From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-10-14T23:19:27+09:00
Subject: Re: To all people writing BBS on Rails: let's join forces

Andreas Schwarz wrote:
>
> gabriele renzi wrote:
> > Andreas Schwarz ha scritto:
> >
> >
> >> What I (and most of the users) do NOT want is:
> >> * BB-Code or HTML
> >> * User icons
> >> * Smilies
> >> * Everything else phpBB has ;)
> >
> >
> > I agree on avoiding bbcode, user icons and smlies.. but a simple markup
> > system is imho useful. Maybe textile :)
>
> This might be is difficult to combine with usenet style quoting, and I
> actually never had a feature request for this. I am already creating
> links from URLs and doing some basic formatting for _this_, /this/ and
> *this*, that seems to be sufficient.
>
> Another reason for why I don't need and want a full markup system is
> that I don't want the users to abuse the forum as a content management
> system (like it is often done with phpBB), because a Wiki is much better
> suited for this task.

You should consider bluecloth, since it is a formatter for standard
clear-text markup conventions like _this_, /this/ and *this*.

Curt