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Clicking Multiple Times to Make a Sphinn
Sphinn Zone News Source: 1
Published: Sep 12, 2007 - 07:55 am
Story Found By: ViperChill 1717 Days ago
Category: Sphinn Zone
Am I the only one having this issue? It’s literally driving me crazy. I thought i had to start this topic as I must have clicked Sphinn about 10 times on two different stories with nothing happening

Im using firefox 2.0.0.6
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from mvandemar 1717 Days ago #
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You need to wait until the page is fully loaded, or you will get a Javascript error. If the site is slow, this can take some time. To see the errors in FF, type "javascript:" (without the quotes) in the Location box, and hit Enter. Danny, if you read this, may I make a suggestion? What if you were to actually load the Sphinning link *inside* the same script that holds the vote functionality? Put a placeholder there and replace it with the actual link once the script loads. I would be more than willing to tweak your script to do this, if you like, as it would only take me about 10-15 minutes to do. Let me know.

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from ViperChill 1717 Days ago #
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I’m sure I’ve waited fully on many occasions so don’t think that is the issue. Interesting though, thanks for the response

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from g1smd 1717 Days ago #
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It took me several days to realise that you need to click on the words and not the graphic, but that topic has already been covered elsewhere on this site.

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from dannysullivan 1717 Days ago #
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@mvandemar, may very well come back to you on that. We’re meeting tomorrow to go over a big change to the button anyway, as part of bringing the site out of beta and letting comments flow off of it.

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from ckata 1717 Days ago #
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I’ve noticed this same issue too. Let’s see what happens with the move out of beta!

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from planetc1 1717 Days ago #
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Have not noticed errors clicking to sphinn but have seen a few others on page loads. BTW: noticed a bunch of china related spam last night which was cleaned up quickly. Should we be contacting anyone if and when posts like that appear?

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from Michelle 1717 Days ago #
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@planetc1 - I happened to be online and looking over the new submissions when that happened last night so was able to stop that user and remove the submissions straight away. In general, we’ve got really great coverage by the moderators here, and with Rob coming on as editor next week, there will be even more. There will also be a moderator page coming up in the next week or so with specific contact info for these and other issues. It never hurts to drop a line to webmaster at sphinn however, if you see some obvious spam that isn’t removed within a timely fashion, or are experiencing significant technical problems on the site.

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from g1smd 1716 Days ago #
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What’s the difference between a Moderator and an Editor?

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from dannysullivan 1716 Days ago #
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Mods volunteer their time and help out when they can primarily to kill spam, do occasional edits to story titles and help guide new users when they don’t understand submission guidelines. As editor, Rob’s job is to oversee the mods and run the site in general, such as new feature development.

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from g1smd 1716 Days ago #
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Heh. Putting the monkey in charge of the organ grinders! LOL Best of luck Rob.

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from mvandemar 1716 Days ago #
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@Danny - just drop me an email if you decide to. Btw, I’m talking just about the vote link, not the counter button, which can still preload. While it’s loading you could have it say "Initializing Sphengine" (Sphinn-engine, get it? :P) or some such, instead of "Sphinn It" or "Sphunn".

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from AppleVenus 1716 Days ago #
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I have to wait until the page is fully loaded too, took me a couple of sphinns to work that out :)

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from DazzlinDonna 1716 Days ago #
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Just NOW realized that the page has to fully load. Now the lightbulb goes on.

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from g1smd 1716 Days ago #
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... or just "sphinning up"....

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from onreact 1716 Days ago #
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ERROR: You have already voted for this article Yes I have the same issue here...

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from ViperChill 1716 Days ago #
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Hmm OK this is starting to make sense I guess me and Donna are the same on this one haha

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