40 col Topic Spammers

[Brett_Tabke]

Those that write like this in
and effort to make your post
as long as possible so that you take up
more screen and thus have more
face time with the reader will be
deleted and if it continues like some
have done over the last year, will have
their ip banned.

We get so many complaints about that stuff that it requires a great deal of my time to deal with and explain.

I must say though, that the sophistication level of the forum "players" [webmasterworld.com] these days is getting quite impressive.

[bcolflesh]

Take BET's advice:

Don't hate the playa, hate the game.

[blaze]

Hey Brett, how about building an google / epinions like trust network into WebmasterWorld.

I thought these social networks were all the rage!

[vibgyor79]

Is that intentional?
I really thought that happens
when somebody copy/pastes
the content from notepad.

[Woz]

I've always wondered about that vibgyor79, and I think you may be right.

Onya
Woz

[ThomasB]

If you make long posts it's quite handy to prepare them in notepad/word/... and just copy&paste them afterwards. Also my mail program makes a new line after 72 chars.

[Chndru]

>>so that you take up
more screen and thus have more
face time with the reader

eh? This reasoning is beyond my call. Are we being paranoid under the pretense of maintaining the integrity of the system.

What next? Adding multiple smilies in green would count as an offence, since the psychological aspect of green is envy-me, and thereby spreading the feel-good effect of the poster?

[Sanenet]

<CHEEK>Maybe you should write a parser into the CGI so it rewraps the posts, Brett? <CHEEK> :)

[Brett_Tabke]

Remember this next time when I bring something up like this, that you just don't always know the whole story behind an action ;-)

[iamlost]

Brett:

I have had several instances of "preview" looking normal and then the submitted result showing stretched out. On opening "edit" it again looks normal - no stretching. On resubmitting the post now looks normal.

The only thing I have noticed is that sometimes the position of the tag on it's own line or in line with the tags content sometimes makes a difference; but not a consistent one.

This is particularly prevalent with the quote tag.

[Fiver]

ahh, reminds me of the attention who.. umm seekers in my IRC days years ago. one. word. per. line. self. aggrandizing. fun.

[fashezee]

I've always kept my sentences short cause it seemed that it
was easier to read, no? I wasn't tryng to hog the viewable area!?

[eaden]

I think it could be a browser issue, wrapping automatically.
You have cols="60" in the html of your post page, and no wrap= tag.

wrap="virtual" will cause what most browsers do automatically. Have you checked what browser the 60-col'ers are using?

[creative craig]

By the way Sanenet, you forgot to close your <cheek> tag :)