There have been reports of malicious code being put in some guestbooks and group threads.  Neither Multiply nor your site has been "hacked".  It's only a code that makes your browser misbehave. (Some people have nothing better to do).

It is EASY to remove the offending comment.


FIRST, report the USER that has done this.  Then, using FIREFOX, go to View/Page Style.  (See screenshot) and turn OFF page styles.  Then go to your guestbook, view all, or the thread with the offending code and delete it.  That's it.  It's that easy.

If you wish to disable html in guestbooks, then you can and that will prevent it from happening again.  But it's not necessary when it's easily removed.

You can also use Scriptblocker with Firefox and it will block the offending code so you can remove it too.

Please feel free to link to this thread.

The most common cause of a missing Submit button is that you've collapsed the reply box too much, hiding also the buttons. To fix it, simply click on the five small dots in the lower-right corner of the reply box and drag it down, to expand the reply box:



Just to make things clear: the reply settings are generic (the same settings will apply to any place on Multiply) and user-specific. So if you change it in one post, all places will then reflect that change. It affects the size of the reply box and the reply sorting order (chronological, reverse or threaded). So if you have a problem with a missing Submit button in your Guestbook, enlarging the reply box using the dots will fix it everywhere (after you refresh the page, of course).

If it does not fix it for you, either you have a problem in your browser or the custom theme you're using for your page has a problem. Then you may want to read these:
http://usersupport.multiply.com/journal/item/56/CLEAN_TempCache_Files_FIRST
http://usersupport.multiply.com/journal/item/140/Using_a_Custom_Theme_Cannot_see_your_contentlinks_Read_this


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You already know how to add images to your Blog entries (tutorials can be found here or here). It's simple and easy because there is a button for this (among other things) while you compose or edit a blog entry. You can even use it to create the HTML code to place somewhere else that does not have the powerful editing tools: just click on 'Edit HTML' to copy the code.

But if you want to do it quickly in a reply or host your own set of smileys to add to your comments in Guestbooks or in your Welcome Message? Basically, you have to use this HTML command:

<img src="Image_URL">

where Image_URL is the address of the image on the Internet (it cannot be in your computer, it must be hosted online so others can see it). For instance, the blog icon above has this URL:
http://images.multiply.com/multiply/icons/clean/24x24/journal.png

you can then use this command to display it anywhere you want:
<img src="http://images.multiply.com/multiply/icons/clean/24x24/journal.png">

that will show this:

You can even host your images here on Multiply in a private photo album (so no one else can see them) and easily get the code to embed them elsewhere.

Here are some nice tutorials related to this subject that can be found in the New to Multiply group where you can find more details:
http://multiplynewbie.multiply.com/journal/item/46/Hot-linking_images_inside_Multiply
http://multiplynewbie.multiply.com/journal/item/47/Hot-linking_inside_Multiply_-_Part_2
http://multiplynewbie.multiply.com/journal/item/17/Pictures_in_the_text

In the comments of the first one, there is even a tip about how to add an album artwork to your playlist (Music post) so it will display in the Type column if your Music page is set to Table View.

 Another tip: when using code from third party sites, be aware that they may include advertising or even malware with the image code. To avoid this, copy the code from their sites, paste it in a text editor and use only the part of the code that has the IMG tag. For example, this is a code from a known image hosting site:

<a href=http://www.ZangyGraphics.com/picture.php?c=hi&n=271><img src=http://zangygraphics.com/hi/test2.gif border=0></a><br><a href="http://zangygraphics.com/imgs/logo.php"><img src="http://zangygraphics.com/imgs/zangylogo.jpg" border="0"></a>

But the only part you really need to display the image is the one in bold:
<img src=http://zangygraphics.com/hi/test2.gif border=0>


PS: If it seems that you cannot add an image to a friend's Guestbook (or the other way around: if you want to prevent images in your Guestbook), probably you want to take a look at the Guestbook FAQ entry.



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Some people want their entire site on Multiply to be private in every way.  Others want everything to be public.  But the majority of Multiply users are somewhere in the middle, wanting to share some things with the world, but reserving some other bits of info. just for their closest friends and family.

Multiply's privacy settings are very customizable.  It's possible to show some pieces of information about yourself, without giving it all away.  The following is a quick summary that will help you set up your Multiply experience to be exactly the way you want it.


if you want to make a post private, then make sure you select something other than "everyone" in the privacy settings at the end of the post.   (if you already published the post but realized later that you forgot that step, you can go back and edit the post and change it.)  posting something for "everyone" will make it so that search engines can find it.  (some people want this.  it's a handy feature for people who want to have a public blog in addition to the private blogging that they do for friends and family only.)

if you don't want search engines to find your content, select anything other than "everyone" when making the post.  this would mean selecting "network," "contacts" or individuals. 

if you want to just send something out to all your friends, say, or just your family, you can choose "contacts" and then modify that even further to include only your contacts that are friends (or family, or coworkers). 

don't forget that any replies you make on a friend or family members threads will automatically fall under whatever privacy setting they have made for their post.  so if they have set their post to everyone, then not only is their post available for the world to see and for search engines to pick up, but your replies are also.

if you want to make your profile private, you need to go to your profile, click on the "edit profile" link to the upper right of the profile and change your privacy settings for each section.

if you want to make your last name, email address and birthday private, you need to click on the settings link in the upper right hand corner, and then select "my account" and change that there.

if you want to make your guestbook private, you need to click on "customize my site" on your home page.  then go to the box that's around your guestbook and click "edit."  change your privacy settings there. to read the guestbook faq, click here.

if you don't want anyone to know where you live, not even your contacts, you can change the zip code setting to 00000.

if you want to make your groups and contact info. private, click on "customize my site." then go to the box that has either your contacts or groups in it. (this works pretty similarly for both.) click on "edit." the privacy settings are the first things that you can change. 

note: hiding your contact box or your groups box does not make the information private.  someone could find it via URL.  so make sure you change your privacy settings before hiding the box (if you choose to hide the box).  also, even though you've hidden the boxes, you'll still see the links to those sections under your headshot.  others won't be able to see it, but you will.

also, the A#1 most important rule to remember when concerned about privacy is to never ever ever accept someone as a contact that you don't trust.  if you do that, you pretty much make all the rest of the privacy controls on multiply rather worthless.  (it's like having a well guarded castle but letting in any visitor that arrives at the gate.   ;-)    )  for more information on adding contacts, please check out this post.

Related posts include:

How to Make Your Site Private
Privacy Settings

• Large pictures may make the column where the Guestbook is in your main page too wide. Either remove the entry or ask the poster to remove the code. Also, you can add this code to your Custom CSS to display a scrollbar when it happens:

          #home_guestbook .replybox { overflow:auto; }

          or, if you don't want it to display any image at all:

          #home_guestbook .replybody img { display: none; }

• How to remove/delete messages from your Guestbook:

            At your main page, you won't see the links to delete comments or edit your own replies in your Guestbook. To do this, you have to go to the Guestbook page. You can get there using one of these ways:
            - at your main page, click on the link below your Guestbook "View All NNN Comments"
            - use this link: http://Your_Username.multiply.com/guestbook (replace Your User_Name with your actual Multiply username)

            If you cannot find the delete link for the offending graphic, you can try this: use the delete link from another comment and try to modify it to delete what you want, like this: get the delete link from the previous or next entry (right-click on the link and use 'Copy Link Location' on Firefox or the analogous command in your browser), copy it to your browser's location bar (the one where you type the http://...) and modify it to reflect the entry you want to delete.

For instance, the delete link to my 250th entry in my guestbook is something like this:
javascript:confirmLink("Are you sure you want to delete this reply?", "/item/delete-reply/lfom:guestbook:1+250?xurl=http%3A%2F%2Flfom.multiply.com%2F&usertoken=manylettershere")

So, if I want to delete the next entry, I simply copy it to the my browser's location bar, replace 250 with 251 like this:
javascript:confirmLink("Are you sure you want to delete this reply?", "/item/delete-reply/lfom:guestbook:1+251?xurl=http%3A%2F%2Flfom.multiply.com%2F&usertoken=manylettershere")

and press the ENTER (or RETURN) key. A confirmation dialog should appear, then click on OK.

• Also, you can edit the number of comments displayed at your main page and the access (privacy) level if you click on Customize My Site and then on the Edit link found in the Guestbook box (see the image below).

• You can now completely disable HTML in your Guestbook replies, just edit it in your main page (see the picture below).

• If you can't see your Guestbook and you didn't hide it using the Hide link while your main page is in 'Customization Mode', probably you've set yout Homepage to 'Linear View'. Return it to 'Boxes View' to see your Guestbook again:

            http://multiply.com/setup/pages/home

• If you are still experiencing problems about deleting stuff in your Guestbook and you are using Firefox, you can go to its menu and select: View -> Page Style -> No Style (look to a similar option in your browser if you're using another program) to disable CSS in your page so you can use the delete links to remove any offending material. Then you can enable it again.

• Groups normally don't have a Guestbook, but you can display one if you change the Page Layout to Linear instead of Box View for the Home Page. (DEPRECATED: does not work anymore)
  

• If you try to add HTML code in a comment at someone else's Guestbook that isn't your contact, the HTML will be removed. Of course, the same happens in your Guestbook for people that aren't in your contact list. (DEPRECATED: does not work this way anymore, if you don't want HTML in your Guestbook, disable it completely as explained above)

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