Fellow fuelers you may have noticed a glitch in your message/vote summary text box recently. You perhaps received a strange link to an abuse report instead of the cheerful message from your usual fueler.?
This was not intentional from your blogger friend who simply tried to hyperlink a url. There is a maximum capacity of 200 words characters (thanks Fuelers) per vote, so anything over that may corrupt the system and lead to very unusual results.!
Thank you for those of you who pointed it out to us in the first place (especially Fracas – really appreciated the help). Our tech team are putting a system in place as we speak to prevent this from occurring again but asked us to stop hyper-linking altogether when we vote. So if you want to write a message while voting you can still leave a url but the receiver will have to copy and paste it to view it. We know..a royal pain the in ar*e arm.
“But we want to show our friends links!!!” was our initial response to them – the good news is that they are looking into adding a private messaging option to each fueler’s profile which would enable us to do just that. More on that sooner rather than later!
Bear with us, we are getting there and intend to focus on better tools for conversation on the next phase. In the meantime if you have any suggestions of features you would like to see from a user point of view, do not hesitate to let us know, this site is your site as much as ours – your feedback- good or bad is the fuel to its success, no feedback = big failure 
Look forward to your comments and don’t forget to send in your recipes, we need food to fuel the book!
Easy for me to do as I don’t know how to do those fancy links anyway lol
I saw recieved a couple of those ‘report abuse’ votes and put it down to tecky glitches.
You are so doing a great job for us here on FMB, the system is far sliker than it use to be. PM’s oh wowhow exciting (just disable DP will you lol )
one suggestion is that when you hit 200 words in the fuel box it stops you typing anymore or a message comes up to tell you to stop waffling… can that be done??
200 words?I did not knew we could send 200 words in the vote/fuel/message box…
How do I know I am over 200 words?!!
If 70’s typos get much worse I’m going to stop blogging and never ever use a computer again.
I’m very surprised Fracas noticed anything, she’s usually so ‘laissez faire’ – tee hee
Ah.. DP my job is almost done lol
200 words seems an awful lot. I’m sure I’ve been cut off before that. (Although knowing how short and to the point I always am, it seems unlikely I’ve ever gone over 200 words… in my life even… lol… but let’s just say I had that one time…)
Is it 200 characters perhaps?
And Sylvie, that was kind of you to mention me, but truth be told, I wasn’t actually all that helpful.
It’s definitely only 200 characters – we must all remember that Kevin is a peabrain and Sylvie isn’t British.
70’s – I might have to rethink my last comment ……….
Lol!!!!! it would appear that I am the pea brain on this occasion thanks folks…you are the best!!!
200 characters it is…anyone confused…just don’t ask me anymore…I know nothing!
That’s cleared that up then …… excellent
200 words!!!!!!;-)
NO NO NO NO !!!!! – oh I give up …….
DP: if you give up what hope do we have???
He doesn’t really mean “give up” he means he plans on retreating to that room at the back of the office (where he keeps all those magazines, scissors and glue) for a spell and doesn’t want to be bothered.
Being his secretaryarse, I know these things.
It also means he needs a nice cup of tea. He’s suffered so much while I’ve been off, but good news is coming! So long as I don’t lift anything over ten lbs. I may return to work soon.
@ Sylvie I don’t think you want me to answer that?? lol
@ Dear Frac… gosh you are such a great secretary .. we have been suffering in your absence I can tell you
Whi do evrybiddy twype sooo biddily an’ bee uncapleable oft conting proper!!!!!?!
[One of the deliberate typo's was very nearly X-rated - tee hee]
ha ha DP… you have got me doubting even when I think I have typoed proper like!!
Dearest 70s – I’m sure there are none who have suffered as much as you and Sylvie. Had I thought about what you’d have to endure with him while I would be off, I’d have never, ever tried to dig up and move/lift that plant.
DP – Please DP, I’m only going to ask nicely this once, and then I’ll have to come back to work early and be crankly (so unlike me) and all… please put down the scissors and glue before you type next time. Have you thought of what might happen if you accidentally revealed the alarm code to the office? Heavens… the accidental X-rated comment is nothing compared to someone out there being able to enter the office at night and fossick to their heart’s content!
Yes… I did mean to type ‘crankly’. It’s what happens when a gal is a cross between cranky and wrinkly.
I wish you would come back to work soon – there are a lot of people and things getting on top of me …….