I understand your points, Blitz.
But that said, I’m also going to assume you are not an artist. You’ve a lack of creative flare that would be otherwise necessary for the idea of recruitment using a post that is properly adorned with videos of your guild’s play, images produced by your guild’s artists, etc.
You lack the understanding of using integrated syndication for a knowledge base, such as the official wiki or the GW2DB as my wife and I had done with our site, making it very easy to openly post builds that can be discussed on-page with readily available tooltips that are maintained up to date with the game itself. The way it is now, if you wanted to discuss a build, you’d have to open a new tab, travel to the external link where the build is maintained (after following several otherwise needless steps), hope that the database the build is posted on is up to date, and constantly swap back and forth between the build and forum just to discuss highlighted points.
If you wanted to post information on leveling a craft, you’d have to post several dozen links in the same post to external sources, whereas a syndicated database would be readily available on that post with tooltips that are up to date. Completely asinine.
And those are just a couple common examples. I’ve done it securely on my site… surely if my wife and I can, ArenaNet’s and NCSoft’s core of engineers could surely outwit us, at least I would think.
God forbid you go through a screenshot or fan art thread. EVERY single post if you wanted to window shop imagery would be a minimum of one external link. That’s akittennightmare for both the artist and user.
If what you say is true, why boast the features of Textile or BBCode without adding the notation of, “Oh, by the way, more than 70% of the features of these two script addons are disabled. Here’s a list of the functions we’ve killed that you may not use on our forum:”
With respect… I’m not restricted my butt.
If you believe a site or forum can be maintained securely only with the sacrifice of these features, then your understanding of web security and site development both are limited. I apologize if that sounds insulting, but it is only true and I see little reason to sugar-coat it.
I have to agree with you. Arenanet should be able to have the codes working. But, as they respond to my own post:
But, shouldn’t the codes work in everything on the site? I know a site, which has similar codes. The sites name is ‘Crunchyroll’ and they even have a list of codes, which, arenanet seems to base their codes off from. But, either or. The codes should work in every section of the site. If I cannot just make a post, with out clicking the ‘attachments’ and just adding the right coding to the post, which should allow a picture to appear. Then it should work, If I cannot make a post/ signature with your coding and not have the coding showing. Then the problem is within the code and then the question ‘’what is the reason to even keep a code that doesn’t work?’’ comes to mind after. Now, before people bite my head off, just look at their layout for codes and they work in ever section of the site (profile, postings, and extc): http://www.crunchyroll.com/help?topic=bbcode
with their response being:
These forums use standard BBCode and Textile. However, some features have been turned off purposely. For example, colored or resized text and inline images are disabled on these forums. It’s not that the code doesn’t work, it’s that it has been purposely disabled.
I do not think they want to unlock those codes. I do not understand why though.