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xorbie
02-21-2005, 04:44 AM
:surprise:
viscousmemories
02-21-2005, 04:46 AM
:chuckle: And to think I almost gave up after 100 clicks.
xorbie
02-21-2005, 04:47 AM
Those things actually really scared me when I was younger.
beyelzu
02-21-2005, 04:52 AM
Those things actually really scared me when I was younger.
I am curious as to why its drowning though.
xorbie
02-21-2005, 05:01 AM
That's what it gets for scaring me. :shakefist:
beyelzu
02-21-2005, 05:04 AM
That's what it gets for scaring me. :shakefist:
:roflmao:
Crumb
02-21-2005, 05:42 AM
Drowning?
xorbie
02-21-2005, 05:48 AM
Drowning?

Well unless you are clicking really, really slowly, you click on the emoticon itself eventually, which selects it and should highlight it in blue (or at least appears to have in our broswers.)
Crumb
02-21-2005, 05:56 AM
Oh must be those substandard MS browsers, huh?
xorbie
02-21-2005, 05:57 AM
I'm using Mozilla, actually. :-/

Try clicking on the emoticon and dragging the mouse.
Crumb
02-21-2005, 06:00 AM
Right, so unless I was clicking and dragging the spoiler button, it wouldn't happen. :P
xorbie
02-21-2005, 06:04 AM
Right, so unless I was clicking and dragging the spoiler button, it wouldn't happen. :P

I'm assuming that during the repeated and increasingly furious mouse clicks, people are moving their mouse button slightly, which causes it to highlight the emoticon. But enough of that...

All must bow before my ingenuity with the uber bested spoiler tags.

:bow2: :ovation:

:bowdown:
Crumb
02-21-2005, 06:06 AM
Hey, its cool. :2thumbsup:
livius drusus
02-21-2005, 01:37 PM
Holy crap. How in the hell did you do that?! It's unnatural! An abomination. Wrong; just plain wrong.

Oh, and also incredibly cool.
Shake
02-21-2005, 04:08 PM
Holy crap. How in the hell did you do that?! It's unnatural! An abomination. Wrong; just plain wrong.

Oh, and also incredibly cool.
C'mon liv! You should know that if you just hit the http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/images/freethought/buttons/quote.gif button in the o.p., you'll be able to see exactly how he did it!
livius drusus
02-21-2005, 04:21 PM
Oh yeah. I knew that. I was just giving xorbie a chance to brag. :shifty:
xorbie
02-21-2005, 06:43 PM
And brag I shall :yup: ;)
ceptimus
02-21-2005, 08:06 PM
Unfortunately, the hovertext thing in the forum index display revealed the content of the spoiler before I even opened the thread.

Does this show up a generic problem with the hovertext and the spoiler tag, I wonder? Of course, spoilers could always be padded far enough into a normal post, so that they go beyond the range of the hovertext preview.
livius drusus
02-21-2005, 09:05 PM
I have previews disabled, so I've never noticed. Very good question, though. Thanks for bringing it up.
Crumb
02-21-2005, 09:23 PM
Thanks liv for letting me know I could disable them. :yup:
livius drusus
02-21-2005, 09:25 PM
Aren't they annoying? I totally hate them. As soon as I saw that hack I knew I had to have it. :shutup:
xorbie
02-21-2005, 09:48 PM
Yeah, the preview kinda messes it up.

For anyone not in the know, putting brackets around your text will prevent the preview from seeing that text. However, it doesn't count towards your 5 minimum characters or whatever that is needed for your post.

So you could start a thread like:

****
[insert post here]

...
****
and all people would see is the "..."