# New feature for un-closed vb tags? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 26, 2002, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-feature-for-un-closed-vb-tags/145037 "2002-12-26T21:55:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-feature-for-un-closed-vb-tags/145037/1 "2002-12-26T21:55:06Z")
In [this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2769467#post2768829), **Homebrew** bolds my name and forgets to include the backslash in the closing tag. In the thread (and in my preview after I quoted his post), my name comes up un-bolded with both “\*\*” tags clearly visible. What gives? It never worked this way before, did it? It’s doing it again! I previewed the above portion of this post without inserting the escape trick into the “\*\*” just to see what would happen, and it failed to bold the rest of the post as I had expected. I _know_ this is at least moderately recent. Anybody know anything? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-feature-for-un-closed-vb-tags/145037/2 "2002-12-26T22:03:40Z")
It **must** be a _new_ feature in vBulletin 2.2.8. I never noticed that before. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-feature-for-un-closed-vb-tags/145037/3 "2002-12-26T22:10:57Z")
See what I mean? That’s new, right? That’s going to save a _lot_ of work for mods, I remember whole sections of posts being accidentally bolded or italicized and people constantly requesting that mods fix it for them as of like, a month ago at the earliest. When did we upgrade to 2.2.8? Do we frequently do sub-version upgrades (is that what they’re called?)? Not that that’s the kind of thing I think mods should spend their time doing. So this is great because now nobody will even ask. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-feature-for-un-closed-vb-tags/145037/4 "2002-12-26T22:14:16Z")
jdavis did the upgrade at the same time that the server hardware was upgraded. Version upgrades are not done frequently. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-feature-for-un-closed-vb-tags/145037/5 "2002-12-26T22:21:53Z")
I guess I should probably have realized that. But I’d have thought we’d have noticed it by now. I am really excited over this change. I like it a lot. Do we not get a readme file with the new version detailing minor changes like this? I’d love to read it if there is one. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-feature-for-un-closed-vb-tags/145037/6 "2002-12-26T22:53:08Z")
You could possibly find something if you poke around the vBulletin website. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-feature-for-un-closed-vb-tags/145037/7 "2002-12-27T00:32:44Z")
**bold** testing **underway** here. AND [quote] …a quote test as well. [quote] ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-feature-for-un-closed-vb-tags/145037/8 "2002-12-27T00:38:45Z")
Gee, I noticed this right away. I can say with pretty good certainty that it’s been this way since the last big upgrade, which I guess was around March 2002? ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-feature-for-un-closed-vb-tags/145037/9 "2002-12-27T03:22:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by White Lightning \* > \*\*I guess I should probably have realized that. But I’d have thought we’d have noticed it by now. I am really excited over this change. I like it a lot. > > Do we not get a readme file with the new version detailing minor changes like this? I’d love to read it if there is one. \*\* This feature has been in there for a while. The vBulletin forums have a complete listing of every single bug fixed and feature added for each and every sub-version, along with hundreds of thousands of posts of people praising, discussing, debating, arguing, bitching, and moaning about them. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-feature-for-un-closed-vb-tags/145037/10 "2002-12-27T16:52:50Z")
Another “duh” from me. Thanks for the pointers, **Arnold Winkelried** , **Achernar** , and **Anthracite**.