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Please take a moment to view the rules:
Currently there are four forums
- General discussion
- General and off-topic community chat.
- Site Evaluations
- Site owners may post in this forum to have their reputation evaluated by the WOT community
- Ownership must be verified to post in this forum
- Reputation Discussions
- For the community to discuss the reputation of domains they don't own.
- Technical advice
- Problems with the add-on
Moderation
The WOT forum to have moderators
posted: Fri 13 May 2011 - 10:18:39 AM UTC
see: Forum Moderator
Post / Reply
Older forum posts are presented in the nested post format where replies are placed directly below the post you are replying to.
Newer forum posts, created on or after 26 April 2011, are presented in the flat post format and replies are placed in chronological order, these replies contain the text of the post your are replying to in a <quote> tag
see also: Flat vs. threaded
Post actions
Edit- You have the ability to edit previous entries you've made on the forum.
- As a common courtesy, it is suggested that you place edited content at the bottom of your original contant, for comparison, along with a manually created edit tag such as [edit date edited] as the top line of your changes being made.
Reply- Allows you to reply directly to a post. Older, nested-style post replies have no content, newer flat-style post replies contain the post your are replying to in a <quote> tag.
Delete- Allows you to delete your posted replies. You can not delete the first / start post, also known as the Original Post (OP). Only WOT Staff and Forum Moderators may remove entire discussions aka: topics or threads.
- Careful, this action can not be undone.
Moderator actions
@ Moderators:
Be very careful when hiding posts. Once hidden and the page is refreshed the action is permanent.
Hide- Allows a Moderator to remove a post from public view
- Once "hidden" you have the ability to undo your changes; see Show (below)
- Show
- A quick "toggle" to show the post a Moderator has hidden.
- This is only available once hidden, refreshing the page permanently removes the hidden post from Moderator view.
Staff Options
Highlight this post as being from a staff member?- Moderators can announce themselves by ticking the check-mark box which, when checked, will turn your username blue and add (Moderator) in brackets.
Allowed HTML
The forum does not incorporate BBcode
Instead you have the ability to use HTML tags as well as customized tags specific for certain usages. Basic HTML is allowed. JavaScript, CSS, and other extended rules are sanitized.
Below the post / reply message box, you will see:
Allowed HTML tags:
<a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <img> <red> <green> <yellow> <massrate> <quote>
Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
Also, notice the link to the official posting help: More information about formatting options
Standard HTML tags allowed
<a>
- used to make links to other posts or web pages
- Attributes allowed:
- href - Specifies the destination of a link
- title - Tool tip text displayed with mouse-over
- target - Specifies where to open the linked document
- _blank - opens in new tab or window
- Example:
<a href="http://www.mywot.com">WOT (Web of Trust)</a>
- Result: WOT (Web of Trust)
<em>
- used in lieu of italic tag <i>
- Attributes allowed:
- none
- Example:
<em>This text is emphasized</em>
- Result: This text is emphasized
<strong>
- used in lieu of bold tag <b>
- Attributes allowed:
- none
- Example:
<strong>This text is strong</strong>
- Result: This text is strong
<cite>
- Defines a citation
- Attributes allowed:
- none
- Example:
<cite>This text is a citation</cite>
- Result:
This text is a citation
<code>
- Defines computer source code text
- Attributes allowed:
- none
- Example:
<code>for (i=0;i<=5;i++)</code>
- Result:
for (i=0;i<=5;i++)
<ul>
- Defines an unordered (bulleted) list; use the <li> to begin each list item
- Attributes allowed:
- none
- Example:
<ul><li>first line</li><li>second line</li><li>third line</li></ul>
- Result:
- first line
- second line
- third line
<ol>
- Defines an ordered (numbered) list; use the <li> to begin each list item
- Attributes allowed:
- none
- Example:
<ol><li>first line</li><li>second line</li><li>third line</li></ol>
- Result:
- first line
- second line
- third line
<li>
- Defines a list item.
- Attributes allowed:
- none
- Example: see UL or OL tags (above)
<dl>
- Defines a definition list
- The <dl> tag is used in conjunction with:
- <dt> defines the item (term) in the list
- <dd> describes the item in the list
- Attributes allowed:
- none
- Example:
<dl><dt>item 1</dt><dd>item 1 description</dd><dt>item 2</dt><dd>item 2 description</dd></dl>
- Result:
- item 1
- item 1 description
- item 2
- item 2 description
<img>
- used to embed an image in a post or web page
- Attributes allowed:
- src - Specifies the URL of an image; images must be available online.
- alt - Specifies an alternate text for an image
- title - Tool tip text displayed with mouse-over
- width - Specifies the width of an image; values are expressed in px (pixels) or % (percentage)
- height - Specifies the height of an image; values are expressed in px (pixels) or % (percentage)
- Example:
<img src="http://www.mywot.com/w/wotlogo.png" alt="WOT Logo" title="WOT Logo" />
- Result:
Customizd tags
These custom tags are created by WOT Staff and incorporated into forum use; they are not true HTML tags. Some are taken from ideas posted on the forum by members, others are created out of necessity.
<red>
- Format text color to red
- Example:
The color is <red>RED</red>
- Result: The color is RED
<green>
- Format text color to green
- Example:
The color is <green>GREEN</green>
- Result: The color is GREEN
<yellow>
- Format text color to yellow
- Example:
The color is <yellow>YELLOW</yellow>
- Result: The color is YELLOW
<massrate>
- Used to contain domain lists consisting of 11 or more domains
- Reduces post length and page scrolling by placing the domain list into a scrollable container (box).
- Example:
example_01.com
example_02.com
example_03.com
example_04.com
example_05.com
example_06.com
example_07.com
example_08.com
example_09.com
example_10.com
example_11.com
</massrate>
- Result
- List of domains/hosts:
example_01.com
example_02.com
example_03.com
example_04.com
example_05.com
example_06.com
example_07.com
example_08.com
example_09.com
example_10.com
example_11.com
<quote>
- Automatically inserted when replying to a flat-style post - default reply
- Can also be used manually as a post / reply tag.
- Attributes allowed:
- user - Specifies the name of the member you are replying to
- automatically added during Reply
- if optionally used with a manual insertion, the user name must be provided.
- NOTE:
- This tag is incorporated only in flat thread posts created on or after 26 April 2011
- older nested posts will not auto-insert this tag.
- Example:
<quote user="Admin">
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Etiam condimentum augue in purus fringilla scelerisque ultricies nisl hendrerit. Morbi tempor faucibus nisl sit amet viverra. Aenean diam lacus; mollis sit amet consequat eget, aliquet eget velit? Pellentesque id bibendum eros. Donec sed leo diam, laoreet venenatis lorem. Nam sed turpis.
</quote>
- Result
Originally posted by: Admin
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Etiam condimentum augue in purus fringilla scelerisque ultricies nisl hendrerit. Morbi tempor faucibus nisl sit amet viverra. Aenean diam lacus; mollis sit amet consequat eget, aliquet eget velit? Pellentesque id bibendum eros. Donec sed leo diam, laoreet venenatis lorem. Nam sed turpis.
HTML characters
For a full list of entities see HTML's entities page.
A nice chart is available at: ascii.cl
Some of the available characters include:
Business
| Symbol | Description | HTML Number | HTML Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| © | Copyright | © | © |
| ® | Registered | ® | ® |
| ™ | Trademark | ™ |
Currency
| Symbol | Description | HTML Number | HTML Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| $ | US Dollar | $ | |
| £ | British Pound | £ | £ |
| € | Euro | € | € |
Punctuation
| Symbol | Description | HTML Number | HTML Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| & | Ampersand | & | & |
| @ | At symbol | @ | |
| : | Colon | : | |
| . | Period | . | |
| " | Quotation mark | " | " |
| Space non-breaking |   | |
Inactive accounts
There are two forms of inactive accounts:
- Banned
- Banned users are accounts terminated by WOT Staff generally for some form of abuse such as spamming. The user name retains a profile link and next to the user name you will see (Banned) All ratings and posts are deleted.
- Terminated
- Users who delete their own accounts no longer retain a profile link because there is no profile to visit. Their forum posts are retained and next to the user name you will see (not verified)
