# Another test thread: Brackets
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-test-thread-brackets/533350
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**Created:** [March 22, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-test-thread-brackets/533350 "2010-03-22T16:17:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-test-thread-brackets/533350/1 "2010-03-22T16:17:39Z")
[apparantly this stops mouseover]
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### Author:  [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-test-thread-brackets/533350/2 "2010-03-22T16:18:50Z")
oh wow…that worked…cool
can i still do this?
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### Author:  [@Khendrask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khendrask)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2010, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-test-thread-brackets/533350/3 "2010-03-23T10:34:44Z")
Uhhh… Sir T - What does that stop?
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### Author:  [@Crackrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crackrat)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2010, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-test-thread-brackets/533350/4 "2010-03-23T10:46:14Z")
> [@Khendrask](#):
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> Uhhh… Sir T - What does that stop?
In the forum page, if you mouseover the thread title you get a tooltip popup that shows the beginning of the thread. Apparently, if you use brackets (around the whole OP? At the beginning of the OP? Don’t know) that tooltip does not pop up.
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### Author:  [@Khendrask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khendrask)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2010, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-test-thread-brackets/533350/5 "2010-03-23T11:05:37Z")
Ahhh, Thanks Crackrat. I couldn’t figure out what he was talking about, I see it now.