Post reply box - extra blank line in already?

[graham@edinburgh]

Am I going mental or s this a sideeffect of something else / deliberate?

Any post reply textarea box (like this one) automatically has a blank line entered before you start typing. Ie, click in it and the cursor is one line lower than the start of the box

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Tis deffo a newish feature,

[graham@edinburgh]

Can't believe I said "like this one"...like that'll make sense to anyone READING the post

[nicecupoftea]

I'm getting it too...

[slinky]

And me... look, it's there, above this line of text!

[Furyous]

here too......

[Polarbert]

Whats the purpose of it?

[Big Al.]

Think it's a Ted error, he'll fix it soon.

[mxdi]

thought I was going mad and pressing enter without remembering

[puggit]

Just wanted to post this

Happening in Firefox and IE (cos I'm a sad techie and checked...)

[touching cloth]

Logical really, more blank lines means more pages get used for the same number of words posted. More pages, more ads, more ads, more money. Am guessing Ted spent large at Christmas and will run this "feature" for a few months to recoup.

You will note I have deleted my extra line as a mark of my disaproval, I am having no part to play in this most grotesque of marketing tactics.


Now, where shall I put my wink smilie to save me from the sinbin....just here I think

Edited by touching cloth on Wednesday 27th December 12:28

[graham@edinburgh]

I think you'll find it's the number of posts that determine when the page break occurs

[touching cloth]

Ok smartarse, there does indeed seem to be some correlation between 20 posts and page changes, but I am not giving up here. There HAS to be money to be made from this extra line and I am going to get to the bottom of it if it's the last thing I do goddamnit.

[Harsh]

TC,

breathe.

[southpaw]

I'm getting this as well, its kind of annoying in an odd way Mr Ted, can you fix it please?

[graham@edinburgh]

Harsh said:

TC,

breathe.

Leave him..he needs a purpose in life

[Kinky]

TC - I think you need to take the dog out for a long long walk

K

I've left the extra line in there too

[touching cloth]

For the life of me I can't find a suitable "conspiracy theory" smilie, but safe to say, you'll all see when the truth comes out. When Ted sells off this site to some young Russian on overinflated revenue figures (retaining the actual webspace and renting it back to him at a huge cost of course), then my friends, then you will see his true colours.

[AquilaEagle]

I just came to see if anyone else is getting this and I see they are

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Has gorn..

But it wasn't as annoying as the "small" thing

[small]Tis the only format needing a close tag


See!!

And I wish he'd fix it!! (No close tags here!)