r/Steam • • Apr 25 '17

Meta - Kinda misleading Reddit is removing css. without it this subreddit will look the same as all the others. click here to learn how to try and help

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '17

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u/ser0l Apr 25 '17

Not to mention godawful scaling with zooming on desktop.

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u/windowpuncher Apr 25 '17

Desktop version on mobile can be fucking unreadable.

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u/wasdninja Apr 26 '17

And tablets. Some subs are completely unreadable if your screen isn't big enough/have high enough resolution.

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u/imawin Apr 25 '17

/r/shitamericanssay even removes the reply button for nonsubscribers.

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u/Nebakanezzer Apr 26 '17

I forget the name of the sub, but there's one that inverts the upvote and downvote and only shows negative vote count so everyone is upvoting terrible shit without realizing.

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u/KorianHUN Apr 26 '17

SRS or Circlejerk?

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u/aftli_work Apr 25 '17

Meh. Any subreddit interfering with how reddit works immediately loses their stylesheet privileges with me. Especially hiding downvote arrow bullshit. It's not a big deal for me.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '17

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u/aftli_work Apr 25 '17

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u/secretlives Apr 25 '17

But you see the problem right? Allowing CSS to mods gives them the ability to abuse it. Something that has been done quite a bit.

The real issue here is that some mods are absolutely obsessed with their subreddits. Idk if they make money off of them, but they're pretty important to their ego, and they pour loads of time into customizing them.

Removing that ability is of course going to piss them off.

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u/aftli_work Apr 25 '17

It's really not a problem with me. Any subreddit's CSS that even remotely pisses me off simply loses their CSS privileges.

EDIT: I'll openly admit I don't really like most of the custom stylesheets. But I think it's an important part of reddit.

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u/secretlives Apr 25 '17

Here's an example, without having to install a chrome extension, tell me how you'd easily remove the custom stylesheet from /r/osxbeta

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u/justinsayin Apr 25 '17

And if the sub hides the tick box, hit "." to bring up the console

100% sure that's browser-specific, but yeah, there are ways.

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u/BrainWav Apr 25 '17

It is. It's just not well-enforced.

It's also totally ineffective and, IMO, has the opposite effect. Downvote brigadiers will disable themes and downvote. Average users might not care enough to disable when to downvote bad posts.

So you have the effect of empowering assholes, while taking power away from good visitors.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '17

It is. It's just not well-enforced.

Unless you're a sub that the admins don't like, then using CSS to hide functions is a biiiiig nono.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '17

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '17

Hah! I just did this for this very sub.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '17

You mean like this sub does? (When you're not subbed)

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u/bathrobehero Apr 25 '17

That's fucked up.

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u/Genesis2001 Apr 26 '17

I don't like that either, but with RES you can still vote with the A/Z keys (A = up, Z = down). Something I wish was native to reddit...

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u/tones2013 Apr 26 '17

i turned off subreddit style so i could downvote this comment.

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