The new [del] function - WTF?

The BBQ Pit
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Cool! We can use strikeouts now! I’ve been wondering when the [del]lazy slacker[/del] webmaster who runs this board would enable this feature :slight_smile:

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Agh! I just ran into one of the very few situations where I want to use this yesterday, when talking about Canadian politics and the [del]Monster Raving Loony[/del] Conservative party. I’m usually not big on strikeouts, so I probably won’t want to use it again for months. Hmpfh.

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I’ve been using it to write the first several drafts of my posts. Then, when I have the final draft, I simply removand ovicular time delaywhat mains is a perfectly fpost.

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You must have missed the “fun” of [Annoying Tag] on the temp board.

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I think it is stupid and I will never use it. I will automatically think less of any person who uses it regardless of who s/he is, when s/he joined or what his/her post count is. Furthermore, I will think that person is a communist-loving, soft-on-terror bastard and will seriously consider putting s/he on my ignore list. In fact, I may learn to code just so that I can create a super-duper ignore list and populate with the morons who use the del tag. I will then print the list, burn it, get my two year old to urniate on the ashes and then bury the ashes in a cursed Indian burial ground.

Suffice it to say, I don’t think to highly of it.

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So…
You don’t like it then? :wink:

But really, elfbabe gave a good example of a good use of it. I think that makes it worth it.

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Yeah, what UrbanChic said.

I don’t have a two-year-old, though, so I might have to do the urine thing myself.

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I wish I could write “a perfectly fpost”

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Geez, what crawled up your ass and died?

I was just asking a question. I don’t see any usefullness in this function.

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You could if you woyou justus would just use thatth the delf unction ni the manner I demonscribed.

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Is THIS the best thing YOU can think up to bitch about?

I think the only thing going soft is your head. :wally

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I’ve got to [del]do[/del] try this.

What exactly is the problem?

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It’s not a problem, really, but it’s pointless. Either say what you want to say, or don’t.

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And what if what you want to say happens to involve using a strikeout?

I can see a lot of unimaginative hacks using this as vehicles for their lack of wit, but if we weren’t going to have anything that could be used that way, it’d be time to close down the internet.

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::Cough::has issues::Cough:: Boy, I think I am getting a cold!

::Cough::

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See? You did that without using the del function.

If you think I “have issues”, you have another think/thing coming.

I just think it’s silly.

And I understand that I don’t have to use it.

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Again, just say what you want. Why would you need a strikeout?

This has the potential of becoming another “Hi, Opal”.

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has sixty two characters, while “Mr. Blue Sky [del]has issues[/del] might have something there.” has only 42, and makes much the same point. It is very convenient.

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“I think Mr. Blue Sky has issues” has 31 characters and isn’t that what you really mean?

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Especially if people:

  1. Screw up the coding, rendering the posts even less comprehensible

  2. Stack it on top of other tired cliches

  3. [del]Hi, Opal![/del]