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Answers : Technology


how can I rate an instructable ? I can not find anything to click on!?


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Mar 28, 2012. 7:11 PMtriumphman (author) says:
What is it with all these abbreviations, what the h--- is wrong with people? Can't they spell or speak any more! I have no idea what lol means or :D or ;-O, and I really don't want to know! Is everything going into the crapper , like stuff made in china purchased at the dollar store?
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Mar 28, 2012. 10:05 PMcanucksgirl says:
More importantly, was someone able to answer your question?
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Mar 28, 2012. 9:22 PMbajablue says:
TM... they are just acronyms. What the H__? is abbreviated WTH. I'm sure you can guess what the abbreviation WTF stands for. ;-) (That's a wink-smile)

Laugh out loud is "lol", whereas LMBO translates as: Laughing my butt off

;-D is a laughing/grinning face when you look at it with your head tilted sideways to the left.

See? Now you got a 2fer... which translates to "2 answers for the price of 1" except it didn't cost you anything!

But my question is: What's a "crapper"? lol... jk. (just kidding, of course!;-)
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Mar 28, 2012. 8:38 PMiceng says:
He he :þ
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Mar 28, 2012. 9:42 PMbajablue says:
Snork!
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Mar 28, 2012. 11:45 AMcanucksgirl says:
The "rating stars" will sometimes appear if you re-load the page several times... It's not the best method, but until the bug has been fixed, its about your only solution.
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Mar 28, 2012. 11:52 AMbajablue says:
Nope... you didn't read my answer, didya? ;-)
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Mar 28, 2012. 11:58 AMcanucksgirl says:
No, I didn't (probably because you posted after me). ;-)

Also, you didn't mention your "second method" (or the first). o_0 ;-)
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Mar 28, 2012. 12:09 PMbajablue says:
hahaha... both of our answers were still in the system at the same time. ;-)

Now you know there are at least 3 ways to skin the Star Rating Cat. ;-D
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Mar 28, 2012. 12:17 PMcanucksgirl says:
lol... I know, its kinda funny when 5 people comment (or answer a question), and say the same thing 5 times... (can you imagine if you're the one posting the question, and getting all the replies)?

At least we're resourceful on finding a way to skin that star rating cat! ;)
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Mar 28, 2012. 12:21 PMbajablue says:
+1 ;-D
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Mar 28, 2012. 12:23 PMcanucksgirl says:
LOL... (Were you the other member to rate this question?) lol ;)
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Mar 28, 2012. 12:42 PMbajablue says:
lol... No... but I just 5-ed several of yours! ;-D
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Mar 28, 2012. 12:54 PMcanucksgirl says:
:) - Thanks! That's pretty darn awesome of you to do so! ;)
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Mar 28, 2012. 1:36 PMbajablue says:
Happy to spread the love around. ;-D
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Mar 28, 2012. 12:48 PMmikeasaurus says:
I just finished testing a new release that will fix loads of missing things (like star ratings), we're aiming to have this out super soon!
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Mar 28, 2012. 12:55 PMcanucksgirl says:
Thanks for the update! (It can't come fast enough). ;)
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Mar 28, 2012. 10:46 AMbajablue says:
Hey Triumphman... this feature is extremly fickle and there's no telling when it'll be "fixed".

Here are a few backdoor solutions that work for me... more often than not. :-)

First: Refresh the page a time or 2... or 10. ;-) Didn't work? Try this-->

Click directly on the the Author's username. This will take you to his/her list of Instructables. From there, click on the Ible you want to rate. If you still don't see the Star Rating feature, try this -->

If you're using the "View all steps on one page" feature, go to your profile and disable it.  Then go back to the Ible you want to rate.  Click the box that says "View all steps on one page". It's the first box under the title.

I've found that refreshing the page is the least reliable fix, but the other two methods are fairly reliable, although temporary.

If you feel compelled to rate a project, but none-of-the-above solutions work, save the Ible to your favs and try another time.

Good luck to you... I know how frustrating this can be. ;-)

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Mar 28, 2012. 12:55 PMcanucksgirl says:
+1 Great answer. (Lots of options). ;)
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Mar 28, 2012. 12:53 PMbajablue says:
Another (drastic) solution?

I just heard from a reliable source. She uses Internet Explorer and has NO problem with the Star-rating feature whatsoever! ;-O)

Isn't that just priceless???
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Mar 30, 2012. 12:06 PMthe King of Frankenstein says:
One working feature is not enough to justify using IE.
IE.jpg
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Mar 28, 2012. 1:55 PMVyger says:
I started using a browser called Flock several years ago. It is based on the Firefox engine but customized. I love it. It almost never has problems and the star ratings always show up and work. Of course it's possible that part of the reason for that is that it is no longer updated. The people who developed Flock dropped it because they got hired and payed big bucks to work on something else. So it has remained the same , frozen in time at a point where everything worked perfectly. And nobody has screwed it up since. I have 39 tabs open now. Probably should close some of them, like the Google search on how to toilet train a cat. but its a lot easier to just leave the tab open rather than having to find it again.
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Mar 28, 2012. 5:02 PMbajablue says:
You like it that well, Vyger? What version are you running? I see Flock is still available to dowload.
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Mar 28, 2012. 9:16 PMVyger says:
Even though it is not being updated I am still useing it. I have tried other browsers and I still like this one the best so far. I have version 2.6.2 which I think was the last release. You should get it just to try. It's free. I will import everything from your other browsers when it installs. So you don't really have to do much to get it up and running.
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Mar 28, 2012. 12:59 PMcanucksgirl says:
Ya well, IE is another animal altogether, so I'm not that surprised.

In my opinion, on a PC, Internet Explorer is an AMAZING tool...

for downloading Firefox. ;)
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Mar 28, 2012. 1:19 PMbajablue says:
;-D
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Mar 28, 2012. 11:27 AMCameronSS says:
You can't, that feature's borked right now. A bugfix is on its way, I hear.
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Mar 28, 2012. 11:50 AMbajablue says:
You certainly can.

I just rated an Ible using the second method I listed below.

The Star-rating feature may be fickle or "borked", (whatever that means. ;-) but it sure isn't dead.
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Mar 28, 2012. 11:56 AMCameronSS says:
Sometimes can, won't do squat for me. (feeling pedantic :P)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=borked

Bork bork bork!
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Mar 28, 2012. 12:14 PMcanucksgirl says:
LOL... love it. ;)

I remember another muppet (can't remember its name though), and all he ever said was...

yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep
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Mar 28, 2012. 12:28 PMCameronSS says:
Yip yip yip yip yip yip
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Mar 28, 2012. 12:48 PMbajablue says:
OMG... too CUTE!!!! ;-O)
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Mar 28, 2012. 12:33 PMcanucksgirl says:
LOL... (I laughed so hard I'm crying!!!) Those two are the best. ;)

You made my day. :D
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Mar 28, 2012. 12:10 PMbajablue says:
LOL!!!!

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