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Siljmonster
Dec 16, 2005

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Give me a blue checkmark you fuckers I'm a reporter for the forums

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Siljmonster
Dec 16, 2005

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
make it so when you get quoted/quotes happen, it makes you feel good

My Mother The Car
Feb 15, 2001
When does the hurting stop?

Siljmonster posted:

it makes you feel good

this is literally impossible

i like the idea of NYT inspired one, but using USA today the model, maybe pointless graphs as flags, each username/AV formatted like a byline

burning swine
May 26, 2004



How about a Washington post black bar that follows you down the page and says 'democracy posts in darkness'

BOGO LOAD
Jul 1, 2004

"You know I always had trouble really chewing the fat with my pops. Just listen to him..."
With every new c-spam page you open the site grays out and you have to close an enormous popup asking you to subscribe, but the subscription link just takes you to Bernie's donation page.

ClassActionFursuit
Mar 15, 2006

BOGO LOAD posted:

With every new c-spam page you open the site grays out and you have to close an enormous popup asking you to subscribe, but the subscription link just takes you to Bernie's donation page.

Motherfucker I swear I just came here specifically to post this idea.

I was also going to say that there should be a counter that tell you how many free views you have left that month that reflects the current thread rating.

TimWinter
Mar 30, 2015

https://timsthebomb.com
Render CSPAM as one giant, subscribe / cookie disclaimer popup

Clicking the tiny "no thanks" in the corner logs you out

BOGO LOAD
Jul 1, 2004

"You know I always had trouble really chewing the fat with my pops. Just listen to him..."

LastInLine posted:

Motherfucker I swear I just came here specifically to post this idea.

I was also going to say that there should be a counter that tell you how many free views you have left that month that reflects the current thread rating.

Great minds...

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


Talk shit, get bzzzt.

Set the background to the trans pride flag or else I Will continue posting

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007
confederate flag set to trans color scheme

Nix Panicus
Feb 25, 2007

Homeless Friend posted:

confederate flag set to trans color scheme

Thats what we call a good compromise

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

It's taking longer to get us a stylesheet than it's taking the DNC to release the Iowa numbers.

kingcobweb
Apr 16, 2005
"[number] users browsing" should be "[number] precincts reporting"

dex_sda
Oct 11, 2012


kingcobweb posted:

"[number] users browsing" should be "[number] precincts reporting"

and it should continue to stay at zero like it did the last couple of days

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

super sweet best pal posted:

It's taking longer to get us a stylesheet than it's taking the DNC to release the Iowa numbers.

I haven’t been speaking much to the admins recently for unrelated dumb forum drama reasons but it doesn’t appear to me that there’s much consensus around what stylesheet people actually want.

if you want to take it seriously then I will take submissions and make a poll or something and we can go from there but until then I don’t really have anything to ask for it at the moment

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author
I vote for the newspaper theme, there is a ton of media parody discussed in this thread, it can all be lumped together

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

I'm still pro-twitter theme, since it's my idea. :v:

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author
I like the checkmarks, I change my vote to a hodgepodge of newspapers and other media stuff

Skyl3lazer
Aug 27, 2007

[Dooting Stealthily]



Yeah like a newspaper with other random iconic poo poo thrown in. Pinnochios for thread rates, verified checks for plat, precincts reporting user count, etc.

BOGO LOAD
Jul 1, 2004

"You know I always had trouble really chewing the fat with my pops. Just listen to him..."
Agree on the newspaper style like in the below post

TimWinter posted:

News sheet style looks good

but I still prefer this header

GonadTheBallbarian
Jul 23, 2007


as someone who doesn't stylesheet, is there a set of assets/asset sizes needed to be met in order to just like... do it?

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author
How can we help?

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

twoday posted:

How can we help?

I do not know the answer to this on a technical level. but I will ask.

Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS
That news stylesheet owns, did someone make that for real or is it a mock-up? If you've looked at the fast food forum you'll see I'm woefully bad at these so this can be....a collaborative effort. I'll read through this thread and post some more info.

Given this is a forum with 1000+ users, I'm guessing someone is not going to like any given stylesheet. It might be prudent for me to make a stylesheet selector menu first.

Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS
A blue checkmark on the right for the OP should be easy.

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author
If you read through this thread you'll see that there are a bunch of ideas in the newspaper/Twitter/media vein. I think if they were all implemented together it would kick a lot of rear end. Also, some people in the thread posted some code and seemed to know how to do this sort of thing. I can't code myself but I bet there are some people who are willing to throw in a line of code or two and make this into a collaborative effort.

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author
Many of the suggestions were simple text substitutions and that seems like it will get a lot of milage in changing the general tone with relatively little effort

Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS
Okay you have "precincts reporting" as step 1.

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

Okay you have "precincts reporting" as step 1.



my pinnochios, since I think they came out well enough that I'd like to see them put into whatever stylesheet eventually gets added, even if it isn't mine.

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author
I have no idea how much of this is practical and I probably missed some stuff but I mined the thread for suggestions related to the media/news theme and here's what I got, all in one place:

HiHo ChiRho posted:

stylize the forum to make it look like the Washington Post or NYT


TimWinter posted:

News sheet style looks good


Plank Walker posted:

the thread ratings should be replaced with the nyt election forecast needle

When you rate a thread, you rate it in terms of 1 to 5 Pinnochios, or like the NYT needle:



bawfuls posted:

Decorum button instead of report

Plank Walker posted:

the OP’s avatar should get a “this is the president” overlay when they post in their thread

Referring to:



Zoran posted:

“User X posted:” replaced with “User X wrote in their column:”

Pepperoneedy posted:

If you're going to go that route, you could change the wording when someone edits their post.
“User X issued a correction at...”

Squizzle posted:

if we go w a news themed sheet, it would be fun if the quoted post txt said “sources familiar w [quoted poster] said”

Someone else said, instead of the username be on top, make it like a news chyron superimposed upon the bottom of their av (this seems difficult to implement)

sincx posted:

By the way, I just noticed that some people are already running around with a blue verified checkmark next to their username, so a hypothetical CSPAM CSS can just use that, instead of having to base64 encode an image.

code:
https://fi.somethingawful.com/images/svgs/verified.png


twoday posted:

Put this at the top of the page



Image made by zynga dot com

Maybe it would be possible to do that in the code rather than as an image?

Referring to the above:

HiHo ChiRho posted:

Do one with "All the posts that are poo poo to print"

twoday posted:

sure, just do the text in the actual html so it will be centered, don't actually post a giant jpg image at the top of the page

also, if it's going to look like a newspaper header, it should have a third line of small text that says the date on the left side ("Tuesday, January 15th") and "69˘" on the right

and maybe also "Day Crew Edition" or "Nite Krew Edition," depending on what time it is

Siljmonster posted:

Give me a blue checkmark you fuckers I'm a reporter for the forums

Hemick posted:

Not sure exactly how the stylesheets work on the forums but based on the current one and just tacking an extra rule on afterwards, this rule below works but you have to literally add a :not for every extra custom grenade into it. If Jeffrey were to make the regular rear end grenade have its own rule like "author platinum normal" it would be a lot simpler to change.

code:
<style type="text/css">
#thread dl.userinfo dt.author.platinum:not(.coder):not(.idiotking):not(.diamond):not(.redpill):not(.award):not(.role-mod):not(.role-admin):not(.role-tflcspotter):not(.magikoopa):not(.astral):not(.kensei):not(.dtwenty):not(.book):not(.tragedy):not(.poop):not(.kirbystar):not(.helix):not(.hawkeye):not(.duckie):not(.meltdown):not(.chome):not(.balrog):not(.freakfuta):not(.netcafe):not(.canada):not(.schnee):not(.commie):not(.literallyabird):not(.raccoon):not(.baloogan):not(.anarchy):not(.cacutar):not(.lightning):not(.zdr):not(.verified):not(.tankie):not(.atomic):not(.manhattan):not(.larry):not(.bbg):not(.skylark):not(.fungus):not(.quake):not(.pentagram):not(.labarum):not(.dragonball):not(.balrogred):not(.blindsally):not(.phone):not(.reene):not(.football):not(.gear):not(.literallyabirdred):not(.modhammer):not(.cup) {
background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg aria-hidden='true' focusable='false' data-prefix='fas' data-icon='badge-check' role='img' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 512 512' class='svg-inline--fa fa-badge-check fa-w-16'%3E%3Cpath fill='rgb(81, 152, 233)' d='M512 256c0-37.7-23.7-69.9-57.1-82.4 14.7-32.4 8.8-71.9-17.9-98.6-26.7-26.7-66.2-32.6-98.6-17.9C325.9 23.7 293.7 0 256 0s-69.9 23.7-82.4 57.1c-32.4-14.7-72-8.8-98.6 17.9-26.7 26.7-32.6 66.2-17.9 98.6C23.7 186.1 0 218.3 0 256s23.7 69.9 57.1 82.4c-14.7 32.4-8.8 72 17.9 98.6 26.6 26.6 66.1 32.7 98.6 17.9 12.5 33.3 44.7 57.1 82.4 57.1s69.9-23.7 82.4-57.1c32.6 14.8 72 8.7 98.6-17.9 26.7-26.7 32.6-66.2 17.9-98.6 33.4-12.5 57.1-44.7 57.1-82.4zm-144.8-44.25L236.16 341.74c-4.31 4.28-11.28 4.25-15.55-.06l-75.72-76.33c-4.28-4.31-4.25-11.28.06-15.56l26.03-25.82c4.31-4.28 11.28-4.25 15.56.06l42.15 42.49 97.2-96.42c4.31-4.28 11.28-4.25 15.55.06l25.82 26.03c4.28 4.32 4.26 11.29-.06 15.56z' class=''%3E%3C/path%3E%3C/svg%3E");

background-size: 15px !important;
line-height: 15px !important;
background-position: left center!important;
background-repeat: no-repeat!important
}
</style>
And you get this:



Hemick posted:

Or you could do this and get the checkmark on the right:

code:
#thread dl.userinfo dt.author.platinum:not(.coder):not(.idiotking):not(.diamond):not(.redpill):not(.award):not(.role-mod):not(.role-admin):not(.role-tflcspotter):not(.magikoopa):not(.astral):not(.kensei):not(.dtwenty):not(.book):not(.tragedy):not(.poop):not(.kirbystar):not(.helix):not(.hawkeye):not(.duckie):not(.meltdown):not(.chome):not(.balrog):not(.freakfuta):not(.netcafe):not(.canada):not(.schnee):not(.commie):not(.literallyabird):not(.raccoon):not(.baloogan):not(.anarchy):not(.cacutar):not(.lightning):not(.zdr):not(.verified):not(.tankie):not(.atomic):not(.manhattan):not(.larry):not(.bbg):not(.skylark):not(.fungus):not(.quake):not(.pentagram):not(.labarum):not(.dragonball):not(.balrogred):not(.blindsally):not(.phone):not(.reene):not(.football):not(.gear):not(.literallyabirdred):not(.modhammer):not(.cup) {
background-image: none;
padding-left: 0 !important;
}

#thread dl.userinfo dt.author.platinum:not(.coder):not(.idiotking):not(.diamond):not(.redpill):not(.award):not(.role-mod):not(.role-admin):not(.role-tflcspotter):not(.magikoopa):not(.astral):not(.kensei):not(.dtwenty):not(.book):not(.tragedy):not(.poop):not(.kirbystar):not(.helix):not(.hawkeye):not(.duckie):not(.meltdown):not(.chome):not(.balrog):not(.freakfuta):not(.netcafe):not(.canada):not(.schnee):not(.commie):not(.literallyabird):not(.raccoon):not(.baloogan):not(.anarchy):not(.cacutar):not(.lightning):not(.zdr):not(.verified):not(.tankie):not(.atomic):not(.manhattan):not(.larry):not(.bbg):not(.skylark):not(.fungus):not(.quake):not(.pentagram):not(.labarum):not(.dragonball):not(.balrogred):not(.blindsally):not(.phone):not(.reene):not(.football):not(.gear):not(.literallyabirdred):not(.modhammer):not(.cup)::after {
content:"";
margin-left: 5px;
background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg aria-hidden='true' focusable='false' data-prefix='fas' data-icon='badge-check' role='img' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 512 512' class='svg-inline--fa fa-badge-check fa-w-16'%3E%3Cpath fill='rgb(81, 152, 233)' d='M512 256c0-37.7-23.7-69.9-57.1-82.4 14.7-32.4 8.8-71.9-17.9-98.6-26.7-26.7-66.2-32.6-98.6-17.9C325.9 23.7 293.7 0 256 0s-69.9 23.7-82.4 57.1c-32.4-14.7-72-8.8-98.6 17.9-26.7 26.7-32.6 66.2-17.9 98.6C23.7 186.1 0 218.3 0 256s23.7 69.9 57.1 82.4c-14.7 32.4-8.8 72 17.9 98.6 26.6 26.6 66.1 32.7 98.6 17.9 12.5 33.3 44.7 57.1 82.4 57.1s69.9-23.7 82.4-57.1c32.6 14.8 72 8.7 98.6-17.9 26.7-26.7 32.6-66.2 17.9-98.6 33.4-12.5 57.1-44.7 57.1-82.4zm-144.8-44.25L236.16 341.74c-4.31 4.28-11.28 4.25-15.55-.06l-75.72-76.33c-4.28-4.31-4.25-11.28.06-15.56l26.03-25.82c4.31-4.28 11.28-4.25 15.56.06l42.15 42.49 97.2-96.42c4.31-4.28 11.28-4.25 15.55.06l25.82 26.03c4.28 4.32 4.26 11.29-.06 15.56z' class=''%3E%3C/path%3E%3C/svg%3E");
background-size: 16px;
width: 16px;
height: 16px;
display: inline-block;
line-height: 16px !important;
background-position: left center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}

twoday has issued a correction as of 05:32 on Feb 6, 2020

Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS
The bbcode parsing code that I'd need to change to do "sources close to [user] posted:" is a loving mess but that's funny, I'll try.

twoday
May 4, 2005



C-SPAM Times best-selling author
thanks, good luck

Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS
A cool thing to do would be new images - a new "stickied thread" image along with new post, reply, quote, and report images (pinocchio?) would all be good.

Zoran
Aug 19, 2008

I lost to you once, monster. I shall not lose again! Die now, that our future can live!

Lemming posted:

Make this the background for the CSPAM CSS

Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS
There are a ton of proposed backgrounds, maybe you guys could vote on them and then the mods could ignore the vote and pick their favorite?

GonadTheBallbarian
Jul 23, 2007


I think that's pretty sweet, it'd be cool to get the change going. Thread poll?

Nix Panicus
Feb 25, 2007

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

A cool thing to do would be new images - a new "stickied thread" image along with new post, reply, quote, and report images (pinocchio?) would all be good.

Jeff may we have a button like YOSPOS that just pops up Jeb! ?

HiHo ChiRho
Oct 23, 2010

Really digging the precincts reporting for the viewer count lmao

kingcobweb
Apr 16, 2005

HiHo ChiRho posted:

Really digging the precincts reporting for the viewer count lmao

HELL yeah it's the BEST idea and not just because it's MINE

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Skyl3lazer
Aug 27, 2007

[Dooting Stealthily]



Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

A cool thing to do would be new images - a new "stickied thread" image along with new post, reply, quote, and report images (pinocchio?) would all be good.

Stickied thread icon should be the NYT logo that they use in their comments section. One sec I'll get a pic

e;

Possibly it could also be something like twitter does for promoted posts






Also remove the edit button entirely (twitter joke)

Skyl3lazer has issued a correction as of 21:01 on Feb 6, 2020

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