The Little Thread Which Grew - the Apollo '73 to Everything But
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Hypatia
Pagan
Re: Unusual Befellows - This is really an odd mix.
FIFY= Fixed it for you/ya
It's a kind of internet/msg board device. So if person writes "I am always genial" but people think, ohhh, no, he's not. They might change his text to "I am always pissed off" or do one of those [STRIKE]cross out things[/STRIKE] and make sure it's all still in quotes, then put FIFY underneath it.
I'll just be lowkey and say, people who do this are trying to get a point across.
FIFY= Fixed it for you/ya
It's a kind of internet/msg board device. So if person writes "I am always genial" but people think, ohhh, no, he's not. They might change his text to "I am always pissed off" or do one of those [STRIKE]cross out things[/STRIKE] and make sure it's all still in quotes, then put FIFY underneath it.
I'll just be lowkey and say, people who do this are trying to get a point across.
lkwdblds
Crusader
Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973
Oh thanks. That must have concerned a certain individual who attended Johnny Raffanello's funeral service. I mentioned that I bumped into this guy and his wife and his wife shock hands with me and asked how I was. I thought that I asked this individual how he was doing and that he ignored me. He then PM'd and told me that he said hello back to me but I just didn't hear it. I accepted that and told him that I would change my post to reflect this new data. There were a couple of other adjustments which he wanted made to my post so I did all of those as well. After that he PMed me and thanked me. He seemed okay and even sent me a 3rd post which was friendly. Was there something which I did wrong there that would turn two posters against me?
Lakey
Oh thanks. That must have concerned a certain individual who attended Johnny Raffanello's funeral service. I mentioned that I bumped into this guy and his wife and his wife shock hands with me and asked how I was. I thought that I asked this individual how he was doing and that he ignored me. He then PM'd and told me that he said hello back to me but I just didn't hear it. I accepted that and told him that I would change my post to reflect this new data. There were a couple of other adjustments which he wanted made to my post so I did all of those as well. After that he PMed me and thanked me. He seemed okay and even sent me a 3rd post which was friendly. Was there something which I did wrong there that would turn two posters against me?
Lakey
strativarius
Inveterate gnashnab & snoutband
Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973
Well, I might have been a little quicker with the fingers, but you got the credit mate. C'est la vie eh.
lkwdblds
Crusader
Re: Unusual Befellows - This is really an odd mix.
Thanks for explaining that. I am very greatfull. I certainly have never done a FIFY on anyone else's post. I don't even know how to do it. I did remove a drawing and letters done in extremely large Font by Free Be Me when I replied to one of his posts. I just wanted to reply to the few words which he wrote and felt no need to duplicate that giant blue drawing. Maybe that is what those two parties were upset about.
Lakey
Thanks for explaining that. I am very greatfull. I certainly have never done a FIFY on anyone else's post. I don't even know how to do it. I did remove a drawing and letters done in extremely large Font by Free Be Me when I replied to one of his posts. I just wanted to reply to the few words which he wrote and felt no need to duplicate that giant blue drawing. Maybe that is what those two parties were upset about.
Lakey
Maria Cuervo
Gold Meritorious Patron
Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973
I doubt it is about you or them Lakey. Or turning against you.
I've decided to pause on posting. It's having an adverse affect on my time and well being.
A break is in order. Be seeing you. I will check mail and tweak what level is even possible for me. But I think I can see now why posting becomes an exercise from hell.
I doubt it is about you or them Lakey. Or turning against you.
I've decided to pause on posting. It's having an adverse affect on my time and well being.
A break is in order. Be seeing you. I will check mail and tweak what level is even possible for me. But I think I can see now why posting becomes an exercise from hell.
strativarius
Inveterate gnashnab & snoutband
Re: Unusual Befellows - This is really an odd mix.
BTW. When nobody is reading a thread, does the thread information at the bottom read:
There are currently 0 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 0 guests)
and how will we ever really know?
It's just a general-purpose acronym Lakey.
BTW. When nobody is reading a thread, does the thread information at the bottom read:
There are currently 0 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 0 guests)
and how will we ever really know?
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Free Being Me
Crusader
Re: Unusual Befellows - This is really an odd mix.
FIFY
Others have already kindly informed you about the FIFY acronym but since you're asking me I'll respond directly. FIFY is used correcting someone's spelling, making a humorous, ironic, or deadpan point minimally changing another person's quoted post.
FIFY
Others have already kindly informed you about the FIFY acronym but since you're asking me I'll respond directly. FIFY is used correcting someone's spelling, making a humorous, ironic, or deadpan point minimally changing another person's quoted post.
Hypatia
Pagan
Re: Unusual Befellows - This is really an odd mix.
Conversations on the internet are not the same as ones in real life. Certain things like body language and facial expressions are missing. Some stuff gets magnified.
Then good people sometimes get mad at each other or confused.
Conversations on the internet are not the same as ones in real life. Certain things like body language and facial expressions are missing. Some stuff gets magnified.
Then good people sometimes get mad at each other or confused.
lkwdblds
Crusader
Re: Unusual Befellows - This is really an odd mix.
Very helpful, Thank you so much for all the help. BTW, right now, 6 people viewing, including me, 2 members and 4 guests. I think that the party who said no members and no guests had to be in error because the person writing the post has to be logged in to do any writing and so the very minimum that one can observe is 1 member.
Lakey
Very helpful, Thank you so much for all the help. BTW, right now, 6 people viewing, including me, 2 members and 4 guests. I think that the party who said no members and no guests had to be in error because the person writing the post has to be logged in to do any writing and so the very minimum that one can observe is 1 member.
Lakey
Gizmo
Rabble Rouser
Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973
Whether you agree or disagree with something I post is not something that makes any difference whatsoever to me as I don't care one way or the other.
You could, if you were so inclined, save yourself a few keystrokes by not bothering to post whether or not you agree with me or not - all is does is make me giggle.
Whether you agree or disagree with something I post is not something that makes any difference whatsoever to me as I don't care one way or the other.
You could, if you were so inclined, save yourself a few keystrokes by not bothering to post whether or not you agree with me or not - all is does is make me giggle.
lkwdblds
Crusader
Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973
I just read the first clause of your post and read no further, so you can save yourself a few keystrokes by explaining your Modus Operandi, to me. I don't care whether or not you agree with me either. In such cases as ours, there is really no reason to read the other person's post, except maybe to enjoy a giggle. For that reason, I've decided to put you on IGNORE. Doing that will save us both quite a few keystrokes from here on out. Sorry about you losing your giggle put it is being done for the common good.
I just read the first clause of your post and read no further, so you can save yourself a few keystrokes by explaining your Modus Operandi, to me. I don't care whether or not you agree with me either. In such cases as ours, there is really no reason to read the other person's post, except maybe to enjoy a giggle. For that reason, I've decided to put you on IGNORE. Doing that will save us both quite a few keystrokes from here on out. Sorry about you losing your giggle put it is being done for the common good.
lkwdblds
Crusader
Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973
Very nice music to go to sleep on!
Pachelbel's canon in 432 Hertz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eONRucnxudU
Much more enjoyable than in 440 Hz
Lakey
Very nice music to go to sleep on!
Pachelbel's canon in 432 Hertz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eONRucnxudU
Much more enjoyable than in 440 Hz
Lakey
Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973
Oh, I remember these special papers well. 75 characters per line, 45 lines per page. That, in my case, was COBOL, though, not FORTRAN. But, since I've learned programming instead of a certain language, I think it wouldn't matter much.
I'm certified in COBOL, SQL, BASIC, Visual Basic, C, C++, Assembler, ABAP/4, and certainly quite a few languages I forgot to mention. Therefore, modern languages like PHP, Ruby, Python and whatnot can't scare me.
Jus' gimme the basics (variable-types, control structures, loops) and I'll get along in less then 10 minutes. Although: Learning all the nuts and bolts of a modern development platform and all its function libraries will still take me a bit more than a week.
Yes... no... not really. Computers surely develop fast these days, but for a well-seasoned programmer, it's always the same stuff: Variables, Loops, control structures.
Nononono, that's a cheap cop-out. If you've ever really understood the basics of a computer, why should it bother you, that it can now perform it's instructions a gazillion times faster? An IF statement is still an IF statement, a WHILE loop is still a WHILE loop and a function call is still a function call, so there isn't really that much that has changed in the past 50 years.
Yeah, young kids are usually damn fine observers and fast learners.
Oh come on, you must admit that it's quite funny when someone who allegedly has written code for NASA (or whatever it was) can't even handle QUOTE tags properly.
And don't attempt to play the age card with me. I know enough elderly people who can handle their modern communication devices just fine.
No. Removing the COLOR tags you used would - but that'd only make it worse, since now your text would be indistinguishable from mine. The proper way would be: Write a closing /QUOTE in square brackets into my text. Then write whatever you want to say. Then make a new QUOTE statement (also in square brackets) before my text continues.
So the end result should look like this:
Your text
Go look at that example in your editor to understand what's going on.
FIFY: "Fixed It For Ya". You make me cringe on a regular basis, as you very well know, but I can't remember to have ever had a FIFY issue with you. Can you give me a link so that I can see what you mean?
Oh, I remember these special papers well. 75 characters per line, 45 lines per page. That, in my case, was COBOL, though, not FORTRAN. But, since I've learned programming instead of a certain language, I think it wouldn't matter much.
I'm certified in COBOL, SQL, BASIC, Visual Basic, C, C++, Assembler, ABAP/4, and certainly quite a few languages I forgot to mention. Therefore, modern languages like PHP, Ruby, Python and whatnot can't scare me.
Jus' gimme the basics (variable-types, control structures, loops) and I'll get along in less then 10 minutes. Although: Learning all the nuts and bolts of a modern development platform and all its function libraries will still take me a bit more than a week.
Yes... no... not really. Computers surely develop fast these days, but for a well-seasoned programmer, it's always the same stuff: Variables, Loops, control structures.
Nononono, that's a cheap cop-out. If you've ever really understood the basics of a computer, why should it bother you, that it can now perform it's instructions a gazillion times faster? An IF statement is still an IF statement, a WHILE loop is still a WHILE loop and a function call is still a function call, so there isn't really that much that has changed in the past 50 years.
Yeah, young kids are usually damn fine observers and fast learners.
Oh come on, you must admit that it's quite funny when someone who allegedly has written code for NASA (or whatever it was) can't even handle QUOTE tags properly.
And don't attempt to play the age card with me. I know enough elderly people who can handle their modern communication devices just fine.
No. Removing the COLOR tags you used would - but that'd only make it worse, since now your text would be indistinguishable from mine. The proper way would be: Write a closing /QUOTE in square brackets into my text. Then write whatever you want to say. Then make a new QUOTE statement (also in square brackets) before my text continues.
So the end result should look like this:
MrN said:
Your text
Go look at that example in your editor to understand what's going on.
FIFY: "Fixed It For Ya". You make me cringe on a regular basis, as you very well know, but I can't remember to have ever had a FIFY issue with you. Can you give me a link so that I can see what you mean?
Panda Termint
Cabal Of One
Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973
Then again, there's the actual "quote it" icon in the posting toolbar above (2nd line 4th from right). It looks like a word bubble icon and reads "wrap quote tags around selected text".
Then again, there's the actual "quote it" icon in the posting toolbar above (2nd line 4th from right). It looks like a word bubble icon and reads "wrap quote tags around selected text".
Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973
Oh yeah! Since it's faster for me to write the tags manually, I forgot about that one.
Oh yeah! Since it's faster for me to write the tags manually, I forgot about that one.
bromo
Patron with Honors
Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973
I started college as a computer science major, after courses in Basic, Fortran and RPG( which was Report Program Generator not Role Playing Game as it now generally means) I changed my major to accounting. All those punch cards and computer lab time was not what I was thinking it was going to be. LOL. And we did all our own punch cards!
I started college as a computer science major, after courses in Basic, Fortran and RPG( which was Report Program Generator not Role Playing Game as it now generally means) I changed my major to accounting. All those punch cards and computer lab time was not what I was thinking it was going to be. LOL. And we did all our own punch cards!
eldritch cuckoo
brainslugged reptilian
Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973
I hope this is of some help for anybody having trouble with quote bubble mystery sandwiches. It's just the copy of a PM sent to a friend some months ago. I might as well dump it here, as I'm not all too keen for resurrecting the "posting assistance" thread.
NOTE:
To add the name of an author properly into a posting tag, please heed the following advice.
When reading this, please ignore any and all spacers in any codes, they're there to mess them up so that the code doesn't get changed into quote bubbles etc in the posting except in cases where I want that.
These tags are not test material for copy&paste, as they contain additional code that creates the different text colors.
If you re-write that stuff, leave away the spacers.
1)
This is how the standard quote bubble looks, minus my spacer:
[ QUOTE]Moar peanuts![/QUOTE ]
Which becomes:
As all tags, it can either be inserted by the buttons or written.
2)
Now, IMPORTANT, a quote tag that carries the originator's name in the proper way, red parts:
[ QUOTE=a wild cockatoo]Moar peanuts![/QUOTE ]
Which becomes:
And that's really all! Just the equal sign and then ... whatever! You can write anything in it!
3)
In quotes that are taken by the "reply with quote" button, there is a NUMBER behind the name, separated by ";". It identifies, for the server, the posting, and using it the forum software creates the link consisting of two small blue arrows that leads to the original post.
That number also shows up in the address bar of the browser, at the end of a direct link to a post, when clicking on the "#000" icon right above the post.
[ QUOTE=a wild cockatoo;1014834]Moar peanuts![/QUOTE ]
Which becomes:
(This link works and leads to a posting of mine with a cockatoo picture. The link in the address bar will contain the same number.)
Names can be changed for humorous purposes; with the nearby link intact, nobody can speak of innuendo etc.
Obviously, this only works with posting from ESMB. External links cannot be included in this way. In other words, for quotes from Mike Rinder's blog or some philosopher's book, one will have to add the author's name in the way described above, and (if there's an online source) a conventional link before or after the quoted text, though best INSIDE the quote bubble. I did that here with the above posting:
If splitting a quoted posting because of commenting each paragraph or such, use copy&paste to replicate the first quote tag with name and number, so you have the link in all the quotes. (Some add just the name, or use a standard quote bubble for all but the first quote.)
NOTE:
Please notice, brackets must always be there in PAIRS. Sometimes people accidentally delete one bracket, which messes it up.
USE THE PREVIEW to check posts that contain lots of quote bubbles and formattings.
NOTE:
Anybody who uses formattings should from time to time view postings in the text mode that doesn't show formattings but the codes that CREATE them. At the tool bar of the text editor, it is the icon at the left/top. It should look like this:
[SUP]A[/SUP]/A
(And very important, before switching, if you're writing a posting, COPY YOUR TEXT, as it often vanishes when switching! Server blurps and buggies.)
I hope this is of some help for anybody having trouble with quote bubble mystery sandwiches. It's just the copy of a PM sent to a friend some months ago. I might as well dump it here, as I'm not all too keen for resurrecting the "posting assistance" thread.
NOTE:
To add the name of an author properly into a posting tag, please heed the following advice.
When reading this, please ignore any and all spacers in any codes, they're there to mess them up so that the code doesn't get changed into quote bubbles etc in the posting except in cases where I want that.
These tags are not test material for copy&paste, as they contain additional code that creates the different text colors.
If you re-write that stuff, leave away the spacers.
1)
This is how the standard quote bubble looks, minus my spacer:
[ QUOTE]Moar peanuts![/QUOTE ]
Which becomes:
As all tags, it can either be inserted by the buttons or written.
2)
Now, IMPORTANT, a quote tag that carries the originator's name in the proper way, red parts:
[ QUOTE=a wild cockatoo]Moar peanuts![/QUOTE ]
Which becomes:
a wild cockatoo said:
And that's really all! Just the equal sign and then ... whatever! You can write anything in it!
3)
In quotes that are taken by the "reply with quote" button, there is a NUMBER behind the name, separated by ";". It identifies, for the server, the posting, and using it the forum software creates the link consisting of two small blue arrows that leads to the original post.
That number also shows up in the address bar of the browser, at the end of a direct link to a post, when clicking on the "#000" icon right above the post.
[ QUOTE=a wild cockatoo;1014834]Moar peanuts![/QUOTE ]
Which becomes:
(This link works and leads to a posting of mine with a cockatoo picture. The link in the address bar will contain the same number.)
Names can be changed for humorous purposes; with the nearby link intact, nobody can speak of innuendo etc.
Obviously, this only works with posting from ESMB. External links cannot be included in this way. In other words, for quotes from Mike Rinder's blog or some philosopher's book, one will have to add the author's name in the way described above, and (if there's an online source) a conventional link before or after the quoted text, though best INSIDE the quote bubble. I did that here with the above posting:
a wild cockatoo said:
If splitting a quoted posting because of commenting each paragraph or such, use copy&paste to replicate the first quote tag with name and number, so you have the link in all the quotes. (Some add just the name, or use a standard quote bubble for all but the first quote.)
NOTE:
Please notice, brackets must always be there in PAIRS. Sometimes people accidentally delete one bracket, which messes it up.
USE THE PREVIEW to check posts that contain lots of quote bubbles and formattings.
NOTE:
Anybody who uses formattings should from time to time view postings in the text mode that doesn't show formattings but the codes that CREATE them. At the tool bar of the text editor, it is the icon at the left/top. It should look like this:
[SUP]A[/SUP]/A
(And very important, before switching, if you're writing a posting, COPY YOUR TEXT, as it often vanishes when switching! Server blurps and buggies.)
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