Then why not use the toolbar button. If a user cannot post clickable links, I prefer selecting the URL, right-clicking it and clicking “Open Link in New Tab” rather than copy/pasting extra stuff to my clipboard.
But, in your example above, the viewer can’t do that, as you pointed out. So, just because you can’t be bothered with clicking a button on the toolbar, you decide to make things difficult for your intended readers.
You are right, just because I keep forgetting. Probably not anymore now that we discussed it in depth
There are two side by side buttons: a quote and a tag. This thing looks like a quote in raw text and uses the tag glyph (with a “preformatted text” tooltip). The other one is the block quote using a quote glyph and looking like a paragraph in a box. Just not 100% straightforward and I didn’t figure it out.
I hope you understand that I’m not trying to tell you what to do. But, when I post in these forums, I want to make it easy and clear for the readers. Even if it means I have to select some text (or code) and click an extra button.
(You should see what some of us are going through to create charts and guides over on my Perusoe’s Testing Grounds thread).
I’m EU, but don’t even look over there anymore, as those forums look abandoned. To be honest, for me most important things are the PTR forums when they are up, and they are here anyway.
Why not “merge” EU forums here, in a way that you get a subforum for EU players? Same for other (mainly english speaking/written) regions?
That is not a horrible idea actually. There would have to be a subforum for EU though, that way EU players could talk and perhaps form groups to play together and so on.
I understand there might be issues with all the different language sub-forums that go on in EU, but still, most relevant info is on US forums anyway and it’s kinda “weird” that you can have one “status” over in EU, and another here on US forums.
That would need to be discussed… in a separate conversation, for sure… and probably on the EU forums.
I think the EU Tech Support forum should stay on the EU forums… EU English player do not (or only barely) use the “Community Creations” sub-forum whereas that sub-forum is being used for recruiting and “looking for a clan” messages on the French forum.
It might make some sense to move the EU English forum here, but I doubt very much you could sell that idea to the German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish and Russian players… I certainly would object. It may come as a surprise to you, but not everyone speaks English… nor want to… nor are comfortable enough in English to discuss various subjects.
You know the difference between trust and active. We have members here who accumulated 3-4k posts in the old forum. They were as active as mice in a cheese factory or granary .
Trust comes into play when you follow all the nit-picky rules Bliz has loaded their forums with. With the way my mind works it’s really easy for me to stray into gray areas when it comes to sticking to a thread topic. It’s also no small task to keep all your posts so politically correct that you don’t pick up an occasional flag from somebody who’s either having a bad day, is easily offended, or makes it his/her business to prowl the forums with a couple different accounts, making sure to place flags on people who might be trying to get to, or retain T3 status.
I’d tend to trust an honest T2 more than a T3 who becomes a “self appointed moderator,” or forum cop by judicious placement of flags to keep a thumb on top of fellow forum users he may just not like. The way some members here acted towards the guy with 5 accounts filled with DH’s. No thread he ever started ever went without large numbers of thumbs down and negative comments towards his thoughts.
Sure hope this didn’t stray into the gray area I mentioned.
Well sure, we’re supposed to use flags wisely, but when you have a half dozen accounts it would be pretty easy to make an impact and still appear to be using your flags wisely. As has been mentioned by people both older and more trecherous than I, “Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.”
My apologies for not being more clear. I meant relative to “Dislike” () being used on the old forums for any reason. And maybe I misunderstood Traveler’s comments too. But, from what they said, it seemed like that was what they were referring to. If not, then my apologies to @Traveler too.