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#100562 04/10/03 01:18 PM
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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.

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

++++++++++++++++++++ Thrrrrrrrbbbbbb!

- Pfranz

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


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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.




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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.

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


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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?


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Testing just the plus sign:



(before edit)




(after edit)


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

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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. )


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