"[x]" ⇏ "◾"

There are two ways to prevent the conversion of
"[x]" into "◾", or rather:

• [x]

The first way:

Consider the string "[b][/b]".
The BBCode interpreter will convert it into the string "".
But the text you post is interpreted only once. This provides the obvious hack:

e.g. "[[b][/b]x]", or "[x[i][/i]]" will be printed as "[x]".


The second way:

Simply select "Don't use smileys." under "Attachments and other options" underneath the text-editing field.

This will however (rather obviously) also prevent you from using smileys in the common way in that post. So instead of "8)", you will get "8)".

 

You can also simply use a capital X rather than x.

 

Indeed.
But for some reason, half the people don't.

And GMs have been complaining.

So I just wanted to have it posted somewhere, so that you can just give people a link, or copy the instruction, instead of describing it thousandfold.

 

I don't really get what's all the fuss about.

 

Me too.

 

Well... Feel free to disregard the thread.