# brackets and coding

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brackets-and-coding/370>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [March 20, 1999, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brackets-and-coding/370 "1999-03-20T08:51:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 1999, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brackets-and-coding/370/1 "1999-03-20T08:51:00Z")

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hey all…

in case some of you haven’t really noticed, this message board’s quite different… not only will you get the little graphical smiley faces, but also when you use the more then/less then brackets, sometimes what you put in, if you don’t leave a space, will get “eaten” by the software, thinking it’s html coding. So to avoid that, you might either leave a space, or make your emoticoms like this _g_.

Melis

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Wench #407, IWG  
Wenchmommy extraordionaire  
Goddess of Typos, Dark Chocolate and Fyne Ale

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 1999, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brackets-and-coding/370/2 "1999-03-21T20:49:00Z")

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> in case some of you haven’t really noticed, this message board’s quite different… not only will you get the little graphical smiley faces, but also when you use the more then/less then brackets, sometimes what you put in, if you don’t leave a space, will get “eaten” by the software, thinking it’s html coding. So to avoid that, you might either leave a space, or make your emoticoms like this _g_.

Yeah. What’s up with that?

Sorry … couldn’t resist …

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Eutychus  
[http://www.disneyshorts.org](http://www.disneyshorts.org)

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 1999, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brackets-and-coding/370/3 "1999-03-21T23:09:00Z")

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Euty-- manny people have told me…

Melis-- gotcha back! 😃

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Wench #407, IWG  
Wenchmommy extraordionaire  
Goddess of Typos, Dark Chocolate and Fyne Ale

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**Author:** ![\_SILENT-BOB\_NOT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/e19adc/32.png) [@\_SILENT-BOB\_NOT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_SILENT-BOB_NOT)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brackets-and-coding/370/4 "2000-06-29T02:28:27Z")

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:wally