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Message 5 of 67 (415910)
08-12-2007 9:42 PM


Testing posting while suspended
Test Test Test
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Message 9 of 67 (417749)
08-24-2007 12:16 AM
Reply to: Message 8 by pelican
08-24-2007 12:10 AM


Learning the code tricks
Such as:
Quote
moose writes:
Moose quote
etc.
Click on "Peek" at the bottom of any message you see some sort of coding you'd like to learn. That will open up a new tab or window which will show you the raw text of the message.
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Message 11 of 67 (417764)
08-24-2007 4:02 AM
Reply to: Message 10 by pelican
08-24-2007 3:19 AM


Re: Learning the code tricks
The information at the link Jar gave in message 7 explains the quoting codes about as well as it can be done. Again, that is at here.
My guess is your problem is how the get the desired text into the quote box. That is done through copying and pasting just like you can do in a word processor.
I find it easiest to right click on the "reply" button, and then choose "open in a new tab" or "open in a new window". That way you have separate tabs/windows for the message you wish to reply to and the text entry box. You then don't have to scroll up and down a page to see both.
To copy, highlight the text you wish to copy and hit "control c". Then go to the text entry box, find the location you wish to enter the text, and hit "control v". That will paste the copied text. Then you need to put the desired startquote code in front of that text, and the corresponding endquote code at the end of that text. Be careful to use the normal slash (/} and not the backslash (\).
Quite a while back we had a "reply with quote" button, that would automatically quote the entire message. Various problems of people misusing it caused us to disable that feature.
When replying, please note that there are two types of "reply" buttons. If you are replying to a specific message, use the little reply button at the bottom of that message. That causes the "reply to" and "reply from" information to be displayed.
If you are making a general reply, use the "Gen Reply" button at the top or bottom of the page. Be careful not to use the "New Topic" button.
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Message 32 of 67 (513453)
06-28-2009 9:02 PM


Bump - Attn. RevCrossHugger
You seem to be having some sort of problem here.
Try working out your problem(s) here in the "Practice Makes Perfect" forum. Ask questions about how to do things.
You may want to look at dBCodes On (help).
You may also want to look at Smilies Legend.
These links are also available to the left of all message creation windows and all message editing windows.
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Added by edit: Originally we did have a "quote reply" button available in this forum. But misuse of it was causing big messes, and it was made unavailable. See Reply Quote function button to be disabled.
Edited by Adminnemooseus, : See above.

  
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Message 35 of 67 (514736)
07-11-2009 5:52 PM


Testing if "signature" message will post
I've been having problems getting messages to post, when I have the "Show Signature" box checked.
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It really helps moderators figure out if a topic is disintegrating because of general misbehavior versus someone in particular if the originally non-misbehaving members kept it that way. When everyone is prickly and argumentative and off-topic and personal then it's just too difficult to tell. We have neither infinite time to untie the Gordian knot, nor the wisdom of Solomon.
There used to be a comedian who presented his ideas for a better world, and one of them was to arm everyone on the highway with little rubber dart guns. Every time you see a driver doing something stupid, you fire a little dart at his car. When a state trooper sees someone driving down the highway with a bunch of darts all over his car he pulls him over for being an idiot.
Please make it easy to tell you apart from the idiots. Source

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Message 39 of 67 (517677)
08-02-2009 4:39 AM


Attention RevCrossHugger
If you are having technical problems, this forum and topic is a good place to do test postings.
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Message 42 of 67 (518060)
08-03-2009 9:45 PM


Test post message 41
This is message 41. Going to delete message 40.
Added by edit: I had previously deleted message 40. Just now I deleted message 41, which I thought was going to be message 40. Yes, the deleted messages do show up as message number gaps.
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ps: I was expecting this to be message 41 - It's actually message 42.
Edited by Adminnemooseus, : No reason given.

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Message 44 of 67 (518236)
08-04-2009 5:00 PM
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08-04-2009 9:42 AM


Everything is fine as it is
The story:
I posted message 39, hoping to get RevCrossHugger's attention. A bit later someone else (maybe Taz) posted a newer message to this topic, thus removing the "Attention RevCrossHugger" subtitle from the "All Topic" index page. So I deleted the newer message.
That got me to wondering - How does the new software handle message deletions? Would topic gap numbers show up?
So, the next day, I posted two test messages and deleted the first. The numberings I mention in the subtitles, however, were off because I had forgotten I had done that previous message deletion.
Bottom line - Everthing is good. The topic number gaps showed up where and how they should have.
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Message 56 of 67 (519134)
08-11-2009 8:51 PM


Testing double quotes
Original subtitle - Testing double quotes "in the subtitle"
There seemed to be a problem with the subtitle getting truncated at the first double quote mark, if the message is edited.
OK - Look fine via "peek". Time to post.
Added by edit: Everything was correct when first posted, but now with this edit, the subtitle has lost "in the subtitle".
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