7-11-16, 10:44 PM
Seeing that a lot of people are uneducated on how to tag other users on the forums properly, I decided to make a quick tutorial explaining it.
Yes, I did see this as genuinely necessary.
One Word Names
These are simple, just tag them standard, including the "at" symbol @ before the name.
For a few examples:
Assuming you haven't made a spelling error, it should display the user's name, color of their rank, and provide a link to their account page.
Multiple Word Names
This is the one that drove me to write this. People seem to think that just putting the "@" before the name would work, such as a recent example:
@Le Sad Lizard
It doesn't work, though. If you've been writing a new thread or responding to one in the full editor, you might notice that it adds quotation marks around the name of the user you tagged. It does this to tell itself "this is a name, anything else touching it is something else." So, when tagging someone in somewhere that doesn't auto-complete this, for example the quick reply or chatbox, you have to include them manually:
@''Le Sad Lizard"
If you don't do what I did just now and use two apostrophes, you should come out with something like this:
@Le Sad Lizard
Special Character Names
The forums can still register these characters in names (assuming you've added the quotation marks), but as expected you'll need to copy paste the name from the user's profile. Or, if you're on the chatbox, you can click the user's avatar.
Obligatory example:
@"ᔕᙅᗩᖇᙡᗢᒪℱ"
(sorry @Zellogi you changed your name back to regular characters so i cant use you as the example)
I hope you enjoyed this cancerous tutorial that I shouldn't have had to make, and probably didn't need to. I will come out with more in the future if need be.
LFG ZS is the only good server because members rarely get online