Hi Carleas,
I’m having problems sending PM’s. I’ve been getting this message even when I go to save a draft. I’ve signed out and rebooted my machine but still the same problem.
The error message below says it’s a database error. Thanks.
General Error
SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]
Incorrect string value: ‘\xF0\x9F\x98\x8A. …’ for column ‘draft_message’ at row 1 [1366]
An SQL error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact the Board Administrator if this problem persists.
Sometimes people don’t respond quickly because they want to appear busy.
I used to do that when I worked for the government.
My boss got mad at me and told me to answer immediately.
So when when a call came through, I’d answer: “911. What’s your emergency?”
then put them on hold and pretended I had other calls.
For your info, Carleas, in case you get the same error message down the track:
I wrote this message on Word and added a smilie. The system doesn’t like smilies from other programs and wouldn’t send.
Thanks for all your help.
I couldn’t have done in without you.
My dad got to appreciate that if I found him funny I’d laugh, but if I didn’t… which was oftentimes, I at least appreciated the joke due to his effort in making it.
He made me his wing-woman when I was 17, if that helps with context.