In an effort to continue to make our interface more user friendly (and hopefully keep some of you from ending up with all-italics posts), I've changed the way quoting tags are used.
The old, confusing [quotehead], [quotemid] and [quoteend] tags have been replaced with hopefully less confusing [quote] and [/quote] tags. To quote text, bookend it with them two.
To include a user's name, add it into the "quote" tag. F'rinstance, use "[quote CRZ]" and "[/quote]" and the familiar
Originally posted by CRZ
will come up. (Also, this is now the new behaviour for clicking on "Quote" when you reply.)
I just had something odd happen -- maybe a weird interaction between quote & link keywords? (Or maybe I'm just being dense & missing something obvious.)
Copy the following (resulting) line, paste it into a "create a post" window, & hit "Preview Reply". I see confused ugliness...
[quote Some Guy] something [/quote]blablabla [link Here]http://wienerboard.com[/link]moreblablabla
------------------------------------------------------ Results look like this...
I have to admit, I'm almost never lurking on here, but I really should spend some more time logged out because the choice of banner ads that have shown up here recently have been....kinda bizarre. Mostly the Nexium ones, yeah. What's up with that?