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02/14/10, 20:10    Edited: 01/22/24, 00:41
 
   
 
When I clicked "POST" on my latest post in the FFVII thread, I was redirected to this page:



Weird. And probably bad. But maybe just something on my end.

EDIT: Yup, just got redirected to "thefreecamsecret.com" (I think that was the URL) while scrolling down the main forum page. Scanned for viruses and nothing was found. I turned AdBlock back on for now.
07/30/14, 01:12   
Edited: 07/30/14, 01:24
There is nothing connected to posts at all! All I can think of is some Google ad might have popped up at the wrong time... sometimes they expand if you "hover" over them for a few seconds, which I accidentally do at times.
08/01/14, 07:33   
Ok I have no idea what's going on with this post.@pokepal148

I try having a few links in a paragraph it just references Stephen again and cuts off everything for no reason. I put another [/ref] to try and get rid of it and as it turns off bbcode as a whole.
08/04/14, 09:04   
@pokepal148

Because of Kris' and others' posts in that page of the thread, there is a ton of code already which I think may have maxed things out for the site. It would work on a subsequent page though. Let me post it here and see how it goes...

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I guess Kris's humor sorta, didn't float with me on that occasion,

@PogueSquadron Well I'm getting outta here and making that double.

@Stephen That third one is a little bit of satire/humor inspired by Sega's stance on Virtual Console. Heck I even loosely based that articles structure on the NWR story on that subject. My style of humor in general tends to lean on satire.

Both of those two are examples of me (ok screw it this url thing isn't working,)@Stephen.

I even gave Gui a nice, amusing little birthday wish thing (sadly nobody else on NWR wanted him to have a happy birthday.)

The Vikings one is really unpolished tbh and could have used a bit of work. It would help if I actually payed attention to sports.

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However I did find initially that it didn't work for me either. There was a rogue /ref call out.

You can find him here... " working,)(/ref)[url=http" but of course it's actually brackets, not parenthesis.
08/04/14, 13:08   
Edited: 08/04/14, 13:10
@kriswright I missed this when it was first posted, but I'd still like to say I think it's a good idea. I'm not sure what the ideal solution would be, but I think something should probably be done about it. I eventually stopped checking out the Zelda U thread because it was filled with that stuff, and I never bothered to go back and see if it improved.
08/04/14, 21:07   
Right apparently there is no game thread for Retro City Rampage so i'm going to do a cheap -1 knock off and hope someone adds the automated text and all that jazz.
08/19/14, 08:29   
For some reason, the quote button doesn't work for me in any of DrFinklestein's Smash bracket threads. It works fine in all other threads. What on my end might cause something like this?
09/28/14, 20:50   
@Mop it up

Maybe it has to do with all the HTML? Have you tried it on the second page before people are able to use a lot of the code to bold things?
09/28/14, 21:59   
That sounds like it may be the issue. I just tried it again, and it will let me quote normal posts, but it doesn't work on anyone's vote posts that has all the boldings. The amount of posts doesn't seem to matter though, as I just tested it on page two of the Lip's Stick bracket which has three posts and only one vote post, and the quote didn't work for the vote post.
09/28/14, 22:07   
Can you embed tweets on here somehow? If not, could that be easily added?
09/30/14, 02:53   
@Jargon

I can, but then again I don't know what HTML privileges I might have over a -3 user, if any.

Andrew? Any thoughts? I've embedded tweets before.
09/30/14, 02:59   
Good thing Zero pays so much attention to this thread.
10/10/14, 03:43   
-3 should have full HTML posting I think? So basically just post the embed code? I think? Is it not working?
10/10/14, 17:20   

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10/11/14, 14:54   
Not bad
10/11/14, 14:55   
Anyone else having trouble with the Quote function in the latest Smash stage voting thread?
10/13/14, 15:21   
@Jargon

Quoting on those threads is a bit weird because the html coding can be taxed even though there should be less and less with less things being chosen... hmm..
10/13/14, 20:22   
@Jargon I had trouble with that in previous Smash bracket threads, which I mentioned a bit ago in this topic.
10/13/14, 20:50   
I don't know if it's Safari in iOS 8 or what (on my iPhone 5S), but Negative World has been practically broken on there lately. It's always some visual error or another. I don't really know what's wrong with it. Anyone else having this problem?
10/24/14, 22:06   
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