carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
STEM major | 21 | nonbinary femme (she/them) | panromantic asexual | independent filmmaker from brooklyn | unapologetically neurodivergent
User ID: 264
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
I’m at a loss as to how one manages to end up on a culture war longpost website that is in itself an offshoot of a subforum on another site entirely and somehow be unaware of the whole hogleg debacle.
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
kiss kiss
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
I’d suggest reimplementing the dramacoin system, albeit with a different name. “Farts Huffed” is cheeky and self-aware, but maybe not. Either way. karma-like systems allow people to build attachment to their accounts and personae on-site. If you re-add our dramacoin shop but with your own items (since ours are predominantly deliberately obnoxious visual effects or tools you can use to fuck with other users, or give yourself administrative powers), all the better. It would also give you something to incentivize codework with, white hat reporting, posts that drive engagement, etc.
The badge system is extremely useful for this as well. I don’t think that’s been removed from the repo, although you’ll obviously not want to use virtually any of our 130some badges. But badges are great for incentive and building attachment.
And attachment is very important to build. It’s critically important that any platform, however small, offers a superior and markedly different experience to a subreddit or imageboard - because if it doesn’t, why would users not just use one of those? The siren song of free speech grows stale very quickly when that free speech is the primary selling point of the platform and the main reason to stay, as alt-tech startups and big companies have seen repeatedly for several years now but have yet to actually learn from.
tl;dr - meaningful lite-gamification good and features not offered by larger alternatives are very necessary
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
If I went to rdrama and posted some long essay hoping for serious engagement, I would be mocked.
Now this is just patently false.
https://rdrama.net/post/25844/amazons-wheel-of-time-adaptation-is For example
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
That would be a weird thing to do and it would have had to have been a conscious decision to make it that way; comment counts originally update in realtime.
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
I have a rly good effortpost chambered but I appear to be shadowbanned, so 🤷♀️
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
I am the smartest
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
She is adorable 😍
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
What’s up faggots
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
So it’s exactly like Reddit’s system where if you haven’t been sufficiently upvoted by the entrenched users, you’re invisible without moderator approval, just with a sneaky name and without the automod message letting you know that no one can see your stuff 🤔
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
Make them let me post! I have things to say!
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
How does that work? My account is older than yours!
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
Hi, please use the dedicated rDrama containment thread unless you’d like to post screeds about IQ statistics.
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
Hi Jeff! :marseywave2:
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
I actually used this handle precisely because it’s so common. I think the first iteration I ever saw was in +blackmetal+ on SLSK in the early 00s. The ruqqus instance of it was me, though.
Very fun find!
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
The meme is actually canonically very silly. Graphorns aren’t a new discovery; they’ve actually been hunted almost to extinction. So they’re long since known and any and all slurs for them would have already existed prior to you coming upon the Lord of the Shore (pictured, left).
It’s called absurdism sweaty, sorry it’s too deep for you.
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
debilitating mental illness
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
I’m not entirely clear on what that means, but I think if your life is in any way impacted by faceless internet strangers judging you for putting a like on something via your own faceless internet account then you’re either successful beyond imagining in that you’ve absolutely nothing resembling a real problem left in life, or you’re some terrifying new flavor of depressing.
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
Just don’t write like a cute twink!
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
Black Lives Matter. Trans women are women. Vaccines work. Science is real. Die mad about it.
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
It’s one of the thousands of fun rDrama features! I think they just forgot to remove it with the rest of them, though. Stay strong Mottizens.
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
carpathianflorist
162 IQ social equity activist (she/them)
1yr ago
You can scale up font size by putting a space after a hashtag.
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You can minimize comment threads by clicking the minus sign left of the username.
Why was I given a one day ban and 20 downvotes for posting a meme in the weekly fun thread? 🤔
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