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What are all the dots?
Posted:
Fri Aug 13, 2021 7:36 am
by suspend6
Numerous postings on this site merely have a full stop as the text. What does it mean? An expired link?
Re: What are all the dots?
Posted:
Fri Aug 13, 2021 5:34 pm
by SJB
I don't think I have come across any dot posts.
Can you identify one?
Re: What are all the dots?
Posted:
Sun Aug 15, 2021 12:45 pm
by suspend6
Re: What are all the dots?
Posted:
Sun Aug 15, 2021 5:32 pm
by Teflon
I think it is where a posting was made with no text, but just one (or more) photo and the photo is no longer available (moved; deleted etc).
Cliff
Re: What are all the dots?
Posted:
Mon Aug 16, 2021 2:06 am
by suspend6
So why would the photos no longer be available? They form part of the thread, and you would think they should remain?
Re: What are all the dots?
Posted:
Tue Aug 17, 2021 11:39 pm
by Iain Purdon
Short of asking the original posters about their dot entries, I don't think we're going to find out.
I can hazard one guess.
If you post a comment and then decide you don't want it to stand, you have two options.
You can either delete the posting - in which case it will simply disappear - or edit it down to zero - in which case the posting will still show but no longer contain the material you have edited out. However, one rule of the site software is not to allow a posting with nothing in it, so I guess the only way to save the revised posting would be to add something that is not a blank space. That may explain the dot? Although any other single character would also work.
Re: What are all the dots?
Posted:
Wed Aug 18, 2021 1:28 am
by suspend6
Perhaps one of the posters of a "dot" entry might be able to clarify. Here's hoping one of them checks out this thread
Re: What are all the dots?
Posted:
Wed Aug 18, 2021 10:50 am
by Iain Purdon
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Re: What are all the dots?
Posted:
Wed Aug 18, 2021 10:55 am
by Iain Purdon
In the post above I tested Teflon’s theory.
I posted a photo on its own.
I then deleted the photo and got a message saying my post contained too few characters and it wouldn’t save it.
I added a dot and it was happy.
Re: What are all the dots?
Posted:
Wed Aug 18, 2021 10:57 am
by Iain Purdon
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