So here’s an interesting problem. Some of our users (young ones, particularly) have taken to nesting <small> tags to render text effectively unreadable. Aside from just reprimanding them (which feels like overkill because it’s obnoxious, but not against the rules) are there any suggestions for how …

Override the tag style via CSS? .cooked { small { &, small { font-size: 1em; } } } Or if you want the tag small still working but prevent the nesting thing, .cooked { small { font-size: .7579em; small { font-size: 1em; } …

Shouldn’t the moderators deal with abusers? Suspend the user for increasing periods for each flagged post containing abuse.

We can go the moderation route, but to be honest, these are kids (13 and 14, mostly) and I would prefer the more frictionless option of just preventing it and letting them know why I prevented it. They aren’t deliberately trying to avoid moderation, they’re just trying to emphasize their feelings w…

Is this CSS set by theme, or elsewhere? I haven’t done much CSS styling, so I’m not entirely positive where to put this. (This is ideal, btw.)

If you don’t have custom styles yet, I think the best way is creating a new theme component. Admin -> customize -> components -> create new component Add the component to your themes. Still in your custom theme settings, go in edit HTML/CSS, then CSS tab. Paste the chosen CSS code, save, and voi…

Dealing with some 'small' HTML abuse

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Heather_Dudley (Heather Dudley) April 21, 2020, 8:30pm 7

Beautiful. Solution implemented, they get their smaller text, and I can READ their posts. Perfect. Thank you!

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