I know this is a silly question, but why do people *search* for www.buffistas.org? Why not just type it into the location bar?!
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'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Una - Apr 29, 2004 2:04:36 pm PDT #305 of 10001
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
Sue - Apr 29, 2004 2:09:06 pm PDT #306 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I've done it a few times at school so that the address doesn't stay in the address bar of the browser. Even though the computers are supposed to totally reset everytime you log out, they never truly do.
Dana - Apr 29, 2004 2:09:32 pm PDT #307 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
They may not want a record of it typed directly into the address bar. Depending on whose computer you're using, what it's set to remember, how AutoComplete is set up, blah blah blah...
amych - Apr 29, 2004 2:12:02 pm PDT #308 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I know this is a silly question, but why do people *search* for www.buffistas.org? Why not just type it into the location bar?!
The address bar thing, plus there's this whole freaky phenomenon where tons of people act as if google or yahoo or whatever *is* the internet, and type in whatever they want there whether they know the URL or not.
§ ita § - Apr 29, 2004 4:22:15 pm PDT #309 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I realise it's become so second-nature for me to edit people's posts to close tags that I don't mention it anymore. It transitioned from suggesting the poster do it, to doing it and telling the poster, to just doing it.
I'd hate for an edited by ita tag to be misunderstood -- are other stompies doing this? Should I stop? Should we note somewhere, if it's normal behaviour that it is normal?
DXMachina - Apr 29, 2004 4:28:53 pm PDT #310 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
ita, I do it all the time. The first time I do it for a new poster, I usually post to explain.
eta: I agree that it might be worth a note in the FAQ about what stompies do.
P.M. Marc - Apr 29, 2004 4:29:21 pm PDT #311 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I'm doing it.
If I remember, I leave a note in small text at the bottom explaining I fixed a tag, so that it's clear to the poster what happened and he or she doesn't freak.
We should add a note.
amych - Apr 29, 2004 4:31:33 pm PDT #312 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I do it, and try to remember to leave a note saying that I did (i.e., a post saying "Yo, so-and-so, I edited your post to close an errant tag). But I think I sometimes forget to leave the note.
I don't have a problem with doing it, but I think we should make a note of it, along the lines of "The stompies may edit your posts if a formatting error is causing problems with other posts in the thread. Don't be alarmed -- we won't do anything more invasive than that unless there's a spoiler violation or you're nattering in Press or Beep Me."
Cass - Apr 29, 2004 4:43:08 pm PDT #313 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I'd hate for an edited by ita tag to be misunderstoodI just realize / figger that I failed to close a tag.
If there were any transgressions larger to that, I assumer there would be a note. Turning the board 15 degrees to the right cause I forgot a slash to close an italic tag, NSM.
Um, long way to say, the current way works for me.
Jon B. - Apr 29, 2004 5:05:54 pm PDT #314 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
What DX, PM, amych said. Except I always remember to leave a note. :P