Recognizing forum spammers

[Someone]

@ZakPhoenixMcKracken

I think so, please do it.

Meanwhile here are some links. And I think we should create a new thread for the “cheat sheet” and “pin” it.

Very short version:

Markdown

Long version:

Markdown Cheatsheet

GitHub Markdown (PDF) Cheat Sheet:

GitHub.com Help Documentation

[Someone]

@LowLevel

There is another option to avoid writing all those backslahes when you want to cite MarkDown syntax (and also to prevent MarkDown from making a mess when people will quote your text, as I did above): write it as preformatted/code text, which shows everything literally:

Discourse does not only accept Markdown, but also BBCode and HTML - and you can mix them (that leads sometimes to strange results):

Is there any reference documentation for post formatting?

[Guga]

@milanfahrnholz

@Guga

Where is it? I can’t find this option anywhere.

It´s the one that says “quote whole post”

Seriously though, it´s the speech bubble left of the “Bold” icon.

I… well, that’s embarrassing. Duh, how could I miss that? I automatically skipped the first because the B and the I made me automatically think that it was just some other text formatting option.

[Sushi]

@Guga

@milanfahrnholz

@Guga

Where is it? I can’t find this option anywhere.

It´s the one that says “quote whole post”

Seriously though, it´s the speech bubble left of the “Bold” icon.

I… well, that’s embarrassing. Duh, how could I miss that? I automatically skipped the first because the B and the I made me automatically think that it was just some other text formatting option.

Cool! No more highlighting and clicking quote. I had exactly the same blind spot of not seeing anything left of B and I

[Sushi]

@Someone

And I think we should create a new thread for the “cheat sheet” and “pin” it.

Yes please. It is the first time we have gone off-topic to something more serious/useful.

[LowLevel]

@Nor_Treblig

Hi, welcome to the forums!

Thanks! Here are my $9.99!

@Nor_Treblig

It could even solve advanced mathematical problems (for Rons and Nors that is), like subtraction

Wow!

@Nor_Treblig

Captcha-solving services are really great because captchas got just too hard to be solved by myself!

They are also very useful to mass-spamming or to flood several services that don’t like automated requests.

@Someone

Discourse does not only accept Markdown, but also BBCode and HTML - and you can mix them (that leads sometimes to strange results):

Yes, I use BBcode to underline texts and in the transcription of the podcasts, some HTML has been used to create good footnotes (footnote support is currently limited in the MarkDown version used by Discourse).

@Sushi

No more highlighting and clicking quote. I had exactly the same blind spot of not seeing anything left of B and I

It happened to me as well. I think that that toolbar might benefit from some attention by an usability expert.

[Nor_Treblig]

@LowLevel

@Nor_Treblig

Captcha-solving services are really great because captchas got just too hard to be solved by myself!

They are also very useful to mass-spamming or to flood several services that don’t like automated requests.

This is true. But I wasn’t serious, in reality* I just give up after a few tries, crawl into a corner of the room and weep.

* not reality

@LowLevel

@Sushi

No more highlighting and clicking quote. I had exactly the same blind spot of not seeing anything left of B and I

It happened to me as well. I think that that toolbar might benefit from some attention by an usability expert.

Just add a badge!

[milanfahrnholz]

@discobot How do I fullquote?

[discobot]

Hi! To find out what I can do, say @discobot display help.

[milanfahrnholz]

@discobot

@discobot display help

@discobot display help

[discobot]

I currently know how to do the following things:

@discobot start new user

Starts one of the following interactive narratives: new user, advanced user.

@discobot roll 2d6

3, 6

@discobot quote

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you — Princess Diana

@discobot fortune

You may rely on it

[milanfahrnholz]

Thanks anyway…

Well, that just happened…

[LowLevel]

LOL. He/It liked your comment.

[milanfahrnholz]

Baffled me too!

[ZakPhoenixMcKracken]

@discobot fortune
@discobot roll 32767d32767

[discobot]

Most likely

[ZakPhoenixMcKracken]

@discobot roll 32767d32767

[discobot]

I only have 20 dice. Shameful, I know!

Did you know that the maximum number of sides for a mathematically fair die is 120?

83, 86, 43, 21, 9, 33, 17, 26, 17, 30, 38, 3, 49, 35, 66, 63, 59, 56, 93, 16

[milanfahrnholz]

@discobot Dance, dance to that funky music!

[discobot]

Hi! To find out what I can do, say @discobot display help.