WowBB forum software usage tips

The MarshallProtocol.com site is powered by an older (and very stable) forum software package called WowBB. While reading, posting, searching, and communicating on the site a few tips may be of help.

In order to join in the conversation within our online research and support community, please following these instructions for How to Register.

You will be able to post comments or access member areas of the site once you login at the forum's Login page.

If you are having difficulty with getting access, please see our Troubleshooting page.

The forum software itself offers basic instructions for Moving Around, Topics, Tabs, Registration, Posting, Editing, and Private Messaging that can be found by clicking on the Help button.

One good way to get involved in the conversation is to look at the topics with the most recent activity. The more active topics can be seen by going the home page for the site and clicking on the Recent tab.

When you are watching a topic on the forums, you will receive an email containing a copy of new posts from time to time. If you reply to the email instead of going to the forums and replying to the post on the forums, your email reply will be sent to an administrative email account instead of appearing on the forums as you intended.

Most likely you have your own progress topic flagged as “watched”. In this case, you can find it listed on your watched topics page. If you need more help, check out our troubleshooting tips.

For security reasons (and the best user experience), it is highly recommended that you use the most recent version of Firefox as your internet browser.

Some older computers do not run the latest versions of Internet Explorer very well, which is another reason we recommend the firefox browser. The site does work with other browsers (i.e., AOL, Netscape, Chrome) but you may experience intermittent problems.

Sometimes your internet browser will get stuck with erroneous data and needs a fresh start.

In Firefox, you can choose various ways of deleting cookies and other history information. In Internet Explorer, clearing the cache may be helpful.

Sometimes it is helpful to know how to share the link to a specific post on the forums.

Here is one method to obtain a link:

1. Note the time and date of the post
2. Click on the screen name of the person who made the post (to the left of the post) and select to “View Profile”
3. Click on the tab labeled “Posts”
4. Scroll down to the post that matches the time and date you noted in step 1
5. Click on the link to this post to make sure it is the post you are wanting to get a link for
6. Click in the URL address bar and select the address (link) to the post

When you want to use this link with a text title you can use markup code like this:

Here is the [url=http://mpkb.org/home/starting/usingforum/wowbbtips]link to this article[/url].

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