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Subject: Re: A suggestion about NT (no text) posts

Author: Mike Hood

Date: 10:31:31 02/05/04

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On February 05, 2004 at 12:04:43, Uri Blass wrote:

>On February 05, 2004 at 11:47:49, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>
>>On February 05, 2004 at 11:42:55, Mike Hood wrote:
>>
>>>It's a nice little convention to put "NT" at the end of the subject line to
>>>indicate an empty post. The trouble is, if someone replies to the post the "NT"
>>>indicator is still there. Could we please remove the NT when replying to a post,
>>>please? Or better still, could the script be altered to automatically delete
>>>"NT" if something had been typed?
>>>
>>>Just a thought.....
>>
>>The best solution IMHO is to have a lil checkbox (no/text, not activated by
>>default) you can activate when you make a post. If you activate it, n/t is
>>automatically added when you send the post. It works like a charm in other
>>forums I participate.
>>
>>Telling people to manually remove the "NT" is like telling them to quote
>>properly and/or not answer to Swami posts, ie it doesn't work. :)
>>
>>Sargon
>
>No
>
>The best solution is simply to have the NT automatically if the poster did not
>write text.
>
>The system should also ask the user if he is sure that he does not want to post
>text before accpting his(her) post.
>
>Uri

I like the idea of an "Are you sure?" question. I've lost count of how many
times I've accidentally clicked the Submit button before typing my text.



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