I find the TWoP forums intimidating...and I also saw awful words like "feminazi" thrown around over there.


sassy, it sounds like a good idea, but I wouldn't be a participant! I don't know what exists in MG...

[sassygrrl]

So, I was thinking about a new thread for the Mating Game. I used to post in the crush thread, but my crush has become my new boyfriend. However, we're still in that weird new stage. I was wondering if there could be like a thread based on the newness of a relationship(McGeek and I have only been dating a month or so) or am I missing another existing thread?

Thanks.