are we no longer allowed to use font tags in comments?

March 18, 2002 4:44 PM

Speaking of fonts -- are we no longer allowed to use font tags in comments? Mine seem to be getting stripped out during preview. This interferes with my ability to make [font size=-2]snarky side comments[/font].
posted by ook to MetaFilter-Related at 4:44 PM (19 comments total)

You can use [small]snarky side comments[/small].

(snarky side comment)
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:09 PM on March 18, 2002

Actually my font tags also seems to be getting stripped out during preview. I wonder how SRTWC is doing it?
posted by justlooking at 5:13 PM on March 18, 2002

He is using SMALL tags, just as he said.
posted by kindall at 5:14 PM on March 18, 2002

by using the small tag, like he posted, justlooking.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:15 PM on March 18, 2002

That's all well and good, but how does he do it?
posted by sylloge at 5:28 PM on March 18, 2002

feeling rather stupid :(
posted by justlooking at 5:44 PM on March 18, 2002

step 1. Sacrifice goat
step 2. use tag thingies.
step 3. make sure goat was really dead

Hey it worked! Get me!
posted by Kafkaesque at 5:44 PM on March 18, 2002

Who let that goat in here?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:45 PM on March 18, 2002

I'm sorry, the GOAT tag doesn't seem to be working.
posted by cortex at 6:04 PM on March 18, 2002

So small and big work well.
posted by bjgeiger at 8:10 PM on March 18, 2002

is this it?
dude, i rule.
posted by BlueTrain at 8:11 PM on March 18, 2002

OK -- so everybody got the memo but me. That's cool.

(and apparently justlooking forgot to check his cubbyhole as well)

Just purely out of curiosity, though, what was the impetus for this particular change, mathowie? With a very few exceptions, I haven't seen much abuse of the font tag 'round these parts... was there a dramatic font meltdown somewhere I missed? Did somebody threaten to use Comic Sans, or something?
posted by ook at 8:11 PM on March 18, 2002

An Experiment:

big

bigger

biggest

small

smaller

smallest

This is only an experiment, kids. Please don't try this at home.
posted by bjgeiger at 10:22 PM on March 18, 2002

MeTa runs a much older version of MeFi. A change there might not be reflected here right away, if ever.
posted by dhartung at 12:34 AM on March 19, 2002

ook: the boss speaks w/r/t font tags. continue reading after the linked comment for additional discussion and the announcement that font tags have been disabled.

posted by mlang at 4:56 AM on March 19, 2002

Headline tags work too. This is h1. Annoying, isn't it?

And this is h6.

posted by iconomy at 5:43 AM on March 19, 2002

Get out of here, goat!
posted by rodii at 5:50 AM on March 19, 2002

<littlekidgoat>

Hey - the goat tag works again! Good to keep in mind, in case Matt disables the headlines tags.

</littlekidgoat>


<billygoatgruffgoat>

Go, goats!

</billygoatgruffgoat>
posted by iconomy at 6:03 AM on March 19, 2002

mlang - thanks. Guess I did miss the memo.
posted by ook at 7:08 AM on March 19, 2002