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2012/04/09 03:42:25
Subject: Autocorrect is messing with an address.
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Incorporating Wet-Blending
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http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/pls/pls90262.htm Should NOT read please in the address. Should be "p.l.s." without the periods. Is there any way I can fix this?
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Mannahnin wrote:A lot of folks online (and in emails in other parts of life) use pretty mangled English. The idea is that it takes extra effort and time to write properly, and they’d rather save the time. If you can still be understood, what’s the harm? While most of the time a sloppy post CAN be understood, the use of proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling is generally seen as respectable and desirable on most forums. It demonstrates an effort made to be understood, and to make your post an easy and pleasant read. By making this effort, you can often elicit more positive responses from the community, and instantly mark yourself as someone worth talking to.
insaniak wrote: Every time someone threatens violence over the internet as a result of someone's hypothetical actions at the gaming table, the earth shakes infinitisemally in its orbit as millions of eyeballs behind millions of monitors all roll simultaneously.
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2012/04/09 03:51:15
Subject: Autocorrect is messing with an address.
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Fixture of Dakka
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There is no autocorrect on Dakka, it must be your browser or add-on. What are you using? Someone should know how to override it.
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2012/04/09 04:03:49
Subject: Autocorrect is messing with an address.
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Incorporating Wet-Blending
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I'm using Chrome. I've never had this situation come up before.
And after a few tests on other sites, both the address and the independent term "p.l.s." (again without periods) get posted without alteration.
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Mannahnin wrote:A lot of folks online (and in emails in other parts of life) use pretty mangled English. The idea is that it takes extra effort and time to write properly, and they’d rather save the time. If you can still be understood, what’s the harm? While most of the time a sloppy post CAN be understood, the use of proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling is generally seen as respectable and desirable on most forums. It demonstrates an effort made to be understood, and to make your post an easy and pleasant read. By making this effort, you can often elicit more positive responses from the community, and instantly mark yourself as someone worth talking to.
insaniak wrote: Every time someone threatens violence over the internet as a result of someone's hypothetical actions at the gaming table, the earth shakes infinitisemally in its orbit as millions of eyeballs behind millions of monitors all roll simultaneously.
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2012/04/09 04:10:52
Subject: Autocorrect is messing with an address.
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Fixture of Dakka
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Chrome has a built in spellchecker i don't know if it autocorrects as i use firefox. It's strange that you are having trouble only on Dakka, i can't think why that would be. Testing: http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/pls/pls90262.htm Automatically Appended Next Post: Now that is bloody weird. Well it certainly isn't Chrome specific. Lego can probably fix/diagnose it from that code. You'll have to wait on him sadly. Sorry i couldn't help more.
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This message was edited 5 times. Last update was at 2012/04/09 04:14:02
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2012/04/09 04:15:38
Subject: Autocorrect is messing with an address.
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Incorporating Wet-Blending
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It's ok. As you said, it's bloody weird.
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Mannahnin wrote:A lot of folks online (and in emails in other parts of life) use pretty mangled English. The idea is that it takes extra effort and time to write properly, and they’d rather save the time. If you can still be understood, what’s the harm? While most of the time a sloppy post CAN be understood, the use of proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling is generally seen as respectable and desirable on most forums. It demonstrates an effort made to be understood, and to make your post an easy and pleasant read. By making this effort, you can often elicit more positive responses from the community, and instantly mark yourself as someone worth talking to.
insaniak wrote: Every time someone threatens violence over the internet as a result of someone's hypothetical actions at the gaming table, the earth shakes infinitisemally in its orbit as millions of eyeballs behind millions of monitors all roll simultaneously.
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2012/04/09 04:22:08
Subject: Autocorrect is messing with an address.
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Fixture of Dakka
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It might be old defunct code that was meant to be removed. If you type those three letters(p, l and s) they do autocorrect to "please" but as i understood it there were no functioning Dakka autocorrects bar swearing.
Maybe there are a few of them that slip under most of our radar.
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2012/04/09 13:17:32
Subject: Autocorrect is messing with an address.
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Lady of the Lake
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I just checked it also seems to change it if you hide the url in the tag as well. Link Figured it might, but it could have been a quick fix.
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2012/04/09 13:18:00
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2012/04/09 14:25:49
Subject: Autocorrect is messing with an address.
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P L S and a couple of other annoying short messages do get autocorrected to longer words and it has not been an issue until now. I was aware of this bug before, but there were no significant URLs that were affected by it. If a shopping cart system is now affected, I'll remove p l s from the autocorrect list in the near future. Note, you can workaround at the moment by changing the 'p' to %70: http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/%70ls/pls90262.htm the above link should work.
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2012/04/09 14:27:19
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2012/04/09 14:30:05
Subject: Autocorrect is messing with an address.
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Fixture of Dakka
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Lego saves the day again! 
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2012/04/09 16:03:04
Subject: Autocorrect is messing with an address.
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Woot. Thanks Lego.
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Mannahnin wrote:A lot of folks online (and in emails in other parts of life) use pretty mangled English. The idea is that it takes extra effort and time to write properly, and they’d rather save the time. If you can still be understood, what’s the harm? While most of the time a sloppy post CAN be understood, the use of proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling is generally seen as respectable and desirable on most forums. It demonstrates an effort made to be understood, and to make your post an easy and pleasant read. By making this effort, you can often elicit more positive responses from the community, and instantly mark yourself as someone worth talking to.
insaniak wrote: Every time someone threatens violence over the internet as a result of someone's hypothetical actions at the gaming table, the earth shakes infinitisemally in its orbit as millions of eyeballs behind millions of monitors all roll simultaneously.
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2012/04/09 21:31:56
Subject: Autocorrect is messing with an address.
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Ragin' Ork Dreadnought
Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany
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I'd personally let the pl+s to please correct stay, but if it's causing trouble....
anyway, slighly OT: Why doesn't it also correct t;h;x to thanks? Or does it?I see that all the time, and it annyos me a little. Two more letters is not that much harder to type!
And out of curiosity: which words does it correct?
also, test: Thx
edit: nope, thx doesn't get corrected
new question: if you add another word to the auto correct filter, does it go through the entire history of dakka?
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2012/04/09 21:33:22
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