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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:



At first, confusion happened among managers and staff, as Deep thought 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!
« Last Edit: April 19, 2012, 12:50:12 am by DJ_O »

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Re: Omnimaga introduces new forum rules regarding posting links
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2012, 12:45:08 am »
XD

so it's untagged urls with two or more spaces following them that makes things disappear?
* shmibs tests:
http://ourl.ca/15880/297605  like this?

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Re: Omnimaga introduces new forum rule regarding posting links
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2012, 12:46:18 am »
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)

Quote
http://www.omnimaga.org test

Quote
http://www.omnimaga.org  test


Everyone quoting this post loses The Game.
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Re: Omnimaga introduces new forum rule and filter regarding posting links
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2012, 01:11:56 am »
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!
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Re: Omnimaga introduces new forum rule and filter regarding posting links
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2012, 01:13:54 am »
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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Re: Omnimaga introduces new forum rule and filter regarding posting links
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2012, 01:17:25 am »
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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Re: Omnimaga introduces new forum rule and filter regarding posting links
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2012, 01:19:34 am »
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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Re: Omnimaga introduces new forum rule and filter regarding posting links
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2012, 04:24:00 am »
so why is this in brown, it isnt a joke?
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Re: Omnimaga introduces new forum rule and filter regarding posting links
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2012, 07:15:54 am »
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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Re: Omnimaga introduces new forum rule and filter regarding posting links
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2012, 07:22:20 am »
@Dingus: I am not sure if you are aware that brown text news means it is a fake news. :P

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Re: Omnimaga introduces new forum rule and filter regarding posting links
« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2012, 07:41:44 am »
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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Re: Omnimaga introduces new forum rule and filter regarding posting links
« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2012, 09:18:28 am »
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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Re: Omnimaga introduces new forum rule and filter regarding posting links
« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2012, 10:30:23 am »
* Jonius7 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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Re: Omnimaga introduces new forum rule and filter regarding posting links
« Reply #13 on: April 19, 2012, 01:59:13 pm »
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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Re: Omnimaga introduces new forum rule and filter regarding posting links
« Reply #14 on: April 19, 2012, 02:06:00 pm »
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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