How do I turn off mutilation of my post text?

[cjs]

In another thread I was trying to talk about O algorithms. If that looks mysterious to you, before the forum got hold of it it was a capital O, followed by an open parenthesis, followed by the letter 'n', followed by a close parenthesis.

This forum software seems to have a serious objection to O algorithms, even though I've found them to work fine in many cases, and makes its disapproval known in the way you see.

It does the same for other things. For example, it's got a grudge against retro-style smilies, like those I used in the '80s and '90s, and converts them to emoji, which is rather annoying on a forum that's supposed to be about vintage computing.

How do I convince the forum to stop mutilating my posts, and just leave them as what I typed?

 

[VERAULT]

I really have no idea what your talking about? Its turning your text into emojis?

 

[krebizfan]

Let see what happens with the CODE tag. Yup, works in a code block though the new interface doesn't always add a code block to the message.

O(n) is another attempt.

 

[Robbbert]

Test... O(n)

 

[syzygy]

and many more available when you have BB code which you can toggle with those [] on the right of your ribbon.

 

[syzygy]

and many more available when you have BB code which you can toggle with those [] on the right of your ribbon.

But when toggled off, you probably will not get the emoji unintentionally.

 

[syzygy]

:)
Actually, I don't know at all because that doesn't work the way I thought it would.


Oh wait, @krebizfan is right; inline code does work to prevent mutilation.

 

[cjs]

...when you have BB code which you can toggle with those [] on the right of your ribbon.

But when toggled off, you probably will not get the emoji unintentionally.

I have tried toggling BB code on and off, and no matter which way I enter my text, the forum replaces it with funny symbols.

This post, for example, was entered with BB code toggled on, but like my original post, where it was toggled off (WYSIWYG) mode, O algorithms still get the thumbs down.

 

[commodorejohn]

The old forum software, IIRC, had an option in your account settings to disable mangling by default, but apparently we can't have nice things anymore :/

 

[whartung]

You can't toggle BBCode, its always on for display.

Toggling BBCode is only for authoring, so you can see where the tags are. On another XenForo board I use, whenever I drag in an image, it sticks it to the top of the post. I have to go into BBCode off to physically move the tags where I want them to be.

The built in emoji thing you're kind of stuck with. (Save in the CODE tags as demonstrated.)

 

[NeXT]

Try wrapping it in {code] tags and see if it forces it to ignore emoji recognition

 :D :? :s @_@ :3 :| :o 
This is a test. 8)

 

[loblolly986]

Forum software often supports a special BBCode tag that disables parsing of BBCode/links/smileys in text surrounded by it. In XenForo's implementation, this is the [plain] tag.

Example: [plain][b]O(n) algorithm[/b][/plain] renders as [b]O(n) algorithm[/b].

 

[cjs]

Forum software often supports a special BBCode tag that disables parsing of BBCode/links/smileys in text surrounded by it. In XenForo's implementation, this is the [plain] tag.

That's what I was looking for! No more will my O(n) algorithms be booed by the forum software!