Raw_Power comments on Qualia Soup, a rationalist and a skilled You Tube jockey - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Raw_Power 31 October 2010 02:34:22PM 0 points [-]

It seems I have gotten my editing wrong somehow. Again

Comment author: Raw_Power 31 October 2010 10:31:40PM 0 points [-]

Is it okay if I delete this now that the problem is solved?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 31 October 2010 10:44:05PM 4 points [-]

I'd rather if you left it up-- there isn't a general "how to use Less Wrong features" that I know of, so people are still finding out things like the unspeakably annoying mismatch between formats for articles and comments by cultural transmission.

Comment author: Emile 31 October 2010 03:05:33PM *  0 points [-]

Yeah, the editing format for top-level posts isn't the same as for comments :P A bit silly ...

Comment author: Raw_Power 31 October 2010 03:55:02PM 0 points [-]

I haven't been able to find a helpful "help" button there. Would you happen to know where the markup help is?

Comment author: Emile 31 October 2010 05:02:14PM 2 points [-]

Apparently it doesn't use markup, you can directly edit links and the like with the tools at the top of the edit bar. There's also a button to edit the raw html.

Comment author: Raw_Power 31 October 2010 07:21:27PM *  0 points [-]

Now I'll have to learn HTML (panics). Being a transfer student from the TV Tropes fora, which was my first forum ever, I might have overestimated myself and tried to run before I could walk...

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 31 October 2010 07:31:24PM 3 points [-]

My HTML is a bit rusty, but I believe the tag you want is:

<a href="url goes here">Text goes here</a>

That should do for a quick fix.

Comment author: Raw_Power 31 October 2010 10:20:46PM 1 point [-]

Thank you!

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 01 November 2010 04:54:15AM *  1 point [-]

You don't need all of html. I get by with about half a dozen tags.

<i>text</i> italics

<b>text</b> bold

<a href="url">text</a>

<blockquote>text</blockquote> blockquote helpfully adds blank lines before and after the quoted block, so that it's harder to read your html because you have to leave the blank lines out

<strike>text</strike> puts a line through your text-- I don't use istrike much, but it's handy for being a wiseass

Comment author: Emile 31 October 2010 09:03:48PM 1 point [-]

You don't need to use html; all the formatting options you need are at the top of the edit window.

Comment author: Raw_Power 31 October 2010 10:21:19PM 0 points [-]

They didn't seem to work, like they were turned off or something. Thanks all the same.

Comment author: Perplexed 31 October 2010 10:50:41PM 3 points [-]

In order to enable the link button, select some text.

Please don't ask me why this is the way it works.

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