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Not to be a dick or anything, but help me understand some things...

Hi guys, I'm @idio3 from rdrama, one of the main jannies there. I like the idea of you running an offsite, but I'm absolutely floored by the implementation.

Now I get that there are features of the main site that wouldn't be appropriate for you guys, since you're looking for a different sort of discussion and atmosphere than we are. Longpostbot, annoying graphical and user-nerfing awards, bardbot, etc - it makes perfect sense to remove those. But other decisions I just don't understand. Most notably - what the hell is your beef with Marseys? Why don't image uploads work? It's like you guys intentionally wanted to preclude people from attempting to have fun :marseyshrug:, with the changes being essentially limited to cutting out as many of our features as you could get your hands on...

Anyway, if you could illuminate the rationale for these things, I'd greatly appreciate it! :marseyblowkiss:

be mottizens

set up own website

fork dramacode

remove 90% of features

manage to break the other 10% of features somehow

True story

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I actually think images would be a great edition to posts provided: there are rules on relevance (graphs, evidence, demonstrating a point; NOT for humor or emotional effect); they are minimized thumbnails that can be clicked to expand; they are low-res for speed of post loading and max-minning image.

You can even restrict image use to site donators or by age-of-account. If imagery is used in scientific publications then it can add value to themotte and allows us to dunk on Reddit which has poor image implementation features.

I think I big problem is that there's such a thing as an illegal image.

If an unfriendly outsider hacks an account and starts posting CP in threads it's a big deal. Sure mods can take it down quickly, but it's just safer if everyone just has to use imgur or some other external service for their images.