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Empyreal Rogue
12-21-2004, 03:14 PM
Just look at the poll, you'll see 'em!
Empyreal Rogue
12-21-2004, 03:18 PM
See?

Now stop making fun of people for adding in slashes when a PBR glitch does them.

I just owned A LOT of people.
GranDream
12-21-2004, 03:36 PM
And all this time I thought I missed the last 1337 e-cool meeting...
OriginalGangsta
12-21-2004, 04:24 PM
Originally posted by UTLadiesMan
It's a glitch that's been in the vB code for as long as I can remember. I haven't actually looked at the code, but I'm pretty sure what it is...

In HTML the apostraphe can be used as a delimeter. So, if you actually want to use the character apostraphe in a webpage, you have to put an escape character before it. (in this case the forward slash) vB is probably adding that character twice, once when you make the poll and again when the poll is displayed. Also, if you edit a poll it will increase the number of forward slashes.

For example...

Original: Mike's
In the poll: Mike\'s
First edit: Mike\\\'s
Second edit: Mike\\\\\\\'s
and so on...

This is because it adds a forward slash again for the apostraphe, then adds a forward slash for all of the forward slashes. (otherwise it would think that forward slash is an escape character... so it has an escape character to print the escape character)

If they just made it so that it only changes it when the poll is displayed, then it wouldn't have this problem. I don't know if they've fixed that for the new version, but I would assume so.
Empyreal Rogue
12-21-2004, 04:27 PM
BOOM! Even more proof that I'm right and YOU ALL ARE WRONG.

:)
OWNAGE
12-21-2004, 04:33 PM
Originally posted by Empyreal Rogue
BOOM! Even more proof that I'm right and YOU ALL ARE WRONG.

:)
I always knew it was a glitch.

Where's the thread that people made fun of you in?:P
Empyreal Rogue
12-21-2004, 04:34 PM
It wasn't me that was made fun of, but a lot of other people. And then those people think it's their fault so they take the criticism. Well today I am the Citizen King, here to save the day.
UTLadiesMan
12-22-2004, 04:22 AM
I was about to post... but nevermind. Gangsta did the work for me. :P
OriginalGangsta
12-22-2004, 08:51 AM
Originally posted by UTLadiesMan
I was about to post... but nevermind. Gangsta did the work for me. :P
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