If you go into your forum settings you can amend it so the newest reply to the thread is at the top.
Go to User Details, then Settings, then Order of Topics and change to last modified.
-- Edited by ParamountCruiser on Thursday 7th of February 2013 10:03:36 AM
Cupie said
10:22 AM Feb 7, 2013
My brain must work a bit different.
I prefer the original post at the top .. or maybe I'm just used to it being that way & have never tried to change it.
Might do that now ... just to see if I can.
I agree about the lack of bitchiness on this forum.
edit .. Just did it. ie. Changed the order of comments.
Go to ..... User Details ... Settings ... change ... comments .... from ... default to newest first.
I'll go back to the default now.
cheers .. G
-- Edited by Cupie on Thursday 7th of February 2013 10:25:57 AM
-- Edited by Cupie on Thursday 7th of February 2013 10:27:53 AM
neilnruth said
04:13 PM Feb 7, 2013
I think I have my settings set to receive most recent thread on top - but sometimes I get thrown when someone digs up a really old thread and posts on it. I wonder where on earth it has come from!
Yes, I do. My setting says 'Last modified' for order of topics.
-- Edited by neilnruth on Thursday 7th of February 2013 04:16:57 PM
Golddetectornomad said
05:15 PM Feb 7, 2013
G'day, May I ask why a thread that has received a members reply does not move to the head of the thread index? I'm a member of a number of U.S. forums where this happens and it really helps members keep up with thread responses, rather than going back to page 2 or 3 and attempting to find a certain thread and then see if there have been any recent responses.Most threads remain of interest to all members and if there is fresh information added, it likely helps us all, not just the original thread poster.Some responses on the U.S. sites can follow some 6 months after original post with fresh interesting information which is to the benefit of all members...
I presume this question has been asked previously, however I am only a recent member and not aware of the reasons it does not, or can't happen on this Forum...
This site remains a fantastic source of information, and I hope my question in no way is interpreted as a criticism...Hoo Roo.
Happywanderer said
05:17 PM Feb 7, 2013
You must have your settings wrong. On mine threads with a new post always sit at the top. (Come first)
Roving-Dutchy said
05:24 PM Feb 7, 2013
I too have wondered why this forum board doesn't have some of the refinements that many other forums have, it must be that the site that hosts this forum, just does not have the same technical abilities. But nonetheless this forum has some very helpful people on it and we don't seem to have the bitching that other forums seem to suffer from, so all in all a great forum. Cheers David
fireheart said
10:10 PM Feb 7, 2013
Thanks for the info, just went in and changed my settings also. Makes better sense to see the last comment first. I think that makes sense anyways.
Golddetectornomad said
10:34 PM Feb 7, 2013
Thanks for all your reply's...I've adjusted my settings and now I'm a happy Chappy.... Cupie, not me digging those holes,I always fill mine...the creed of the Prospector...and besides you dont let anyone else know where you found a nugget if you leave the ground as you found it... Cupie, you had me going for a start when you said I had a famous name....I thought you were referring to the fact my surname is Hartigan and I do have a famous Aussie/Irish ancestor named Father Patrick Hartigan who penned much typical Aussie prose under the name 'John O'Brien' around the 1900's...perhaps you've heard.."we'll all be rooned said Hanrahan..before the year is out"..from 'Around the Boree Log.'....and if I want to charm a Lady I quote these words also from his prose...."Oh stick me in the old caboose this night of wind and rain..and let the doves of fancy loose to bill and coo again".....dont write them like that any more do they?...Father Patrick died in 1952 ..a country Priest for many years in N.S.W....Hoo Roo....
-- Edited by Golddetectornomad on Thursday 7th of February 2013 10:36:35 PM
-- Edited by Golddetectornomad on Thursday 7th of February 2013 10:42:59 PM
brickies said
10:36 PM Feb 7, 2013
I like it the way it is has if I go to the post for the first time I read all the post before commenting were has if the last post first you may not read all posts backwards
Happywanderer said
11:04 PM Feb 7, 2013
Very true, first post is easy to read then subsequent posts come below it. Much easier.
But thats not the question asked., It was about a total thread being on the top (straight under Stickies) so can be found and not a couple of pages down.
brickies said
11:35 PM Feb 7, 2013
Thank Marj I missed the point I think you just get used to doing what you do
Cupie said
12:07 AM Feb 8, 2013
Golddetectornomad wrote:
G'day, May I ask why a thread that has received a members reply does not move to the head of the thread index?
Looks like I missed the point too in my earlier reply. Sorry.
Its a good idea that as a THREAD receives a post (reply or response), that that THREAD goes to the top.
On this forum we rely on an email when there is a thread that we want to keep tabs on (by checking the "Email me whenever there is a new post to this topic").
ps. Golddetectornomad ...
That's a famous Family name that you have.
So its you who has been making all those holes in the paddocks beside the roads around the Castlemain area!
Cupie said
08:59 AM Feb 8, 2013
Golddetectornomad ...
Yes it was "Hartigan" that I was referring to. A fantastic family background you have.
I have a distant relo in Castlemaine who once had 'posession' of the old open goldmine there with its water cannon. He was going to turn it into a tourist site .. A bit like a scaled down version of Ballarat's fantastic spectacle I suppose. Not sure if he has any involvement with it these days.
The holes that I was referring to are those that you can see alongside a number of roads around the area where the olden day miners fossicked.
Edit ..
Lo, a famous relo ... I well remember the 'Hanrahan' poem & often quote bits like "we'll all be rooned"
Patrick Joseph Hartigan (1878-1952), priest and poet, was born on 13 October 1878 at O'Connell Town, Yass, New South Wales, eldest surviving son of Patrick Joseph Hartigan, produce merchant, and his wife Mary, née Townsell, both from Lisseycasey, Clare, Ireland. After attending the convent school at Yass, he entered St Patrick's College, Manly, in February 1892 but, uncertain of his vocation for the priesthood, left for St Patrick's College, Goulburn, where he studied under the noted classicist Dr John Gallagher, later bishop of Goulburn. He returned to Manly in 1898 and was ordained priest on 18 January 1903. After a curacy of seven years at Albury, he became inspector of schools for the vast diocese of Goulburn in 1910 and was based at Thurgoona near Albury. He was one of the first curates in the State with a motor car; in 1911 he took the last sacraments to Jack Riley of Bringenbrong, said to have been A. B. Paterson's 'The Man from Snowy River'. In 1916 he was appointed priest-in-charge of Berrigan and next year parish priest of Narrandera.
All this time Hartigan was a keen student of Australian literature. In 1906 he began publishing verse in such journals as the Albury Daily News, Catholic Press and the Bulletin under the pen-name 'Mary Ann'. Encouraged by George Robertson, C. J. Dennis and others, he published Around the Boree Log and Other verses, under the pseudonym 'John O'Brien', in November 1921. Recording with humour and pathos the lively faith, solid piety and everyday lives of the people around him, Hartigan successfully combined the old faith of Ireland with the mateship and ethos of the bush, towards the end of an age when the small selectors and squatters went by sulky or 'shandrydan' to 'The Church Upon the Hill'.
'We'll all be rooned', said Hanrahan, In accents most forlorn, Outside the church, ere Mass began, One frosty Sunday morn.
'Said Hanrahan' and the other poems were an instant success. Dennis hailed them in the Bulletin as in 'the direct Lawson-Paterson line mainlyunaffected talk about Australians, much as they would naturally talk about themselves'. Around the Boree Log ran to five editions and 18,000 copies by 1926, was widely popularized throughout eastern Australia by the recitations of John Byrne ('The Joker'), acclaimed in Ireland and the United States of America, and made into a film in 1925. Twenty poems were set to music by Dom S. Moreno of New Norcia, Western Australia, in 1933.
Hartigan was a popular figure in the town and community. His years at Narrandera were happy if arduous, disturbed only perhaps by the sectarianism engendered by the Sister Liguori case. His poems and short stories regularly appeared, many in the religious journal, Manly. Advancing age, ill health and a desire to carry out more historical research led Hartigan to retire as pastor of Narrandera in 1944; he became chaplain of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Rose Bay. In Sydney he was a familiar figure in the Mitchell Library and wrote a series of articles, 'In Diebus Illis', recording the struggles of the pioneer clergy, published in the Australasian Catholic Record in 1943-45 and posthumously in book form as The men of '38 (Kilmore, 1975). Still much in demand as occasional speaker and preacher, in 1947 he was appointed domestic prelate with the title of right reverend monsignor in October 1947. His main comforts in his semi-retirement were the love of his near relations, receiving visitors (especially from Narrandera) and watching the shipping on the harbour. Ill with cancer from 1951 he completed On Darlinghurst Hill (Sydney, 1952), written for the centenary of the Sacred Heart Parish.
Hartigan died in Lewisham Hospital on 27 December 1952 and, after a requiem Mass in St Mary's Cathedral, was buried beside his parents in North Rocks cemetery.
Tall, handsome in his young days, and impressive always, Hartigan for all his broad humanity and kindliness was shy and somewhat detached. Possessed of a dry humour underlain by a touch of wistfulness, he was a good conversationalist and raconteur: literature, art, cricket, horses, the land and cars were ready subjects. He was an excellent, yet undemonstrative preacherhis addresses, including panegyrics on his friends, with their pervading poetic imagery, sense of history and heartfelt sincerity are beautiful examples of Irish-Australian oratory.
Much of 'John O'Brien's' unpublished verse appeared in The Parish of St. Mel's (Sydney, 1954). A selection of his poems, illustrated by the paintings of Patrick Carroll, was published as Around the Boree Log (Sydney, 1978). A portrait by E. M. Smith is at St Patrick's College, Manly.
-- Edited by Cupie on Friday 8th of February 2013 11:44:06 AM
Golddetectornomad said
12:53 AM Feb 9, 2013
Thank you so much Cupie for your research...interesting bloke...a bit off topic I guess but my Grandfather Francis Xavier Hartigan and my Uncle Reginald William were also in Manly at the same time as Father Patrick..both went off together WW1 and lasted as far as the Somme....Grandfather a Sapper, digging underground,& Uncle, Gunner in the Field Artillery..nearly 20 years old, both at Villers Bretonneux in the decisive last 'Big Push' and Uncle killed 19/8/1918 just before War end...occupation on death certificate written by my Great Grandfather 'School boy Nudgee College' immediately prior to joining 2nd Brigade....two went over together and only one returned...my grandfather then died very prematurely of his mustard gas poisoning.my father was named after my dead Uncle and spent 37 years in Australian Infantry....we all have so much to be thankful for enjoying the years they never saw....why would anyone complain about anything today, while we have our health and enjoy our freedom....?Hoo Roo
-- Edited by Golddetectornomad on Saturday 9th of February 2013 12:54:27 AM
-- Edited by Golddetectornomad on Saturday 9th of February 2013 12:56:09 AM
Beth54 said
03:23 AM Feb 9, 2013
Golddetectornomad wrote:
Thanks for all your reply's...I've adjusted my settings and now I'm a happy Chappy.... Cupie, not me digging those holes,I always fill mine...the creed of the Prospector...and besides you dont let anyone else know where you found a nugget if you leave the ground as you found it... Cupie, you had me going for a start when you said I had a famous name....I thought you were referring to the fact my surname is Hartigan and I do have a famous Aussie/Irish ancestor named Father Patrick Hartigan who penned much typical Aussie prose under the name 'John O'Brien' around the 1900's...perhaps you've heard.."we'll all be rooned said Hanrahan..before the year is out"..from 'Around the Boree Log.'....and if I want to charm a Lady I quote these words also from his prose...."Oh stick me in the old caboose this night of wind and rain..and let the doves of fancy loose to bill and coo again".....dont write them like that any more do they?...Father Patrick died in 1952 ..a country Priest for many years in N.S.W....Hoo Roo....
-- Edited by Golddetectornomad on Thursday 7th of February 2013 10:36:35 PM
-- Edited by Golddetectornomad on Thursday 7th of February 2013 10:42:59 PM
I don't remember the name but I remember Said Hanarahan very well. And you're right, they don't write them like that anymore.
Boothie said
03:37 AM Feb 9, 2013
I just have to add Tangmalangaloo to that list of poems, they sure don't do them like that no more, cause they don't have the race day after christmas day!
pricey43 said
04:48 AM Feb 9, 2013
If you double click on your user name at the top right, you get a list of all the most recent coments from all the categories. Its great to see where the main discussion is.
If you go into your forum settings you can amend it so the newest reply to the thread is at the top.
Go to User Details, then Settings, then Order of Topics and change to last modified.
-- Edited by ParamountCruiser on Thursday 7th of February 2013 10:03:36 AM
My brain must work a bit different.
I prefer the original post at the top .. or maybe I'm just used to it being that way & have never tried to change it.
Might do that now ... just to see if I can.
I agree about the lack of bitchiness on this forum.
edit .. Just did it. ie. Changed the order of comments.
Go to ..... User Details ... Settings ... change ... comments .... from ... default to newest first.
I'll go back to the default now.
cheers .. G
-- Edited by Cupie on Thursday 7th of February 2013 10:25:57 AM
-- Edited by Cupie on Thursday 7th of February 2013 10:27:53 AM
I think I have my settings set to receive most recent thread on top - but sometimes I get thrown when someone digs up a really old thread and posts on it. I wonder where on earth it has come from!
Yes, I do. My setting says 'Last modified' for order of topics.
-- Edited by neilnruth on Thursday 7th of February 2013 04:16:57 PM
G'day, May I ask why a thread that has received a members reply does not move to the head of the thread index? I'm a member of a number of U.S. forums where this happens and it really helps members keep up with thread responses, rather than going back to page 2 or 3 and attempting to find a certain thread and then see if there have been any recent responses.Most threads remain of interest to all members and if there is fresh information added, it likely helps us all, not just the original thread poster.Some responses on the U.S. sites can follow some 6 months after original post with fresh interesting information which is to the benefit of all members...
I presume this question has been asked previously, however I am only a recent member and not aware of the reasons it does not, or can't happen on this Forum...
This site remains a fantastic source of information, and I hope my question in no way is interpreted as a criticism...Hoo Roo.
But nonetheless this forum has some very helpful people on it and we don't seem to have the bitching that other forums seem to suffer from, so all in all a great forum.
Cheers
David
Thanks for all your reply's...I've adjusted my settings and now I'm a happy Chappy....
Cupie, not me digging those holes,I always fill mine...the creed of the Prospector...and besides you dont let anyone else know where you found a nugget if you leave the ground as you found it...
Cupie, you had me going for a start when you said I had a famous name....I thought you were referring to the fact my surname is Hartigan and I do have a famous Aussie/Irish ancestor named Father Patrick Hartigan who penned much typical Aussie prose under the name 'John O'Brien' around the 1900's...perhaps you've heard.."we'll all be rooned said Hanrahan..before the year is out"..from 'Around the Boree Log.'....and if I want to charm a Lady I quote these words also from his prose...."Oh stick me in the old caboose this night of wind and rain..and let the doves of fancy loose to bill and coo again".....dont write them like that any more do they?...Father Patrick died in 1952 ..a country Priest for many years in N.S.W....Hoo Roo....
-- Edited by Golddetectornomad on Thursday 7th of February 2013 10:36:35 PM
-- Edited by Golddetectornomad on Thursday 7th of February 2013 10:42:59 PM
But thats not the question asked., It was about a total thread being on the top (straight under Stickies) so can be found and not a couple of pages down.
Looks like I missed the point too in my earlier reply. Sorry.
Its a good idea that as a THREAD receives a post (reply or response), that that THREAD goes to the top.
On this forum we rely on an email when there is a thread that we want to keep tabs on (by checking the "Email me whenever there is a new post to this topic").
ps. Golddetectornomad ...
That's a famous Family name that you have.
So its you who has been making all those holes in the paddocks beside the roads around the Castlemain area!
Golddetectornomad ...
Yes it was "Hartigan" that I was referring to. A fantastic family background you have.
I have a distant relo in Castlemaine who once had 'posession' of the old open goldmine there with its water cannon. He was going to turn it into a tourist site .. A bit like a scaled down version of Ballarat's fantastic spectacle I suppose. Not sure if he has any involvement with it these days.
The holes that I was referring to are those that you can see alongside a number of roads around the area where the olden day miners fossicked.
Edit ..
Lo, a famous relo ... I well remember the 'Hanrahan' poem & often quote bits like "we'll all be rooned"
Hartigan, Patrick Joseph (18781952)
by G. P. Walsh
Patrick Joseph Hartigan (1878-1952), priest and poet, was born on 13 October 1878 at O'Connell Town, Yass, New South Wales, eldest surviving son of Patrick Joseph Hartigan, produce merchant, and his wife Mary, née Townsell, both from Lisseycasey, Clare, Ireland. After attending the convent school at Yass, he entered St Patrick's College, Manly, in February 1892 but, uncertain of his vocation for the priesthood, left for St Patrick's College, Goulburn, where he studied under the noted classicist Dr John Gallagher, later bishop of Goulburn. He returned to Manly in 1898 and was ordained priest on 18 January 1903. After a curacy of seven years at Albury, he became inspector of schools for the vast diocese of Goulburn in 1910 and was based at Thurgoona near Albury. He was one of the first curates in the State with a motor car; in 1911 he took the last sacraments to Jack Riley of Bringenbrong, said to have been A. B. Paterson's 'The Man from Snowy River'. In 1916 he was appointed priest-in-charge of Berrigan and next year parish priest of Narrandera.
All this time Hartigan was a keen student of Australian literature. In 1906 he began publishing verse in such journals as the Albury Daily News, Catholic Press and the Bulletin under the pen-name 'Mary Ann'. Encouraged by George Robertson, C. J. Dennis and others, he published Around the Boree Log and Other verses, under the pseudonym 'John O'Brien', in November 1921. Recording with humour and pathos the lively faith, solid piety and everyday lives of the people around him, Hartigan successfully combined the old faith of Ireland with the mateship and ethos of the bush, towards the end of an age when the small selectors and squatters went by sulky or 'shandrydan' to 'The Church Upon the Hill'.
'Said Hanrahan' and the other poems were an instant success. Dennis hailed them in the Bulletin as in 'the direct Lawson-Paterson line mainlyunaffected talk about Australians, much as they would naturally talk about themselves'. Around the Boree Log ran to five editions and 18,000 copies by 1926, was widely popularized throughout eastern Australia by the recitations of John Byrne ('The Joker'), acclaimed in Ireland and the United States of America, and made into a film in 1925. Twenty poems were set to music by Dom S. Moreno of New Norcia, Western Australia, in 1933.
Hartigan was a popular figure in the town and community. His years at Narrandera were happy if arduous, disturbed only perhaps by the sectarianism engendered by the Sister Liguori case. His poems and short stories regularly appeared, many in the religious journal, Manly. Advancing age, ill health and a desire to carry out more historical research led Hartigan to retire as pastor of Narrandera in 1944; he became chaplain of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Rose Bay. In Sydney he was a familiar figure in the Mitchell Library and wrote a series of articles, 'In Diebus Illis', recording the struggles of the pioneer clergy, published in the Australasian Catholic Record in 1943-45 and posthumously in book form as The men of '38 (Kilmore, 1975). Still much in demand as occasional speaker and preacher, in 1947 he was appointed domestic prelate with the title of right reverend monsignor in October 1947. His main comforts in his semi-retirement were the love of his near relations, receiving visitors (especially from Narrandera) and watching the shipping on the harbour. Ill with cancer from 1951 he completed On Darlinghurst Hill (Sydney, 1952), written for the centenary of the Sacred Heart Parish.
Hartigan died in Lewisham Hospital on 27 December 1952 and, after a requiem Mass in St Mary's Cathedral, was buried beside his parents in North Rocks cemetery.
Tall, handsome in his young days, and impressive always, Hartigan for all his broad humanity and kindliness was shy and somewhat detached. Possessed of a dry humour underlain by a touch of wistfulness, he was a good conversationalist and raconteur: literature, art, cricket, horses, the land and cars were ready subjects. He was an excellent, yet undemonstrative preacherhis addresses, including panegyrics on his friends, with their pervading poetic imagery, sense of history and heartfelt sincerity are beautiful examples of Irish-Australian oratory.
Much of 'John O'Brien's' unpublished verse appeared in The Parish of St. Mel's (Sydney, 1954). A selection of his poems, illustrated by the paintings of Patrick Carroll, was published as Around the Boree Log (Sydney, 1978). A portrait by E. M. Smith is at St Patrick's College, Manly.
-- Edited by Cupie on Friday 8th of February 2013 11:44:06 AM
Thank you so much Cupie for your research...interesting bloke...a bit off topic I guess but my Grandfather Francis Xavier Hartigan and my Uncle Reginald William were also in Manly at the same time as Father Patrick..both went off together WW1 and lasted as far as the Somme....Grandfather a Sapper, digging underground,& Uncle, Gunner in the Field Artillery..nearly 20 years old, both at Villers Bretonneux in the decisive last 'Big Push' and Uncle killed 19/8/1918 just before War end...occupation on death certificate written by my Great Grandfather 'School boy Nudgee College' immediately prior to joining 2nd Brigade....two went over together and only one returned...my grandfather then died very prematurely of his mustard gas poisoning.my father was named after my dead Uncle and spent 37 years in Australian Infantry....we all have so much to be thankful for enjoying the years they never saw....why would anyone complain about anything today, while we have our health and enjoy our freedom....?Hoo Roo
-- Edited by Golddetectornomad on Saturday 9th of February 2013 12:54:27 AM
-- Edited by Golddetectornomad on Saturday 9th of February 2013 12:56:09 AM
I don't remember the name but I remember Said Hanarahan very well. And you're right, they don't write them like that anymore.
I just have to add Tangmalangaloo to that list of poems, they sure don't do them like that no more, cause they don't have the race day after christmas day!
If you double click on your user name at the top right, you get a list of all the most recent coments from all the categories. Its great to see where the main discussion is.