FAQ : Why do some people's posts look like gibberish to me?

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FAQ : Why do some people's posts look like gibberish to me?

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Sometimes, perhaps just from certain users, you might find that posts
look like gibberish : Just a big glob of text, with lots of weird looking
angle brackets all over the place: <p> , <hr> , <a> , <li> , etc.

If this is the case:

- Login to the forums

- Click on the Profile icon at the top of the page

- Go to the Preferences section

- For "Always allow HTML?" , click the 'Yes' checkbox

This will allow all those odd-looking tags to be rendered correctly.
Here's an example of a post with lots of HTML tags:

http://chgpa.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2071

If that post does not look like a well-formatted, readable post,
then you have the HTML tag problem. So follow the instructions
above.
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