# Brand New, figuring out how to post **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 9, 2007, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-figuring-out-how-to-post/399255 "2007-04-09T02:48:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-figuring-out-how-to-post/399255/21 "2007-04-10T18:22:28Z")
[QUOTE=C K Dexter Haven] (“You can’t help going among mad people, we’re all mad here.”) [/QUOTE] aka, “We’re all bozos on this bus.” Welcome! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-figuring-out-how-to-post/399255/22 "2007-04-10T20:42:11Z")
> [@](#): > > The [del]ceremonial goats for the initiation ritual[/del] It’s a good thing you crossed that out. We’re using [lonks](http://www.sheep101.info/Images/Breeds/Lonk.jpg) now. Or, er, we would, if we had such a ceremony, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-figuring-out-how-to-post/399255/23 "2007-04-11T00:47:53Z")
[QUOTE=Czarcasm] I say sign up now. Czarcasm, The Totally Impartial Moderator [/QUOTE] Yanno, the moment they put the Mods on commission instead of straight salary they lost all of their subtlety. Not that subtlety was a real strong suit anyway. I’m just saying… 😃 Welcome, welcome, **T.R.B.**!! Enjoy your Introductory Cake. ( even if it is crafted in the shape of [del]a sacrificial goat[/del] a water lily. 😉 Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-figuring-out-how-to-post/399255/24 "2007-04-11T00:54:53Z")
My bad, I thought you said we were now using [lox](http://www.manxkippers.com/images/products/oak-smoked-salmon-big.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-figuring-out-how-to-post/399255/25 "2007-04-11T10:48:47Z")
Hello **Traveling Riverside Bluesman**. Be welcome. Enjoy your stay. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-figuring-out-how-to-post/399255/26 "2007-04-12T00:48:17Z")
In general, any time you see someone use a cool effect, and want to see how they did it, click on the ‘Reply’ button in the bottom right of their post. You’ll get a reply box that automatically quotes their post, including whatever coding they used to make that cool effect. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-figuring-out-how-to-post/399255/27 "2007-04-12T00:59:52Z")
[QUOTE=GilaB] In general, any time you see someone use a cool effect, and want to see how they did it, click on the ‘Reply’ button in the bottom right of their post. You’ll get a reply box that automatically quotes their post, including whatever coding they used to make that cool effect. [/QUOTE] :smack: I never, ever thought of that! ---
**Author:** ![Puzzler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d07c76/32.png) [@Puzzler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Puzzler)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-figuring-out-how-to-post/399255/28 "2007-04-12T09:54:59Z")
[QUOTE=GilaB] In general, any time you see someone use a cool effect, and want to see how they did it, click on the ‘Reply’ button in the bottom right of their post. You’ll get a reply box that automatically quotes their post, including whatever coding they used to make that cool effect. [/QUOTE] I don’t think that’s guaranteed to work. Try to decipher how I pulled this trick: use [del]this is deleted[/del] to produce [del]this is deleted[/del] ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-figuring-out-how-to-post/399255/29 "2007-04-12T13:22:10Z")
[QUOTE=Puzzler] I don’t think that’s guaranteed to work. Try to decipher how I pulled this trick: use [del]this is deleted[/del] to produce [del]this is deleted[/del] [/QUOTE] That was a good trick. Quoted into a preview the first Del tag does its normal job. You are living up to your user name. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-figuring-out-how-to-post/399255/30 "2007-04-12T21:26:47Z")
\*\*Traveling Riverside Bluesman \*\*–welcome to the SDMB ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-figuring-out-how-to-post/399255/31 "2007-04-18T04:48:01Z")
**Puzzler** : It has to do with character entities, which get converted and are never preserved as-is. [ is [ ] is ] & is & & does not work, only numeric entities do because this board sucks ass and nobody wants to fix it. ---
**Author:** ![Puzzler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d07c76/32.png) [@Puzzler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Puzzler)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-figuring-out-how-to-post/399255/32 "2007-04-18T06:29:18Z")
[QUOTE=Derleth] **Puzzler** : It has to do with [QUOTE=Derleth] **Puzzler** : It has to do with character entities, which get converted and are never preserved as-is. [ is [ ] is ] & is & [/quote] True 🙂 [QUOTE=Derleth] & does not work, only numeric entities do because this board sucks ass and nobody wants to fix it. [/QUOTE] Errrr… you sound mad… \ ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-figuring-out-how-to-post/399255/33 "2007-04-18T09:23:51Z")
[QUOTE=Puzzler] Errrr… you sound mad… \ [/QUOTE] Oh, [you have no idea](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?&p=7323443#p=7323443): > [@](#): > > I know this. I once did a post containing Greek and Hebrew characters to explain the cardinality of infinite sets, and the only thing that made it something other than completely fucking annoying was that I did it when the SDMB didn’t gratuitously break named character entities. You’re preaching to not the choir, but the Grand Inquisitor readying the hot oil and nasty pincers and rectally-insertable poison ivy-laced cacti. > > Screw the puking smilie. We need a homicidally enraged geek smilie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-figuring-out-how-to-post/399255.md?page=1)