A few suggestions

I just have a couple of suggestions you could consider.....

1, Spellcheck in the reply boxes...... most peoples typing is terrible *slowly raises hand* and is sometimes kinda hard to understand.

2, If your gonna put buttons like "pwn" in a forum that is used by a huge amount of different people it would be best to give it a description in PLAIN ENGLISH, or at least say what the bloody thing does, then people know what the hell it is...

we've had spellcheck in the past, but most people don't use it, and it doesn't work very well when you are discussing proper nouns that aren't in the dictionary.

The pwn thing is one of those jokes the admins like to play from time to time.

Did the spellcheck even work? When I joined way back when, the button didn't even work.

not that I know of, but it might have worked at some point in the distant past, maybe. we have the option of incorporating IE-based spellcheck into vB3.5, but I don't think we are going to.

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Originally Posted by eestlinc

The pwn thing is one of those jokes the admins like to play from time to time.

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WELL IT'S NOT FUNNY YOU smurfERS! I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS TOMFOOLERY! I'M GOING TO INSULT YOU ALL IN MY LJ AND THEN I'M GOING TO LEAVE EoFF FOREVER! :mad2:

I'm pretty sure spellcheck hasn't worked at any time in the past 5 years.

I think Unne broke it.

If spellcheck had ever worked I wouldn't be mocked nearly as much. Not for that at least.

Though the "page that spells out every joke and makes them unfunny" sounds like a good idea. I mean, jokes suck anyway.

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Originally Posted by ShlupQuack

Though the "page that spells out every joke and makes them unfunny" sounds like a good idea. I mean, jokes suck anyway.

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Ixnay the ondesencioncay, Chet.

condesencion there I spelled it right I think :???:

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Originally Posted by eestlinc

not that I know of, but it might have worked at some point in the distant past, maybe. we have the option of incorporating IE-based spellcheck into vB3.5, but I don't think we are going to.

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What actually does the spellchecking though?

IESpell I think :/

I think it's better to not allow spellchecking as part of the forums - it helps you to gauge the level of intelligence of the poster by seeing their post uncorrected if it needs fixing somehow :monster:

Hmm...IEspell would suck (and by suck, I mean "be nonexistant") for FireFox users. It may be possible to use pspell/aspell or a database driven dictionary...but it's almost completely more trouble than it's worth.

If anyone cares about spelling that much (which is a good idea) they should just copy and paste their posts into a wordprocessor and spellcheck there. :p

Yeah, I mean, if we had spellcheck we might think that Shlup's smart.

krissy would still be cool, though. :)

EDIT: in reply to clout.

...it's called word.