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Topic: Script way in reviews annoying

Posted By: Gerinski
Subject: Script way in reviews annoying
Date Posted: January 28 2012 at 15:22

Hi, surely this has been discussed before but I did some quick search and didn't find it and sorry, I'm lazy to search and search.

I wonder why when writing reviews we have the script tricks such as to change paragraph, for bold, if you write "..." it will display a question mark etc, while for writing in the forum everything is clean and we have the icons for bold, italic, if you want to make a paragraph you just make it with the keyboard etc.

I have no idea about making websites. What is the reason we can not write reviews with a user-friendly interface the same as when posting in the forum?

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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: January 28 2012 at 19:30

I think the requirement for in reviews stems from the database requiring HTML tags for the text to display correctly. This is a bit perplexing until you get used to it but after a while just becomes second nature.
Changing this would probably require a software update and that is solely the preserve of the owner (MAX)

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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: January 28 2012 at 21:01

It is annoying at first, not being uniform, but worth it under the circumstances if those things are important to the writer. In other words, deal with it Tongue

Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: January 29 2012 at 03:58

Yeah, sure it's not a big deal, it just seemed an appropiate question for "help us improve the site", that's all. If we have a nice user interface which works for writing in the forum it just seems strange that the same could not be used for writing reviews (removing the non-applicable commands such as the emoticons, insert image or movie etc).

Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: January 29 2012 at 09:30

I think mailto:M@x" rel="nofollow - M@x set it up this way because hackers were using HTML scripts in reviews to screw up the site.

Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: January 29 2012 at 10:52

Ah well, in that case, fair enough!