I still didn't understand Jessica's post. I ain't touching B'cracy.
Lorne: Snakes? Uh-huh. And they came out of your what? Okay. Okay, well, did they get up there themselves or is this part of a, you know, a thing? No, I'm not judging...Do we fight snakes? Angel: Only if they're giant. Or demons. Or giant demons. Are they giant demon snakes? Lorne: Well, unless this guy's 30 feet tall, I'm thinking they're of the garden variety.
'Lineage'
Spoilers 3: First Mutant Enemy, Now the World
[NAFDA] Spoilers for any and all currently running TV shows. All hardcore spoilage, all the time. No white font.
le nubian - Oct 26, 2004 3:48:37 am PDT #93 of 3486
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jessica - Oct 26, 2004 4:47:28 am PDT #94 of 3486
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
LeN, I was just trying to suggest that making policy decisions in the policy threads instead of in here might be less of a headache because once a proposal is made, discussed, and voted on, it's over in a week. (As opposed to the consensus method, which can drag things on for-fucking-ever.)
Lyra Jane - Oct 26, 2004 6:15:28 am PDT #95 of 3486
Up with the sun
I'd rather this was Non-Sluts Beware forewarned zone, rather than a pick and choose whitefont-everywhere zone.
Me too.
I see spoiler space as a workable compromise, and it's what I was trying to suggest upthread. Scrolling bugs me much less than whitefont does.
Sean K - Oct 26, 2004 6:23:50 am PDT #96 of 3486
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Well.... it sounds like, over in BBaBB our resident coding geniuses, including our beloved weremonkey, are working on the possibility of allowing us to pick and choose which threads we see (or, I guess, not see) spoiler font in. That would allows hos to not have to deal with white font here, while the merely curious would still have to highlight spoiler font to read it.
Don't know if they'll be successful, but it sounds like that's what they're trying to do.
It also sounds like they're working on making spoiler font truly transparent, and not just white.
§ ita § - Oct 26, 2004 6:36:34 am PDT #97 of 3486
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Unless Gus is working on his own, that hasn't been started yet. Changes are being made to make the coding easier, but no coding has officially begun.
Sean K - Oct 26, 2004 6:39:47 am PDT #98 of 3486
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Ahhh.... Okay. Thanks, ita.
I thought I understood the geek-speak. I mistranslated.
DXMachina - Oct 26, 2004 6:41:09 am PDT #99 of 3486
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I'm not even sure that it solves the problem all that well. Not that it can't be coded, but if you turn off the white font for your own viewing, what's going to remind you to use white font when you post for those who don't turn it off.
Sean K - Oct 26, 2004 6:42:05 am PDT #100 of 3486
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
You and your salient points, DX....
libkitty - Oct 26, 2004 9:40:35 am PDT #101 of 3486
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Well.... it sounds like, over in BBaBB our resident coding geniuses, including our beloved weremonkey, are working on the possibility of allowing us to pick and choose which threads we see (or, I guess, not see) spoiler font in. That would allows hos to not have to deal with white font here, while the merely curious would still have to highlight spoiler font to read it.
I was going to say, "Brilliant!" but it looks like my bubble is also burst, Sean.
Gus - Oct 26, 2004 12:50:58 pm PDT #102 of 3486
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
No I have not done anything about user style sheets beyond preparing the 's' quickedit to be ready for it, if and when. There is a lot to be discussed as to how user styles would be administered.
Just to confuse things, I've had a brainstorm-y idea that spoilers could fairly easily be placed "inside" a small button, so that people who wanted to read them would have to push the button and read it in a message box. This might be a pain in the tuchas for full-on 'ho's.
Another notion is to have multiple styles of spoiler font, so that a person could set their user style sheet to allow, say, Lost spoilers to shine through, but not O.C.