No More Apostrophes in Thread Titles!

[Suburbazine]

Seriously, I dislike having to edit the hyperlink EVERY SINGLE TIME I want to see a thread where someone used "New World Order 'draws line' in the sand". Can we get moderation and editing of titles that make it difficult to view threads?

 

[nola_]

I'm not sure I understand. The example you gave only provides an example of quotation marks, not apostrophes. (Single quotes inside of double quotes)

 

[Suburbazine]

I'm not sure I understand. The example you gave only provides an example of quotation marks, not apostrophes. (Single quotes inside of double quotes)

single quotes are the same button as apostrophe. Like 'apostrophe' or "the apostrophe's tendency to be overused" The problem is people keep using the single quote in subject lines. That turns the subject line into an element of executable code that prevents the forum software from calling a page properly.

 

[LACamper]

There was one title that had a superscript 'tm' in the title today! They don't work in chrome. I'm not going launch a different browser to read one thread!

 

[headspace]

All I know is, the apostrophe don't be silent

 

[Ironman26]

Holy too many comma Batman we have a grammar Nazi on the board.......( " who gives a **** " ) !!!!!!!!!

 

[Xenon]

Down in da hood, dey callz dat apostophe a "comma up top"

 

[ChrisK]

Down in da hood, dey callz dat apostophe a "comma up top"

LOL! I've heard that before.

 

[GaryCCR]

It's not grammar, it's punctuation... Also, we need to remember the dash ain't be silent either!

 

[Taiaut]

All I know is, the apostrophe don't be silent

 

[TomTerrific]

single quotes are the same button as apostrophe. Like 'apostrophe' or "the apostrophe's tendency to be overused" The problem is people keep using the single quote in subject lines. That turns the subject line into an element of executable code that prevents the forum software from calling a page properly.

Are standard punctuation marks like period, comma, colon, question mark, and semi-colon OK?

I wonder if the characters on the same key as the numbers are OK and the rest aren't, but that would put periods and commas on the no-no list.

 

[Lowbrow]

Should be a 5-minute code fix to permanently ensure characters like that get filtered out. There's no reason that mods or anyone else should have to manually monitor posts for certain characters so it doesn't mess up URLs and things. Let the computer do the work.

 

[SpeedRacer]

Correct, we're looking into it.

Should be a 5-minute code fix to permanently ensure characters like that get filtered out. There's no reason that mods or anyone else should have to manually monitor posts for certain characters so it doesn't mess up URLs and things. Let the computer do the work.

 

[Jack]

Are standard punctuation marks like period, comma, colon, question mark, and semi-colon OK?

I wonder if the characters on the same key as the numbers are OK and the rest aren't, but that would put periods and commas on the no-no list.

Welcome back Tom, glad to see you changed your mind.

 

[TomTerrific]

Welcome back Tom, glad to see you changed your mind.

Thanks!

 

[Bosco]

It's not just apostraphes. It's any special character that the forum software does not recognize. Doesn't have to do 100% with chrome as it's something that I've seen on all browsers even safari on my iphone.

Like ' and " are fine but if you go into MS Word and type "hello" or 'hello' you will get the angled quotes or apostrophes.

If I were to copy and paste them into this post they would not work properly. If you copy and paste them into a thread title, it breaks the ability to enter the thread without modifying the URL in your address bar.

*hello*
‘hello’

As you can see, in word the quotes and apostraphes are angled properly. In the forum though it turned the " into * and reversed one of the ' marks. Typically people copy news articles and then paste them into the thread title so it tries to paste the computer code into the title which doesn't work too well with this version of vbulletin. The easiest solution would be to disable the thread titles being part of the link but it seems the admins want the threads to show up on Google faster so it can better index with the stuff in the title/url. I guess faster appearance on Google looks good for those who will spend money to advertise here? I don't know the logic behind it. The best fix would be to upgrade vbulletin but nobody wants downtime especially advertisers and last time they upgraded I think the forums were down for several days and never fully 100% recovered (had bugs like the one discusses in this thread appear). At least they fixed where pasting in links did not properly close the url tag and the first line after was also a link.

 

[Lowbrow]

This is a typical problem encountered with inserting data into a database before making it safe. I deal with stuff like this all the time (I program a lot of web apps). I find it strange that vBulletin doesn't have this already solved and built-in. Perhaps there's a patch available if you can't do a total upgrade. If there's no patch already made available, it should be an easy problem to solve, code-wise.

 

[TomTerrific]

This is a typical problem encountered with inserting data into a database before making it safe. I deal with stuff like this all the time (I program a lot of web apps). I find it strange that vBulletin doesn't have this already solved and built-in. Perhaps there's a patch available if you can't do a total upgrade. If there's no patch already made available, it should be an easy problem to solve, code-wise.

Blade.Forums uses what looks like the same system.

I will pay attention and see if that seems to be a problem there.

When I posted and used an apostrophe in the title, I couldn't access the post via Cr to correct it but could using FireFox.