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Thoroughbred Village ‏@TBVillage 5 hours ago

There are other threads for banter & personal issues, please use them.

It was out around 2am when I was trying to post my tips. Didn't matter, they were no good. 

yeah the scripting errors are really getting on my nerves..

In your forum you have the WYSIWYG editor enabled allowing the posting of HTML content.

The problem with posting HTML content is that if someone copies and pastes from a different source then the encoding is also copied and pasted as well.

This means that if you copy and paste a non ASCII characters like a formatted quotation mark then the encoding of the original page is also pasted.

As there are 100's of different encodings it would be almost impossible to detect the formatted quotation mark and convert it to the encoding used by the forum.

The only way around this would be to disable the WYSIWYG editor, but then you would also not be able to copy and paste HTML in to the forum.

The WYSIWYG editor is intended to allow forum users to format their posts, but the formatting available is very basic to prevent the forum being hijacked by malicious code such as malware.

The forum is designed for basic formatting as this is all that is needed within the majority of forums. The forum has not been designed for the copy and pasting of HTML from other web pages as this is not usually permitted in most forums as the copy and pasting of other web pages often breaches copyright.

Most forums will not allow copy and pasting from other websites as Google will rank you lower for duplicate content and if they have DMCA report against copied material on another websites will remove that websites from their listings.

Many websites will intentionally obsticate content on their websites to intentionally cause issues when copy and pasting to other websites. This is done to cause both formatting errors like what you are getting and also so they can use bots to find and locate websites using their content in order to take legal action against those websites.

One prime example of this in the topic you list to is one of your members copy and pasting from the Daily Telegraph and the formatting of the copy and pasted text not being correctly formatted. This is because the Daily Telegraph will obsticate their content to prevent such copy and pasting of their copyrighted content.

I would advise being watchful of what you allow copy and pasted on your forum as we have been served take down notices by solicitors/lawyer firms a number of times in relation to content that has been copied from other sources.

I'd probably prefer to have a forum-wide change, not just individual choice. I need to know what impact it would have on user experience if we remove HTML posting... perhaps we might need to trial it for a day to see. 

Give it a try and see what happens

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Race 1 - 1:25PM Ararat RSL 3YO Maiden Plate (1100 METRES) Times displayed in local time of Race Meeting
Of $20,000.1st $11,000, 2nd $3,400, 3rd $1,600, 4th $900, 5th $600, 6th $500, 7th $500, 8th $500, 9th $500, 10th $500
Maiden, Set Weights, Three-Years-Old, Apprentices can claim.
This race carries a SUPER VOBIS Nominators Bonus of $3,600 and a SUPER VOBIS Owners Bonus of $8,400 for qualified horses.

Track Type: Turf Track Condition: Good 4

Field Limit: 14 + 4 EM

No      Last 10      Horse      Trainer      Jockey      Barrier      Weight      Penalty      Hcp Rating
1           DANGEROUS REBEL Super Vobis Bonus Scheme      Allan J Clark      Ms Christine Puls      10      58kg           
2           MR DESIGN Super Vobis Bonus Scheme      Byron Cozamanis      Jake Noonan      4      58kg           
3      39x298x      PARTY BAG      Paul Banks      Liam Riordan (a3)      7      58kg           
4      99x      ALMA’S ROSSA      Matthew Williams      Damien Thornton      1      56kg           
5      7x      ANNE FROM MAYO Super Vobis Bonus Scheme      Niall Phillips      Jack Hill      11      56kg           
6      85x      ANNIE’S OUR HERO Super Vobis Bonus Scheme      Matthew Williams      Ryan Maloney      9      56kg           
7      5x58      DELICIOUS IRONY Super Vobis Bonus Scheme      Darren Weir      Dean Yendall      5      56kg           
8      6x5      LA SCIPPATORI Super Vobis Bonus Scheme      Darren Weir      Harry Coffey      8      56kg           
9      9x      LINGUIST Super Vobis Bonus Scheme      Mathew Ellerton & Simon Zahra      Andrew Mallyon      6      56kg           
10      0x      NONE AT ALL      John McArdle      Ms Linda Meech      3      56kg           
11      482x36      ZERO PATIENCE Super Vobis Bonus Scheme      Robbie Griffiths      Chris Parnham      2      56kg           
Race 2 - 2:00PM Ararat Rural City Council Maiden Plate (1300 METRES) Times displayed in local time of Race Meeting
Of $20,000.1st $11,000, 2nd $3,400, 3rd $1,600, 4th $900, 5th $600, 6th $500, 7th $500, 8th $500, 9th $500, 10th $500
Maiden, Set Weights, Three-Years-Old and Upwards, Apprentices can claim.

Track Type: Turf Track Condition: Good 4

Field Limit: 14 + 4 EM

No      Last 10      Horse      Trainer      Jockey      Barrier      Weight      Penalty      Hcp Rating
1      6038      BIG COUNTRY      Eric Musgrove      Andrew Mallyon (late alt)      3      58.5kg           
2      7      FREE DROP      Pat McKenna      Ben E Thompson (a0)      5      58.5kg           
3      7657x59508      MAORI PRINCE      Adam Bodey      Ms Jessica Payne (a0)      16      58.5kg           
4      68      MIDNIGHT COWBOY      Mandy Shillito      Anthony Boyd (a2)      6      58.5kg           
5      03x80x0009      RAFF STAR      Deanne Taylor      Harry Coffey      1      58.5kg           
6      8      BUENA VELOZ      Greg Baker      Ms Linda Meech      4      57kg           
7           EASY LIVING (FR)      Darren Weir      John Allen      13      57kg           
8      2273      LUCKY BEAU      Dean Binaisse      Liam Riordan (a3)      9      57kg           
9      5x      DEEP SEA LADY      Archie Alexander      Jordan Childs (a0)      11      56.5kg           
10      2      MISS AUSTRALIA      Glenn Thornton      Damien Thornton      12      56.5kg           
11      9x      MOTOWN CHARM      Dean Saxon      Jake Noonan      8      56.5kg           
12      23244x      RONDALAGO      Geoff Daffy      Jack Hill      14      56.5kg           
13      90x44      WINGS OF LIGHT      Gregory Webb      Ms Chelsea Hall (a1.5)      10      56.5kg           
14      4733      MAGIC OBSESSION      Darren Weir      Dean Yendall      7      55kg           
15e      240x5      KISS ME CANDY      Henry Dwyer      Chris Parnham      15      56.5kg           
16e      0x54      ROWDY ROUSEY      Glenn Thornton      Damien Thornton      2      55kg      

     WYSYWIG Off

Edited by Gay3 - 06 Nov 2016 at 12:57pm

I don't recall anyone doing it & definitely not being suspended for that alone but agreed, it's in poor taste, particularly in the case of a so-called adult 

Am well into my second childhood.

The rest of us are none the wiser either

Extremely *

The ScoMo effect.

 - and again last night Mr Mayor.

The system evidently collapsed after 11 hadn't made a Folau post for over 5 minutes.