WYSIWYG editors - yay or nay?

What's your opinion towards WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors? Are they helpful when formatting a post, or are they a lot buggier than regular text editors?

While I really like XenForo's editor, I absolutely hate CKEditor (which some vBulletin sites use). It's too slow and, most of the times, when you end up posting your message, it look a lot different than it did in the editor.

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If messages look a lot different when you edit them vs when you post them, than that WYSIWYG editor sucks .

I use the one on wordpress, it is pretty good, but not perfect. There are times when I have to re-edit the post in the "code" editor.

 

I like them on forums. Much more conveniant to see what your post looks like with formatting prior to it being posted.

 

I much prefer WYSIWYG editors. If they're drastically different or I want to make sure something appears just so, then I can always switch to the code directly and change it there. They used to be pretty rough, but most seem fairly accurate these days. I don't have any problems with them any more.

 

If IPS can't get it working well in IPB then I hate WYSIWYG editors. I would grab the CKEditor developers balls and twist them if I could.

 

LOL! I think it'd be a little hard for them to fix its bugs while having their balls twisted, though.

 

I like enhanced editors, it usually makes posting a lot easier and allows the poster to customize their post if they want.

 

The WYSIWYG editor on IPB works very nice. I disliked the WYSIWYG editor on Xenforo because whenever I pasted content it grabbed the background color of the page which was annoying, because I always had to manually delete that part of the code whenever I posted news on my site from a external source, when we were running Xenforo.

 

I like it, but I also like the ability to switch back and forth.

 

I like them for my members. It makes it easier for people to produce good forum posts, good pages and other sorts of well styled things. I like the majority of them.