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05-31-2008, 03:11 PM
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Scribe
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Way Down South
Posts: 65
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Why do I automatically log out?
Ooo, I´m frustrated. I just spent over 40 minutes putting something on the Forum, but it signed me out automatically, then when I got back to my posting screen, the subject was gone! That drives me up a wall. What gives, I say, what gives?
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05-31-2008, 03:39 PM
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Scribe
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Wales, UK
Gender: Male
Posts: 80
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Lately it's been happening to me, as in the past few days. It won't let me stay logged in, but it used to. Are there any settings we need to change mods?
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05-31-2008, 04:06 PM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Bandit Country
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,701
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You click on the "automatically log me in" box at the bottom of the login screen and it will automatically log you in everytime you access the site. At the start, I lost a few pieces of work because it had taken over thirty minutes to compose them, and the site had logged me out. By clicking that box, that will keep you logged in until you log out yourself.
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05-31-2008, 09:56 PM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Out in the bush, Queensland, Australia, far from the madding crowd
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,893
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sam Winchester
By clicking that box, that will keep you logged in until you log out yourself.
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Why log out in the first place? When I've had enough of WF and want to do something else (is there anything else?) I merely hit the red and white cross in the top right corner of my monitor. Next time I want to visit this site, I simply click on my shortcut and bingo! In other words, for the computer-illiterates, I'm logged in all the time. It never goes off. What a lot of shagging about the rest of you do. Just making life difficult for yourselves.
(Do you know how to create a shortcut? Sheesh. Just click anywhere on the WF home page. Scroll down the menu. Click on 'create shortcut'. Answer 'yes' to the question.)
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Originally Posted by Wildcard
I view with distaste the excretions polluting this site, suffering when I read another by-product of the boredom of one with access to a computer and the internet. As I read I feel I am being defecated on, and cling to an idea that one day I may find solace in the words of one who takes pride in their work.
Last edited by The Backward OX : 05-31-2008 at 11:38 PM.
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05-31-2008, 10:55 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: In front of the keyboard
Posts: 4,717
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At the top right, type in your user name and then password, as usual. Now here's the important part. BEFORE you hit "log in," click the little white box under the log in button that says "Remember Me." That will keep you logged in until you log off.
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05-31-2008, 11:44 PM
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Penguin-in-Chief
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Edinburgh
Gender: Male
Posts: 6,528
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If you continue to be logged out after using the remember me feature then I'm afraid the problem is at your end. Try clearing the cache, changing browser or fiddling with your privacy settings.
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06-01-2008, 03:33 AM
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Scribe
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Wales, UK
Gender: Male
Posts: 80
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Ooh ooh mine's fixed, it was my end sorry, a cookie issue! Thanks.
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06-03-2008, 10:36 AM
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Writing Machine
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: East Coast, US
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,779
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If you take too long to type a post, you will be logged out automatically.
If you have a long post, either type it beforehand in a Word Doc and copy/paste it OR type it in the Quick Reply box, then copy it. If you're logged out (which has happened to me if I'm called away from my computer and some time goes by) you can log back in and paste it for posting.
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"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
E. B. White
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06-03-2008, 12:27 PM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Bandit Country
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,701
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Quote:
Originally Posted by smilinghelps
If you take too long to type a post, you will be logged out automatically.
If you have a long post, either type it beforehand in a Word Doc and copy/paste it OR type it in the Quick Reply box, then copy it. If you're logged out (which has happened to me if I'm called away from my computer and some time goes by) you can log back in and paste it for posting.
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Not if you select the box below the log in boxes that says "remember me". This will keep you logged in indefinitely (i.e. until you either log out or close down whatever internet browser you are using.)
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06-03-2008, 12:40 PM
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Writing Machine
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: East Coast, US
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,779
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Yes, but not everyone can do that. At work there are others who have access to this computer, so I don't use that box.
I'm sure there are others who use public systems, at work or school who don't use that option either.
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"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
E. B. White
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06-03-2008, 12:52 PM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Bandit Country
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,701
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Good point. I found my wee brother on my laptop when I came home from work one evening, and discovered that he was checking my private messages and posts because I had clicked the "remember me" button. I rectified that by password-protecting my account and restricting his permissions on his.
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06-04-2008, 03:11 PM
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Adept Writer
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Bonnie Scotland
Gender: Female
Posts: 773
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or fiddling with your privacy settings.
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Forgive me, its late, I'm tired and my eyes make me read things funny. This made me choke on my hot chocolate
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06-05-2008, 02:47 PM
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Writing Machine
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: East Coast, US
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,779
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That's priceless lilac!
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"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
E. B. White
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