Trying something out

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[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (27 children)

This post is a great idea, among many.

I'm dying to know how they formatted it all. All my posts would look like that if I knew how.

Please consider reminding me of this if I don't remember, as soon I'll be starting next-gen forum re-imagining, starting with radical ground-up concepts rather than trying to rebuild on old foundations.

I discovered it via looking at /s/sub to see if there was any thing here.

[–]cqtzFlair[S] 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

This post is a great idea, among many.

I also kind of want to see them make the list of banned accounts and subs public.

I formatted the post using CSS, so I won't be able to do this outside this sub.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Agreed.

I tried to start various categorizations and histories of SaidIt. Community, culture, and records, like who was banned and why in a wiki page. I believe SaidIt is important, even if a small part of the Interweb. I believe history is important, even if it's trivial records. Political figures utilize mythological histories (I watched the recent Adam Curtis documentary) to help create a future for the masses. SaidIt is anything but Chinese Revolution, but on a vastly smaller scale I think a community culture can benefit from consciously employing many of the same steering concepts towards goals - including order, fairness, transparency, etc.

IMO, a next-gen forum would be 100% transparent and open. This means no private messages, no private accounts, open records, etc.

I didn't know you could do that to a post. Good to know. Thanks. I might likely emulate that sooner or later.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I started a banned list.

https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/wiki/BannedFromReddit

M7 didn't like documenting bans as he felt they made SaidIt look bad and I'd assume censor-happy. That's ridiculous and IMO he should have leaned into it, warts and all, and defended the concept that freedom of speech does not mean a free for all where asstrolls shit all over the place. Better to make examples of them, IMO, though that may not be a legit concept.

[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (23 children)

I'm dying to know how they formatted it all.

How? Because this person is literally a god somehow. Perfect in every way, one of the best in the world at everything as soon as she picks it up. This probably took her like 1 second to learn and execute a perfect result with zero issues. It's done with CSS but I'd spend several hours making it this perfect by myself even though I have a lot more programming experience.

[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (22 children)

I'm dying to know how they formatted it all.

How?

You mean: Why? Because I've never seen any posts like this on SaidIt, before or since. Somehow they've tweaked the CSS or whatever to display some fancy graphics that aren't images or even more advanced Markdown.

Because this person is literally a god somehow. Perfect in every way, one of the best in the world at everything as soon as she picks it up.

I never said any such thing.

This probably took her like 1 second to learn and execute a perfect result with zero issues.

No one masters anything instantaneously. Reddit/SaidIt's quirky CSS takes some acclimation time and experience to learn, much less gain expertise.

It's done with CSS but I'd spend several hours making it this perfect by myself even though I have a lot more programming experience.

But is it worth the effort? Can it be applied to many subs? Can it be applied site-wide? Did you see this /u/d3rr?

Perhaps this is a discussion for /s/SaidItCSSThemes and/or /s/IdeasForSaidIt.

[–]Node 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

May 31st was the last post by https://saidit.net/user/cqtz. That would be a cool feature, if she comes back and reveals her coding secrets.

[–]Vulptex 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (20 children)

No, I've seen this person for over a year now and literally everything she does is nearly 100% flawless, and done easily in a short amount of time, often with little experience. And unbelievable inventions and discoveries are commonplace for her and almost always done casually or by accident.

To make it even worse for me she's almost identical to me except for the fact that a lot of things actually work for her. My brain and body and genetics fucked me over, I was basically born to suffer. Even when my life should be fine, and it is, it's not, and hasn't been since I was at least 11, and probably never will be again. I have no idea what the hell happened to me but I am cursed.

No one masters anything instantaneously

This person does.

[–]Node 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (16 children)

Someone go bring her back.

[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (11 children)

She's here, just not very active. I'm only active a lot because it's all I'm able to do really, since I'm not capable of much else and I don't know how else to enjoy myself. Of course even if I could do things I haven't been able to really feel much since I was young either, everything is monotone now, even the most exciting things. The only thing I can feel with any kind of intensity anymore is anger, which got worse.

[–]cqtzFlair[S] 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Hi!

Formatting:

Without the CSS, one of the boxes in the post would look something like this:

ThisIsntMyAccount

Banned

This user was permanently banned 1 month ago by one of the SaidIt admins

Ban reason goes here, maybe with a link like this.

  • 488 post karma

  • 1,249 comment karma

The outer blockquote is styled into the outer box (the one with the thick outline). It's also an inline-block so the boxes can be shown side by side. The inner blockquote is the white/dark gray (depending on whether you're using day mode or night mode) part inside the box.

In the above example, the Banned (in italics) is styled into a red box. The "1 month ago" text (that links to #timestamp) is styled to have the same color as the surrounding text. The horizontal rule is styled to be a dotted line.

In the examples with a large red box containing the "ban message", the box is another blockquote.

Currently, the styling only applies to the post itself (meaning any other post on this sub with the exact same markdown won't have it). It's like that because I didn't really know a way to distinguish something that should be formatted from something that shouldn't be formatted. (On reddit, I think they sometimes use headers as a way of indicating that something should be styled.)

This probably took her like 1 second to learn and execute a perfect result with zero issues.

No one masters anything instantaneously. Reddit/SaidIt's quirky CSS takes some acclimation time and experience to learn, much less gain expertise.

Yeah. I spent quite a bit of time trying to style things on reddit (I think I started in 2017, before I had an account).

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for the run down! Saved.

I looked but not hard. I tried /s/sub/wiki/about/stylesheet but wasn't mod so I should have tried /s/sub/wiki/config/stylesheet.

Reposted:
/s/IdeasForSaidIt/comments/862q/trying_something_out_ssub_repost_for_the_record/

[–]Node 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

Yikes. Just saw this and your edit above.

It sounds like you're saying your life is fine, but that's not working for you. Any hope for a cure, or a different path that might take the edge off a bit?

[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Nope. That would require getting a new brain, at which point I might as well be a different person anyway.

[–]Node 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

I might as well be a different person

Agreed. (in a sense) As it turns out, the software brains run on can be reprogrammed. It can be somewhat of an art in a professional therapist setting, but vastly easier than a brain transplant.

Would you like to see a recap of your current programming?

My brain and body and genetics fucked me over

I was basically born to suffer.

Even when my life should be fine, it's not,

I am cursed.

I'm not capable of much else

I don't know how else to enjoy myself.

I haven't been able to feel much since I was young

everything is monotone now

The only thing I can feel with any kind of intensity anymore is anger

With this level of self-trolling, it's no wonder you're not experiencing enjoyment.

Block your internal troll.

Replace that emotional abuse with positive self-talk.

Even if you don't suddenly become the master of all skills and abilities, there is zero need to suffer for that. Maybe you deserve to suffer for other reasons (do you?), but certainly not just for not being the most impressive person on the planet.

[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

It wasn't always this way. A switch just flipped one day and everything went to hell for me. I've tried to change it back with various different methods and none of them do jack squat. Apparently this was normal pubescent development and I'm supposed to be happy about it. It costs me everything, but hey, I get to fulfill my pointless primal role for a society I already don't like! This is my baseline state now and it just sucks. All I can do is try and accept it but that's going to be damn near impossible. I've had plenty of therapy, all they do is tell me to deny reality and mask my problems, which I can't even do nor is that a real solution. Outside of there, I am scolded for having any problems or emotional difficulties because only women matter and I'm just a burden.

Whether I'm human or even earthling is becoming more and more questionable to me.

[–]cqtzFlair[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

I'm not nearly as good as Vulptex describes me. His image of me is probably 10x better than me in reality.

[–]Node 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Ah, so only 10% of your output is flawless? Not perfect, of course, but that's still pretty good.

How are you at gardening?

[–]cqtzFlair[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Ah, so only 10% of your output is flawless? Not perfect, of course, but that's still pretty good.

Oh, I clearly didn't mean it that way haha.

How are you at gardening?

I don't do much gardening myself.

[–]Node 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I do a lot less myself, now that the acreage has shrunk to a tiny backyard. Cheers!

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Unless you know them in other circumstances, that seems like excessive praise for 4 posts and 23 comments from /u/cqtz, saiditter for 6 months, not "for over a year".

[–]Vulptex 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I've seen her on reddit and ruqqus too

[–]JasonCarswell 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This makes much more sense. Thanks for clarifying.