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3.) So by my estimation, It's still not apples-to-apples. And this isn't my first time addressing this point, either. I and many others who're substantially further to the Left on this forum are not at all in the same boat as the culture that exists on the alt-Right.
I've been somewhat confused by this for a long time now, but it's finally become something of an issue, so I thought I'd finally raise it here. Firstly, this feature is extremely confusing, it clutters posts, and it appears by any measure to be unnecessary.
Secondly, it is now causing my post to take on a new meaning entirely. Take for instance this snippet of my recent post:
It looks like I'm asking the poster "What's wrong with you?" for no reason whatsoever, but the problem is that I'm linking to a thread called "What's wrong with you?"
If we must have this feature, can we please do something like:
(Linked from "What is wrong with you?")
It seriously looks like I'm insulting this poster, and there's no reason for that and it's too late to edit the thread. And even if I could edit the thread, I can't edit out the offending part without removing the entire link.
So is it possible to change this? Or is this a PHP thing?
I used to post on a couple other PHP-based forums, and you could do set your own text to links to elsewhere in the forum with no trouble.
I've been somewhat confused by this for a long time now, but it's finally become something of an issue, so I thought I'd finally raise it here. Firstly, this feature is extremely confusing, it clutters posts, and it appears by any measure to be unnecessary.
Secondly, it is now causing my post to take on a new meaning entirely. Take for instance this snippet of my recent post:
It looks like I'm asking the poster "What's wrong with you?" for no reason whatsoever, but the problem is that I'm linking to a thread called "What's wrong with you?"
If we must have this feature, can we please do something like:
(Linked from "What is wrong with you?")
It seriously looks like I'm insulting this poster, and there's no reason for that and it's too late to edit the thread. And even if I could edit the thread, I can't edit out the offending part without removing the entire link.
So is it possible to change this? Or is this a PHP thing?
I've been somewhat confused by this for a long time now, but it's finally become something of an issue, so I thought I'd finally raise it here. Firstly, this feature is extremely confusing, it clutters posts, and it appears by any measure to be unnecessary.
Secondly, it is now causing my post to take on a new meaning entirely. Take for instance this snippet of my recent post:
It looks like I'm asking the poster "What's wrong with you?" for no reason whatsoever, but the problem is that I'm linking to a thread called "What's wrong with you?"
If we must have this feature, can we please do something like:
(Linked from "What is wrong with you?")
It seriously looks like I'm insulting this poster, and there's no reason for that and it's too late to edit the thread. And even if I could edit the thread, I can't edit out the offending part without removing the entire link.
So is it possible to change this? Or is this a PHP thing?
Hmm. Testing 1 2 3
See the "what is wrong with you" part? I think that's what FieldTheorist is complaining about.
?? When I first made the post, all that was showing was the "It's not rocket surgery" part...
Try this again
Here's what it looked like when I first made the post:
View attachment 67227304
Huh. I still see the "(What is wrong with you?)" part. Maybe it's a browser issue? I use Firefox...
...but I don't see it in the quoted text above! lol
I used to post on a couple other PHP-based forums, and you could do set your own text to links to elsewhere in the forum with no trouble.
I've been somewhat confused by this for a long time now, but it's finally become something of an issue, so I thought I'd finally raise it here. Firstly, this feature is extremely confusing, it clutters posts, and it appears by any measure to be unnecessary.
Secondly, it is now causing my post to take on a new meaning entirely. Take for instance this snippet of my recent post:
It looks like I'm asking the poster "What's wrong with you?" for no reason whatsoever, but the problem is that I'm linking to a thread called "What's wrong with you?"
If we must have this feature, can we please do something like:
(Linked from "What is wrong with you?")
It seriously looks like I'm insulting this poster, and there's no reason for that and it's too late to edit the thread. And even if I could edit the thread, I can't edit out the offending part without removing the entire link.
So is it possible to change this? Or is this a PHP thing?
All that I do when linking to other threads is simply say "link". As in: Link
or to see exactly what I do: url=<insert link here>]Link[/url
*add brackets were appropriate to the above of course...just before the first URL and at the end of the second URL*
Besides that....Don't worry about whether or not it seems like you yourself are saying it or not. If reported, which in my experience is never, the Mods will look at it, see that its a link to another thread at DP and take into account the linked to threads name to determine whether it was you saying it..or if its the thread title. And if the poster complains to you about it then simply explain to them what happened. Most people are reasonable...well...at least on such things as this.
Personally I like it. means that I don't have to copy/paste the thread name along with copy/pasting the link. Lazy I know. But tis life. :mrgreen:
Right, but is it possible to make the pasting of the thread name optional? It would be nice if I could just use some markup to make it not happen when I don't want it to happen.
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