Be careful what you use IE for



  • @drinkingbird said:

    Fuck you for implying that I only speak the way I do to feel "l33t". The way I speak is the result of my background, experiences, and education, not affectation.

    Pretty sure you're just doing it to be obnoxious.  You obviously know about "forums", realize that it is far-and-away the preferred English pluralization, but you refuse to learn it.  You want us to believe you are smart enough to know obscure Latin roots, but can't adapt to a modern language?  Oh, no, you just want us to think you know Latin, that's all.  Really, you must be quite intolerable to be around if this is how you act all the time.  Just use the accepted pluralization and let it go. 



  • @drinkingbird said:

    @NorseLaQuet said:

    That being said, you can use your 'divergence' argument to say that 'forums' not only makes more sence, is used more widely, and follows the 'standard' rules of making words plural and therefore is the undocumented evolution of fora. To each his own though. As long as it makes you feel "l33t" to use the archeic yet gramaticly correct plural of forum, I see no reason why not to let you :)

     

    It always amazes me how quickly people can go from calling everyone else dicks, to acting one themselves.

    Fuck you for implying that I only speak the way I do to feel "l33t". The way I speak is the result of my background, experiences, and education, not affectation.

    It was a joke (hence the :)). I am a very lighthearted guy, and sometimes my intentions get lost when my thoughts are truncated into plain text; sorry for offending you.

    I was poking fun at the "l33t" crowd, as "l33t" speak was originally used to encode messages and make people feel smart/clever. I was also implicitly poking fun at the poster who said he was tired of the use of "fora" as it seems that he thinks people use it to make themselves look cool. Personally, I don't care how you talk as long as I can understand you; because how people talk is, like you said, a result of many factors.

    I'll be sure to make my words more explict next time to avoid offending the super-not-lighthearted people in this community.

     

    :p



  •  I thought the title of KB article was slightly humourous, but I was particularly amused by the registry key which at first glance looked like "UseCoinstall" (Use Coin Stall -- pay toilet?).

     

     



  • @NorseLaQuet said:

     @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    @NorseLaQuet said:

    Why can't we edit our own posts?
     

    You can. It is time limited to prevent abuse.

    I can sort of see the logic in this, yet though all of my forum travels have never encountered a forum that does that to you.

    You haven't? it seems to be a fairly commonly-used option on phpBB2 fora, although with a somewhat longer timeout. As it is, it is just long enough to realise that you have messed up your formatting and posted a BWoT. Also several sites disable edits only once there is a reply.

    WRT forums versus fora, it seems that the xkcd fora are responsible for the popularisation of the latter spelling, since it is usually found on sites where there are many xkcd members. Alternatively, it could just be that pedantic, show-offish geeks are drawn to xkcd.



  • You guys really need to stop with the "Community Server is perfectly ok" trolling. Every piece of forum software has an edit time limit, but they're generally set to a sane value.



  •  @Cap'n Steve said:

    You guys really need to stop with the "Community Server is perfectly ok" trolling.

     I don't understand what you mean by that.

    Every piece of forum software has an edit time limit, but they're generally set to a sane value.

    I highly doubt that is true.



  • @NorseLaQuet said:

     @Cap'n Steve said:

    You guys really need to stop with the "Community Server is perfectly ok" trolling.

     I don't understand what you mean by that.

    You're new, but I'm sure you'll find out. Community Server (the software this site runs on) has a lot of problems. A certain few people refuse to acknowledge this and post stuff like "don't blame the software" or "get a real browser" whenever someone complains about a bug.

    @NorseLaQuet said:

    Every piece of forum software has an edit time limit, but they're generally set to a sane value.

    I highly doubt that is true.

    Ok, maybe not [i]every[/i] forum, but as posted before , PHPBB does, I know vBulletin does, and I'm going out on a limb and assuming IPB (the last of the "big three") does as well.



  • @Cap'n Steve said:

    You're new, but I'm sure you'll find out. Community Server (the software this site runs on) has a lot of problems. A certain few people refuse to acknowledge this and post stuff like "don't blame the software" or "get a real browser" whenever someone complains about a bug

    Ah, thanks for clearing that up. I might only have 14 posts, but I am already getting tired of this bbcode/WYSIWYG mix.

    I actually developed a forum system in PHP for a web client once (before you ask: yes I did explore other options. It was a very custom website for managing an online school, and writing my own sytem turned out for the better then hacking up some opensouce one). I started off using TinyMCE, as that is what I used for the other CMS functionality for the site. But after thinking long and hard about it, I ultimately opted for a simple textarea with a toolbar that allows for basic bbtag insertion. There were so many issues; from dealing with different ways that browsers write the HTML (<br /> vs <p></p> and such) and the extra parsing I had to do to make sure that only specific tags with specific attributes were allowed; I simply gave up. And I personally think its a much simple, solid product because of it. Well, ofcourse then I had to write a custom BB code parser... but that was not a huge deal.

    Ok, maybe not every forum, but as posted before , PHPBB does, I know vBulletin does, and I'm going out on a limb and assuming IPB (the last of the "big three") does as well.

    I think I misread your post. Perhaps you meant to say that all [most] forum systems _allow_ you to set a time? It sounded like you said that they all _require_ an edit time limit. I just checked on a forum that I frequent, and I can still edit a post I made 4 years ago.

    Haha, sorry for derailing the thread so much, I hope that's not considered a huge transgression here.



  • @NorseLaQuet said:

    Haha, sorry for derailing the thread so much, I hope that's not considered a huge transgression here.

    Haha, don't worry, on this site it's almost a transgression not to derail a thread within the first handful of posts.



  • @morbiuswilters said:

    Programmers are the bitter, child-eating dragons that guard the horde of gold that is Information Technology.  Now you know.


    Nah, it's actually just you guys. ;)



  • @drinkingbird said:

    I'm always surprised at the attitude that we should only be nice on internet fora. Have you ever thought that sometimes it's better to be unfriendly? Why should people starting shitty threads be coddled rather than have to deal with honest reactions?

    Cynisism breeds cynicism. Or, if you're a dick, you'll get treated like a dick. <insert worn-out Bible quote here>



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