One thing I thought that would be cool would be some sort of custom tag with cookies that let people minimize fake news, but then that would allow anyone to use those tags in their posts.

I was just going along with the joke.  Please don't take my post seriously.  It wasn't meant that way.

Quote from: DJ_O on April 19, 2012, 09:18:28 am

Quote from: Dingus on April 19, 2012, 07:15:54 am

My impression is that you guys that control this site have lost your mind.  DJ_O is rightly concerned about the lack of activity but that is consistent with this kind of nit picking harassment.  If some one has good intentions and tries to make a post containing a URL why should his or her efforts be frustrated this way??  There are things in life that are important and in my opinion, how any spaces one puts in a post isn't one of them.

If you haven't realized (especially after the April 1st news text turned brown), any news posted in brown text is fake or joke article.

In some cases some brown news might partially be true, but not entirely. In the current case it was in response to a forum bug causing posts containing two spaces after a link to disappear completely.

Learn how to read before making any judgement on people.

Ah ok. I think the best thing to do since sarcasm is hard to detect sometimes via text medium (especially that you have an history of ranting a lot on Omnimaga, although often for a good cause , which makes it even harder to detect) is to use smileys, such as . is used as well for sarcasm and banter, but only by long time staff and members it seems.

On a serious note, though, never the staff would add such annoyance to the site. The only thing that could ever be added that might annoy is a mod disallowing double-posts before 24 hours or a mod disallowing links for new posters or BBCode in signatures (that was only ever done once, back when people constantly used giant psychedelic seizure-inducing strings of smileys in their sig or chatrooms in their sig), but nothing such as preventing multiple spaces. We don't even have any bad word filter yet (although I guess some that doesn't censor completely could be nice for SEO purposes).

Huh? Why is using two spaces after a link a problem?

Edit: Oh, I get it now

One thing I thought that would be cool would be some sort of custom tag with cookies that let people minimize fake news, but then that would allow anyone to use those tags in their posts.

I've just got to go back to this, because it's a good idea essentially. But if you make it like the ticalc.org news does it (where you can hide fake news), then that would be fine anyways. To be even more secure you could make only Newsers/Managers apply the particular tag

lol I saw this news post in my email notifications (which doesn't handle colored text) and I thought Netham really had added a strange spam filter and not told anyone about it

Watch it become a feature of the forums.  Definitions time...

Feature [fe-tur]: n (1) a bug with seniority; (2) a bug that cannot be resolved or removed.