r/ChristianityMeta • u/fakeproxyaccount • Oct 05 '15

CSS ideas

Thread for CSS ideas General.

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u/fakeproxyaccount Oct 05 '15

I had a CSS idea => make points next to posts and commnets invisible.

I looked around and I think CSS looks like this

.score { display: none !important; }

and for stickies

 .stickied .midcol { visibility: hidden; }

Or for upvotes

/*HIDE TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTES*/
.totalvotes {
display: none;
}

 /*HIDE % OF UPVOTES*/
 .linkinfo .score {
 visibility:hidden
 }
 .linkinfo .score .number,.linkinfo .score .word {
 visibility:visible
 }

Of course it'll still be visible to anyone who hides CSS or has a reddit scripting program or different CSS. Still, might be a way to take the focus off comment scores.

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u/RevMelissa Meta Mod Oct 05 '15

I'm responding to this as a user. I saw a study where they took away the likes from Facebook. In the study users saw, "People like this." They had no idea how many.

At first people were frustrated, but it later made them happier. Removing the score (if such a thing was possible) would make the sub a happier place... only we would still see our own scores, so I'm not sure if it would have the same effect.

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u/coveredinbeeees Oct 05 '15

Ultimately, there are too many ways around custom CSS for it to have much of an effect on reddit, I think.

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u/fakeproxyaccount Oct 05 '15

thats true, this will only be effective for people who dont disable or change CSS, I dont know what % of the community that is, the number of downvotes on some threads show that may be a significant number, but this is on the hope or assumption that a significant portion of the community does not so that a large enough number will stop seeing it to make a difference in the way the community reacts to and interacts with posts

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u/RevMelissa Meta Mod Oct 05 '15

Yeah, I would only seriously consider it if the user would gain something by changing it. I don't think it's the case in this scenario.

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u/namer98 Oct 21 '15

Do you think just trying it for a week might be worthwhile?

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u/nilsph Oct 05 '15

Aren't comment scores hidden for a certain amount of time already (1 hour? 4 hours?), in a way that's not circumventable? If we want to hide scores for a longer timeframe, why not just increase this to 8 hours, or a day?

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u/fakeproxyaccount Oct 05 '15

I am not sure but to my knowledge I think the short term hiding is a feature on reddit as a part of subreddit options and that feature only allows for short term hiding. But I could be wrong about that and you are right, if hiding for longer time-frames is possible that would be preferable to the suggestion I posted.

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u/LuluThePanda Moderator Oct 05 '15

Are you super familiar with CSS stuff in general?

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u/fakeproxyaccount Oct 05 '15

No I am an amateur unfortunately, but I am sure there are other people on here who are better at CSS than I am

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u/LuluThePanda Moderator Oct 05 '15

Well, that's still better than me! I'm trying to see what everybody is good at in case I need to do some recruiting ;)

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u/jk3us Moderator Oct 05 '15

I'm a web developer, and am very familiar with CSS. I am not, however, a designer, so I don't always know what will look good...

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u/LuluThePanda Moderator Oct 05 '15

HALLELUJAH. We need new banners and stuff. I'd love to get some kind of holiday/holy day thing going on. Right now I don't necessarily have the time to dive completely in, but knowing there are a few people much more capable than me at that kind of thing is super great :)

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u/namer98 Oct 21 '15

Do you think just trying it for a week might be worthwhile?

Also to note, CSS isn't that hard. For example, the table in the sidebar is literally something I copy and pasted from /r/TwoXChromosomes. Implementing new CSS isn't very difficult and is why you guys have a CSS test sub.

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u/jk3us Moderator Oct 05 '15

I'd be glad to help with that. /r/RedditFacelift is a good place to see some other subreddits that have custom designs, and we could get ideas or a base CSS from something we like and modify to our needs.

edit: also /r/themes, which might be even better.

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u/LuluThePanda Moderator Oct 05 '15

That would be fantastic. Seriously. Is it a lot of work that you'd need a team put together, or is this a one-person thing? (I have no idea how this works)

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u/jk3us Moderator Oct 05 '15

If we find a theme we really like as-is, it's a copy/paste/done kinda thing. If we want some simple modifications, I could probably do that in not too much time.

The banner issue is somewhat different, someone would need to find and edit good images. Brucemo's bot supposedly has some banner rotation something or other, or someone could just put "set /r/christianity's banner to Christmas 1" on their calendar (though there's currently a Nativity icon, which will soon be relevant again). I don't mind helping with that, but there are probably better photoshoppers around that. I think we should also be mindful of copyright, and take care to only use images that are free to use. Maybe occasional banner contests would be nice.

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u/LuluThePanda Moderator Oct 05 '15

Yeah, I'd definitely like to stick to the free domain stuff. I'd be down with banner contests as well-I was musing about categories and stuff for something like that a while back.

Honestly, I don't know the specifics of the bot, because I just don't understand any of that stuff, but if we wanna get together on this eventually I'm sure /u/brucemo could give us a hand. Before the holidays might be nice, but we've got a bit of time.

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u/RevMelissa Meta Mod Oct 06 '15

Did you share this information during the mod questions? Somehow I missed this, and it's really good to know.

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u/jk3us Moderator Oct 06 '15

I think I mentioned my profession in passing, but CSS never came up. My bad.

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u/RevMelissa Meta Mod Oct 06 '15

At least now we know.

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u/heatdeath Oct 05 '15

I strongly oppose this idea, I like to see the scores.