Why is it the simple plus sign (small cross) is deleted from posts on this board and you have to use a "&"? Is this an HTML code glitch general to the web, or exclusive to certain sites?

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Under what circumstances is the + deleted?

Maybe it's just limited to certain posters.

Yah. To ones the software doesn't like, and it's understandable that it doesn't like Juan, isn't it?

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Edit: I'm changing my post to see whether the pluses dsappear. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Okay, Frick Frack, y'all!

Here's the post I just made on Q&A before that deleted the plus sign, as usual, and I had to subsitute the "&":

>That's exactly the way the word hit me, Jackie. (idea & euphoria) And it gave me a sense the stream of ideas would be of an exciting, positive nature (no negative ideas need apply)<.

[EDIT: now why'd it come out between Frick Frack here?]

[Double EDIT: ] Ha! SEE!!! It deleted it again!!!! After the edit. So maybe it deletes the plus sign in the edit.

Wull now ain' that weird. First I look at Juan's Frick + Frack and there's the + just as clear as can be. I Back out and click back in and it's gone.

Edit: Well, my +s were there, lessee do they go away?

Edit again: Nope they still there. Must is something you ate, Juan.

Edit your post, Faldage, and see if the plus sign deletes.

Edit again: Nope they still there. Must is something you ate, Juan.

I dunno, this has been happening here longer than I can remember, I just never bothered to mention it before. I'll make a note everytime it happens from now on , so mebbe we can figgur it out. I'm using IE...could it be a browser thing?


Frick Frack (before edit)

Frick Frack (after edit)

Yep...it's in the edit...the edit takes the plus sign out, even the new one?????)

Faldage, you're using a Mac, right? Maybe could one of the non-Maccers try an edit and see if the plus sign deletes? Wordwind?

Testing just the plus sign:



(before edit)




(after edit)


[Edit takes it out when it's standing alone, too.]

Just so y'all know I'm not taking it out on purpose, here's one before edit:



('snuff for now...musick oughtta be able to make sense of this thread for us. )

plus sign: +

let's see.

OK now edit.

Well, the plus was still there on my Compaq: here's another: +

using a Mac, right?

No ain' *that innernesting. It was suing in the post I was responding to, but it's using in the In response to: box below. I was going to make a wiseass comment about wanting to sue a Mac, but no.

No, I'm at work using a Winbox.

Edit: Now it's a nice little using just like it's sposed to oughta be.

Yeah, I went back and edited a couple of typoes, 'cause I caught 'em and knew you'd pick up on suing Mac instead of using Mac, so, yeah, I'll admit I changed that.

Glad to see you're showing your true merciless colors, there, Faldo.

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Just wondering if the "-" went too. It didn't

I used a program for some time recently and thought that the date entered in the field before a notes field was prone to change erratically. I suddenly noticed, that entering a "-" in the text of the notes took the date back a day. I finally solved it when I realised that writing a "+" took it forward a day. I had some mighty strnage notes before the company improved the software.

Basketball iMac here, using OS 10.1

plus from the keyboard is +
plus from the number pad is +
ampersand from the keyboard is &

Now to post it and see what happens:

Edit 1: came out exactly as written on the first posting
Edit 2: came out exactly as written after editing
Edit 3: came out exactly as written that time too. WoN, it must be something idiosyncratic to your system. Happy hunting :-)

My machine uses I.E. 6.0

Here's a + sign.

Now I've edited it. Is the + sign still there I wonder?

Well it is in the preview. Now for the ultimate test.
Bingley

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I have lots of plusses.

Here I am in edit mode after posting.

Here I am in edit mode, hitting back button in review.