I was in meetings most of the day. I came here in the late afternoon and found 4 pages of unread topics. Well, I was overjoyed. Then I noticed that more than half of them were locked.

Many had no replies but were locked. Was this s system wide failure or did some insane moderator swoop in and wreak havoc?

If you look more closely you'll see that the locked items are For Sale posts ..... which require no discussion .....

Griffo is correct. The threads are just forum posts to direct people to items for sale in the classified section - the N'porium


Paul

Quote from: griffo49 on February 26, 2014, 11:01:29 PM
If you look more closely you'll see that the locked items are For Sale posts ..... which require no discussion .....

I did look and they were for all types of topics. Seriously. I run 5 SMF forums and I'm not a newbie save for my time on this particular forum. Since I couldn't reply to some that I wished to, I simply marked the entire forum as having been read.

I know one topic was locked simply because the subject had been well covered in another recent thread, so a link was provided to it and the thread locked to avoid a duplicate discussion. There was also a couple of threads that got moved to other sections, and usually a locked post is left in the old section to redirect people


Paul

Quote from: griffo49 on February 26, 2014, 11:01:29 PM
If you look more closely you'll see that the locked items are For Sale posts ..... which require no discussion .....

Quote from: Sprintex on February 26, 2014, 11:06:13 PM
Griffo is correct. The threads are just forum posts to direct people to items for sale in the classified section - the N'porium


Paul

This may be true of  sold items but  all  my sales  listings are marked as locked     .......  the three class 37  DVD'S   sold immediatley   so  the  locked symbol  is correct  .........   all  the others are unsold  & thus live threads   

I   thought i   was doing  right  by offering  things to members direct   .............. everything  hits ebay  on the weekend   when  i'll be listing them  when i  could  have been at a show where  proceeds from  part of the sales would have be  nice  to  buy more supplies  &   of course  a chance to meet other members

Threads in the For Sale sections are always locked whether the item is sold or not, and that's the way it's always been with Classified's listings. The thread-posting is only there to alert people to new items for sale and provide a link to the actual advert, and is not open for discussion. This has no bearing on whether the actual Classified advert is open or closed, and as far as I can see your listings are all still live as they should be


Paul

They are all still there Nick, see http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=classifieds;cat=5

I don't understand that anger? 

Guys, I respectfully request that you all calm down and read this. It was a forum glitch. Verified by qualified persons on the SMF site. Like I said, I manage and administer to several SMF forums and am an expert in its use. This is an SMF forum.

As a member here, I long ago noted that those topics for sale were locked. With good reason. Nobody needs a discussion on something they are selling. Makes sense. When I came back the other day and had 4 pages of topic updates, only 1 in 10 was not locked. The rest were locked. I became more than a little curious so I contacted one of the software authors on SourceForge who writes code for SMF and got a reply that it happens occasionally and it is not a real lock. It is only a view (page display) error so it would have gone away had I cleared my cache and reloaded the page.

Now can we all please stop trying to educate me on this? I would greatly appreciate it. SMF has this glitch on their list to fix soon. If they can find out why it happens, that is.

Quote from: Tank on February 27, 2014, 09:53:28 AM
I don't understand that anger? 

What anger, mate? Nobody here looks or acts angry to me.

Hi Ray, I meant the anger from Upnick, not yourself.     I'm sure Upnick has calmed down by now. 

Great to hear that you have a lot of experience with SMF.  We have one of the developers of SMF on our team, I'll ask him about the error.

Quote from: Tank on February 27, 2014, 10:07:13 AM
Hi Ray, I meant the anger from Upnick, not yourself.     I'm sure Upnick has calmed down by now. 

Great to hear that you have a lot of experience with SMF.  We have one of the developers of SMF on our team, I'll ask him about the error.

I took no offense at all. I just saw no anger so I was confused a little. Ask the SMF developer about it being a page building issue. It seems that PHP5 may be just a smidge different than PHP4 was and there are a few tiny, very erratic errors left in SMF. Which, by the way, is absolutely the best forum software out there. You chose well, mate.

After 13 years living in Australia, calling someone a mate now seems natural. Being retired US Navy, it was easy to call people I served with shipmates but I only took to calling friends mates after a couple of years in Oz.

Hi Ray,

I think when someone puts 6 x  smilies in a post you can assume they are angry.
Just so everyone knows, the main reason for locking 'Classified' items is so there is no discussion about the item on the open forum. Comments on the listings can be left against the item and PM's can be exchanged for any clarification needed.
I hope that Upnick sees the logic behind this and accepts it.

In the meantime, thanks for spotting the SMF problem as it has certainly never raised it's head to me, but maybe that's because I'm a Mod with different privileges regarding access