On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!

Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'


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Angus G - Dec 14, 2002 1:24:42 pm PST #2063 of 10000
Roguish Laird

This board fails to correct or delete posts that are just plain stupid. I can't help feeling that's a flaw.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 14, 2002 1:28:22 pm PST #2064 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

This board fails to correct or delete posts that are just plain stupid. I can't help feeling that's a flaw.

It also continues to show posts by people who are drunk, Angus.

t /boring sober person


§ ita § - Dec 14, 2002 1:30:52 pm PST #2065 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

We can't be held accountable for you guys not using the latest in browser technology. You have to take some responsibility too.


Rebecca Lizard - Dec 14, 2002 3:41:54 pm PST #2066 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

If you have unread posts. It's when I want to go back to a thread I've read, to post in it, that I'm getting into changing my PPP so often.

Uh. I've got my permanently set to 20, and just went to Sunnydale Press, where there were no unread messages, and I got only the one most recent message. It didn't try to display 20.

I'm confused-- is that what you were talking about?


Typo Boy - Dec 14, 2002 4:04:15 pm PST #2067 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

If you choose 20, 20 is your maximum page size. If there were 20 or more unread posts you would get 20. If there were fewer than 20 unread posts then you get that number.

If you hit recent you get the most recent 20 post. (Clicking on a thread where you have read everything is the same as hitting recent. Clicking on a thread with unread posts gives you those posts)

If you hit previous and there are more than 20 prior posts, you get the previous 20 posts. If you hit next and there are 20 or more posts remaining after the last one on your current page you get 20. And so on.


Hil R. - Dec 14, 2002 4:38:55 pm PST #2068 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

If I have a thread with no unread posts and I click it, sometimes it'll give me just the last post, and sometimes it'll give me the last 10.

t edit: OK, it looks like clicking regular threads will give me the last 10, while clicking threads in the right column will give me the last 1.


Rebecca Lizard - Dec 14, 2002 6:38:08 pm PST #2069 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

edit: OK, it looks like clicking regular threads will give me the last 10, while clicking threads in the right column will give me the last 1.

Oh. Interesting. 'Cause I'd gone to SP, of course. I wonder, why is that so?


Noumenon - Dec 14, 2002 7:20:35 pm PST #2070 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti

I was reading Kristen's postcard post in Press and wondering where she meant to put the line breaks (after I made a postcard out to "Les Moonves CBS"). And I was thinking, why does <BR>, out of all the common HTML tags, not have a quick-edit? Like

Haikus break on five
l And seven. They're not fragile;
l They just like coffee.

(l is for linebreak, since b is taken.) Also, I think <BR> should be on the list of HTML codes you can use on the Quickedit page. For lo, it hath confused even Joss.


Jon B. - Dec 14, 2002 9:21:22 pm PST #2071 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Also, I think <BR> should be on the list of HTML codes you can use on the Quickedit page.

Done.

And I agree that an "l" quickedit for <br> would be a cool thing.


Rebecca Lizard - Dec 14, 2002 10:04:19 pm PST #2072 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

... Because I have no sense of embarrassment I will now mention the idea I had once for quick-edit for links. You'd write "h" at the beginning of the line (for "href", as "a" is obviously a bad idea) and then paste the link, and then put a space, then the text you want to be linky, all on the same line, and then hard-return again for normal text: like

I have found the
h [link] most amazing story
about Angel and a girl named Meri Sue

would come out as

I have found the most amazing story about Angel and a girl named Meri Sue

Because, quickedit, it's not just about not knowing how to do HTML; it's being able to be faster! And about not having to remember to close tags, because you are a lazy bastard. And not having to worry about your clumsy fingers making one " and one ' and then breaking the board. And if you *also* don't know enough HTML to make a link, then it's still just ducky.