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Quote tags?
#1
Quote tags?
http://atheistforums.org/thread-25459-po...#pid652153

Could be me being stupid but I can't work out why the quote tags aren't working?

Quote:test

Ok they're working here, but why not on the above thread?
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#2
RE: Quote tags?
Sometimes different defects result in the same broken display. Sometimes, it's a result of multiple errors (I noticed, before it was fixed, that one of the quote tags was closed with a curly brace instead of a square brace; that would have caused additional problems, or it might have been the main cause [because the quote tags wouldn't have matched in number]).
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#3
RE: Quote tags?
(April 16, 2014 at 4:00 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: https://atheistforums.org/thread-25459-p...#pid652153

Could be me being stupid but I can't work out why the quote tags aren't working?

Quote:test

Ok they're working here, but why not on the above thread?

I'm the one who fixed it. You had a closing tag that was incorrectly formatted like this '[/quote{', and also a mismatched number of opening and closing tags. Either problem can screw up rendering of quotes.
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#4
RE: Quote tags?
The hardest work a mod has to do...

I once spent half an hour to find an error where the user put a backslash in the closing tag amidst a nest of them. If it wasn't for the staff bar, I'd call this a shitty job.
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#5
RE: Quote tags?
(April 16, 2014 at 7:10 pm)LastPoet Wrote: The hardest work a mod has to do...

I once spent half an hour to find an error where the user put a backslash in the closing tag amidst a nest of them. If it wasn't for the staff bar, I'd call this a shitty job.

Yeah, they REALLY can be a rat's nest.

Want to know the secret to making them easier to decipher and make it much easier to fix yourself - and by extension, for us to fix?

Put your opening and closing quote tags on a line by themselves and trim out any unnecessary nested quotes. it makes them far, far easier to spot and get matched up.
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#6
RE: Quote tags?
(April 16, 2014 at 7:10 pm)LastPoet Wrote: If it wasn't for the staff bar, I'd call this a shitty job.

Um... LP.... Here's the dirty little secret of AF: There is no staff bar.
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#7
RE: Quote tags?
I think I can devise a vim script to light up mybb quotes. That could help.
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#8
RE: Quote tags?
(April 16, 2014 at 7:20 pm)LastPoet Wrote: I think I can devise a vim script to light up mybb quotes. That could help.

Another vim user? Yes! High five!

Hack up a greasemonkey script and it'll work right in the browser. Big Grin
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#9
RE: Quote tags?
(April 16, 2014 at 7:18 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(April 16, 2014 at 7:10 pm)LastPoet Wrote: If it wasn't for the staff bar, I'd call this a shitty job.

Um... LP.... Here's the dirty little secret of AF: There is no staff bar.

Shhhh, how will we recruit more mods that way?
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#10
RE: Quote tags?
(April 16, 2014 at 7:24 pm)LastPoet Wrote:
(April 16, 2014 at 7:18 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Um... LP.... Here's the dirty little secret of AF: There is no staff bar.

Shhhh, how will we recruit more mods that way?

Same damn way we've always done it.





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