Questions and Answers (Q&A)

[Jukka the Sling]

@Fatch of Southsward:  I cancel out smileys by putting empty italics tags (or any tags, really) in between each part, like so:

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[James Gryphon]

Thanks to all those who've commented on the emoticon issue. In a perfect world, I could easily change 8) to something else (less likely to be used for non-emoticon purposes), but that would break every usage of that emoticon in the forum's past, and I'm not quite feeling up to a search-and-change romp through the database to change all instances of 8) right now. Maybe sometime, though.

[Fatch of Southsward]

Did the forum go down recently for anyone else?

Almost every time I visited for the past day or two, I got a white screen with a message from Sooper-Grape, talking about errors.

[James Gryphon]

I made a big blunder the other day when I was working on themes, and the site was down probably from 7 PM to 1 AM CST. That's probably it.

[Cornflower MM]

The forum has seemed wider to me, on my both my laptop and my mom's computer. Someone else mentioned it to me as well. What's up with that, James?

[James Gryphon]

It used to have something like 90% margins. I switched it to 99% to try to make better use of window space in the Experimental theme, and figured I'd import it to Core when I merged the themes.

[Cornflower MM]

I see. It's not a bad change, just taking some time to get used to.

[Skyblade]

I think it's good. It actually reminds me of the old forum.

[Lady Ashenwyte]

How does one delete a post?

[Rosie Willowwater]

I think you can delete it if someone hasn't replied to it.

[James Gryphon]

You can edit it out, but I don't think members can delete posts or topics.

[Lord Daskar]

I sometimes have the option to remove my own posts.

[Skyblade]

I sometimes have the option to remove my own posts.

That's weird. I don't think I've ever been able to.

On another note, that does sound convenient. Why don't we have that option?

[James Gryphon]

As far as why this isn't an option: there's too much potential for abuse, with limited upside. Anyway, if somebody has a valid reason to want a post to be removed, they can request for the staff to do so.

[Jetthebinturong]

As far as why this isn't an option: there's too much potential for abuse, with limited upside. Anyway, if somebody has a valid reason to want a post to be removed, they can request for the staff to do so.

That really is making too much sense to my brain. How can it be abused?