FR: Strikethrough


Here's where you can make suggestions for new forums & categories, voice your opinion about the forum, etc.

Lair Larrikin

Posts: 24

Joined: Monday, 8th October 2012, 23:35

Post Monday, 5th October 2015, 04:55

FR: Strikethrough

Hi,

Pardon my ignorance of forum software, but would it be easy or difficult to add [s]strikethrough[/s] BBCode tags?

This seems really useful for GDD posts where the initial post is repeatedly updated after feedback.

(Or alternatively, if we already have strikethrough, could someone please tell me how to add it to my posts? Thanks!)

For this message the author shriash has received thanks: 2
Pollen_Golem, Sar
User avatar

Barkeep

Posts: 1788

Joined: Saturday, 29th June 2013, 16:52

Post Monday, 5th October 2015, 06:10

Re: FR: Strikethrough

From what I can tell, standard phpBB doesn't have this functionality. I imagine Napkin (or maybe njvack?) could add it in, as the phpBB website suggests a few ways to do it.

I'm the kind of obnoxious person who would actually have an opinion about this, so I've never really liked strikethrough; it's a clumsy way to digitally represent an analog habit. In practice, it's only used humorously or to passive-aggressively indicate that you're "taking back what you said." For the most part, it's better to rely on a) built-in revision histories, as one sees with facebook or google docs, b) documenting your edits manually, or c) placing old versions of content behind something like spoiler tags.

Of course, I'm hardly going to stand in the way if one of the forum admins wants to go to the trouble of adding it to the Tavern.

For this message the author archaeo has received thanks:
Pollen_Golem

Sar

User avatar

Ziggurat Zagger

Posts: 6418

Joined: Friday, 6th July 2012, 12:48

Post Monday, 5th October 2015, 06:20

Re: FR: Strikethrough

archaeo wrote:it's only used humorously or to passive-aggressively indicate that you're "taking back what you said."

that's exactly why I wholeheartedly support this addition

For this message the author Sar has received thanks: 3
Arrhythmia, byrel, Pollen_Golem

Ziggurat Zagger

Posts: 8786

Joined: Sunday, 5th May 2013, 08:25

Post Monday, 5th October 2015, 06:32

Re: FR: Strikethrough

Sar wrote:
archaeo wrote:it's only used humorously or to passive-aggressively indicate that you're "taking back what you said."

that's exactly why I wholeheartedly support this addition
just imagine how much funnier your reply would be if it were struckthrough

For this message the author duvessa has received thanks:
Pollen_Golem
User avatar

Barkeep

Posts: 4435

Joined: Tuesday, 11th January 2011, 12:28

Post Monday, 5th October 2015, 15:18

Re: FR: Strikethrough

Sorry friends, this is just not possible.

OH PSYCH! actually it is DONE. It's the [strike] code.
I am not a very good player. My mouth is a foul pit of LIES. KNOW THIS.

For this message the author njvack has received thanks: 4
Arrhythmia, Pollen_Golem, Sar, shriash

Sar

User avatar

Ziggurat Zagger

Posts: 6418

Joined: Friday, 6th July 2012, 12:48

Post Tuesday, 6th October 2015, 04:00

Re: FR: Strikethrough

duvessa wrote:just imagine how much funnier your reply would be if it were struckthrough

they all would!

For this message the author Sar has received thanks:
Arrhythmia

Lair Larrikin

Posts: 24

Joined: Monday, 8th October 2012, 23:35

Post Friday, 30th October 2015, 03:13

Re: FR: Strikethrough

Thanks nvjack! This will be great for my complicated edit revisions in GDD!
winning

Return to Suggestions & Criticism

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 3 guests

cron
Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group.
Designed by ST Software for PTF.