Suggestions, Comments and Support

Is it possible to have some notification that someone is on your buddy list? For example, It would be nice if the box that contains the persons "name" where join date, location, and number of posts are, if there could be another symbol to denote that this person is on your buddy list. I don't know if this can be done or has any benefit. Right now, I have a typed list next to me of people who I consider my buddy. Bettina

I was curious, what program does SF use for the LaTeX generation?

perhaps we should implement something similar for this site. could be added to swansont's thread(although people don't seem to read it). and any "theory" that doesn't conform to said standards gets deleted on site? i was thinking that such "theorys" should be in psuedoscience until they are proved worthy of not being there.

Philosophy and Religion do not come under the same umbrella. They should be able to each have their own areas on the board. Sharing the same space confuses the two seperate subjects. Any one second this? Should they get their own area. Does it matter? Eon.

Comment: Science Forums is cool. Just a positive comment. nuff said, Eon.

I was just wondering whether the powers that be thought "Biochemistry/Molecular Biology" would be a more appropriate name for the " Biochemistry/Genetic Engineering" forum?

If I put it any plainer, ... stuff would happen. Ahem, anyway, I think those buttons have to go. I could design some if you like. Only take a few days. You know, the ones for reply, edit etc. They just don't fit. Everything else is peachy, but the buttons are an eyesore. [edit] They just aren't as hard edge as the rest of the site. The buttons themselves are fine alone, but don't fit with the decore.

On the home page there is a link to the "SFN Chatroom" that popups a window to this non-existant address: http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/chat/index.php?do=small Also, why is it that the Arcade in inaccessible?

Hi, as a suggestion, I think the images used in the SFN layout should use JPEG or GIF, because PNG takes longer to load than JPEG + GIF => takes more bandwidth. Also, the SFN logo on the top left, you guys should slice it properly as there are useless bits of the background in the whole image (http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/images/sfn/sfn-logo.png) that you could cut off to save bandwidth. Hope this helps!!

I get the following message a lot when trying to reply to a message using the quote function. The only way I can remedy this is to make my reply short, send it, then edit it to add more, send it again, edit, add more, send it, etc etc, until I finally get it all sent. Forbidden You don't have permission to access /forums/newreply.php on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache/1.3.33 Server at http://www.scienceforums.net Port 80

i have been looking around on PhysicsForums and i have seen that they must pay for things that we take for granted.

Once I've posted a thread or a reply, I could search my post by entering its content on the google. Why?

The look of this site has changed and I've noticed that the ads at the top cover up the SFN logo as well as a few other problems. Are these problems due to my having a 800 x 600 screen resolution or something else?

Thats pretty much the jist of it, this is the message I get. What's the go? ~Scott

<SFN logo isn't scientific?> I just read on my textbook that you can't draw an atom like that with some circles in that shape. That kind of picture is very common to represent an atom but it does mislead readers, because ELECTRONS AREN'T MOVING AROUND IN CIRCLES.

It would be really helpful to have a highly moderated resource section on SFN... perhaps something along the lines of the News forum. It would be nice to have internet resources listed in categories... or even post resources as stickies in each forum. Perhaps an open sticky, to which all members can contribute, but with the first post containing the cream of the crop links. Resouces could include studies, lists of papers, information sites like PBS, sites asking for public contribution like SETI@H, University and R&D research teams like fermilab and science news websites. It would be nice to have a comprehensive list of resources from people in the kno…

Hope I haven't opened up a can of worms here but I did not see any suggestions for an image uploader, so I thought I would make one. I know that there are online places where one can archive upto 10MB of images for posting on the IN but how about an uploader for ones PC docs. and settings? It would be nice to have so to futher define a subject and highlight certain points. Being an amateur Microscopist, Protozoologist and Stream Biologist, among other interests, it would be a help but then again how many like minded individuals are in the membership of this site to make it worthwhile?

... and therefore I'm unable to vote in polls, start threads, etc... Can anyone help?

Since economics is a science, what do you think about an economics forum?

i'm a novice in this forum and science. so. could you open a basics science topic???

Can we make a debate tournament, e.g. by making groups and setting up playoffs etc.?

Hi I'm quite new to the forum and I have this problem in that every time I come here I first log in (naturally), then I go to a particular Forum/thread and I find I have to log in again, then I go to another topic and I have to log in again ........ and so this process repeats itself over and over again for about 5 or 6 times then it stops and everything is fine I don't get logged out for no reason. Does anyone know how I can stop this from happening , should I change my browser settings or could it be because I am using FireFox?

Is there a way to delete a post or thread I've started? Thanks

I think it would be nice to branch out the forums into other parts of learning, it might be nice to include a whole social science section, like the math seciton, we could move psychology into it, and put some other stuff in it. Just an idea.

There is an overwhelming presence of new members with no intellectuall posts at all, spewing nothing but IM/l33t while contributing nothing to this site. What can we do about this?