Getting tired of making the same post over and over again in BYOND help, I decided to do something. It started with just an idea, a spreadsheet or something with some responses to common issues. This would work, but it would be a bit of a pain to manage. I ran through a bunch of other ideas, but they all suffered from the same problem.

Until I came across Hazman's "Ignore Posts" GreaseMonkey script. It was a simple script that automatically filtered out posts by certain users on the community page. This sparked a thought, why not use GreaseMonkey to add the function I need to the site. So with a good bit of help, and about 15 versions over a few days, we came up with a great solution.

It's a GreaseMonkey script that adds a dropdown box above the body box(pictured) to allow you to select from some remade templates whenever you reply to a post. It doesn't show up for new posts, only replies. It pulls the templates from an XML file, in this case stored on the BYOND Help guild files. It's a rather simple system to update and maintain, so anyone could use it.

I'm releasing this to the public as a free tool to do with what you want. Change it, repackage it, redistribute it, use it, or whatever you want. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me or Hazman.

To use, install GreaseMonkey in Firefox and add the script linked to below.

[Forum Template System]