Hmm… Compose… Post… Compost!
Yeah, that sounds about right.
if only.
Quick reply most of the times.
Having worked in radio for more years than I want to think about, I tend to ‘speak’ the sentences, rather than write them. Many times this leaves me with awkward construvctions that I have to go back and change.
When I venture into serious territory, like GD or the Pit, or when doing an OP, I somtimes write it in Word™ to do a spellcheck in English, since it’s my 2nd language. I also have webster online handy, when I don’t feel sure about a word or getting a nuance right.
I do all VB codes manually, except when quoting from a previous post. I try to snip in those post. I feel that people who read the threads have read that post earlier and only needs to be reminded about what topic I’m adressing and don’t want to read the whole damn post again - mainly because this annoys me (And I’ll prolly get this whole post quoted, just for saying that).
Sometimes I preview - if there is a lot of coding with italics or bold involved. And I also always preview when doing a
spoiler-box
becuase in tend to type spolier a lot, for some starnge reason, and I wouldn’t want to give away details on Buffy and Angel a day-and-a-half before it’s aired, to people who don’ät want to know.
I learned to type using one finger, initially. Nowadays, I use six or eight, but I think I’ve eaten too many sandwiches with mayo while at the computer, 'cause the keys are always slippeyr…
Occasionally I’ll think about one befor eI start typing. Usually I just wing it and hope I don’t come off sounding stupid. What a lot of hope for such a meager result.
I’ll use the Quick Reply most of the time, and I’ll preview if it’s a long and convoluted post. I’ve been known to compose long OPs in Word, then C&P. If I want to quote, I use the Quote button.
I haven’t tried to post psychically yet. That’ll be next.
I never use Quick Reply. It’s either Quote or Post Reply (or New Thread, obviously). I type out all the code, never use emoticons and always preview except that one time I accidentally hit the wrong button and posted a coding error. Oh, the shame…
I usually use the Quick Reply. If there is any VB formatting I will use the preview. About 25% of the time there will be an error that preview catches for me. For longer posts I draft them in Word or Outlook so that I can spell-check them, then copy/paste the text into here. I use emoticons sparingly.
I sometimes use the quoting, though the hamsters seem to slow this process down considerably, so I don’t use it as often as I would if it were more efficient.
I type my reply in the Quick Reply box, then “Preview Reply.” I then find that the page has timed out (“The page cannot be displayed”), so I hit the “Back” button on my browser. I then retype my reply and copy it in case the page times out again, then hit “Submit Reply” rather than previewing. If the page has timed out yet once again, I refresh the page to see if I did or did not actually submit. If it times out again, I generally emit a low growling sound and give up. Note my low number of posts.
Hey, I generally post during my lunch hour, when just about everyone else seems to be posting too.
The saddest of all keys. . .
Laaaaa…Laaaaa…
I always use the quick reply box, unless I’m quoting someone, in which case I use the little quote button under that person’s post.
I rarely preview; generally only if I’m worried about simulposting, or if I want to check my vB coding.
Thanks for the affirmation, guys. I thought I was doing this wrong. And thanks to welby for bringing it back from the dead.
As it turns out, most of you go about this the same way I do.
So, I have more questions.
Those of you who use the “Quote” and “Post Reply” functions:[ul]Do you use the I, B, U, etc. buttons?
If so, do you find that “window-popping up and you type on that line, and hit enter and something else happens” thing annoying?
Do you find that just typing [ i ] and [ /i] or whatever is easier and faster?[/ul]
And my ATMB-esque question. How do I get the “bullets” or numbers and letters when I do the “list” tag manually?
I usually get halfway through typing something in the quick reply box, realise what I’m about to say isn’t that interesting and then go open another thread.
I never use the bold, italic, or underscore buttons. In fact, I use none of the special aid buttons except the http:// button and (rarely) the quote button. I use the link button because I will highlight the heading from a second window, right-click and copy, then right-click and paste it into the link window box, then repeat for the url. I can do the whole thing with a couple of mouse clicks, reducing typing strokes and errors in the url.
To insert a bullet, simply enter an asterisk enclosed in brackets at the beginning of each list item after placing the word “list” inside brackets to begin it and “/list” inside brackets to end it.
To change the bullets to letters or numbers, make the “open list” command “list=a” or “list=1”. (To see how it is done, click the quote button on this post and look at what I’ve entered).
[list=a]
[li]first alpha entry[/li][li]second alpha entry[/li][/list]
[ol]
[li]first numeric entry[/li][li]second numeric entry[/li][/ol]
[ul]
[li]first bullet entry[/li][li]second bullet entry[/li][/ul]
Cool.
Thanks, tomndebb.