Adding to the forums universal dictonary

[Pozeltum]

Hello everyone.

While posting in the 4E forums with a question about Kobolds I noticed the the word Kobold comes up as being spelled wrong by default. I also tried Kobold, kobolds and Kobolds. The results are all the same. Obviously in the regular world this is fine, but pertaining to our hobby there are many words that could be accepted by the forums dictionary as a correct spelling.

The question: Is there anyway that the masses can add to the sites dictionary to start slowly incorporating our DnD slang. A quick add(I'm in no way a programmer so I use the word quick loosely) to the drop down menu when you right click on a misspelled word might work. Title it "Request an entry add" or something similar. This would compile a list that would then be reviewed by the Admins(or volunteers / anyone they trust). This would stop kids from adding in garbage. Also limiting the ability to make a request could be set to accounts with "x" amount of posts which would filter out a lot of the nonsense.

I know this is not going to be on the top of anyone's ToDo list anytime soon, but for someone like me who has to correct a ton of words in each post(spell check has destroyed my ability to spell, *shrug*) I figure that there are more people out there like me so the 10's of seconds in time it can save on each post x however many people are highly dependent on the sites spellchecker could save us as a whole a nice, tiny little tidbit of our lives. What could we use that time for you ask? Well gaming of course!

Once again, this is no big deal. I live with it on every forum but it would be nice thing to see implemented. Set ENWorld one MORE step ahead of anything it calls competition. That is if it has any of that.

Also, ENWorld comes up as misspelled. If anything I would fix that one. Really.

Thanks for reading.

 

[Morrus]

The site's dictionary? The site doesn't have a dictionary, a spellchecker or anything like that. I think you'll find that's a feature of your web browser or something.

 

[Pozeltum]

Oh, my mistake. Since the underlining of mispelled words only happends (for me at least) when I am on certain sites (and sometimes only on certain pages/areas of a specific site) I assumed that most sites w/forums had there own dictonary attachment.

I will look into how I can add specific words as time goes by. Maybe there is a way I can export my changes after a decent amount of adds have been done so others can use it also. Once again, it's far from a big deal, just a tiny time saver. It never hurts to give out an idea eh.

Oh, I also wanted to say great site you have here Morrus. The only reason I know of you is from old "Shoutcasts" if you can call them that. I used to listen to Mortality radio years ago and Adlon would talk about you and your site from time to time. Now that I am doing my best to start playing regularly I make my first stop here for everything from trolling through the forums to reading about people ongoing campaings. I love the one stop shop thing you have going on. Keep it up bud!

Thanks again

 

[Plane Sailing]

What web browser do you use?