[poll] forum posting worst practices

[Quoll]

Bespoke silver:
in case anyone's looking for an example of what velvet means, look here. :>

it's simple, actually: it just requires a little familiarity with the bbcode, which is used by the forum software to format post contents. just as in wordperfect codes or HTML, there are a pair of commands, which are referred to as "tags". the syntax for these tags is simple:

[command]filler to represent text you want to format[/command]

this means that on whatever text appears between the [command] and [/command] tags, the specified formatting will be performed.

note: the following examples will employ the { and } brackets rather than the [ and ] brackets. if i didn't do that, you wouldn't see the commands and hence the example would prove useless. :>

example 1:
{u}flowers for algernon{/u} was an amazing read!
using the proper [ and ] brackets would produce the title of that book in italics.

Like this you mean?

OOpseth spake silver:

example 1:
flowers for algernon was an amazing read!
using the proper [ and ] brackets would produce the title of that book in italics.

example 2:
WT{b}F{/b} is wrong with your hearing?!
using the proper [ and ] brackets would produce only the "f" character in bold, thereby indicating that emphasis is only on the word "fuck". in this case, the fact that "WT" remains outside the brackets was a deliberate and conscious decision.

example 3:
{i}are you joking??{/i}!
using the proper [ and ] brackets would produce that text in italics, along with the 2 ? characters--but not the ! character, which is outside the brackets. incorrectly enclosing/excluding characters from the formatted content can make you look silly: be forewarned. :>

bbcode uses the quote tag to indent the desired text and produce that different colored background that we're all familiar with. now me, i tend to find that the "originally posted by" bit is ugly and redundant. me, i prefer a more custom approach.

the bbcode that i write to produce that effect looks like this:
{quote}{b}velvet{/b} queried:
fillerfillerfiller.{/quote}

does that answer your question? :>

ed

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[Quoll]

my pleasure! :>

[awards velvet her own trout]

ed

Good grief, is one not bad enough?

 

[emap]

Hey I have a trout I swiped it from Silverwhisper a while back when he trouted me.

Which means there are three of us now, careful there Quolly, we are taking over the forums.

 

[Quoll]

Hey I have a trout I swiped it from Silverwhisper a while back when he trouted me.

Which means there are three of us now, careful there Quolly, we are taking over the forums.

I was sure I had dealt with this earlier but it seems the forum ate it, this shall have to be remedied.

:::::::::LEASE STAND BY::::::::::::​

 

[Quoll]

Oh fine just don't look for it.

I did have to go to page two but still you lazy sod.

[trout smacks silverwhisper]

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=603875

That's for page one so you can read up on it, it's a fairly long one that I so am not opening again.

Is that a duly registered smacking trout E?, I think not.

 

[emap]

Well of course it is you goof, where do you think I got it from?

 

[VelvetDarkness]

my pleasure! :>

[awards velvet her own trout]

ed

Mwah ha ha!

*insanely evil cackle*

 

[Quoll]

Well of course it is you goof, where do you think I got it from?

Hey I have a trout I swiped it from Silverwhisper a while back when he trouted me.

Which means there are three of us now, careful there Quolly, we are taking over the forums.

Hardly very official if you ask me. *suspicious glare*

 

[emap]

What trout? We aint gots no trout, we don't need no stinkin trouts.

 

[VelvetDarkness]

What trout? We aint gots no trout, we don't need no stinkin trouts.

*troutslaps emap*

You don't diss the trout. Concussion makes him cranky anyway.

 

[Quoll]

*troutslaps emap*

You don't diss the trout.

True dat.

 

[silverwhisper]

[trout-smacks everyone]



quoll: bah, there's never enough trout.

ed

 

[emap]

[trout smacks velvetdarkness]

Who was dissing the trout? I was trouting a quote from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, I'm pretty sure you have heard of it.

The quote in question is actually one of the most famous lines from a movie ever. It's beaten by two others, one from Gone with the Wind, and one from Casablanca, oddly both are practically the same line.

 

[VelvetDarkness]

[trout smacks velvetdarkness]

Who was dissing the trout? I was trouting a quote from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, I'm pretty sure you have heard of it.

The quote in question is actually one of the most famous lines from a movie ever. It's beaten by two others, one from Gone with the Wind, and one from Casablanca, oddly both are practically the same line.

Oh ok... I may not have seen that one. My bad.

*flagellates self with trout*

 

[silverwhisper]

[helps velvet, cuz i'm all about the helpful]

 

[bobsgirl]

[helps velvet, cuz i'm all about the helpful]

Are you behaving yourself, young man?

 

[silverwhisper]

why, whatever do you mean by that? i'm always well-behaved!

 

[bobsgirl]

why, whatever do you mean by that? i'm always well-behaved!

I'm sure you'll forgive my skepticism at that statement.

 

[Eilan]

Know your audience, folks!

 

[emap]

I'm sure he is well behaved sometimes, he does have to sleep you know.

Eilan please keep posting links, you always know how to make me laugh.

 

[bailadora]

Bumping the thread because the recent debate over text speak on a discussion forum makes me wonder if some of these worse forum practices could/should be added to the FAQ's. Either by editing the original "Tips on how to get along on HT", or by linking a new post (in which case, yes - I volunteer to write it).

I know there's no guarantee that all newcomers will read it, but the information might be helpful for those who are so inclined.

 

[NippleMuncher]

Bumping the thread because the recent debate over text speak on a discussion forum makes me wonder if some of these worse forum practices could/should be added to the FAQ's. Either by editing the original "Tips on how to get along on HT", or by linking a new post (in which case, yes - I volunteer to write it).

I know there's no guarantee that all newcomers will read it, but the information might be helpful for those who are so inclined.

Or, we could just tie ed in a corner and have our way with him!

 

[Eilan]

No one reads the damn stickies.

 

[SweetErika]

No one reads the damn stickies.

I wonder what ever happened to MaryHall. Maybe she met the wrestler of her dreams and is living happily ever after in WWF Wonderland, or is in the slammer for putting the smackdown on someone in real life. At any rate, I always appreciated her no-nonsense posts.

 

[Eilan]

I wonder what ever happened to MaryHall. Maybe she met the wrestler of her dreams and is living happily ever after in WWF Wonderland, or is in the slammer for putting the smackdown on someone in real life. At any rate, I always appreciated her no-nonsense posts.

Yeah, she could be a little too blunt at times, but she often said what many of us were thinking.