grumblemarc wrote:
Edit; In response to hiding text...
I even searched and found a hack for PHPBB that describes it "This will allow you to hide the text so the user will have to respond in order to see the published message."
Kind of a juvenile attempt to FORCE people to interact in your forum IMO.
Actually, if I remember an article I read some time ago correctly, the "hide" function was a hack that was developed for some forum that was "sharing" commercial software products. The "hide" function hid the actual download links from search engines making it harder for commercial developers to find where illegal copies were being stored and downloaded from. Microsoft and Adobe were the ones hardest hit at the time - now it's almost everybody.
Regardless of what the intended use is, you're right - it *is* a pretty lame attempt at forcing participation.
