How to: Mafia on Mobile Phone

[Guest]

How To Mafia on Mobile Phone (on DM)

 

Brackets

 

 

These are all to be used without the full stops.

 

[spoiler] words [/spoiler]

- makes a little spoiler box

 

[.quote] words [./quote] - makes a little quote box, but without dates or times or authors. I don't recommend using this.

 

[.b] word [./b] - bolds a word

 

[.i] word [./i] - italics a word

 

Note: keep in mind that spaces between brackets count as spaces in the sentence.

So: apples [.b] are [./b] nice would look like - apples are nice.

To fix that, remove spaces between brackets. Apples [.b]are[./b] nice - apples are nice.

 

[.img]link of image [./img] - to post an image. Has to be .jpg or .png or .gif to work. You'll see it at the end of the image link. To get this link, open a tab on your browser on your phone, Google, find the image you want, open the image until you can "view image". If you only see the image then click on url (link) and it should be a .jpg (or whatever). If not, try a different image.

 

For videos, you can just post the link to the video. The site automatically changes it to the video format.

 

 

 

Page & Post numbers

 

 

You can see the page number on your phone by clicking on the url. The last number of the address is the page number.

 

Example (I'm replacing the www with yyy): this is yyy.dragonmount.com/forums/topic/98177-basic-i-3-the-90s-mafia-music-edition-day-1/page-96

 

I think you can see where the page number is? You can change that last page number to anything and re-use the link to jump between pages.

 

Post numbers are a bit more difficult. You have to do the math. Posts 1-20 are on page 1. 21-40 on page 2. 41-60 on page 3. So that, if someone mentions the quote # - you have to divide it by 20 + 1 to find the page. Quote #554 divided by 20 is 27,7 (use your phone calculator), so that it should be on page 28.

 

There's a little arrow in the top right corner of posted quoted posts (tongue-twister?) that will take you directly to the original quoted post. You can determine the page and post number from there, if need be.

 

My advice is to make notes. Maybe not extreme, but notes of either page or post #'s.

E.g. Zander p3, #53.

 

Your choice whether you add your reasoning or whatever. Maybe you want to quote it later. Maybe it seemed wrong or just right. You'll know.

 

 

 

Quoting 1 or more posts

 

 

You need an app like MEMO (the one I use) to type on. I'm currently typing this in memo. See what you can find.

 

Let's say you're still catching up, but want to respond to a post. Usually, you'd click "respond to multiple". Now, you can't.

1. So just click "reply". It'll open a new window. Now here comes the trick.

2. Copy/Cut the whole quote

3. Paste into memo.

4. On your memo, just add a few enters after the last bracket closes (should be a [./quote] bracket), and type your reply. Add a few extra enters afterwards (at least 2).

5. On your browser, just click back. It'll take you back to exactly where you were before clicking reply, without replying.

6. You can continue reading up and quote like this. Just keep clicking "reply" and "cut" the quote and "paste" the quote beneath the previous things in the memo. Just keep in mind that some people like seeing post reaction times, so you'll have to explain that you were doing it this way.

7. Don't go too far. Limit yourself to 3 (4 max) quotes per post.

8. When you're ready to post it, click "reply" on any post. It'll open a box with the quote just like always.

9. Delete everything in that box.

10. Copy everything on your memo. Everything!

11. Paste.

12. Post. It'll automatically take you to the newest page where your post will show.

 

Just a few things:

+ double check that all the brackets are correct

+ if you want to respond but you're still catching up, you can either post it in a separate tab, or remember the page # - which you can replace into the url after posting to continue.

+ remember to apologise if you break the page.

 

 

 

Smilies

 

 

Well, the ones used most often.

Just add a : in front and behind, without spaces.

 

: + smile + : =

Wink =

Laugh =

Happy =

Sad =

Wheel =

Love heart person is "wub" -

 

 

 

1. Always double check that your brackets and forward slashes are in.

2. Check that your autocorrect didn't do weird things.

3. At the bottom of every mobile page is a "desktop version" for if you really give up. At the bottom of the desktop version is a "mobile version" too, to switch back.

4. Sometimes things go wrong. Figure out what it was and don't do it again. If you don't know, just post here and I'll see whether I, or someone else, can figure it out.

5. There is more but this is enough for now, I think. If you know of more, feel free to post.

 

When I get round to it, I'll post about linking in-text or such, but these mentioned are the ones I use the most.

 

 

PS. This was done on my mobile phone.

[Guest]

More useful things

 

All without the full stops.

 

Basics (voting)

 

[.v]Evil Fish[./v] - [v]Evil Fish[/v]

[.unvote] (Just that! Nothing else) - [unvote]

 

 

 

Text alignment

 

[.center]text[./center] - remember that anything NOT inside those brackets will be normal left-aligned:

 

 

 

 

text

 

 

Quote trimming

 

I can think of 2 ways to trim quotes atm.

 

1 - just delete the text. Be wary of not deleting any closed brackets, such as [.quote] (so delete or backspace slowly). You can add a *snip* instead so players know you've cut it - but it's usually obvious.

In a long text, I tend to delete all paragraphs except the one I'm going to refer to, and then use the bold brackets [.b]&[./b] around words I want to exclaim.

 

If you delete a bracket, find its partner. e.g., if you delete a [.spoiler], make sure to find [./spoiler]. OR add it in again.

 

2 - cut out quotes in quotes. You can do this in the same way you delete text - but make sure to find the [./quote] DIRECTLY behind the text you're deleting, and the [.quote] DIRECTLY in front. It'll be quite a long bracket, like:

[.quote name=cory caboose" post="3664573" timestamp="1465395793]

It includes the person that posted it, that person's post count, and the exact time and date of the post.

 

 

 

Stacking brackets

 

Always post inside to outside. If I wanted to bold, italics and center align a word, it would look like this:

[.center][.b][.i]text[./i][./b][./center] =>

 

 

text

 

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Random things

 

Abbreviations:

 

Overall ones - http://www.dragonmount.com/forums/topic/91720-fun-list-of-mafia-acronymsabbreviations/page-1

 

Ones I see quite often -

AtE - Appeal to Emotion

cba - couldn't be arsed

cc - counterclaim

idc - I don't care

iirc - if I remember correctly

idgaf - I don't give a fudge (they're all mine?)

idk - I don't know

iso - isolate a specific person's posts

itt - in this thread

ldo - like, duh, obviously

lmk - let me know

lol - I don't know what to say and this is faintly amusing

na - night action

NK - night kill

omgus - oh my god, you suck!

RTFT - read the flippin' thread

tmi - too much information

WIFOM - wine in front of me, e.g. did the scum NK Evil Fish because he was obvious town; because they knew we'd think we said he was obvious town; or because he was obviously read town by town and exactly expected to be NK'd?

WIM - want it more

wtf - what the fudge

wth - what the hell

 

 

 

Other formatting

 

To post a way of formatting something, use code brackets.

[code][unvote][/code]

Will look like

[unvote]

That will essentially, without code brackets, look like

[unvote]

 

 

xxx

[Shad_]

I don't play on mobile much, but biggest thing to remember imo:

 

Quoting is still important and editing quotes is nearly impossible.  When you respond to something, if it's remotely long just plug spoiler tags around it.

 

(If you aren't on mobile you should be snipping what's relevant most of the time.)

[Cory Caboose]

quote trimming saves lives

[Guest]

If there are any abbreviations you frequently use but don't see here, please let me know so I can add it.

[BFG]

Lol, meant to say if you want to show the code needed without using the *that needs to be removed just use code /code before what you type

 

E.g.

[Katiora]

AtE??? lol

[BFG]

AtE??? lol

Appeal to Emotion

 

Laugh out loud

[Cory Caboose]

Ate the Enchiladas

 

as in, I ate the enchiladas sorry :(

[BFG]

Attack the Enemy

[Cory Caboose]

acronyms: too easy?

[Katiora]

OH I had the lol... i didn't know what AtE meant though...... Cory  

[Clovdyx]

All These Explanations are making me laugh.

[alannalynn]

I bumped the acronyms/abbreviations post... btw.

[Nolder]

I don't use mobile but this should probably be stickied.

[Guest]

Lol, meant to say if you want to show the code needed without using the *that needs to be removed just use code /code before what you type

 

E.g.

 

Oh, this is great! Thanks!

[Guest]

[Guest]

I bumped the acronyms/abbreviations post... btw.

Thank you! I've added the link.