# Test thread — to test things out. Do not lock!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [December 27, 2021, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736 "2021-12-27T18:05:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/386 "2023-05-10T14:29:47Z")

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/387 "2023-05-11T05:25:52Z")

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Dizzying. Why stop when you’re on such a roll?

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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/388 "2023-05-15T21:16:05Z")

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Testing to see if reply is working.

mmm, it works here.

I had a draft not posting in Edge and in Firefox in Android in a different thread. Will try then to copy and create a new draft.

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**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2023, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/389 "2023-05-28T20:36:48Z")

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Testing whether twitter image links work.

1. Clicking through:  
[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxPgzm0acAAvRi9?format=png&name=900x900](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxPgzm0acAAvRi9?format=png&name=900x900)

2. Within tweet:  
[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxPgzm0acAAvRi9?format=png&name=small](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxPgzm0acAAvRi9?format=png&name=small)

3. Try again: [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxPgzm0acAAvRi9?format=png&name=small](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxPgzm0acAAvRi9?format=png&name=small)

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4. <img>https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxPgzm0acAAvRi9?format=png&name=900x900</img> Image tags produced an error, the ones above merely don't work.

5. [img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxPgzm0acAAvRi9?format=png&name=900x900[/img] Image tags produced an error, the ones above merely don't work.
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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2023, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/390 "2023-05-28T21:12:05Z")

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The URLs need to be a photo type and on its own line. So, ending in .jpg, for example.

Like this (for [https://i.imgur.com/gAy6VVi.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/gAy6VVi.jpg)):

[![](https://i.imgur.com/gAy6VVi.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/gAy6VVi.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2023, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/391 "2023-05-30T18:52:56Z")

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Today I learned putting words between angle brackets makes it disappear. For example: “\<whatever I want to say\>” becomes “”.

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**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2023, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/392 "2023-05-30T18:53:33Z")

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If you quote and do a full copy, you can see exactly what I typed.

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2023, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/393 "2023-05-30T18:56:06Z")

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2023, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/394 "2023-05-30T18:58:56Z")

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That’s how to do a blank reply and sidestep the minimum characters requirement in a post. But some characters will disable that. My original attempt was this,

\<a test — hey @Pleonast that is pretty cool!\>

And I don’t know which char(s) do the disabling. And I’m too lazy to test for it.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/395 "2023-05-30T20:06:25Z")

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That’s entirely down to \< and \> being the delimiters for HTML commands.

Some of which Discourse respects and passes along to the browser verbatim, like superscript and subscript, whereas others are suppressed like. And others are simply passed through to the browser which ignores them as nonsense, leaving nothing visible in that spot. The word “stuff” here is inside \<abcd\> tags which are meaningless in html and so although Discourse faithfully sent them to your browser, it ignored them as nonsense and displays nothing.

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2023, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/396 "2023-05-30T23:53:21Z")

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3 posts were merged into an existing topic: [Vulnerability in Discourse software](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vulnerability-in-discourse-software/984796/2)

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**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2023, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/397 "2023-05-31T00:03:56Z")

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Ok, didn’t work. Weirdly, it worked in the preview.

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**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/398 "2023-06-02T14:38:15Z")

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nm

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**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2023, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/399 "2023-06-11T18:28:57Z")

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Ignore me.

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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2023, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/400 "2023-08-22T23:27:48Z")

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New Tag, trying to test it out: [grid] for a bunch of images.

[![](https://i.postimg.cc/YvcBQFL1/Arlo-and-the-Clearwater.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/YvcBQFL1)

[![](https://i.postimg.cc/ykj0ZmbG/Jim-on-top-of-Clearwater-Mast.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/ykj0ZmbG)

[![](https://i.postimg.cc/Xr0Kwfrz/Adam-Hyler-2008-2.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/Xr0Kwfrz)

[![](https://i.postimg.cc/KRTrkq8T/Garvey-Adam-Hyler-2011-2.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/KRTrkq8T)

[![](https://i.postimg.cc/NLSk0qBY/Garvey-Adam-Hyler-2011-5.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/NLSk0qBY)

[![](https://i.postimg.cc/wt7x0FZp/Bob-Killian.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/wt7x0FZp)

[![](https://i.postimg.cc/NKNf6ZND/Clearwater-Rainbow-Race.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/NKNf6ZND)

[![](https://i.postimg.cc/jWmx9PYJ/Jan.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/jWmx9PYJ)

[![](https://i.postimg.cc/FYFHJhx1/Pete-Seeger.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/FYFHJhx1)

So it worked with Thumbnails, but not Images. I’ll need to keep experimenting. I suspect the direct links for pictures were too big.

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**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/401 "2023-08-23T01:21:18Z")

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I can’t find stoplights in any of these!

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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/402 "2023-08-23T01:24:04Z")

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LOL

Maybe boats will work.

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/403 "2023-08-23T09:16:17Z")

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That’s a great feature, even if just for thumbnails…

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/404 "2023-08-23T13:00:37Z")

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Yes that looks pretty good.

[Test thread — to test things out. Do not lock! - #400 by What\_Exit - About This Message Board - Straight Dope Message Board](https://is.gd/dh3A7x) — thumbnail pictures grid

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/405 "2023-08-23T17:11:39Z")

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That was genius! Thank you!

I love killer one-liners delivered straight and that did it for me.

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