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To: imardmd1

Wrong thread?


21 posted on 12/06/2015 10:57:30 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Gene Eric
Wrong thread?

Huh????

Well, to continue, this entering of slanted quotes, slanted apostrophes, em-dashes, semicolons, colons -- any fancy punctuation that is not sourced from the ASCII table, into the "Your Reply" box or in the "Body of Thread" or "Body of Comment" boxes in the Post Articles application, will cause nonsensical characters to appear in the Preview Box of any of these FR posting routines. The person doing the posting can see it, and it is up to him/her -- not the web-master or moderator -- to make the corrections by editing out the non-ASCII charaters of his submitted text prior to clicking on the "Post" button. After that it is too late.

Each poster has to stop habitually hurrying through and finalizing the post of article or reply before checking how it is going to look when posted. You just have to read through the text as it is displayed in the Preview Box, and make the indicated corrections.

This involves respect of the limitations of the participant-activated FR text-entry system, and exercising personal discipline in finding out and educating oneself in the rules of the system.

I hope that also makes sense by illuminating without raising the reader's emotional temperature.

The FR system has to shuck off fanciness in text cosmetics to achieve quick response by adhering to plaintext ASCII text submission simplicity. Otherwise, if you try to get magazine-style (or even lengthy) submissions, you will still be laboring at HTML-writing while the show has moved on, and your reply is too long and too late to count. Like I'm doing right here,

But that is also why one's posting of articles finally has to be a brief summary that links the perceptive reader to the original article on another site.

Ta-da!

24 posted on 12/06/2015 11:33:52 PM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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