# The \[you\] Function **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 10, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-you-function/249707 "2004-06-10T20:52:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-you-function/249707/1 "2004-06-10T20:52:36Z")
Wonder if the [you] function works on the SDMB? ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-you-function/249707/2 "2004-06-10T20:59:41Z")
Evidently not. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-you-function/249707/3 "2004-06-10T21:22:48Z")
Unless it’s supposed to put the word “you” surrounded by brackets in the message, in which case it works perfectly. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-you-function/249707/4 "2004-06-11T21:00:03Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Unless it’s supposed to put the word “you” surrounded by brackets in the message, in which case it works perfectly. No, it’s supposed to appear seamlessly as the name of the reader. It allows all manner of mischief, like “Attention America! [insert reader’s name here] gave me herpes, and dresses like a Bosnian peasant!” It’s all the rage on some message boards. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-you-function/249707/5 "2004-06-11T21:32:05Z")
Are you sure it’s not supposed to put the word “whoosh” between brackets, Krokodil? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-you-function/249707/6 "2004-06-11T21:43:39Z")
I bet it’s also popular on boards where they let you edit and delete your posts and include images directly in the post. Boy are those boards fun, yes sirree… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-you-function/249707/7 "2004-06-11T21:45:43Z")
I just wanna see… word[sub]3[/sub] Okay, that works for subscripts. What about superscripts? word [sup]TM[/sup] COOL! 😃 word [sup]googleplex[/sup] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-you-function/249707/8 "2004-06-11T23:11:02Z")
For a while, when we were temporarily camped out at BBBoards during the “Winter of Our Missed Content” board outage, a similar function was active, to much mischief. It was promptly disabled. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-you-function/249707/9 "2004-06-12T02:44:37Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Are you sure it’s not supposed to put the word “whoosh” between brackets, Krokodil? It wouldn’t be the first time, but no. These are popping up a lot over at the [yesand.com](http://yesand.com) bulletin boards, and to see how they were done, I just hit “quote.” ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-you-function/249707/10 "2004-06-12T14:05:24Z")
> [@Billdo](#): > > For a while, when we were temporarily camped out at BBBoards during the “Winter of Our Missed Content” board outage, a similar function was active, to much mischief. It was promptly disabled. [whoview] which will forever be known as [annoying tag]. Ugh!