Appears it's one thread per new member - here's mine

[skeptigirl]

Hi.

Been invited by my friend, McQ. Became an atheist sometime in high school. That period in my life is a bit fuzzy and quite a while back. I've been promoting critical thinking, science, media literacy, and an end to war for quite a few years. Nice to meet you all.

[tacoma_kyle]

Whats up?

Yeah, I did the good-ol crossover in high school as well. Whole thing took about 2-3 years .

If ya dont mind me askin, why's high-school fuzzy?

[Squid]

Much of my life is fuzzy when I think back - but it probably has something to do with the beer or whiskey involved.

Anyhow, welcome skeptigirl.

[MommaSquid]

Welcome to the forum, skeptigirl.  

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who has trouble remembering things.  We're all too young for "old-timer" moments and yet things are fuzzy.  Go figure.

[SteveS]

Hi Skeptigirl!

[McQ]

Hi.

Been invited by my friend, McQ. Became an atheist sometime in high school. That period in my life is a bit fuzzy and quite a while back. I've been promoting critical thinking, science, media literacy, and an end to war for quite a few years. Nice to meet you all.

Welcome Skeptigirl! I'm glad you came, and am looking forward to your contributions to the forum. Pull up a chair and make yourself at home.

[skeptigirl]

Whats up?

Yeah, I did the good-ol crossover in high school as well. Whole thing took about 2-3 years .

If ya dont mind me askin, why's high-school fuzzy?

It was a while ago, and those were the 70s. :wink:

Glad to meet you all.

[Kestrel]

Any friend of McQ's...

Welcome.

[skeptigirl]

I need a bit of help. Is there a code cheat sheet? I used :wink: I think because that was on the smilie link but it didn't make a smilie. And I think I tried for italics and it failed.

My code for [url] and

worked.

I'm a fast self learner, but need the board codes.

I suppose I should search around a bit but that involves work. :p

[skeptigirl]

Now that smilie worked.

Testing


Hmmm, so did I misread the smilie page for the winky code? Guess I could look again.

 :wink:

Nope, it puts a wink for the winkie smilie.

Now that is weird, ; ) worked, but when I pasted : wink :  it worked but changed ; )  

Yet in the other post : wink: didn't work.

OK, I am confused. Maybe I need to turn one of those codes off? That's beyond my computer knowledge.

[SteveS]

Something I discovered, you've got to have a space before and after the leading and trailing colon in the smiley code to get it to work.  In other words, type it in space-colon-code-colon-space.  Hope that helps.....

Also, the link to the help is http://www.happyatheistforum.com/faq.php?mode=bbcode

[skeptigirl]

But that can't be it.

Watch these two posts.

[skeptigirl]

But that can't be it.

Watch these two posts.



 :wink:

[skeptigirl]

Now that is weirder still.

testing

:wink:

[skeptigirl]

So when I just retyped the smilie codes, they worked, when I edited the first post the new one worked but the 1st one reverted back to code.

Now I edit the post and neither works.

Are you guys messing with me?