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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on April 19, 2012, 12:40:43 am
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In order to encourage forum users to not abuse the space key when posting and encourage them to break their text into multiple lines, the Omnimaga management have introduced a new forum policy and a new Netham45 modification regarding link posting on the forums.
Until further notice, when posting an URL on the forums, you are no longer allowed to put more than one space after it. If you do so, your entire post content (or quotes containing it) will disappear or you will receive an error message stating that your message is empty:
(http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=13283.0;attach=12509;image)
At first, confusion happened among managers and staff, as Deep thought (http://ourl.ca/15877) that this was a new forum bug, but then it was discovered that it was intentionally added by Netham45 via a forum mod to save moderator the extra work of having to enforce this new rule against double-post-... er... spacing.
So for now, make sure to not abuse the space keys after links, so that people can see your messages fine!
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XD
so it's untagged urls with two or more spaces following them that makes things disappear?/me tests:
http://ourl.ca/15880/297605 like this?
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If you post an URL like http://www.omnimaga.org following by one single space, it works fine.
However, it doesn't with two spaces. (and if you don't quote it, it thinks your post is empty and won't let you send)
http://www.omnimaga.org test
http://www.omnimaga.org test
Everyone quoting this post loses The Game.
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Nice fake news!
I once thought that if I just put one space after the url, it'd take the whole line as a url. Then I discovered having no spaces would take the whole line as a url (well duh). Nice!
Parsing of URLs has gone mad! :D
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I wonder if this has been around for a while, though, because I didn't realize it existed until Deep Thought posted about it. Maybe nobody made any typo involving putting an extra space after URLs before.
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w8 what it actually works? O.O
http://www.omnimaga.org
Right This post will die, OMG it actually worked.
EDIT: it didn't even work with one space (the line above merged with the same line above that)
EDIT2: Ignore that
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Yeah with one space the bug doesn't happen. It only does with two, three, etc. Also if the link and set of spaces are quoted, the post will make it through, but it will be hidden for the most part.
I wonder if that's the same thing that causes certain minus world posts to have no content? (Although those are pure HTML, not BBCode, so maybe not)
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so why is this in brown, it isnt a joke?
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My impression is that you guys that control this site have lost your mind. DJ_O is rightly concerned about the lack of activity but that is consistent with this kind of nit picking harassment. If some one has good intentions and tries to make a post containing a URL why should his or her efforts be frustrated this way?? There are things in life that are important and in my opinion, how any spaces one puts in a post isn't one of them.
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@Dingus: I am not sure if you are aware that brown text news means it is a fake news. :P
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So this is a real problem with a fake cause. Reading the news and then the comments can be confusing :P
At first i thought this would be an anti spam thing when i first saw the topic title.
Overall good fake news though very funny
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My impression is that you guys that control this site have lost your mind. DJ_O is rightly concerned about the lack of activity but that is consistent with this kind of nit picking harassment. If some one has good intentions and tries to make a post containing a URL why should his or her efforts be frustrated this way?? There are things in life that are important and in my opinion, how any spaces one puts in a post isn't one of them.
If you haven't realized (especially after the April 1st news text turned brown), any news posted in brown text is fake or joke article. <_<
In some cases some brown news might partially be true, but not entirely. In the current case it was in response to a forum bug causing posts containing two spaces after a link to disappear completely.
Learn how to read before making any judgement on people.
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/me hopes that this filtering system of disallowing double, triple etc spacing does not pass onto signatures (as was in the case of United-TI Signatures).
The layout of my signature would be stuffed up then.
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I was just going along with the joke. Please don't take my post seriously. It wasn't meant that way.
My impression is that you guys that control this site have lost your mind. DJ_O is rightly concerned about the lack of activity but that is consistent with this kind of nit picking harassment. If some one has good intentions and tries to make a post containing a URL why should his or her efforts be frustrated this way?? There are things in life that are important and in my opinion, how any spaces one puts in a post isn't one of them.
If you haven't realized (especially after the April 1st news text turned brown), any news posted in brown text is fake or joke article. <_<
In some cases some brown news might partially be true, but not entirely. In the current case it was in response to a forum bug causing posts containing two spaces after a link to disappear completely.
Learn how to read before making any judgement on people.
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I hereby present the Brown Text block. Just wrap your sarcastic text in [color=#995500][/color] and watch the biting sarcasm flow forth on the fake news posts!
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We should have [sarcasm][/sarcasm] tags to add in your posts in response to fake news.
And yeah, our admins indeed lost their minds, nothing can be done at the moment.
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One thing I thought that would be cool would be some sort of custom tag with cookies that let people minimize fake news, but then that would allow anyone to use those tags in their posts.
I was just going along with the joke. Please don't take my post seriously. It wasn't meant that way.
My impression is that you guys that control this site have lost your mind. DJ_O is rightly concerned about the lack of activity but that is consistent with this kind of nit picking harassment. If some one has good intentions and tries to make a post containing a URL why should his or her efforts be frustrated this way?? There are things in life that are important and in my opinion, how any spaces one puts in a post isn't one of them.
If you haven't realized (especially after the April 1st news text turned brown), any news posted in brown text is fake or joke article. <_<
In some cases some brown news might partially be true, but not entirely. In the current case it was in response to a forum bug causing posts containing two spaces after a link to disappear completely.
Learn how to read before making any judgement on people.
Ah ok. I think the best thing to do since sarcasm is hard to detect sometimes via text medium (especially that you have an history of ranting a lot on Omnimaga, although often for a good cause <_<, which makes it even harder to detect) is to use smileys, such as :P. <_< is used as well for sarcasm and banter, but only by long time staff and members it seems.
On a serious note, though, never the staff would add such annoyance to the site. The only thing that could ever be added that might annoy is a mod disallowing double-posts before 24 hours or a mod disallowing links for new posters or BBCode in signatures (that was only ever done once, back when people constantly used giant psychedelic seizure-inducing strings of smileys in their sig or chatrooms in their sig), but nothing such as preventing multiple spaces. We don't even have any bad word filter yet (although I guess some that doesn't censor completely could be nice for SEO purposes).
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One thing I thought that would be cool would be some sort of custom tag with cookies that let people minimize fake news, but then that would allow anyone to use those tags in their posts.
A spoiler?
Ah good to see Dingus was playing along. It was quite serious formal like though.
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Huh? Why is using two spaces after a link a problem?
Edit: Oh, I get it now :P
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That is really a strange glitch, though, because only one space works fine ???
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One thing I thought that would be cool would be some sort of custom tag with cookies that let people minimize fake news, but then that would allow anyone to use those tags in their posts.
I've just got to go back to this, because it's a good idea essentially. But if you make it like the ticalc.org news does it (where you can hide fake news), then that would be fine anyways. To be even more secure you could make only Newsers/Managers apply the particular tag
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From experience, I don't think the custom tag mod allows this, though.
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lol I saw this news post in my email notifications (which doesn't handle colored text) and I thought Netham really had added a strange spam filter and not told anyone about it XD
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Oh wow, I hope nobody who got the notification took it seriously X.X
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Watch it become a feature of the forums. ;) Definitions time...
Feature [fe-tur]: n (1) a bug with seniority; (2) a bug that cannot be resolved or removed.