Mods please advise me of which post was hidden where it is hidden did I press the wrong button and send myself to Coventry and most importantly why it was inappropriate Cutting and pasting the notification in this post was blocked because it is offended the system by having its own notifications imbedded media in this post so I have removed non alphanumeric characters from this posting including those of the notification that the system sent me herein below which I note states that staff can handle it thus my posting it here.
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This appears to be the post that was flagged, in its entirety.
I don’t know what you intended it to be, but it appears to be a link to a Google search. It was flagged as inappropriate, because it was incomprehensible.
Thankyou for identifying the offending post. The post was in response to a person asking which was a better car light: LED or HID. My response was “led” followed by a link to the results of many visual comparisons of the two that demonstrate the difference between the two. I guess context is everything, and the program making the decisions is incapable of this.
There was a space between my led and the URL. As far as I know, there are no spaces in urls, so my guess is that the program simply does not like large URLs and little text, so Johnny’s example is the necessary workaround. Thanks Johnny.
URL’s work best (usually) if it is on a line by itself with no other text on the same line. Putting the word “led” at the beginning of the same line was the problem.
Putting the URL on a line by itself is one way. It gives you the “OneBox” where the thumbnail and a bit of text from the actual site appears, or the picture if the URL is a picture. It doesn’t work for all sites – the site itself must be coded properly for a OneBox to appear.
The other way, that lets you put a URL on the same line along with other text like this also works. For this, type the text you want the user to see enclosed in square brackets, followed immediately by the URL enclosed in parentheses.
If you see any neat thing in any post and you want to see how the poster did that, click on the Reply button at the bottom of the post, then click on the “quote” tool in the tool bar of the edit box. (It’s the very left-most thingy in the tool bar.) That imports the post you’re quoting in its entirety, including all formatting codes. (If you just highlight some or all of a post and click on the “Quote” button, the formatting codes are lost.)