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Please read down for help on the forum and any other tips or services.

If you would like to post on this forum and have an existing username please PM me. Otherwise e-mail me on rob@thefishy.co.uk

Or indeed PM any of the Mods on the board (us boys in blue!)

The forgotten password link has not been working for some time on the Fishy (my fault). It is now working, so if anyone has forgotten their password and tried to use it in the recent past without success, please try again now.

https://forum.thefishy.co.uk/Blah.pl?v-login/p-forgotpw/

It sends you an e-mail to your registered e-mail address which you have to respond to so you'll need to be able to access that.

The Fishy has a fixture calendar you can use in Google/Yahoo/Outlook or anything that understands ICAL calendars

Just add the following URL to your favourite calendar:

https://thefishy.co.uk/calendar.php

The Fishy's database is updated regularly throughout the season so new fixture dates, postponements and cup games should be picked up straight away if you use this calendar

If you want to embed a youtube video in a post just use the youtube tag like this: "[youtube ]ID[/youtube]"

You can get the value of ID just by copying the clip id in the address bar, as shown below

Example below:

Users can now register using a Google+ id. Click on the registration link or go to:

https://thefishy.co.uk/register.php/

After you register you have to be validated and allowed to post.

The Fishy forum is now on a subdomain of the main site. All old style urls should be redirected to the new format. The home page of the forum can be found at:

http://forum.thefishy.co.uk/

A new feature has been provided on the Fishy where you can embed a single tweet in a post, which provides a live link to the Twitter web site, for example, this is a image tweet from Radio Humberside. You can reply to it, retweet it, and other actions just as you can in Twitter itself.

Tweet 750352180520026112 will appear here...

The image below explains how to embed a tweet on the Fishy. You need to find the long tweet id which you can get from selecting a tweet in Twitter and you can see the Tweet id in the address bar of your browser. You then have to put the tweet id between a pair of opening and closing tags [tweet ] and [/tweet ] and the Tweet should appear.

I will be copying this to the FAQ thread in case you need to look at it again.

Any problems let me know.

There is now a Tweet buttton above where you type your post which can put all the right tags in for you

To report a post to the moderators please use the appropriate "Report" button located above a post. We will examine the post and take any action we deem appropriate.

The Fishy cannot directly host your images, you need to use a third party. If you want to put your own image on the site you need to first of all put it on an image-hosting site such as https://imgbb.com/ and then embed its location within your message between img tags using this button

People often ask if we can tell you your password if they forget it. We can't. The password is stored in a hashed format that cannot be reversed. The only way to access your account if you don't know the password is to reset it:

https://forum.thefishy.co.uk/Blah.pl?v-login/p-forgotpw/

This is reminders to all Posters that they are legally responsible for their own messages. If a complaint is received about a specific message with regard to it being libellous, and that is upheld by the Fishy, then you as the poster may need to take action.

The following is taken from this document and represents my interpretation of it in relation to the Fishy:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/269138/defamation-guidance.pdf

The complainant needs to provide an explanation of the reasons why the complainant thinks the statement is defamatory of the complainant. The courts have used a range of tests in deciding what is defamatory (for example, whether the material “tends to lower the claimant in the estimation of right-thinking members of society generally”), but broadly speaking the complainant should focus on explaining the harm that the statement has caused or is likely to cause to his or her reputation. Section 1 of the Defamation Act 2013 requires that for a statement to be defamatory the level of harm caused or likely to be caused to the reputation of the claimant must be serious, and in the case of a body that trades for profit, the harm caused or likely to be caused to that body must amount to serious financial loss.

It is the complainant’s responsibility to ensure that the Notice of Complaint contains the information set out above, and an operator (i.e. the Fishy) may reject it if it does not do so.

On receipt of a valid Notice of Complaint, the Fishy will contact the poster who posted the statement complained of by PM/email within 48 hours (excluding non-business days).

If the poster fails to respond within the specified time period, the Fishy will remove the statement from the locations on the website specified in the Notice of Complaint within 48 hours of the end of that period and will inform the poster. The poster is also free to remove it themselves during the 48-hour window.

If the poster replies within the specified time period, but does not provide all the information requested – ie a) whether the poster wishes the statement complained of to be removed b) If the poster does not wish the statement to be removed, the poster’s full name and details of the postal address at which the poster resides or carries on business c) whether the poster consents to the operator sending those details to the complainant then to keep the defence, the post will be removed. In this situation, it is then for the complainant to engage with the poster direct.

If the poster does not wish the statement to be removed and provides the required contact details but does not agree to these being sent to the complainant, then to keep the defence the operator must contact the complainant in writing within 48 hours of receiving the poster’s response. This communication must inform the complainant: a) that the poster does not wish the statement to be removed b) that the statement has not been removed from the locations on the website specified in the Notice of Complaint, and c) that the poster has not consented to the release of the poster’s contact details. In this situation, if the complainant wishes to take further action it may be open to the complainant to seek a court order requiring the operator to release the poster’s contact details to the complainant.

Where a statement has been removed following a Notice of Complaint, and the poster reposts the same or substantially the same material, the above process will be repeated on the first such occasion. If the poster continues to make similar statements following a Notice of Complaint then their account may be deleted or disabled so they are unable to post any more.

If you keep losing your passwords (and even if you don't) then use a password manager which means you only need to remember one password. Bitwarden is a recommended free one - https://bitwarden.com.

You can block posts from a specific user in your Member Centre

To add an image attachment to a thread, you will need a file locally on your device. Use the "New Reply" button at the top of a page (not the "Quick Reply" at the bottom) and use the "Choose file" button to navigate to the file(s) you wish to attach to your message. There are constraints on file type and size, but if these are met, then the attachment(s) will appear within the message.