An open letter to Kelly Shaw

What recent posts? I don't believe Kelly even works at FSM anymore. He is no longer listed on the "Meet the Staff" page, and searching his posts shows the last one was on Sept 2, 2009.

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Bgrigg

What recent posts? I don't believe Kelly even works at FSM anymore. He is no longer listed on the "Meet the Staff" page, and searching his posts shows the last one was on Sept 2, 2009.

The last one disappeared this morning. Some mystery in life is never resolved. But I am not complaining.

Bgrigg

What recent posts? I don't believe Kelly even works at FSM anymore. He is no longer listed on the "Meet the Staff" page, and searching his posts shows the last one was on Sept 2, 2009.

I don't know what happened. Am I the only one who sees ghost?

For the past month, I have seen 3 of Kelly Shaw's old posts sticked to the Ship forum top:

Free article collections dated 3-31-2009

Submit your photos to Reader Gallery dated 02-19-2008

Free FSM e-mail newsletter dated 01-18-2008

These posts are on again, and off again. They are there now as of Feb 6, 2010, 7:30 p.m. Anyone know what is going on?

Weird, you are 2 hours ahead of me (if I understand your location properly as St. Louis), so it's 9:00PM your time and no sticky posts in Ships from Kelly?

Are you looking at a cached page, perhaps? Try clearing your internet cache and having another look.

Bgrigg

Weird, you are 2 hours ahead of me (if I understand your location properly as St. Louis), so it's 9:00PM your time and no sticky posts in Ships from Kelly?

Are you looking at a cached page, perhaps? Try clearing your internet cache and having another look.

No. It is not the cached copy. Otherwise, I will not be seeing and replying to your post. Other than the 3 sticky post from Kelly, everything else seem to be normal.

I clean my internet cache regularly as a matter of security.

So, no one else is seeing the Kelly Shaw sticky notes. Weir.

What happen when you click on the links that I posted. Do they show as sticky? Do you see them? If you do, what forum are they in using the top banner?

I can access the posts, but there is no indication that they are sticky, or not.

Darn strange!

I see them also.  Always have.  I think it has to do with how your Sort is set up.  Instead of "Last 6 months", I have "Show All".  When I have selected "Show All", all three of these posts are shown at the top of Page 1, and they are marked as "Sticky".

Correction:  They used to be marked "Sticky".  Now they are marked "Pinned", which I presume means about the same thing.

they won't tell us the truth anyway

Bgrigg

I can access the posts, but there is no indication that they are sticky, or not.

Darn strange!

As Tucchase pointed out, they are pinned, same as sticky. I should have been more pricise.

tucchase

I see them also.  Always have.  I think it has to do with how your Sort is set up.  Instead of "Last 6 months", I have "Show All".  When I have selected "Show All", all three of these posts are shown at the top of Page 1, and they are marked as "Sticky".

Correction:  They used to be marked "Sticky".  Now they are marked "Pinned", which I presume means about the same thing.

You are right. Thank you for clearing this mystery.

That must be it!

Though I have tried and tried to have "Show All" as my default sort, it never sticks!

Or is that it never pins?

Bgrigg

That must be it!

Though I have tried and tried to have "Show All" as my default sort, it never sticks!

Or is that it never pins?

It has stayed "Show All" for me since I set it when the forum changed.  Until last Friday when it crashed anyway.  I had to reset it Saturday.

Pinned must be the new PC term for Sticky.  The PC Police are literally everywhere!

It stays for a day, then resorts back to past two months. I'm tired of trying to save the setting, besides more than two months old is history for the most part.

Pinned used to mean "going steady" back in the day. Political Correctness is ridiculous, and I have two things to say about it:

•  "Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end" -- Unknown
• "The purpose of political correction is to delegitimate opposition; to make the most basic facts of life undiscussable, and thereby eliminate debate. It is a device for seizing power." --David Warren

The question is that why do the FSM staff pinned these old posts?

Oh, well. There are too many "features" I don't understand on the "new and improved" forum anyway.