It's there to teach you precise mouse control

It's like the guy who goes to the doctor and says "Doc, it hurts when i do this!!!" and the doctor says "Don't do that!"

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The Next Thing I Say To You Will Be True
The Last Thing I Said Was False

well, after i write something long, i select it all, and copy it. then i submit.


i did not use any photoshop on this (except to cut the surrounding page off) whatsoever...just a simple edit of the URL...its fascinating how easy it actually is to name things after they are made
i mean...all teh link is to this forum is a link to the actual forum...and the name is made depending on what the url says....fascinating
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Wolfy - I do that, as if any error occurs or something, then you lose ALL of your post! It happens at 'random' (as in the website may suddenly stop responding) - and you lose everything

Especially bad if your typing out large tutorials - which has happened several times. Now I do exactly as Wolfy

If it's something really long, like Chips just mentioned, and when I did my article on FL's fanstock and my preview for another site, I did it on Word then copied it over to the posting page. I've hit the "clear fields" too, it's frustrating. And I don't drink, so I don't even have that for an excuse.

Hehe, no offense "Rear Admiral" Nickless TW, but you have to see the humor in what you did.

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Why not just change it? As much as I'm sure Nickless appreciates your efforts to infuse humor into this issue and offer helpful advice, that wasn't really what he asked for. He would like - as would I, come to think of it - either an explanation of its purpose or to see it removed. Is that really so hard?

Edit: And just so you know, I too have taken to copying large posts before hitting the "Submit" button, just in case.

Edited by - Codename on 1/2/2005 9:48:32 PM

It's intention was to say "are you sure you want to post what you've just written?" Sort of a think twice before posting. Something I have used (maybe not enough...) But that's why it's there. Yes, simple coding could remove it, but I would vote that it stays.

I have seen the clear button on other forums before, it's not like it's unique to this one. I guess it just pays to be careful and in all honesty, if you actually do hit it more than one time it's rare. Usually when you spend so much effort on something only to erase it because you hit the wrong button that rarely happens more than once. That lesson is learned rather quickly.

Some forums have a preview button, some have spell-checker, others still will refuse to let you post until you register with a valid email address and confirm with with a bounceback link. This clear button doesn't seem so much like a deal breaker to me when you consider how things could be around here. Maybe it's just me, I dunno. Since this is a gaming forum you'd think the concept of "save and save often" wouldn't be a lesson that needs to be learned by our posters since that skill is usually brought with ya. How many of us have lost countless hours of playing and progression in a game only to forget to save that progress and something happens...Blamo! You can never get that part of your life back!

Edited by - Stinger on 1/3/2005 4:25:31 AM

I HATE it when that happens!!!!!

It's a stupid button and it serves no purpose at all.
It takes like 5 minutes or so to remove it and it saves a lot of frustration. I know the copy/paste thingy but sometimes I forget it, usually this happens when I don't intend to write a lot and end up writing a whole essay instead.
It's stupid to ask of your forum users to copy/paste their text because they might end up hitting a button which has no other purpose then deleting your post. if I want to delete something I can do it myself, I don't need a button to do it for me.
there is no need for it to stay, and since I'm not the onlyone it can only benefit the comunity if you remove it. How hard can that be? And even if it doesn't look like a big deal, I'm sure a lot of forum users will apreciate it. In fact, telling your community "it's staying because... just copy/paste it" is very rude and doesn't fit this place, which I've always apreciated for its kindness.

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It's intention was to say "are you sure you want to post what you've just written?"

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The button now says "are you sure you want to post? then write the whole thing again. I hope you copy/pasted it or still remember every word you wrote, because it sounded perfect like you wrote it down the first time and in any other context it would loose it's impact"

just remove it...
For you admins it's not a big deal to remove it and it's a service towards your community.
Or change it into a preview button, because that would be usefull.

Edited by - Nickless TW on 1/15/2005 5:49:48 AM

What about those people who actualy use it?
Yes, there will be people who use it.
Just like you are argueing that it is inconvienient for you because you dont remember to copy before you click they could say "Why should it be removed simply because someone doesnt think/read before they click"

If you can name me one user who actually uses that button and can't live without it then I'll shut up.
Anyway, it was just a sugestion, but simply saying "it stays" because someone doesn't want to take it away for no valid reason at all, isn't a good reason to end the discussion.
If you can give me a good reason, only one, why it should stay and why it is usefull, then I will shut up about it.

Besides, the ESC button on your keyboard already does exactly what the clearfields button does so that's two reasons why it's obsolete.

Edited by - Nickless TW on 1/15/2005 6:55:36 AM

I've used it many times, when after reading what I posted, I decided to wipe ite and write something totally different.It just makes it easyer to erase it. As to hitting it acidentally? Nope not yet anyway.