If I report a bad post and use vB coding, does it come out looking like rubbish on a Mods e-mail?
It comes to us as plain text, not html or vB code. So we’ll just see the codes in plain text.
Here’s an actual sample of what we receive:
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<sdmb username> ( mailto:<member email> ) has reported this post:
Simpsons bumblebee guy
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=5678978#post5678978
This is part of this thread:
Simpsons bumblebee guy
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=295108
This is the reason that the user gave:
cafe society?
This message has been sent to all moderators of this forum, or all administrators if there are no moderators.
Please respond to this post as applicable.
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The annoying part of the board software is that if a mod clicks on reply, to reply to the member’s report, the reply shows the board’s email address in the To: field. We have to manually copy/paste the user’s email address from the text to the To: field, which we sometimes forget.