So, this is the new forum, then. Welcome. Hope you find it to your liking.
OK then. I've tried to keep all the unnecessary bells and whistles to a minimum. It still has some annoying features I haven't worked out how to fix yet, like limiting the number of replies on one page, and some slightly irritating presentation options (and anyone filling their posts with these godawful smileys will be taken outside and shot), but this new place should at least make it a bit easier to find past posts, as well as not pushing them off the edge of the world when new ones come in. Unlike the old board, the default setting here is for a thread to jump to the top of the list whenever anyone posts in it. Don't worry about resurrecting old threads from months ago, it's positively encouraged.
All the old posts from the old board have been transplanted over here; since nobody had an account, all the old posts are just under the name "Anonymous", so your post count will have to start at 0 - though I've tried to indicate who posted what. Also, all of the dates and times of the old posts are messed up; where they contain context-sensitive date information, I've tried to provide it. Some of the threads which duplicated subject matter etc have been merged.
Anonymous posting is allowed, but if too many idiots/spambots take advantage of this policy it will be reconsidered... Anyway, do register for an account, it'll probably be ALL kinds of fun. (NB: May not be all kinds of fun.)
After much deliberation, I decided against making separate forums for different areas of discussion; I always liked the random jumble of topics on the old forum, and trying to separate everything out into neatly-organised little topic ghettos always seems like a recipe for disaster, because some discussions always attract all the traffic anyway whilst others end up sat there doing nothing except informing passers-by that "There are no new discussions on this topic since October 2003". Upshot is, there are no separate sub-fora for discussion of "Albums", "Songs", "The Band", "Off-Topic Bollocks" etc etc; you're likely to find all those things discussed here.
Any questions, give me a shout. Anyone who wants to be a moderator, e-mail me at webmaster@pulp.gb.com.
They're the tool of the devil. Even if you don't mind the ones sat at the bottom of the box, I just *dare* you to click "More Emoticons" and not die a little inside.
Because you went over 10 posts. It should change to something else when you reach 25, 50, 75, 100, 200, 500 etc etc. Sorry if they're a bit crap, I had to think them up in about eight seconds. If you go into the "my profile" bit where you changed your user picture, you can change your label thing to something of your own choosing too.
Love the forum anyhow...how far off do you reckon the site is, Steve?
Er, I don't know. I was hoping to have it all done by Sep 1st, but lots is still wrong with it, and now I'm super busy again. Soon as possible, though.
In fact, I just checked, and you go up a level at 10, 25, 50, 75, 100, 250, 500, 1000, 2000 and finally 3000 posts. So, er, there's something to aim for, right? It's the hot craze that's QUITE LITERALLY sweeping the nation! Tell your friends!
I'm obviously being really thick, cos I can't work out how to become a member. Keeps telling me that the verification code is incorrect. What is it? Am I allowed it?
Nope, it definitely works fine on Firefox - I wouldn't have allowed it otherwise (early adopter here, yo). I just signed out and registered as a new member to test it out, and it worked without any problems, so I don't know what's going wrong for you guys.
The verification code is just the numbers and letters that (should) appear in the box above where it's asking you to re-type it - it's just a device to get rid of spambots, like being asked to type in the code after posting on the old forum. Is it not appearing on your screen?
Congratulations, in all honesty (not that i really should have a say) i wasn't all that up for the move of forum, but i love it, so everyone can sleep happily i'm sure.
Seriously, though, if you find yourself banned, don't immediately set up a new account and spam the board with 200 new posts. Tends to leave a poor impression, that.
Steve Devereux wrote:If you go into the "my profile" bit where you changed your user picture, you can change your label thing to something of your own choosing too.
I can't do that. Must be a Friendly Neighbourhood Benelovent Dictator thing.
Is there, or will there be if there isn't, a "read new posts" option? On the rare occasions I pop in It's not very user friendly to trawl through old posts in long threads trying to find the new ones.
I'm honestly not sure - I suspect not, I'm afraid, or I'd probably have turned it on straight away, but I'll have a look in the settings and see what I can find.
Hi, I'm new. I'm having trouble uploading an avatar picture that is only 64 KB. I tried last week as well and had the same problem.
Also, maybe I'm misremembering but did I post a thread asking why Pulp weren't getting back together only to have it deleted? Or did I intend to post such a thread. I thought I'd ask so as not to upset you if I posted it again.
Thanks for this forum. Nice to meet some Pulp fans I haven't created (converted to Pulp) on my own.
Hilariously-written forum rules, by the way.
-- Edited by Muldfeld at 07:00, 2007-10-09
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I don't think Steve ever deletes posts, unless he'll be locked up and flogged for hosting them. I can't remember ever a real, serious thread being deleted or edited... but perhaps he's just too quick.
I think it's likely it was an Internet burp... Unless it was wildy offensive or illegal / asking for commericially available tracks, I'd recommend re-posting it.
Edit: Upon reading the above posts, I'm a little scared...
So, apart from raising my blood pressure a little bit, the lunacy of the last few days has seen a phenomenal spike in visitors to the forum - from an average of ticking over at around 200 hits a day, we're suddenly up to well over a thousand. Blimey, says I.
This has financial implications, since anything over 10,000 hits a month costs me a tiny amount of money per hit - the move to the new-style board, after much annoyance at the old one, was (gasp) not free. Brilliantly, the credit card I used to sign up for it expired months ago, and the forum has been accruing charges ever since, without bothering to tell me... which Activeboard/Sparklit were apparently fine about as long as we were under the hits threshold, but this spike in activity has alerted their attention. Anyway, I had a snotty popup message from the provider saying I owed them $30, and a "Community Funding" tip jar has now appeared at the bottom of the page in case anyone for some bizarre reason feels like kicking in a couple of quid. I could have deleted that, but chose not to, just in case anyone DOES want to chip in, but please don't anyone feel obliged or anything.
Something else I found while tinkering around in the admin panel: The forum can now be accessed from http://baritalia.activeboard.com. Which should be a lot easier to remember.
Sadly, there's no option to see new posts, although you should now be able to add the forum as an RSS feed, or share posts on Facebook or whatever.
Does anyone want to be a moderator? E-mail me if you would like this, ahem, very special opportunity.
Also, everyone should now be able to private-message (or "PM", as I believe the young folk say) everyone else - apologies to those who had this inadvertently switched off last time I was faffing around with the settings...
This has financial implications, since anything over 10,000 hits a month costs me a tiny amount of money per hit - the move to the new-style board, after much annoyance at the old one, was (gasp) not free. Brilliantly, the credit card I used to sign up for it expired months ago, and the forum has been accruing charges ever since, without bothering to tell me... which Activeboard/Sparklit were apparently fine about as long as we were under the hits threshold, but this spike in activity has alerted their attention. Anyway, I had a snotty popup message from the provider saying I owed them $30, and a "Community Funding" tip jar has now appeared at the bottom of the page in case anyone for some bizarre reason feels like kicking in a couple of quid. I could have deleted that, but chose not to, just in case anyone DOES want to chip in, but please don't anyone feel obliged or anything.
Something else I found while tinkering around in the admin panel: The forum can now be accessed from http://baritalia.activeboard.com. Which should be a lot easier to remember.
Does anyone want to be a moderator? E-mail me if you would like this, ahem, very special opportunity.
Don't know if you can go back, but you can have activeboard/sparklit forums free if you are prepared to accept an advert at the top. The ads aren't too intrusive and easily ignored. Would save getting the bills.
I don't mind the bills, really, they were about tuppence a day or something and a couple of the features were ones I specifically wanted - I was just a bit surprised that they'd not bothered to tell me I was building up a backlog, and they presumably wouldn't ever have bothered telling me if it wasn't for the Trixy-spike. Don't panic, I'm not about to go bankrupt or anything :)
The pulp.gb.com address only has a holding page on it for now, as the site enters its (sixth? seventh?) straight year of hibernation - I'll add a link to the forum when I next get a chance if it'll make things easier. In the meantime, you can access the forum directly from this URL:
I've just joined and I would like to say a big thank you to Steve! Thanks for running this and for providing a home for the Pulp followers. It's greatly appreciated!
Just that I don't have much hands-on involvement any more - most of the heavy lifting is done by the volunteer moderators, rather than me. I didn't want to take credit for something I haven't really been doing recently!
Has anybody else ever noticed that if you try to access the forum through Orange's 3G network, it says that the site is blocked by Orange Safeguard on account of it containing over-18's material!! Weird. Do any other mobile networks do this?
Has anybody else ever noticed that if you try to access the forum through Orange's 3G network, it says that the site is blocked by Orange Safeguard on account of it containing over-18's material!! Weird. Do any other mobile networks do this?
I think this is to do with your own individual settings on your handset or Orange account - I'm on Orange and can view it absolutely fine. Perhaps you've accidentally activated the "child friendly Internet" Safeguard thing?
Seems like it has always been on Safeguard for me by default. Says I need to specially request for it to be turned off by calling customer services. Strange...I don't get that message for any other site. Wonder what it is about this forum that triggers it off?
I think the reason you are getting 18+ blocks on this site is to do with the fact that a lot of the threads contain the word "Hardcore" and the filter goes nuts
I think the reason you are getting 18+ blocks on this site is to do with the fact that a lot of the threads contain the word "Hardcore" and the filter goes nuts
Very good point actually. I hadn't thought of that!
There is an option that says "if you believe that this website has been wrongly categorized as for adults only, then click for review" which I have done a couple of times, but an email always comes back a few days later saying it is remaining restricted.
My guess is that they don't actually bother looking at the website to review it. They probably just type the URL into an application that spams for "adult" words.
First the photo has to be hosted somewhere (Flickr, Photbucket, Imgur), and you copy the image URL. On this board, use the advanced editor for posting/replies, then click on the little tree photo icon, paste the URL for your photo, and click insert.
My mam/mum/mom's just told me the fascinating fact that her friend has gone on holiday to Nice with her online writing group! So... when's the first annual bar italia week in the sun??
Just a word as I just joined the forum. It's been a while I was following posts and discussion, and I finally decided to join as I felt more and more involved in Pulp music. So, as i said, just to say a (or two) words: Brillant Forum! x
Please can I suggest that you remove users' ability to edit their own posts. This is mostly down to the Dixie thread. I believe that posts should be read as they were intended to be displayed and not edited versions.
How would people like it if their version of "Different Class" was replaced by one that contained edited versions of the songs? Not the ones that the band wanted you to hear when you bought the album!
I understand that spelling mistakes etc. are sometimes made but the user should proofread their posts. Also, you could easily edit any major mistakes such as images coming out too large.
Anyone tried getting to this site through Google recently?
I never bother with bookmarks, just go into recent search history and a thread appears in Google and I click on that then click on main page (yes I know I should work bookmarks out!)
Anyway now it doesn't appear and typing stuff like 'Pulp band forum' in brings up loads of inferior forums such as a britpop forum with a scattering of comments in the Pulp section.
As an aside I came across this Morrissey site Jarvis love on my search:
Good find Fred. Incidently the 'owner'/administator of that forum, Kewpie (who has posted on the Jarvis thread), was recently banned by Morrissey from all his concerts for life, for posting 'vile and hatred' comments about Morrissey on there.
Hej'ooo. I am a new member of this forum wondering where I will get all my street cred? No, but I do wonder about a yahoo account I have been reading about, telling me of mysterious real demo versions of the cuckoo song. Enlighten me please and I will be your internetslave
Then you're to be commended for your detective skills. It's not really 100 posts, just wary of sharing too much as its a legal grey area. But I envy you hearing After You for the first time. What other stuff have you enjoyed on there?
Yes I feel like quite the computerhacking master and for your question, it is the only thing I have downloaded so far. And working for rewards seems nice, yes!
I thought you wanted cuckoo song most of all. Don't forget to sign the petition at pulpwiki.net so that those less skilled than yourself can hear these songs. Plus more that haven't been leaked.
Yes, cuckoo song was what I was out for, but I could not find it in the demo version. Is it up on the account? And the petition is something I have already signed. Can't believe how many who has signed the last week!
On the most forums there's a link to get to the latest read message in the topic, but I never was able to figure out how to do that at baritalia. Am I missing something or there's no such feature here?
Is there any chance we could make it a rule for posters to mark off-topic, er, topics as such in the title? There have been several times recently where I've clicked something that I thought would have been Pulp related only to find that it wasn't.
I don't know if this has ever really been a rules kind of place, though.
There's probably a setting I could change somewhere to enable a voluntary "off-topic" icon option for new threads, if I weren't afraid to log into Activeboard and let them know I'm still alive.
Is it just me that the full site link doesn't work for on the mobile version?! I hate using the mobile site but it never let's me switch to full on my iPhone anymore. :(