New Forum Guide - Syntax and Features

Community General Discussion
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Thank you for sharing a really well put together guide for the community. This answered a lot of my questions and many people I know had as well.

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I wonder what you think will happen when people can embed gifs and memes.

All this extra stuff is going to take away from actual discussion just as much as a dislike.

Also, I would love to know how to clear my links and how those threads that are linked even came up

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I am confused what you mean by links.

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If you look at your summary page - there are links listed for some posters. I have links showing for threads that were over 3 months old. I have no idea why they are there because I never bookmarked those.

If you look at Kelsuwa as an example, he has two RP links listed in his summary.

And he just created another one by linking a EU forum post - doesn’t explain why just normal posts are showing up thought.

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Imagine if everyone on that community forum, continually bumped up their threads though like some people are doing. I am pretty sure it is more fair to everyone if people just used the search feature in that case to find communities they are interested in rather than people bumping up their threads to gain more exposure at the expense of other threads.

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If by “links” you mean the forum threads linked under Activity right ?

Well I can’t check your profile as you have the privacy option turned on.

But I had a look on mine. I can see threads that were started months even years ago. I did a spot test and all of the older threads I opened either had a post in the last 2 weeks posted to it or had a change done to it in the last 2 weeks.

So when they exported all posts from 2 weeks before the forum change as a consequence they brought over all posts that had replies within 2 weeks of the forum change over date

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Mine fit that same criteria but there were a lot more threads like that that aren’t showing up because I know some people were bumping up old threads just so they would appear on this new forum.

I guess there is no way to clear them then.

Thanks anyway.

Actually one thread was a necro 18 days ago so it actually shouldn’t have migrated over here either.

Omg, I miss having pages - just went through the exercise of determining the oldest threads that migrated over and mostly anything in the last 19 days, however, there were a handful of threads from way way back (2011) that did for some reason as well.

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So, how do I find out what trust level I am in? :thinking:

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There’s no way to check, though with attendance requirements, no one will be TL2 for another 13 days and no one will be TL3 until at least January 4th.

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This is the dumbest set of drivel I’ve ever seen. Trust Levels? Seriously? What next baby monitors added to the game to control our gametime played so it auto shuts off once that time is up? Disgusting. And people applaud this kind of censorship because they cant handle the least bit of flack or any kind of rational debate against their worldview. Welp I’m out.

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Nothing has been censored at all. There’s new stuff but you have to unlock the new stuff. You play WoW, you should be extremely familiar with this concept.

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Some additional things.

" + " when at the start of a line and followed by a space also functions as bullet point in addition to " * ".

+ Bullet

  • Bullet

“=” when placed on the next line following a text does header1. (And only header1?)

Header1
=

Header1

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Hi so in regards to being able to do this on an older post that was carried over to the new forums, how do I do this manually adding in the code? I’ve tried many different way and even tried quoting this post to see the code layout but, I cannot get it to work properly on my community recruitment page. I’m also unable to make a simple hyperlink.

Please help!

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I discovered a “Break” code that might be useful for people that acts like hitting the Enter key, as many times as you need.

<br> </br>
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I figured it out at least for a hyperlink anyway. For anyone with a forum post that got transferred over to the new forums and find a lot of these syntax/codes are not working simply type:

<a href="ENTER URL HERE">ENTER URL TEXT</a>

So for a World of Warcraft link with say the name WoW you would enter

<a href="https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/&quot;&gt;WoW&lt;/a&gt;

It would then look like:

WoW

I hope this helps out a lot of people with transferred posts :grin:

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It isn’t all new stuff though - we were able to link things before and have unlimited likes and report/flag things. Now we have to wait to get them again.

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How do you put someone on ignore?

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General feedback:

  • There aren’t enough choices in the flag function. We need options like “offtopic” “harassment” “necromancy.”
  • We need a way to enter an explanation. Bliz put in such an option on name/post in game reporting, but removed it on the forums. :thinking:

You don’t. The brilliant developers at the company that made this forum software, “Discourse,” do not believe that ignoring others, is something that encourages “civil” communication. Victims of harassment, people who don’t want to see trolling that skirts the edge of the code of conduct, and people who are of vulnerable populations targeted by micro aggressions just need to suck it up or politely explain why they dislike something.

I know. I rolled my eyes too. In fact, I rolled all my hind eyes. :peacock:

Is the lack of block/ignore an out of season April fool’s joke?

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I have not seen the answer here anywhere, but since my stats reset if I change posting chars, does my Trust Level follow or is that based on account?

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I can’t say for sure but it looks like trust is on a character by character basis.