Roundtable Comments

Update: The informatin in this post applied to Nucleus. With the move to MT, none of this still applies.

In order to thwart spamming robots and for security reasons, HTML code will not work in my comments section. However, several of my readers have let me know that they would like to personalize their messages (mostly by simply adding bold and italics).



To support popular demand, I have added a plug in to Nucleus. It was written by Wouter Demuynck who was kind enough to make his work freely available to all Nucleus users. It adds some enhancements to the basic comment functionality.



If you wish to enter a link to another website, simply type in the website name (example, type www.solport.com).



You can make part of your text bold by placing [b] before the part you wish made bold and by placing [/b] after the part you want bold.



You can place part of your text in italics by placing [i] before the part you wish made bold and by placing [/i] after the part you want in italics.



If you like smiley faces, the comments support the following emoticons



laugh :lol:

wink :wink: or ;) or ;-)

sheepish :oops:

cry :cry:

twisted :twisted:

rolling eyes :roll:

lightbulb :idea:

right arrow :arrow:

green grin :mrgreen:

smile :-) or :)

frown :-( or :(

exclaim :!:

question :?:

surprised :o

big grin :-D or :D

eek 8O (8 followed by an Oh, not a zero)

confused :?

cool 8)

angry :x

razz :P

neutral :|



I am going to paste parts of this message in the comments for this post. This will allow you to see how the plug in works.

 
 
Comments

If you wish to enter a link to another website, simply type in the website name (example, type http://www.solport.com).

You can make part of your text bold by placing before the part you wish made bold and by placing after the part you want bold.

You can place part of your text in italics by placing before the part you wish made bold and by placing after the part you want in italics.

If you like smiley faces, the comments support the following emoticons

laugh :lol:
wink :wink: or ;) or ;-)
sheepish :oops:
cry :cry:
twisted :twisted:
rolling eyes :roll:
lightbulb :idea:
right arrow :arrow:
green grin :mrgreen:
smile :-) or :)
frown :-( or :(
exclaim :!:
question :?:
surprised :o
big grin :-D or :D
eek 8O (8 followed by an Oh, not a zero)
confused :?
cool 8)
angry :x
razz :P
neutral :|

Posted by: Admiral Quixote | 01/09/2004 - 01:51 PM

The “Frownie”, :-( is a registered trademark of Despair, Inc. http://www.despair.com

Posted by: Dr_Mike | 01/09/2004 - 05:50 PM

LOL - I had to check out the site myself to ensure this was a joke.

With real stories like this (http://www.ananova.com/news...), you never know...

Posted by: Admiral Quixote | 01/09/2004 - 09:27 PM

I'm not positive, but I do believe Despair managed to get the copyright. However I believe their “class action lawsuit” exists only in their press release. The phrase “We don't care if you are a seven year old nothing using your mom's AOL account or Time Magazine's Man of the Year. We will hunt you down.” was a bit of a tip-off.

Remember, you can't spell failure without U-R-A.

Posted by: Dr_Mike | 01/10/2004 - 02:46 PM

Another tip off was their fee for the frownie. Go try to buy one :-)

http://www.despair.com/frow...

Posted by: Admiral Quixote | 01/10/2004 - 05:04 PM

Since you're using PHP, there is a PHP include you can stuff in the page header before the part that will block a decent proportion of email crawlers:

(angle bracket)?
if (stristr($HTTP_USER_AGENT, "spider") ||
stristr($HTTP_USER_AGENT, "larbin") ||
stristr($HTTP_USER_AGENT, "crawler"))
{
header("HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden - SPAMMERS NOT ALLOWED");
return;
}
?(angle bracket)

Posted by: Alison | 01/16/2004 - 10:03 AM
 
 
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