# weird **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 25, 2001, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird/89454 "2001-10-25T02:41:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird/89454/1 "2001-10-25T02:41:11Z")
In this [post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1750340#post1750340), for some reason “here” turned into “her e” in the link. Is this a known bug? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird/89454/2 "2001-10-25T03:23:38Z")
That is **wierd**. At least I beleive that to be the definition of the word. Or that’s what I believe. Whatever. Damn, it’s tough to spell in this language. [sub]PS I don’t mean to pick on you, RSA, but the last time there was a ‘weird’ thread about half the people misspelled weird in it.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird/89454/3 "2001-10-25T03:28:58Z")
And just so you know I am not being a complete anal putz about it, let’s see if we can figure out this problem. > [@](#): > > [here](http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JG/journal/issues/v109n4/010405/brief/010405.abstract.html). \*\* > [@](#): > > Corrected? > > [here](http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JG/journal/issues/v109n4/010405/brief/010405.abstract.html). \*\* In the second example, I put quotation marks around the URL, which is recommended practice. This solves the problem, although I do admit that I am not sure what causes the problem. You can, as always, quote this post if you want to see how the coding works. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird/89454/4 "2001-10-25T05:09:11Z")
I fixed it by inserting the quotation marks. I’m surprised it worked at all without them. ---
**Author:** ![rsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird/89454/5 "2001-10-25T13:24:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bibliophage \* > \*\*I fixed it by inserting the quotation marks. I’m surprised it worked at all without them. \*\* Thanks to all for the help. I quit using quotes because I read a post somewhere recently that it was no longer necessary. I’ll use them in the future if I see a problem during preview. BTW, I was going to apologize for using an uninformative thread title. Didn’t realize that it was uninformative AND mispelled. My bad. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird/89454/6 "2001-10-25T15:03:21Z")
Well, whooosh me if I’ve been woooshed here, but you did spell weird correctly in the title. It’s I before E except after C, or when it sounds like A as in neighbor or weigh. And weird is just well, you know… different? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![rsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird/89454/7 "2001-10-25T15:09:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cheesesteak \* > \*\*Well, whooosh me if I’ve been woooshed here, but you did spell weird correctly in the title. > > It’s I before E except after C, or when it sounds like A as in neighbor or weigh. And weird is just well, you know… different? 😃 \*\* HA, vindication!!! [sub]unless **bibliophage** fixed it for me[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird/89454/8 "2001-10-25T16:18:27Z")
I fixed it. It was buggin’ me. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird/89454/9 "2001-10-25T18:47:40Z")
The quotation marks have always been part of the Official Format for links in vBulletin (and, I think, UBB, back in the day). What changed was that the vB software became a little more clever at figuring out what you meant, if you left them off, with the result that you could usually get away with it. Don’t rely on that, though: It particularly seems to cause problems when you try to put two links into the same post.