OneBoxing is slightly different. It’s more to do with how the information is displayed in your post, rather than how others access it (if you do the Discobot tutorial it’s the one where you embed the Wikipedia page towards the beginning).
You can try it for yourself with any forum link.
Try this one (just make sure you post it on its own line) .
One irritation is the 4 letters thing! I just tried to post “fig” and had to answer with a full stop! What if i want to reply with a two letter answer?
I think it’s only an issue on a handful of game threads. If it was a conversation thread it’d be odd to reply with a 2 or 3 letter word and nothing else.
Thank you, I’ve been caught out by that a few times too (as it is I’ve been adding a note in brackets after my entry to bring it up or making the word plural)
Starts an interactive tutorial just for you, in a personal message. {name-of-tutorial} can be one of: tutorial, advanced tutorial.
@discobot roll 2d6
3, 6
@discobot quote
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Buddha
(I’m having a little play with the new formatting to see if I can tidy up an old post for future use. You may see it pop up here a few times as I’m fiddling away. )