# Suggestion for a new vB tag **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 6, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-a-new-vb-tag/166805 "2003-04-06T03:58:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-a-new-vb-tag/166805/1 "2003-04-06T03:58:02Z")
I seem to remember that you can do custom tags. I think this one would be handy, to let people have a quick link to the FAQ: [faq] …becomes… \FAQ\ without the linebreak, of course. What do you think? ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-a-new-vb-tag/166805/2 "2003-04-06T04:07:40Z")
First: would you also suggest a separate tag for the other FAQ thread, and second: would these confuse folks, as there is a link to the front page FAQs already? (Not dissing your idea, **Achernar**. I think it’s interesting!) ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-a-new-vb-tag/166805/3 "2003-04-06T04:17:14Z")
Yeah, I forgot about tha button. Why don’t we redirect that to the SDMB FAQ? I don’t think the vBulletin FAQ is all that helpful. But maybe it is. I don’t know. And, uh, maybe something else besides just [faq] would be better, to keep it from being ambiguous. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-a-new-vb-tag/166805/4 "2003-04-06T04:22:14Z")
Some of the vB FAQ is helpful, but the main relevance is with the two sticky threads, I would agree. Could they be added to that FAQ, so everyone can see where to look, especially those new to the boards? ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-a-new-vb-tag/166805/5 "2003-04-06T11:14:24Z")
Yeah, I think that would be the best idea. And I think the Master FAQ should have cross-indexed hyperlinks. That’d be sweet. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-a-new-vb-tag/166805/6 "2003-04-16T02:02:25Z")
[Here’s an example of the kind of situation this tag would be useful in, if it existed](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=177433). ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-a-new-vb-tag/166805/7 "2003-04-16T11:32:17Z")
[gry] [quack] [parkway] [missing$] [pie] [base] ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-a-new-vb-tag/166805/8 "2003-04-18T05:31:54Z")
Suddenly I’m trying to imagine just what a [gry] would do to a thread. Igry reallygry wantgry togry knowgry whatgry yougry thinkgry. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-a-new-vb-tag/166805/9 "2003-04-18T12:52:47Z")
[gry] would be convereted to a hyperlink to [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3\_251.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_251.html) [quack] would turn into a link to [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5\_071.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_071.html) and so on. ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-for-a-new-vb-tag/166805/10 "2003-04-21T16:38:48Z")
you forgot [opal]