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Post by djAdvocate on Feb 1, 2019 11:49:25 GMT -5
yes, I am.
Wisconsin was wildly in error. Michigan, and PA were also somewhat in error, although within MOE.
but we were talking about national polls, not state polls. the national polls were actually MORE accurate in 2016 than in 2012 or 2008.
the reason why polls were not accurate in WI, MI and PA has really not been discussed. if you would like to start a thread, be my guest.
I meant the state polls, my error in not being clear. 47 out of the 50 states were called correctly. several states (such as NH) were spot on. unfortunately, in a close election that is not good enough to determine the winner. and this was a very close election.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Feb 1, 2019 12:21:22 GMT -5
@x : While we allow "revisions" to others' posts when clearly marked, it's an irritating practice that's best avoided. Please desist in this thread. The level of hostility is high enough. weltschmerz : The row between you and @x started because your Reply #163 is malformed and makes it appear as though he's the author of your ditty about Pres. Trump. I've seen such malformations/misattributions in your posts before. I also know you possess the technical competency to avoid them. Please be more diligent when proofreading in future. - Virgil (Mod)
I'll desist in all threads. It's not necessary. [1]If it's a long winded post with many items to answer, I'll just pass on it. [2]- It may not be necessary, but it's helpful.
- I know multiquoting is a pain in the neck. For now, if you're not interested in hacking posts apart in the BBCode editor, it's useful to add footnotes in bold and respond in a numbered list outside the quote block, e.g. as in this post.
I've been waiting on the rollout of Proboards v6 before I work on a plugin that greatly simplifies multiquoting and breaking up quotes to reply to specific excerpts. I don't want to put in the effort only to have to recode everything when the new editor comes out.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 13:03:26 GMT -5
I'll desist in all threads. It's not necessary. [1]If it's a long winded post with many items to answer, I'll just pass on it. [2]- It may not be necessary, but it's helpful.
- I know multiquoting is a pain in the neck. For now, if you're not interested in hacking posts apart in the BBCode editor, it's useful to add footnotes in bold and respond in a numbered list outside the quote block, e.g. as in this post.
I've been waiting on the rollout of Proboards v6 before I work on a plugin that greatly simplifies multiquoting and breaking up quotes to reply to specific excerpts. I don't want to put in the effort only to have to recode everything when the new editor comes out.
Never used the bbcode feature. Not even sure how. Don't worry on it on my account.
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Post by billisonboard on Feb 1, 2019 18:50:04 GMT -5
- It may not be necessary, but it's helpful.
- I know multiquoting is a pain in the neck. For now, if you're not interested in hacking posts apart in the BBCode editor, it's useful to add footnotes in bold and respond in a numbered list outside the quote block, e.g. as in this post.
I've been waiting on the rollout of Proboards v6 before I work on a plugin that greatly simplifies multiquoting and breaking up quotes to reply to specific excerpts. I don't want to put in the effort only to have to recode everything when the new editor comes out.
Never used the bbcode feature. Not even sure how. Don't worry on it on my account. The BBCode thing is kinda interesting. If interested, click on quote of this post and when it comes up as a "create post", click on the BBCode tab at the bottom of the box. It will show the coding that makes something bold, changes font size, or colors. You will see how a / ends it. You will see that I have embedded always a -> which in visual doesn't appear because there is nothing between the start and finish of the blockquote. I have it there because I frequently use the feature when quoting material and I am too lazy to type it every time. I do all my editing in that view and then (usually) click on visual to make sure it came out right.
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Post by thyme4change on Feb 2, 2019 17:45:36 GMT -5
On my phone (which is the only way I view the boards) bold doesn't show up, so I her very confused on a lot of these threads.
I like doing the "
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Post by Rukh O'Rorke on Feb 2, 2019 18:02:16 GMT -5
On my phone (which is the only way I view the boards) bold doesn't show up, so I her very confused on a lot of these threads. I like doing the " I see bold, to insert bold, need to put in some codes.
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Post by thyme4change on Feb 2, 2019 18:15:27 GMT -5
Sorry. My post turned out wrong. I tried to say [ q u o t e ] thinking without the close quote it wouldn't put the rest of my post in a box.
Bold doesn't show up for me on any posts, no matter how you do it. So, when people answer inline with bolded text, or comments on a sentence they put in bold, I can't figure out what they are talking about.
As I said, no big deal, I just skip those posts.
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Post by Rukh O'Rorke on Feb 2, 2019 21:52:19 GMT -5
Lol, our education and experience is wasted on this lot! They know more about law than you and more about stats than I! What’s going on here?
I fear we are witnessing the “death of expertise”: a Google-fueled, Wikipedia-based, blog-sodden collapse of any division between professionals and laymen, students and teachers, knowers and wonderers – in other words, between those of any achievement in an area and those with none at all.
link Interesting article. I'd quote from it, but likely a waste, right?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2019 8:44:48 GMT -5
Never used the bbcode feature. Not even sure how. Don't worry on it on my account. The BBCode thing is kinda interesting. If interested, click on quote of this post and when it comes up as a "create post", click on the BBCode tab at the bottom of the box. It will show the coding that makes something bold, changes font size, or colors. You will see how a / ends it. You will see that I have embedded always a -> which in visual doesn't appear because there is nothing between the start and finish of the blockquote. I have it there because I frequently use the feature when quoting material and I am too lazy to type it every time. I do all my editing in that view and then (usually) click on visual to make sure it came out right. I'll have to experiment when I get time. Thanks.
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Post by Value Buy on Feb 22, 2019 10:30:24 GMT -5
@x : While we allow "revisions" to others' posts when clearly marked, it's an irritating practice that's best avoided. Please desist in this thread. The level of hostility is high enough. weltschmerz : The row between you and @x started because your Reply #163 is malformed and makes it appear as though he's the author of your ditty about Pres. Trump. I've seen such malformations/misattributions in your posts before. I also know you possess the technical competency to avoid them. Please be more diligent when proofreading in future. - Virgil (Mod)
What the fruit? We're suppose to proof our posts?!?! I do not have to. The liberals here always point out my mistakes for me!
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