# About Preview

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-preview/20352>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [May 24, 2000, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-preview/20352 "2000-05-24T01:35:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![SoapBoxMessiah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@SoapBoxMessiah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoapBoxMessiah)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2000, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-preview/20352/1 "2000-05-24T01:35:04Z")

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Wouldn’t it be better if it also showed you the Author column and your sig?

You know, so it would actually look like the real post would.

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**Author:** ![Show\_Biz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Show\_Biz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Show_Biz)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2000, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-preview/20352/2 "2000-05-24T17:31:45Z")

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Yes, and also the “Post Subject” line.

As you can see from my threads on {sub} and {sup}, the subject line gets truncated when a {"} is in it.

I previewed and it looked fine, but the thread ended up with half a title and I had to re-post it.