2 Questions...

[Talking Poker]

This is news to me. I've never had this problem, nor have I ever heard of it. In fact, not only am *I* not logged out when idle, but I'm not logged out.... ever. When you log in, do you check the "Remember Me" box?

Does anyone else have this problem? If so, I'll look into it more.

[rookette22]

No ...the "remember me" box is unchecked. Is that the reason it keeps logging me out?

[FatRufus]

that would be it. If you have the remember box checked it wont ask for you to log in again until you delete your cookies. Sometimes it asks you to log in when adding reputation.

[Talking Poker]

Yeah, probably. If you are the only one that uses your computer, go ahead and check that box and you shouldn't have to log in again at all.... nor should you get logged out all the time.

If you are even accessing the forum from a friend's house or somewhere else where other people have access to the computer, I'd probably leave it unchecked.

[rookette22]

My roomie and her bf both have access to this pc. Isn't there a way to stop it from logging out while I'm typing up a post?

Edit: What happened to the 300 character max I suggested? Is there a chance we can have that?

[Robbie Robb]

It's very odd that it logs you out when you're replying to a post UNLESS a) that post, for whatever reason, has taking you a rather long period of time to compose; or b) You have the forum open to the message you want to reply to for a long time before hitting the reply button.

I would suspect that just hitting reply does NOT update the site cookie. I would think that things like clicking on 'New Posts' or even browsing to the main screen would update the cookie (just guessing here - nothing more - I could be WAAAAYYY off - it may only update cookie upon login and New Posts).

Does your roomie or her bf ever browse TP at all? Would they have any reason to? If not, it may be okay for you to check it anyway. Worse thing that happens is that they access your account here and post bad things... I'm sure were that to happen TP'd help you out and delete such posts (unless they post nudie pics of you, then he'll sticky it - right TP??? )

[rookette22]

I've noticed that if I'm typing up a post for longer than 15mins, I will get auto logged out of here. I will then try to go back to post to copy, paste it and it's gone.Once it logs me out, I need to type in my pw over again to get back in.

Probably just to get me back. Or to cause problems for me. Or cus they got drunk and stupid and come on here to have some fun. So no ...not a good idea.

Don't you start with the nudies too. Someone wanted some the other night so as a joke, I went to go find some cartoony nudey and got a trojan instead

So not so funny afterall. Good thing norton caught it right away and seems to have deleted it. Only this morning, I ran Norton again; just in case, and it found another one.

Edit: It just happened again. I got logged out while typing this up.

And I noticed that once I log back in it gives me this popup message: Invalid Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the admininstrator.

[Robbie Robb]

TP - Under the admin > vBulletin options > vBulletin options > Cookies & HTTP Headers what is the timeout set for? Is it set for anywhere between 600 and 900? If it is, this could explain why Rook is getting logged out. It IS timing out on her. Would it be possible to bump this to 1200 or 1500 (20/25 mins)? That should give pretty much ANYONE enough time to construct a post. It doesn't appear to add any addition server strain or anything like that. It simply changes the time for the cookie to expire (client side, not server side)

Now, if it's < 600 (10 mins) or already >=1200 then it's something else that's causing Rook to timeout. I took a quick look the vBulletin manual and this seems to be the only thing that could be the cause of her logout issue.

Oooh. That would suck. Agreed, definitely not a good idea.

Start??? I think we started a LLOOOONNGGG time ago about posting nudie pics of you . It sucks that you landed a trojan while searching for the joke pic. I've been pretty lucky virus wise. Other than a couple malware java scripts that landed on my machine I've only ever had one virus. And I gave it to myself...I knew it was a virus. I selected it, went to hit 'delete' on the keyboard and hit 'enter' instead. Ooops. Took 30 minutes to manually eradicate anything it did. Fortunately I didn't have to reboot so it couldn't propogate.

[Talking Poker]

I think Robb's post was a pretty good guess/suggestion.

As for the sig length, let's have a vote: