Why do you leave broken HTML in all of your nodes?

Hi Courage. Please don't delete the div tags that are automatically added to wrap your signature. If you insist on doing so then please also remove the close tags that are appended after your signature. The content of your node should go ABOVE the comment line. This is so users who prefer not to have the clutter of signatures everywhere have an easy way to filter them out.

Thanks.

BTW so you know, castaway is busy scurying around removing the broken html from all your nodes. Thank god for janitors eh?

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Re: Why do you leave broken HTML in all of your nodes? by Anonymous Monk on Oct 25, 2004 at 14:40 UTC
Wouldn't it be easier to write a checker once, and not spending cleaning up after people for ever? I mean, this is a Perl site, and writing an pseudo-HTML checker shouldn't be too hard, should it?	[reply]
Re^2: Why do you leave broken HTML in all of your nodes? by demerphq (Chancellor) on Oct 25, 2004 at 14:46 UTC
We have checking software in place. However we also have a policy of not modifying peoples posts without the change being accountable. So we dont unilaterally modify peoples posts, and we certainly wont use automatic measures to do so. The fact is that in this case the broken HTML is directly due to concious decisions made by Courage and as such the easiest thing to do is to ask him not to continue. --- demerphq _{First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi Flux8}	[reply]
Re: Why do you leave broken HTML in all of your nodes? by Courage (Parson) on Oct 25, 2004 at 19:56 UTC
I did deleting of `<div>` tags because I was not knowledgable enough how to deal with them. Moreover, they happen to appear only recently, and I did not saw them year ago, so I just did not got to used to them yet (how say this in English?) After you directly pointed me to those 'div' tags, I will have much more respect to them. Especially in case I'll be better programmer after that. And I want to send many thanks to all participants of monastery who spend their efforts improving it, and my additional personal respect to those who are improving my nodes. Best regards, Courage, the Cowardly Dog	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Why do you leave broken HTML in all of your nodes? by demerphq (Chancellor) on Oct 25, 2004 at 22:33 UTC
People like to turn off signatures, so we started autowrapping them. Just leave them be and post above the comment line and everything will be cool. :-) BTW, if you want to put default content in your node that _isnt_ part of your signature then you can go to User Settings and use the Note Template box for that. It can be useful to have both a signature and a template. --- demerphq _{First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi Flux8}	[reply]