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It seems that alot of forums are too afraid to allow HTML, are people just being paranoid?
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Originally Posted by md16185
It seems that alot of forums are too afraid to allow HTML, are people just being paranoid?

Yes, they are sooooo paranoid.
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My motto (and yes, I am paranoid): just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you.
As people are clearly allowed to attack me but I'm not allowed to defend myself, I no longer post to this site.
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just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you.
I believe Kurt Cobain said that...
My karma ran over your dogma.
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he may, but I made it up myself (no fan of him ).
As people are clearly allowed to attack me but I'm not allowed to defend myself, I no longer post to this site.
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Originally Posted by md16185
It seems that alot of forums are too afraid to allow HTML, are people just being paranoid?
It seems that alot of computer users are too afraid to open attachments sent to them from random addresses, are people just being paranoid?

Daniweb _could_ allow a limited subset of HTML, but it would provide no more functionality than the bbcode*. And bbcode is much less verbose. The focus of a forum is discussions, not colors and other crapulence; consider yourself lucky to have any formatting at all.

* Oh I'm sorry, is it not really called bbcode on vbulletin forums? :-) ~looks at bottom~ Ah, it's "vB" code. Way to reuse an initialism, vBulletin guys.
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The problem with HTML is the security on forums. Sure, you can ban certain tags, but it's much more convinient just to disable it and use the almighty BBCODE!

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a far bigger problem is the flood of flashing text, scrolling text, flash applets, and such crap that people will start to post.
As people are clearly allowed to attack me but I'm not allowed to defend myself, I no longer post to this site.
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It seems that alot of computer users are too afraid to open attachments sent to them from random addresses, are people just being paranoid?
Why on earh would someone want to open an attachment from a random address???

That's not being paranoid, that's just common sense!
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One good reason for not allowing HTML is that many of these sorts of forums offer HTML help -- and when giving HTML help, it's not good to have your HTML code examples get left as HTML instead of being converted to < and >.
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