Thread: A Signature Plea and All that Other Forum Stuff

I'm philosophically opposed to forum signatures ...

but thanks for the useful knowledge.

Originally Posted by romoen

Added information on how to use the multi-quote feature!

Yay! I haven't been using that...

Added information on the new character signatures as well as how to have them not show.

Originally Posted by romoen

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Character Signature FAQ:



Q: What if I don't want to view the signatures?
A: You can enable or disable the display of graphical signatures in your User CP. If you choose not to display the graphical sig, the forums will display the user's text signature by default.

Originally Posted by romoen

Added information on the new character signatures as well as how to have them not show.

My eyes cannot possibly thank you enough. You are, without question, the best.

Great Big Giant Hugs for Ophy!


Seriously, It is great to not have to remember all the commands for everything. Part of the reason my posts have always been rather plain is that I have too much other stuff to learn right now. (and in case he wanders in here. no Husband, I am not goofing off at lab. Seriously, we got out early.)

Originally Posted by buckycat

Originally Posted by kilroy64

What is a forum??

I think it is what people say when they are trying to think of five....

ROFL! That was hilarious!

Additional
Forum Posting Tips™


We all are made aware at some time or another of the 10 character minimum post size... but rather than adding some garbage text at the end of your post consider one of these two approaches.

• Use embedded spaces. Each space you type counts toward the minimum but spaces between words or smilies or punctuation are compressed to only one space for display purposes.
  i.e. OK<spc><spc><spc><spc><spc><sp c><spc>! is displayed as OK ! and still meets the 10 character post size requirement.
• Take it a step further and hide the trailing punctuation by setting the color equal to the background. Keep this text in a handy .txt file for a quick cut-n-paste to the end of your cleverly crafted one or two letter reply.
  Code:

  [color=#303030]        .[/color]

Also, you can get even more special characters from the Character Map applet that comes with Windows. Go to Start> Programs> Accessories> System Tools> Character Map. If you find a character that you like or use often it will even show you a way to type it into nearly any text editor; at the bottom right of the window is the keystroke code for most characters. For example ™ is Alt+0153 which means hold down the Alt key while you type '0153' on your numeric keypad (using the numbers across the top will not work.)

Finally (I love keyboard shortcuts) in the Enhanced Editor which Ophy is touting you can select a block of text and hit Ctrl-B to bold it, Ctrl-I to italicize it, or Ctrl-U to underline it. You can also hit those keys to turn the attributes on or off as you are typing.

Grakaw, wow! What a great tip! I hate having to elongate my posts.

What I always wanted to figure out was how people post two of their characters' graphical sigs. I think I've seen a few people doing that and I was assuming they had two accounts.

Originally Posted by Menneset

Finally (I love keyboard shortcuts) in the Enhanced Editor which Ophy is touting you can select a block of text and hit Ctrl-B to bold it, Ctrl-I to italicize it, or Ctrl-U to underline it. You can also hit those keys to turn the attributes on or off as you are typing.

LOVE IT! Adding it to the initial post. THANKS!!! *big grin*

While we're on it, ctrl is my best friend. I use it ALL the time. Not only for the features you added, but here's some more (I won't add these because they're not format friendly, just trick friendly.

Hold down ctrl + arrow key (↔) and the cursor moves between words. Hold down Ctrl + Shift + ↔ and you will highlight words at a time. Hold down Ctrl + Shift + up or down and you'll select whole paragraphs at a time. And last but not least, Ctrl + A highlights ALL!

And for universal rules in document programs, Ctrl + S = Save, Ctrl + P = Print, and Ctrl + O = Open. Just for fun one day I hit Ctrl + every button on my keyboard.

Originally Posted by pinkfae

What I always wanted to figure out was how people post two of their characters' graphical sigs. I think I've seen a few people doing that and I was assuming they had two accounts.

I honestly don't think you're allowed to have more than 1 anymore, but at one time you could use this feature to get multiple images. I would imagine if those that have two images were to edit their signature now, the second of the two would vanish to never come back.

Added a section on the character signature image bug workaround. Thank you Milambir!

Originally Posted by fnostro

just fyi for those interested. I think I found the bug

They do not seem to be using the server name as part of the query. They have accurately "found" my 3 characters (those over level 5) and then it looks like they did a search for my character names.

The problem is that though names are unique to a particular server, they are not unique cross-server. So the query returned the first names it found without verifying my server.

You can see that in action if you go to MyLotro.com. Do a search for one of your characters, if that character name exists across multiple servers, you will get a picklist.

Seems 2 of my character names exist on both Brandywine and Landroval. And since 'B' comes before 'L' and assuming the query sorts by server...

Incorrect Sig:


I also determined that the first 2 number in the sig link refers to your server, 03 = Brandywine 05 = Landroval, I changed my 03 to 05 and poof...

Correct Sig:

Holy flaming marshmallows, Batman!

Pretty colors!!!!!!

This is awesome. I'm gonna say right now that it's only out of respect for our lovely community that I didn't make my signature

Something

TerriffyinG

like

ThIS!!!!!!!

Thank you for the signature bug workaround.

amazing write up, two thumbs up

Great write-up Ophy!

Hopefully you can help me out here...

I'm trying to add a second Character Sig to my signature. I'm wanting to add my creep sig next to my Ray sig, but I also still want to keep the character text below. For some reason, every time I go to copy/paste the link into the text next to the Ray sig, then click Preview Post (or save for that matter), the preview comes back the same as before and it's erased the link I pasted.

Even if I delete all of my other text and simply try to paste the link, it gets cleared whenever I click save or preview. The link does work though, because I can post it here, and you'll see it:



There's no warnings of too many lines or anything like that. So, tell me, how does one get two Character Sigs in the signature?

Thanks everyone!

Originally Posted by rmtk7685

Hopefully you can help me out here...

There's no warnings of too many lines or anything like that. So, tell me, how does one get two Character Sigs in the signature?

Unfortunately for you, they removed the ability to have more than one character sig image in your signature. They were running into an issue where people could put so many (because it was only counting characters) that it was going across the whole screen and cutting off at the bottom of the table size so they changed it to only allow one. The way the code works is it looks for the first character sig code and then remvoes any/all that come after it. You'll see some people still with more than one image in their signature (people that put them in there when they still were able to), but if they were to go and edit it at this point, they'd lose the second+ images for good.

If you'd like to have the image accessable in your signature, I'd recommend linking the text of your Creep's name to the image itself!

Example: Aporghurc

Originally Posted by romoen

Seems 2 of my character names exist on both Brandywine and Landroval. And since 'B' comes before 'L' and assuming the query sorts by server...

Incorrect Sig: http://lotrosigs.level3.turbine.com/.../signature.png

I also determined that the first 2 number in the sig link refers to your server, 03 = Brandywine 05 = Landroval, I changed my 03 to 05 and poof...

Correct Sig: http://lotrosigs.level3.turbine.com/.../signature.png

Hmm tried this..AND IT WORKED! *dances* Thanks!

Added a section to show you how o check previous posts after an edit. (Sorry, for the poster only and not the viewers!)

Originally Posted by romoen

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Check Previous Edits/Original Post:
Special thank you to Bogo for giving me this tip!

Ever make an edit to a post and then later wish you hadn't? Well our forums have a great feature that tracks each and every edit for you, allowing you to compare any combonation of eidits to bring back what you once had said! Simply click on the "last edited" link on the bottom left of your post. (Visual) Once there, you are able to click on any "old" and "new" buttons to compare any two specific edits. (Visual) The text that shows in white is the same on both posts, the text in red is found in the new version but not in the old and text in green is found in the old version but not the new. (Visual) You'll have to do the editing yourself at that point, but all the information you need is right there!

Originally Posted by romoen

Added a section to show you how o check previous posts after an edit. (Sorry, for the poster only and not the viewers!)

I never knew this! ZOMG!

Ophy the forum wizard!

Originally Posted by romoen

Added a section to show you how o check previous posts after an edit. (Sorry, for the poster only and not the viewers!)

I helped the forum wizard?!!

Originally Posted by Bogowan_Kenbogi

I helped the forum wizard?!!

And I even gave you credit for it!

Originally Posted by romoen

Special thank you to Bogo for giving me this tip!

Talk about thorough where do you get time to do all this stuff?

Gosh, this is just about everything I've always wanted to know about posting in the forums, but didn't!

Thanks so much for taking the time.

Ophy, you rule so tough, thank you for this!!

I found this thread because I don't remember how to change the text for a link, for example showing the name of the kin you are in and when you mouse over it you get the link to the kin's website. I still haven't found that info, can anyone remind me?

Edit: just found the info elsewhere, so adding to this thread in case anyone else needs it (or I forget again). My apologies if it was already here and I missed it:

Use the following format:

{url=http://forums.lotro.com}Lotro Forums{/url}

But substitute [ for { and ] For }

That should be correct.

Whoa! This is AWESOME!!

Thank you so much for this post!

*cough* STICKY *cough*

Glad people are still finding this a useful thread! Makes all the work worth it.

Originally Posted by Teneriel

Ophy, you rule so tough, thank you for this!!

I found this thread because I don't remember how to change the text for a link, for example showing the name of the kin you are in and when you mouse over it you get the link to the kin's website. I still haven't found that info, can anyone remind me?

Edit: just found the info elsewhere, so adding to this thread in case anyone else needs it (or I forget again). My apologies if it was already here and I missed it:

Use the following format:

{url=http://forums.lotro.com}Lotro Forums{/url}

But substitute [ for { and ] For }

That should be correct.

Great tip! And if you want to go one further, after you've changed your defuault editor to be the fancy schmancy everything and the kitchen sink one, you can simply highlight the word(s) you'd like to be links and then click the globe button and instert the link.



You can remove the link by clicking the link button with the red X across it located next to the globe with your cursor anywhere in the word that's linked.

Added information about the pop-up links from the LotRO Lorebook.

Pop-Up Links from the Lorebook:
Hover your mouse --> here <-- to see what I'm referring to.

Talking about skills and gear is all fine and dandy but adding a link to your info. is even better. Turbine went one further for us and added a feature through the Lorebook (link on the top of the forums) that allows you to link with a pop-up making your smarty pants post even more grounded in fact.

There's really nothing other than the knowledge that it exists for you to learn how to do it. Simply put the link anywhere you'd like and as the reader hovers over the link with their mouse, you get a pop up. Check out the example here with a pop up about the Blackarrow skill Moving Target.

If the link is bad or if you miss copied it, you'll get a pop up that says "Item Not Found" so you'll know you need to re-check the address. Keep in mind that you can only point people to items, skills and traits. You cannot link anything that isn't representative by an in-game icon.

If you're unfamilar with how to insert a link inside text, all you have to do is simply highlight the word(s) you'd like to be links and then click the globe button and instert the link. (Visual) You can remove the link by clicking the link button with the red X across it located next to the globe with your cursor anywhere in the word that's linked.

Added a section on nesting quotes as well as cleaned up some formatting and added a section on the Reputation system.

The Reputation System:
Starting January 11, 2010 the forums introduced a reputation system.

What is the Reputation System?
The Reputation System on the LOTRO forums allows forum members to give and receive "Reputation" points to each other based on each others' posts. Did someone write a really killer guide to the Warden class? Did another member help you out when you had a question? Give them props through the Reputation system! The higher your Reputation, and the longer you've been a LOTRO forums member, the more power you have to raise (or lower) other players' Reputations!

How do I give Reputation?
When you're looking at a post and want to give Reputation points to the poster, click on the Reputation icon, which looks like a pair of scales. You'll be asked if you approve or disapprove of the post; choose whichever you like, then click on "Add to Reputation." (Visual)

What does Reputation look like on the forums?
When you have positive Reputation, it is displayed as green boxes. The boxes are grey if you have 0 Reputation, and red if you have negative Reputation. (Visual)

Is there an easy way for me to see what Reputation I've received?
Once you've received Reputation from other users, clicking on User CP will show you the last 10 Reputation clicks you've received and on which of your posts. You cannot see who left the Reputation. (Visual)

What if I don't want to display my Reputation to other forum members?
You can toggle whether your Reputation is displayed to other members by going to User CP -> Edit Options and checking or unchecking the "Show My Reputation Level" box. (Visual)

To view the full Reputation System FAQ, click here.

Whoa how did I miss this thread? Great stuff! Really.

Ophy you're like da best yo. Srsly.



I'm such a reputation *****!

Thanks for all the support on this thread, Landroval but since it was sticked I'm discontinuing the maintenance of this thread as well as the Guide to Taking and Posting Screenshots thread as they've been combined and sticked in the General Discussion forum.

Please see: Forum Signatures, Posting Pics, and All that Other Forum Stuff for future updates or the guide in the Lorebook.