bbCode in Comments?

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stickfiregames wrote:
dvargasews wrote:
Isn't there another suggestion about using forum markup in comments?
I think I saw one once, but over a year ago so it might be hard to find.
Here and here among others. This is the longest topic about it, but the first one I linked is long enough that it could be merged with this.

The first one is specifically about using BBCode in comments.

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P-Code wrote:
stickfiregames wrote:
dvargasews wrote:
Isn't there another suggestion about using forum markup in comments?
I think I saw one once, but over a year ago so it might be hard to find.
Here and here among others. This is the longest topic about it, but the first one I linked is long enough that it could be merged with this.
The first one is specifically about using BBCode in comments.

BBCode is a way to bold, italicize, and underline, among other formatting.

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dvargasews wrote:
P-Code wrote:
stickfiregames wrote:
dvargasews wrote:
Isn't there another suggestion about using forum markup in comments?
I think I saw one once, but over a year ago so it might be hard to find.
Here and here among others. This is the longest topic about it, but the first one I linked is long enough that it could be merged with this.
The first one is specifically about using BBCode in comments.
BBCode is a way to bold, italicize, and underline, among other formatting.

I know that. I'm just saying that the first topic linked in that post isn't exactly a duplicate of this topic because it's specifically about using BBCode, rather than another type of formatting.
<offtopic>Nice signature, by the way.</offtopic>

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No Support

Great idea, but it could redirect you to a site that is not suitable for everyone.

woah, haven't been on here in a while

jromagnoli

VideoGamerCanInvent wrote:
No Support

Great idea, but it could redirect you to a site that is not suitable for everyone.

I think it would use the same method that it always uses to prevent you from posting to non scratch websites.

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MathlyCat

VideoGamerCanInvent wrote:
No Support

Great idea, but it could redirect you to a site that is not suitable for everyone.

So one slight fault means to not support a topic at all?
There's this nifty sticky I think you should read

It's located here!

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VideoGamerCanInvent

MathlyCat wrote:
VideoGamerCanInvent wrote:
No Support

Great idea, but it could redirect you to a site that is not suitable for everyone.
So one slight fault means to not support a topic at all?
There's this nifty sticky I think you should read
It's located here!

Here I'll Semi-Support it.

Again, not every parent wants their child going to external sites, and what about my post tells you I should read the sticky you gave me? I'm confused, unless you meant #3.

VGCI

woah, haven't been on here in a while

nickeljorn

Semi-support. Seems useful, but it could be spammed. Also, unlike posts, comments have a character limit.

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VideoGamerCanInvent

nickeljorn wrote:
Semi-support. Seems useful, but it could be spammed. Also, unlike posts, comments have a character limit.

Yes, that is another reason why I can't fully support it. You can't put half a bbCode in the comments. It will get you nowhere.

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Mrman99

nickeljorn wrote:
Semi-support. Seems useful, but it could be spammed. Also, unlike posts, comments have a character limit.

Posts do have a character limit of 200,000.

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LionHeart70

Uhh.. the only real thing I support is the bold/italicize/underline/strikethrough functions.
Would cause so much spam, are you sure you want to see this all over the comment section?;

say [EVERYONE CHECK OUT MY NEW GAME!!]

I mean, spam on the main site is already a problem - and blockspam is also a problem on the forums!

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Tymewalk

Full support for some form of formatting. Maybe Markdown?

**bold**
*italic*
_also italic_
__underline__
***they can be __combined__***
`code`

bold thing - italic thing - underlined thing - strikethrough thing

kenny2scratch

Since I can see for myself how frustrating fitting the censor into BBCode would be, I'd suggest using StackOverflow's subset of Markdown, which should have a lesser likelihood of tripping up the censor.

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Botcho_Otkho

Since a comment is a comment, I don't think that the comment needs that effects. Plus that would occupy a lot of space and can be used to spam. But semi support,because:

MathlyCat wrote:
but basic things like links, b, i, u, s would be helpful!

to emphatize the comment.

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No support. It would be too complex to install BBCode into comments.

adsuri

Paddle2See wrote:
Skizzors wrote:
ProdigyZeta7 wrote:
I support the general idea of changing the format of comments. But as Paddle put it, sometimes BBCode makes it easier to type bad words because you can put the code in the middle of a word which causes the parser to forget it was reading a bad word.
I agree with Paddle2See also about the censoring software, but if someone was willing to check out all the codes for BBCode and put in every possible bad word using BBCode into the software, that would fix it. I might be able to do this if I had the code for the parsers.
Well, the censoring software is a third-party package (not created in-house at the MIT Media lab) so I don't know what language it is in - nor can we make changes to it easily (other than to make suggestions to the company supplying it). But thanks for the offer!

So like Microsoft Word?

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adsuri

adsuri wrote:
Paddle2See wrote:
Skizzors wrote:
-snip-
Well, the censoring software is a third-party package (not created in-house at the MIT Media lab) so I don't know what language it is in - nor can we make changes to it easily (other than to make suggestions to the company supplying it). But thanks for the offer!
So like Microsoft Word?

Oh, & semi-support!

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Rb   Sr   Y    Zr   Nb   Mo   Tc   Ru   Rh   Pd   Ag   Cd   In   Sn   Sb   Te   I    Xe
Cs   Ba        Hf   Ta   W    Re   Os   Ir   Pt   Au   Hg   Tl   Pb   Bi   Po   At   Rn
Fr   Ra        Rf   Db   Sg   Bh   Hs   Mt   Ds   Rg   Cn   Nh   Fl   Mc   Lv   Ts   Og

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LionHeart70

LionHeart70 wrote:
Uhh.. the only real thing I support is the bold/italicize/underline/strikethrough functions.
Would cause so much spam, are you sure you want to see this all over the comment section?;
say [EVERYONE CHECK OUT MY NEW GAME!!]
I mean, spam on the main site is already a problem - and blockspam is also a problem on the forums!

Update to this:

I can also see this as a problem since comments have a pretty small limit and the BBCode tags would probably take up too much space, so instead of that maybe just some buttons that let you bold, italicize, underline, and/or strikethrough the text like the ones on Google Docs, Microsoft Word, etc.

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