I am sitting here watching Jdaw construct the various posts and links that will record the Valentine's Day 1970 Horizontal for posterity. Quite entertaining and enlightening.
For those of you that have never witnessed this phenomenon I am pleased to confirm that our resident pedant includes temporary holding comments "Content coming soon. Wait!" in the TN threads whilst he builds the links and adds the notes.
Fabulous. I always enjoy watching a craftsman at work.
Derek
So that's how he does it!!
So that's how he does it!!
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
Ernest H. Cockburn
Making links
It’s very easy.
1. Make all the threads, with their correct titles but placeholder content (such as “Content coming soon. Wait!†).
2. Now the thread numbers are known. Make a single post, in one of the TN threads or the Review thread, that looks like:
4. Then reply to your newly-created threads, giving the useful non-administrative content.
1. Make all the threads, with their correct titles but placeholder content (such as “Content coming soon. Wait!†).
2. Now the thread numbers are known. Make a single post, in one of the TN threads or the Review thread, that looks like:
3. Copy-paste this into each of the newly-created threads. As it is bad form for something to link to itself, in each paste remove the link code that links to the thread in which it is pasted. This will leave something resembling:
(Observe the change to the Taylor item.)
4. Then reply to your newly-created threads, giving the useful non-administrative content.