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  1. tacobowl8

    Swore saw a story name, but cannot find it now

    The other option there is that the thread author might want to purge the thread themselves, so they update the thread title, and edit all of their threadmarks.
  2. tacobowl8

    Penalty for not disclosing ai work

    Yep, it is just spiraling. ~Closing Time~ ~You don't have to go home, but you can't. stay. here~ Take any further discussion to one of the many existing AI threads.
  3. tacobowl8

    (Partially) fixing the tag system

    Fun history behind how slash came to mean gay. It came from old fanfic descriptions where they included pairings like: Spock/Kirk, and since when you say that outloud, you say 'Spock slash Kirk', well, that came to be the pairing, and since so much of that was gay pairings, 'slash' came to mean...
  4. tacobowl8

    (Partially) fixing the tag system

    There are atleast two reasons to tag your thread. One reason, as you've pointed out, is to help people search for your story. Another reason is that they are using them as shorthand descriptors for the story, so that people know what they are in for. Having a tag like 'slow updates' is more...
  5. tacobowl8

    (Partially) fixing the tag system

    Last time I checked (over a year ago, and before any of this), we had over 20k distinct tags, and over half of them were only used once. People can't help themselves!
  6. tacobowl8

    Bug on site.

    Yes. So, for example, the following: It was a dark and stormy night. is 7 words. But, it is 31 characters. Words != characters. So, if my limit is 420 characters, that does not mean that I have 420 words to work with. Depending on the length of the words, I have a varying amount of words...
  7. tacobowl8

    Bug on site.

    Looking at your most recent profile post, that looks like it is at 50 words, not characters, which is probably the issue/difference in expectations.
  8. tacobowl8

    (Partially) fixing the tag system

    Regardless of feasibility, the staff will not be allowing users to tag threads belonging to other people.
  9. tacobowl8

    (Partially) fixing the tag system

    The issue is that we do not currently have the technology to do that. Hence why we are just targeting synonyms and hard merges, as those are easy, low hanging fruit.
  10. tacobowl8

    (Partially) fixing the tag system

    I'm not the most up to date on that, but weren't the very originals just like a simple grid, which was I think the r34 economy. But then you have waifu catelogue which is what we have today. The two concepts I feel are far enough separate to not be able to seamlessly merge.
  11. tacobowl8

    Anonymous star based rating/score for fics

    Honestly, from a forum staff perspective, this adds another method of communication between members on the forum, one which we would not have a good means of moderating. As such, beyond any technical realities of implementing this, we are unlikely to do this as it would introduce more work and...
  12. tacobowl8

    Problem with Liking posts: I don’t want to be redirected to a separate “Are you sure?” page

    Well, if it is CSRF protection acting up, the bog standard way everybody does that is that the web server defines a form token which is tied to a client session. That form token then gets passed to the client as a hidden value in the page content. When a form is submitted by the client back to...
  13. tacobowl8

    Problem with Liking posts: I don’t want to be redirected to a separate “Are you sure?” page

    The last time it was discussed: https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/likes-now-require-confirmation-page.37609/ it was determined that the CSRF protection was getting triggered, which others chimed in and basically said that the issue was typically with spotty connections, where you...
  14. tacobowl8

    [Bug] Viewing a threadmark from the list at the top results in the site scrolling back to the list at least once.

    Typically, the base behavior on browsers (atleast 5ish years ago when I last did web dev), is that the only real things out of the box are going to a new page will put you at the top, refreshing the page will put you back at the same scroll level (this gets tricky because this wasn't always the...
  15. tacobowl8

    Likes now require confirmation page?

    Uh... that is intersting? I just tried liking your post, and it didn't give any popup for me, though that might be something to do with me being a mod. Also, I've not seen any chatter in our separate mod/admin space about forum software/plugins being updated, which there always is when those...
  16. tacobowl8

    Links in "Reactions Received"

    Xenforo, the base forum softwaare we use, supports more than just Likes when it comes to reactions, hence it showing 'All'. It is just that the staff of QQ made the decision a long time ago to only have likes, and has seen no reason to change that.
  17. tacobowl8

    Threadmarks for PMs?

    Unfortunately, I don't believe that threadmarks are available for PMs. However, you can get a link to the specific message by clicking on the timestamp in the upper left of the post. You could then either keep that in a separate document/post.
  18. tacobowl8

    Making ai tags mandatory

    Yeah, this is devolving into general AI topic chatter. Locking the thread as the question has been answered.
  19. tacobowl8

    Suggestion: A button next to the Like that lets readers express if they think the chapter is AI written

    Speaking as staff, it is not currently against the rules around silent AI-usage. People are free to inform whether they use it or not, but the staff will not be enforcing it one way or another.
  20. tacobowl8

    Site running abnormally slow

    According to one of the admins, the server load looks fine and normal, and the staff are seeing mostly normal behavior. To me, it sorta feels like some sort of general network issue somewhere in the path some chunk of the userbase takes to get to QQ.
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