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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: KillerWatt on 04 May 2009, 20:04:23

Title: Quoting
Post by: KillerWatt on 04 May 2009, 20:04:23

I have noticed that when quoting another users post, the users numerical ID is given instead of their actual forum name (as well as the date, etc being in an "unfriendly" format)

Now this is fine if you are only quoting a single person, but it could present a bit of confusion for the "noobs" if somebody wants to seperately address a post that contains multi-quoted messages.

Any chance of when the quote facility is used, it displays the users actual (friendly) name instead of it's numerical value?

Title: Re: Quoting
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 04 May 2009, 20:16:38

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I have noticed that when quoting another users post, the users numerical ID is given instead of their actual forum name (as well as the date, etc being in an "unfriendly" format)

Now this is fine if you are only quoting a single person, but it could present a bit of confusion for the "noobs" if somebody wants to seperately address a post that contains multi-quoted messages.

Any chance of when the quote facility is used, it displays the users actual (friendly) name instead of it's numerical value?

Title: Re: Quoting
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 04 May 2009, 20:17:07

Looks fine to me.

Title: Re: Quoting
Post by: KillerWatt on 04 May 2009, 20:27:59

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Looks fine to me.

This is what it looks like to the person quoting when it appears in the message box

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[quote]Looks fine to me.[/quote]
When you finally submit the post, it reverts back to the "friendly" user name.

Title: Re: Quoting
Post by: TheBoy on 04 May 2009, 22:02:31

It is a security related issue brought in a few months ago...

Title: Re: Quoting
Post by: KillerWatt on 04 May 2009, 22:21:18

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It is a security related issue brought in a few months ago...

Just had a quick look at the background of YaBB forums...open source, nuff said (the capital B's in the name should have been the giveaway to me anyway).

Title: Re: Quoting
Post by: TheBoy on 04 May 2009, 23:35:01

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It is a security related issue brought in a few months ago...

Just had a quick look at the background of YaBB forums...open source, nuff said (the capital B's in the name should have been the giveaway to me anyway).

Yup, we use YaBB, with only a lightly modified core.

Title: Re: Quoting
Post by: ians on 05 May 2009, 12:08:01

Doesn't Preview work?

Title: Re: Quoting
Post by: KillerWatt on 05 May 2009, 21:59:16

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Doesn't Preview work?

Yes preview works Ian.
But as I said earlier, it really doesn't bother me per se because I can see what's going on.....I was just thinking about forum "noobs" and making life easy for them really.

Title: Re: Quoting
Post by: TheBoy on 06 May 2009, 18:43:31

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Doesn't Preview work?

Yes preview works Ian.
But as I said earlier, it really doesn't bother me per se because I can see what's going on.....I was just thinking about forum "noobs" and making life easy for them really.

Let the newbies use bog standard quote, and as they get more familiar with it, they will learn more advanced techniques normally :)