Forum Rules

[Dark Knight]

Best limit my posts to quick hello and good night then
otherwise I will last about 2 days

[The Tinker]

it worked for the two Ronnies DN

[Dancing Queen]

Best limit my posts to quick hello and good night then
otherwise I will last about 2 days

Doing well then you've been here for eight now

[Kendhni]

Ok - have inwardly digested the rules - can we reuse an old password after the 180 days next is up and can you remind us what our passwords are if we forget. Sorry Ken - all my passwords are variants of the same although not the bank ones (you will not be getting your hands on my money lol)

Variants can work well as long as you deviate. For instance you may pick some 'root' password and add digits or letters based on the site you are on or maybe capitalise different letters.

Always make sure that your email and bank passwords are unique ... as a minimum.


I remember my mother used to use the same PIN on all her cards, when I told her off she complained that she could not remember them. As I told her, you don;t have to remember them, there are 16 numbers on the front of the card use a pattern and if you forget the PIN you only need to look at the front of the card. For instance pick the first number out of each gorup of 4 numbers, or pick the first number from group 1, the second from group 2 etc.

[Pippa Kernow]

Ok - have inwardly digested the rules - can we reuse an old password after the 180 days next is up and can you remind us what our passwords are if we forget. Sorry Ken - all my passwords are variants of the same although not the bank ones (you will not be getting your hands on my money lol)

Variants can work well as long as you deviate. For instance you may pick some 'root' password and add digits or letters based on the site you are on or maybe capitalise different letters.

Always make sure that your email and bank passwords are unique ... as a minimum.


I remember my mother used to use the same PIN on all her cards, when I told her off she complained that she could not remember them. As I told her, you don;t have to remember them, there are 16 numbers on the front of the card use a pattern and if you forget the PIN you only need to look at the front of the card. For instance pick the first number out of each gorup of 4 numbers, or pick the first number from group 1, the second from group 2 etc.

That's quite a clever system for remembering PINs using the card numbers themselves. I like!

I used to work as a bank cashier and I lost count of the number of times that I saw people who had actually written their PIN down on the signature strip! I kid you not...

[jay-ell71]

Goodness! I have so much trouble trying to remember passwords, that I keep getting locked out. Most of the time I use the same password, with perhaps a change of number at the end. Even that causes problems. My bank has never made me change my password, thank goodness.

As for PIN numbers I use the same one for everything. Otherwise I would never be able to use any of my cards!!!!! Rant over.

[AngieT]

Is it just me or has anyone found that clicking on 'Forum Rules' at the top left of the screen says the connection is broken?

[Manoverboard]

No, it isn't just you .... I will advise the boss

[david63]

Boss advised and can see nothing wrong

[Kendhni]

Works OK for me .. is it in a particular forum?

[Romig1]

Is it just me or has anyone found that clicking on 'Forum Rules' at the top left of the screen says the connection is broken?

Was broke...but seems ok now,

[Manoverboard]

I am working as well ... I tried the link at the top of this Topic plus General Chat and had fails on both.

[AngieT]

Thanks chaps, it's working now.....

[Dark Knight]

Am I still allowed to extract the Urine from the old fossil in Ull ?

[towny44]

Change password every 180 days. Blimey, I don't even do that with my bank.

Who does? I have trouble remembering the one/s I do use...Google Chrome is handy it auto fills them!
Why is this I wonder..the new password?

John are you being serious .. NEVER EVER let your broswer fill in passwords automatically (especially for banks or personal sites). If you want to do that install something like 'LastPass'. Most such sites these days will not automatically complete passwords.

My party trick is usually being able to tell people their most private passwords within 30 seconds of logging onto their computer ... because they let the browser auto-fill them in and browsers do NOT hold them securely. Worse still is they use the same or similar passwords for all their sites .. that is just as stupid as using the same PIN number for all your credit cards.

Ken, most financial websites and other sites like Sky have security systems which seem to prevent browsers saving passwords, however for all the other sites I visit I am quite happy to let my browser store these details, without it I am certain I would lose access to most sites as I forget which of my variants I used to set it up.

[Kendhni]

Am I still allowed to extract the Urine from the old fossil in Ull ?

As long as you don't sprinkle when you tinkle

[Dark Knight]

cheers Ken
and I promise to wash my hands when I have finished

[qbman1]

After all that you need fumigating - a quick splash of gel will NOT suffice

[Kendhni]

Ken, most financial websites and other sites like Sky have security systems which seem to prevent browsers saving passwords, however for all the other sites I visit I am quite happy to let my browser store these details, without it I am certain I would lose access to most sites as I forget which of my variants I used to set it up.

As long as you do not use the same password as you do for your bank sites you should be OK. However, if you ever clear out your caches you could lose all those passwords.

It became obvious that users were (and still are) very lax in how they treat passwords, especially when they saved them in their browsers (as I said that is totally insecure and anybody can find them in a few seconds of getting access to your keyboard ... or remote access). HTML then added a new directive 'autocomplete' which defaults to 'on' (so things will be completed) but pretty much any secure site now sets that flag to 'off' which stops the password from being auto completed. However that does not mean that passwords stored previously have been removed from the browser cache, they could well still be in there .. but they are no longer used. Secondly some people still use older browsers which do not handle this directive properly and could still store and retrieve your passwords.

[sumdumbloke]

Wow - these are very severe! I don't think I've ever read rules attempting to regularise punctuation.

[oldbluefox]

Would you care to clarify please?

[sumdumbloke]

Would you care to clarify please?

I assume your question is to me? Apologies if not the case. As to the question:

g. Members should post in a way which is consistent with "normal writing". That is members should not post excessive numbers of emoticons, large, small or coloured text, etc. Similarly members should not SHOUT or use excessive punctuation (e.g. ! and ?) in topic titles or posts. Members consistently abusing this may be warned.

[Dancing Queen]

I didn't read it as trying to regularise punctuation but rather to point out that things like ! or ? would not be acceptable if someone for instance kept their finger on the sign and went across the page with it, it has been known for people to do that, I'm afraid I'm one of the offenders of using ! although usually only two or three.

It has always been accepted that capital letters denote someone is SHOUTING, I think most T&C mention that.

[oldbluefox]

Thanks for clarifying sumdumbloke.

I think the operative word here is 'excessive'. Certainly I see no attempt to 'regularise punctuation' but, on the contrary, there are certain protocols which the forum wants to adopt. Basically the rule is asking members of the forum to write in a manner consistent with 'normal writing'. Maybe you are reading more into this than is intended.

My apologies if I misread you.

[Kendhni]

Wow - these are very severe! I don't think I've ever read rules attempting to regularise punctuation.

Hi sumdumbloke and welcome to the forum.
The rules are to try to set boundaries and guidelines from day 1 to stop some of the 'excesses' that have been experienced in the past. The rule you point out is actually quite common ... it is nothing more than an attempt to try to make the board a bit more readable and friendly to its users.