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Thank you boss.
Hope to see you at 'The End of Days' next Thursday :)

Will be there for sure.

Good morning, can you help me to change the title of my las thread?

I wrote super record pista, but the correct is "Campagnolo Record PISTA Hubset 36H"
http://www.lfgss.com/thread107222.html

Thanks a lot!

Done

Thank you very much

Please delete this thread: gone to Ebay.

Thanks in advance.

Oh hai Velocio. Nutsjesmoar accidentally put this in the rong place.
Could you bump it over into Components etc?
Thank you for your fine work as always.
http://www.lfgss.com/thread107339.html

Done

I was talking to Ramaye while cycling round the arduous Tour of Wessex course and we got to thinking how our forum experience would be enhanced if I could have tags on the Football Tread.

start a new football thread on the polo forum.

I was talking to Ramaye while cycling round the arduous Tour of Wessex course and we got to thinking how our forum experience would be enhanced if I could have tags on the Football Tread.

^this

You can use hashtags to make the posts in the football thread more searchable.

#notwhattheywant

#butifyoutrysometimes

you cant use hashtags on microcosm, though. it does some funky formatting thing.

#toolazytoreadformattingguide

you cant use hashtags on microcosm, though. it does some funky formatting thing.

#toolazytoreadformattingguide

You can, but we use Markdown for formatting and today if you start a sentence with a hash symbol it thinks you're making a header.

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#header

But if you put a #hashtag in the sentence (or at the end), then it is fine, and those are what we'll be auto-linking into the search function (when that appears).

An example:
https://sandbox.microcosm.app/conversations/63/#comment192

And the second post https://sandbox.microcosm.app/conversations/63/#comment193, shows that there is in fact a way to make sure hashtags are treated as hashtags, and as soon as we have the search function in place and start auto-linking hashtags we will put that feature in.

In essence, MarkDown syntax states that if a # starts a sentence, it's a header... but actually it should be more explicit: If a sentence starts "# " (with a space after the hashtag) then it's a header, otherwise if a sentence starts with "#[^\s]" (no space after the hashtag) then it's a hashtag.

#notwhattheywant

I realise.

What they want is not tags, what they want is some mechanism that offers them anonymity whilst they bully other people and can leave messages with some permanence in which they can antagonise and humiliate someone else.

They don't actually want tags, tags as the vBulletin hack is implemented just allows them to get what they do want.

I'm not really in the business of trying to create a system to embrace and encourage such behaviour. It might be a side-effect (it is, in any system that permits open speech), but if a feature has no other redeeming qualities and this is the way it is used, then the feature is not fit for purpose.

Hashtags do fulfil the searchability function of tags, so that is what Microcosm will adopt.

As tags on LFGSS are a brutal hack, they won't be coming with us to Microcosm (only default vBulletin functionality will be in the import script). I've yet to determine whether people want me to migrate tags, let alone how to.

The system does know who made a tag, and at what time, and I could take all existing tags and turn them into posts comprised of a single hashtag that is the tag in LFGSS.

But I don't yet know whether this is palatable to LFGSS users given that they relied upon the tags anonymity to allow themselves to be pretty despicable humans, and once imported the anonymity will drop away and reveal who said what and when.

#harsĥ

#harshtag

tags work great on the polo forum. and if anyone asks we may out the tagger.

I realise.

What they want is not tags, what they want is some mechanism that offers them anonymity whilst they bully other people and can leave messages with some permanence in which they can antagonise and humiliate someone else.

They don't actually want tags, tags as the vBulletin hack is implemented just allows them to get what they do want.

I'm not really in the business of trying to create a system to embrace and encourage such behaviour. It might be a side-effect (it is, in any system that permits open speech), but if a feature has no other redeeming qualities and this is the way it is used, then the feature is not fit for purpose.

Hashtags do fulfil the searchability function of tags, so that is what Microcosm will adopt.

As tags on LFGSS are a brutal hack, they won't be coming with us to Microcosm (only default vBulletin functionality will be in the import script). I've yet to determine whether people want me to migrate tags, let alone how to.

The system does know who made a tag, and at what time, and I could take all existing tags and turn them into posts comprised of a single hashtag that is the tag in LFGSS.

But I don't yet know whether this is palatable to LFGSS users given that they relied upon the tags anonymity to allow themselves to be pretty despicable humans, and once imported the anonymity will drop away and reveal who said what and when.

Someone got out of bed the wrong side this morning. Are you accusing Clive and Chris of bullying?

We want tags for pisstaking duties of other members posting in the football thread, not bullying.

We do most of the pisstaking in person these days, so tags probably aren't needed any more.

Oh hai Velocio. Nutsjesmoar accidentally put this in the rong place.
Could you bump it over into Components etc?
Thank you for your fine work as always.
http://www.lfgss.com/thread107339.html

He's alive!

:-)

You can still see and add tags if you are using the black forum theme

Someone got out of bed the wrong side this morning. Are you accusing Clive and Chris of bullying?

We want tags for pisstaking duties of other members posting in the football thread, not bullying.

We do most of the pisstaking in person these days, so tags probably aren't needed any more.

This x7million