test preview (with subject added post)
Ignorant person here: what’s “subject added post”?
He put “added post” in the subject line of the message.
He wanted to see if vB would eat his entire title, since it was all in quotes, and vB eats quotes under certain conditions. Apparently, it didn’t.
So, um, what conditions?
If you put quotes in the subject title and then preview, it will eat everything after the first double quote. You have to put them back in and then post directly from the screen you entered them on.
I think.
If you use double quotes in a subject, and then submit from the preview page, then everything following and including the first double quote will be truncated. The exception to this, as KarlGauss just found, is apparently when the first character is a double quote. This is good, because we wouldn’t want threads to start appearing with no topic line.
Chronos, I just tried that and preview blanked out the whole subject, the same as it has been doing all along. KG probably did a browser “back” before posting as you described at the end of this thread:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=30833
Sorry. Didn’t mean to do anything other than test the “” feature in the subject line. I should have just called it “test post”.
KG
So Karl, did you submit from the preview page?
No, I previewed the text of my post (with nothing in the subject field), checked it, then added “added post”* to the subject line, then, without previewing again, pressed submit reply.
- post refers to post preview
I tried it again, and when it’s only a post to a thread, vB eats the whole topic. When it’s a brand new thread, though, it leaves it alone.
Yeah, I know, it’s complicated. Don’t ask me, I didn’t write this program.
This is very strange. I just tested both “new thread” and “reply to thread” in AOL, stand-alone IE and Netscape, preview again completely blanked out both subjects. Maybe you just have to be a mod. 
FWIW I’m running Win98 with IE 5.5 and Netscape 4.72.