Brand New, figuring out how to post

[gigi]

@C K Dexter Haven

(“You can’t help going among mad people, we’re all mad here.”)

aka, “We’re all bozos on this bus.” Welcome!

[Chronos]

The [del]ceremonial goats for the initiation ritual[/del]

It’s a good thing you crossed that out. We’re using lonks now. Or, er, we would, if we had such a ceremony, of course.

[Cartooniverse]

@Czarcasm

I say sign up now.

Czarcasm, The Totally Impartial Moderator

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

[Cartooniverse]

My bad, I thought you said we were now using lox.

[Khadaji]

Hello Traveling Riverside Bluesman. Be welcome. Enjoy your stay.

[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.

[norinew]

@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.

:smack: I never, ever thought of that!

[Puzzler]

@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.

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]

[What_Exit]

@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]

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

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

**Traveling Riverside Bluesman **–welcome to the SDMB

[Derleth]

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.

[Puzzler]

[QUOTE=Derleth]
Puzzler: It has to do with

@Derleth

Puzzler: It has to do with character entities, which get converted and are never preserved as-is.

[ is [
] is ]
& is &

True

@Derleth

& does not work, only numeric entities do because this board sucks ass and nobody wants to fix it.

Errrr… you sound mad… <runnig for cover behind desk>

[Derleth]

@Puzzler

Errrr… you sound mad… <runnig for cover behind desk>

Oh, you have no idea:

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.