Wedge

I've been involved in this debate on sm.org, and I gotta say the way it's being handled is so badly trying to be grown up, but it falls short on more than one level.[1]

As I pointed out, not only did a suitable resolution not occur previously but their current stance of 'no little mods can do it' is actually worse than having a clear 'yes/no' rule, because what it means is that it's now totally subjective as opposed to reasonably objective.

So, I spent time thinking about this, and honestly the solution I'm most happy with is simply to disallow it entirely, at least on the public site that we operate in some fashion.

There's a credits page, use it, that's what it's there for. Sadly, I can fully imagine mods putting themselves into that page for every whiff and whim, but it's not the same as forcing into the footer on every page when it's not necessary or desirable. (It's not like there's actually room in any case)

1.	Like team members going round and saying things, then back-pedalling with "this is just my personal opinion". When you wear a team badge, you represent the team. Simple as that. If you're expressing a personal opinion, disclaim it up front. It's not hard.

Offhand I actually don't know. I'll try it out later today.

Actually, in the other platforms they're a fair bit simpler, because they don't have the same flexibility. You just don't see the variations, IIRC in vB at least they're always [bbcode=something] format, never anything else.

Even their quote code is really dull, it's simply [quote=author;postid].

OK, so the core functionality is now supported, plugins can add their own bbcode and have it cleaned up on disable. More reliable than doing manual DB queries, anyway.

Now, for my next trick, some kind of UI...

I bet most people here do not realise how complex bbcode actually is. There are, for example, 8 different internal types of bbcode all for different purposes.

Then there isn't a good answer and you should go ask the devs of that online solution how to address it. Their software prevents you using these tools, it's their problem to fix.

Use incognito mode then the cookies won't be saved.

-sigh- I'm not being funny but I really wish people would read the entire thread before posting.

Right up there in my first post.It's going to happen. Just after I do this bit because some of the code will be reliant on the things I'm doing right now (not a lot, mind, but enough to make me want to be sure I have this part working before I do that)

Because the author's an arrogant tool whose skills are more in his imagination than in reality?