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Ryan DeMaster
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A suggestion
07/11/06 at 18:35:51
 
I suggest that you not count tags (stuff that goes inside [ ]s) against the character limits.

For example, I link to both of my player profiles in my sig (if you click on the "MKDD" or "SMK", you'll open the appropriate profile).  However, the url tags cost a lot of characters, so if I ever get any of the other Kart games, I'll have to discontinue doing this because I won't have enough characters.

If you do this, people will be able to format their sigs while still preventing ones that are legitimately too long.

Whaddya think? Smiley
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Re: A suggestion
Reply #1 - 07/11/06 at 20:30:02
 
I disagree, because:

a) you've got 5000+ characters. A URL is gonna be less than 100. 3 or 4 URLs is still < 10% of your content. When do you write 5000 character posts? No, it saves a lot more characters to trim posts and only quote what's relevant.
b) I hate big signatures, on all forums. I don't want to give you the opportunity to make them even bigger. Notice how my signature is one sentence? It makes it possible to chase up some things I've written with Google, since it's a unique phrase. No pictures, links or spam.
c) ignoring [] stuff would probably require messing around with the forum software, and it's safer not to touch or modify it.
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Reply #2 - 07/12/06 at 11:56:11
 
http://www.mariokart64.com/mkdd/profile.php?pid=1098Testing link

how do I make a link that goes to that page but it just says MKDD   Questioning
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Re: A suggestion
Reply #3 - 07/12/06 at 13:12:56
 
Brian wrote on 07/12/06 at 11:56:11:
http://www.mariokart64.com/mkdd/profile.php?pid=1098Testing link

how do I make a link that goes to that page but it just says MKDD   Questioning



By putting [url=(the url)]The text you wnt[/url ]. Don't put the spaces in though.

Edit: Quote my post and look at the text to see how it's done. MKDD
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Re: A suggestion
Reply #4 - 07/12/06 at 17:32:38
 
And a solution to my problem: Use TinyURL or the like to generate a shorter URL.  That saves about 25 characters per link Smiley
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Re: A suggestion
Reply #5 - 07/12/06 at 20:07:49
 
"So now you can write messages of 5450 characters instead of 5400!" x (many lines)
(that's how big your msg can be... do you ever plan to make them that long?  Tongue)
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« Last Edit: 07/13/06 at 03:14:00 by AlexPenev »  

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Re: A suggestion
Reply #6 - 07/12/06 at 20:42:10
 
I was talking about my sig.

Doofus.

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Reply #7 - 07/12/06 at 23:34:16
 
And since Alex doesn't know how to change it, just let Mark Jones change it cuz I'm sure he knows all about his own message board.
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Re: A suggestion
Reply #8 - 07/13/06 at 03:13:08
 
Hey, I didn't even know sigs had their own limit!
But for that smart-ass comment, the limit for sigs and posts has been decreased by 1 character, and everyone has you to blame! Wink
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Reply #9 - 07/13/06 at 07:28:02
 
Roll Eyes oh no...I feel like a bitch now /sarcasm

WTF....how is that smartass? Huh You said you don't know how to do it so I said get someone who does know how.
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« Last Edit: 07/13/06 at 08:23:22 by Brian »  

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Re: A suggestion
Reply #10 - 07/13/06 at 09:11:28
 
Brian wrote on 07/13/06 at 07:28:02:
You said you don't know how to do it

No, I didn't say that. I know how to change the numbers. I said I was against them being increased. That's not not-knowing.

What I don't know is how to make it ignore stuff between [] automatically. That's a completely different thing.
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Reply #11 - 07/13/06 at 10:14:45
 
Thats what I was talking about. You said you don't know how to make it ignore stuff between [] but maybe Mark knows how.

or if you just raise the sig limit to 2000 characters, I'm sure no one would use that much space for stuff other than code.
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Re: A suggestion
Reply #12 - 07/13/06 at 16:04:02
 
I changed the sig character limit to 500.
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