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PM's disallowing BBC codes

Post by ThroughTheWell » Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:42 am

Twice now I've PMed a quoted post to someone and gotten an error message saying certain BBC (BCC?) codes are disallowed. In order for the PM to go through I've then had to root through the quote an strip the offending code(s). That is a pain. I want PMs to work on quoted posts.

One code was Fonts, in a post from Wolfie. One code was Glow, in a post from Nerre.

Please fix it.
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Re: PM's disallowing BBC codes

Post by Wolfie » Thu Jul 25, 2013 9:59 am

That's because Nerre is a Games Mod and I'm an Admin; we're allowed certain BB codes denied to other members, that could potentially be abused by other forum members (not you!).
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Re: PM's disallowing BBC codes

Post by ThroughTheWell » Thu Jul 25, 2013 10:07 am

I suspected it was something like that, and I certainly don't want to compromise security, but maybe you mods could be more considerate to those of us who might quote you in a PM and self restrict yourself from making that a pain for us. Of course I could just not quote you too. Whatever. :shrug:
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Re: PM's disallowing BBC codes

Post by M0rtimer » Thu Jul 25, 2013 3:36 pm

Hmm... I do sort of agree on the matter that it can be troublesome to quote something with these codes if these codes are not available to you- Wouldn't it be possible to, instead of denying the post to be posted, the code simply doesn't up on those who do not have the privilege?

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Re: PM's disallowing BBC codes

Post by SeeAMoose » Thu Jul 25, 2013 6:45 pm

Unfortunately no, that would not be possible. I will review the ABBCode settings and see if there is something I can do to somewhat mitigate this problem.
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Re: PM's disallowing BBC codes

Post by Krulle » Fri Jul 26, 2013 2:59 am

ThroughTheWell wrote:I suspected it was something like that, and I certainly don't want to compromise security, but maybe you mods could be more considerate to those of us who might quote you in a PM and self restrict yourself from making that a pain for us. Of course I could just not quote you too. Whatever. :shrug:
Well, mods should not use the special [bbc tags] for non-mod related subject-matter.

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phpBB= PHP Bulletin Board, a bulletin board (forum) software written in the PHP scripting language.
In the context set by the phpBB software:
BBC= Bulletin Board Code.
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Re: PM's disallowing BBC codes

Post by LooksAndSmiles » Tue Jul 30, 2013 5:09 am

Moose, I don't know if there is a tool for that, but it might be a solution:

When quoting, the system checks whether the user has the priviledge to use that BBC tag, and if not, it removes it from the post.

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Re: PM's disallowing BBC codes

Post by lingrem » Wed Jul 31, 2013 6:34 pm

lol aside from the MOD VOICE thing, I didn't know we had BBC codes that others didn't! Good to know!

Now to resist the urge to abuse the glow code.
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