[CarCdr]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Yes but vBulletin hasn't got an AI of it's own. All this stuff would have to be manually coded in, and add to the bulk of the code. More regexp parsing when making posts, more overhead. It's not hard formatting your post to do what you said above you know

Dean, with respect, doing the sorts of things we are talking about is what computers do best, not humans. This ain't AI, it's really straightforward machine translation.

The overhead would be pretty insiginificant for the sorts of transformations we are talking about. The parsing overhead for this in a post display cycle is near zero. The only overhead worth considering is when a call to verify_id forces a query. Of course, there is no overhead if the post is in the post cache.

As for bulk, the implementation for parsing showthread/showpost references (e.g., Thread: Title extract... by CarCdr or Post: Title extract... by Dean C is probably 50 lines of code, a very small addition to the many thousands of lines run in a post/thread display cycle.

Cheers