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  • 03.21.2007 4:15 PM PDT
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I presume so. It is a useful tool for those new to the site.

  • 03.21.2007 4:22 PM PDT
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It's an important thing to have, especially (as Snap Dragon pointed out) for the members who didn't have experience with the old site. It's a fairly straightforward markup system, though—commonly-used generators such as vBulletin use a system that is pretty similar.

  • 03.21.2007 4:33 PM PDT
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I suppose until then we'll just have to help out with the people who don't know otherwise. But even when the tags were there people still seemed to have massive amounts of trouble with them.

  • 03.21.2007 4:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: Captain K Mart
I suppose until then we'll just have to help out with the people who don't know otherwise. But even when the tags were there people still seemed to have massive amounts of trouble with them.


Yes. Apart from those who were abusing the tags, many were/are too indolent to link URL's correctly. Wouldn't it be great if they were hyperlinked automatically?

  • 03.21.2007 4:38 PM PDT
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for those who come in to this thread wondering if anyone will post them they are here
Remove *'s of course
[i*][/i] Italics
[b*][/b] Bold
[u*][/u] Underline
[url*] or [url=(insert link here]insert text here[/*url]
[quote*][/quote]

[Edited on 03.21.2007 4:40 PM PDT]

  • 03.21.2007 4:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: Kodyack
for those who come in to this thread wondering if anyone will post them they are here

[i*]text[/i] Italics
[b*]text[/b] Bold
[u*]text[/u] Underline
[url*] or [url=insert link here]insert text here[/*url]

Remove the asterikseses to get them to work.


Amendments in bold.

  • 03.21.2007 4:42 PM PDT
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  • 03.21.2007 4:46 PM PDT
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Thanks to both

  • 03.21.2007 4:47 PM PDT
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There's not really any room for it, though—unless they put it under the "quote, cancel, preview, submit" buttons, or they move a bunch of stuff around.

  • 03.21.2007 5:11 PM PDT

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Possibly Achronos may have a plan to rid the site of new people....Smart devil he is!

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  • 03.21.2007 5:15 PM PDT