Unofficial New Forum FAQ

These seem to be the some of the more frequently asked questions about the new forums in the first few hours of launch. And here are my unofficial answers.

Why doesn't auto-login work?

There seems to be an issue with with cookies carried over from the old forums. Try deleting your cookies and trying again. If it still doesn't work, bother one of the staff members. :)

Why doesn't :) work? The FAQ says it should

The FAQ isn't up to date as I write this. The :) style smilies screw up enough code often enough that they got taken out. Especially the :P one.

What happened to Nearly Banned?

Nearly banned got replaced by a more robust warning system.

I found a bug, what do I do?

Post it in this forum somewhere, unless it's a serious security issue. In that case you should get a hold of one of the staff and tell them. (Over e-mail, or maybe try out the new Private Messenger feature.)

Why can't I use an avatar or themes?

Avatars and themes are planned to be subscriber benefits. Right now mods and staff have access to them.

When are subscriber benefits coming out? How much wiill they cost?

I'll probably find out the same time you will. :)

What HTML tags are allowed?

Here's my list of usable tags:

• a
• b
• big
• br
• em
• font
• h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6
• hr
• i
• img
• li
• ol
• pre
• small
• strike
• sub
• sup
• tt
• u
• ul

This list was done off of memory, so I may be missing one or two. Everything else that looks like a HTML tag should display in the post. This way you can write, for example, C++ template code without having to bother to manually escape the < and >.

What forum tags are there?

In addition to the list of tag style smilies in the forum FAQ, here's my list of forum tags:

• b
• code
• i
• faq
• quote
• source

However, unclosed tags do not get converted into italics, bold, etc. Therefore if you use i as a loop variable for your for loops, you can do data = i or whatever as normal code as long as you don't have a closing tag somewhere else in your post.

What languages can I use with source blocks?

Right now, these are accepted:

• Visual Basic / VBScript (lang="vb" or lang="vbscript")
• Java (lang="java")
• C/C++ (lang="c" or lang="cpp")
• X86 Assembly (lang="asm")
• C# (lang="c#" or lang="csharp")
• &#106avascript/JScript (lang="&#106avascript" or lang="jscript") <li>Python (lang="python") (though there are known issues with parsing multiline string literals) </ul> If you use an invalid language setting, the source block will revert to cpp. <h2>Why can't I post to this really old thread? When I reply it dumps me back to the main forum page.</h2> That's the anti-necro code kicking in. After a certain amount of time with no new posts, &#111;nly staff and mods can reply to the thread. (Yeah, I know the system can be a little more friendly) I believe the amount of time is a per forum setting. <h2>What's the "link" link for &#111;n every post?</h2> It should link you to post, so you can use it to get to the right page, etc. <h2>What's the deal with the edited by message? Sometimes it doesn't show up.</h2> The edited by message should &#111;nly show up if you edited your post more than (I think) 15 minutes since it was posted. <h2>What's the deal with ratings?</h2> Ratings are given per person. If you think someone is helpful or friendly in general you should rate then up. If you think someone is unhelpful/unfriendly/trollish/boorish/etc. then rate them down. Ratings are not per post. If you given someone multiple ratings, &#111;nly the last &#111;ne matters. <!--EDIT--><span class=editedby><!--/EDIT-->[Edited by - SiCrane on July 4, 2004 11:53:33 PM]<!--EDIT--></span><!--/EDIT--></li></li></li></li></li></li></ul>