Poll: small text is annoying?
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Continuing the discussion from Cards Against Humanity is like if I got control of a successful e-commerce site:
I say we just keep doing it until we can do it no longer ☺
Is small text annoying?
- Yes
- No
- MAGNIFYING_GLASS_NOT_FOUND
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very
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Is there a fourth option that is automatically checked (and stays checked) while being at font-size:0.0000000000000000000000000001?
Because that would be in the spirit of TDWTF.Filed Under: Then again, I feel there is worse than small font. Just don't expect me to reply to small fonted messages.
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Because that would be in the spirit of TDWTF
well i did attempt to get magnifying glass not found to be small... it failed...
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Fun Fact: using capslock makes text appear larger than using the lowercase counterparts because capital letters are generally bigger.
So:- YES
- NO
- magnifying_glass_not_found
makes the last option appear smaller by comparisson (not really but meh :D )
So you were doing it wrong on multiple levels!ADDENDUM: Has anybody tried to add an empty option to a poll? That would appear very small!
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Small text is annoying because MAGNIFYING_GLASS_NOT_FOUND, so you have overlapping options here.
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Small text is annoying. Hiding stuff in raw (or even just source) and expecting them to pick it up is worse.
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small {
font-weight: bold; color: red; font-size: 20px; line-height: 40px;
}p > small:after, p a > small:after { content: '< This person is a dick.'; color: #000; font-size: 12px; }
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And all because discotags aren't a thing. LOOK WHAT YOU DID, DISCODEVS!
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A forum I once maintained had a drive-by--I know I must have mentioned this before--troll who used the plaintext tag or something to break pages. After he did it twice I modified the page that if it detected that tag, I replaced the entire content of the post with "I am an idiot whose ego outstrips my talent." He did that once or twice more and left forever.
I'm in favor of dealing with people that way. It's easier and it prevents me having to take drastic steps--nearly nobody in the next ten years tried to abuse HTML too badly. (Of course I modified the page so that I didn't get that substitution, so I could pretend to put the tag in there and troll other regulars into trying it for themselves).
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I'm in favor of dealing with people that way.
Some people don't react to incentives the way you would think. < This person is a dick.
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Some people don't react to incentives the way you would think.
The kind of person who would drop a plaintext tag into a forum to break a topic probably doesn't know how to write JavaScript to defeat the naive defense against same--and in fact, this particular troll didn't; instead, he left for easier targets.
If that doesn't work, you can escalate your response, of course, and you can do it in steps that seem appropriate. We started getting spam; I modified the page to use JS to add a checkbox and automatically check it. At the time, spam form fillers didn't do anything with JS, so the bot didn't check the box. On the server, if the box wasn't checked, I simply omitted the insert statement. The result page would render exactly the same--there was no "ha ha" to let the spammer know it failed--but his post didn't get posted.
To the best of my knowledge, to this day it still works, while most other open-comment blogs get inundated. Again, if I needed to, and if I still had anything to do with the site, there are probably several levels of additional protection I could take. I'd be interested to know how TL0/TL1 works in Discourse in general in protecting against spam. I would think "first post is moderated" should work really well for the vast majority of sites, with high-traffic ones being a notable potential exception.
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instead, he left for easier targets.
Yeah, I just wanted to put that "dick" stuff in my post. @algorithmics, where are you?
That's what she said.
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akismet
works pretty well if you set it up right for comments areas. falls rather flat for forums.
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Yeah, I just wanted to put that "dick" stuff in my post. @algorithmics, where are you?
I'm going to go out of my way[1] to avoid seeing the small text you wrote.
[1] meh, too lazy to write something here.
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I'm going to go out of my way[1] to avoid seeing the small text you wrote.
it's ok. i quoted it for you and left it big.
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akismet
works pretty well if you set it up right for comments areas. falls rather flat for forums.
Does akismet work well--easily--with homegrown forums?
With us, spam and abuse of the forums was never a great problem. I think people after me might have limited HTML even more, but my goal was always to minimize the limits.
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it's fairly easy to integrate. dead simple if you use wordpress. it's built in there just have to activate.
otherwise they have a slick API you can tie into.
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I just wanted to put that "dick" stuff in my post. @algorithmics, where are you?
You wanted a dick in your post. Got it.
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it's fairly easy to integrate. dead simple if you use wordpress. it's built in there just have to activate.
otherwise they have a slick API you can tie into.
And it's now dead simple to use Askimet with Discourse. live example at discourse.codinghorror.com.
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Yeah I think it's pretty stupid. It's running on Meta and hasn't caught anything - there's nothing to catch (what a surprise).
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not.... exactly what i meant really.
ask shadowmod for the monthposts query to see what fills me with dread about integrating akismet and discourse.
;-)
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what fills me with dread about integrating akismet and discourse.
Could probably get a few months of
peaceAskimet with $150.
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It only runs for posts by TL0 and TL1. TL0 is blocking, TL1 is batched.
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that's.... remarkably more sane than i expected.