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Re: Decent Quoting Feature for the Forums.

Seriously, we need one, like pretty much every other forum ever has.

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Re: Decent Quoting Feature for the Forums.

I demands it!

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Re: Decent Quoting Feature for the Forums.

My quoting functions works just fine...I don't understand why everybody else has problems. :S

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Re: Decent Quoting Feature for the Forums.

Arby3 wrote:

My quoting functions works just fine...I don't understand why everybody else has problems. :S

Works fine for me too. =P

Arfeh, what's wrong with the current one we have?

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5 Reply by Rchie (edited by Rchie 11-Aug-2012 20:01:49)

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Re: Decent Quoting Feature for the Forums.

that is what i see sad

[ quote=Arby3 ]My quoting functions works just fine...I don't understand why everybody else has problems. :S[ / quote ]
Works fine for me too. =P

Arfeh, what's wrong with the current one we have?

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6 Reply by Paininside (edited by Paininside 11-Aug-2012 20:31:34)

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Re: Decent Quoting Feature for the Forums.

ever been on a real forum?

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Re: Decent Quoting Feature for the Forums.

Wow interesting.  This is what I see:

http://f.cl.ly/items/2q3O0s2E3j2j3F1b2E0T/Screen%20Shot%202012-08-11%20at%201.00.01%20PM.png

Rchie, what operating system and browser are you using?

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Re: Decent Quoting Feature for the Forums.

I thought it was well known that the code only appears for mods/fmods etc?

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Re: Decent Quoting Feature for the Forums.

This is what it looks like: http://i.imgur.com/RZiuO.png

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Re: Decent Quoting Feature for the Forums.

And for the record: W7 and latest FF.

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Re: Decent Quoting Feature for the Forums.

> I like pie wrote:

> Wow interesting.  This is what I see:

http://f.cl.ly/items/2q3O0s2E3j2j3F1b2E … 1%20PM.png

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Vista and Chrome smile

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Re: Decent Quoting Feature for the Forums.

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Re: Decent Quoting Feature for the Forums.

Ah... i see what the issue is now.

I was under the misunderstanding that any players could use the quote tag but only mods could use stuff like img and url linking.

It looks like not only can players not do any of that, but they can't even see the affects of people who ARE allowed to do that.

That's pretty silly, I don't know why it is designed that way.  The way it should work (in my opinion) is that everybody should be able to use the quote tags, and if/when moderators want to link urls or images, EVERYBODY can see the affects, even if they can't do it themselves.

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Re: Decent Quoting Feature for the Forums.

forum been hacked once, thats why they removed all these functions.
same as making threads sticky, its been quite some years now allready.

stil waiting for a forum what actually works as one!

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Re: Decent Quoting Feature for the Forums.

Well, it's not so much that features were removed, it's just that the new forum is an entirely separate software package.  So many of the features we used to have just simply aren't there.

What I don't understand is why the quoting thing specifically is designed to work as it currently does.  It just doesn't make sense to me.  I'll see if I can figure something better out.

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Re: Decent Quoting Feature for the Forums.

Go pie! smile

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Re: Decent Quoting Feature for the Forums.

The reason Stefan disabled it, if memory serves, is that in the old forums the linking thing was exploited as a way to hack the forums (or some such nonsense, I could be well off the mark.). To remove that risk in the new forums he removed the ability for anyone except mods/fmods (and clearly devs) to use or see HTML coding. In any case, good luck pie, and god speed! This forum does already have the ability, if the user groups are allowed to use/see HTML tongue

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Re: Decent Quoting Feature for the Forums.

That sounds right.  Allowing users to enter anything other than plaintext is inherently risky.  Still though, it's weird to allow mods the ability to use quote tags when nobody else can see the affect of them.

I think this is a shortcoming of punbb, not anything Stefan has done.  It's possible too that it's just a configuration thing, I haven't had a chance to look at it yet.

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Re: Decent Quoting Feature for the Forums.

There is a lot of forum sites where you are allowed BBCode and it is stable. You just limit what can be used explicitely

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Re: Decent Quoting Feature for the Forums.

I'm fairly sure it is just a configuration thing, I was discussing this with someone early on in the piece (I think maybe Smartys) who explained the reasoning behind it.

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Re: Decent Quoting Feature for the Forums.

I'm keeping this bumped.

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22 Reply by RisingDown (edited by RisingDown 15-Aug-2012 15:31:23)

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Re: Decent Quoting Feature for the Forums.

I think the problem is in this:

BBCode: off [img] tag: off Smilies: on

Aside from these options being turned off, for players the quoting option is also turned off. Wouldn't it be an easy fix to just turn this on? tongue



EDIT: also turn on the [img] tag for everyone! big_smile

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Re: Decent Quoting Feature for the Forums.

Are you allowed to have a banlist of words? If that is the case, that you might be able to allow html and prevent things like iFrames or other things as well. Though yeah, BBCode would be nice to have back again =P.

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Re: Decent Quoting Feature for the Forums.

> I like pie wrote:

> That sounds right.  Allowing users to enter anything other than plaintext is inherently risky.  Still though, it's weird to allow mods the ability to use quote tags when nobody else can see the affect of them.

I think this is a shortcoming of punbb, not anything Stefan has done. 

Of course, it isn't anything Stefan has done!   Stefan, Emperor of the Universe, is infallible!

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> Einstein wrote:

> There is a lot of forum sites where you are allowed BBCode and it is stable. You just limit what can be used explicitely


I think our crowd would abuse it.  We aren't your run of the mill forum crowd here, Einstein...

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