@jbartus
Can this be used on mobile? Either iOS or android?

@f00l Firefox for Android (and iOS maybe?) supports add-ons including Stylish. The mod works fine on the mobile browser with the plugin.

@jbartus
Thx. Will mess w it tomorrow.

@jbartus I’m not accusing anyone of anything but…
You seem to have an unhealthy obscession with this - to the point where @lrk would even agree that it probably bothers you more than it should.

Now, being both a coder as well a known troll in previous live(s), the first thing that popped into my head when considering this obscession as well my own devious mind was that you were attempting to cover something up…

As @f00l would have suspected if he weren’t so engrossed in this TrollTrace app, the first thing someone who knew they were caught would do is write an app/browser extension to cover his tracks (and for future lulz, when his botnet is complete and ready for phase 2).

Be careful my mehtizens, it may start innocent enough but emoji analysis is nigh. ._.

/image tinfoil hat

@lysdexia @f00l @jbartus

That’s so illogical that it borders on making sense.

@PlacidPenguin Thanks, I think!
I’ve just used my own logic which has been known to be on the far quadrum of the spectrum. But not knowing @jbartus personally, I’d never make the actual accusation.

But feel free to use your own judgement. ._.

@lysdexia for someone with the stated goal of not making an accusation you’re making quite the mess of things. I’m not the troll for which you seek but, as with so many things (my being a guy, my being a coder, my being a Patriots fan, my having written this script, my being a human, etc…), there is nothing but my word for you to go off of. You’re certainly entitled to your wild and baseless speculation, it’s certainly made @Ignorant’s day (He’s the OT) but it’s without basis and just plain incorrect.

Of course, that’s precisely what you’d expect the troll to say (unless they grew a pair of balls and actually outed themselves) so here I am playing into your hand, what’s a (alleged) guy to do? At any rate, it’s Sunday, so I’m going to finish my brief reading of the meh forum and go back to (supposedly) watching football. Go Patriots!

@PlacidPenguin drat, you caught me!

@jbartus No harm meant…
Patriots fan, you say? Trying to get meh to take the deflategate ball of deflection you say?
No sir, no.
-.-

@lysdexia I have no interest in discussing deflategate, either you’re an intelligent human being and recognize that it was all a crock of shit or you’re not, I have given up getting people to recognize the difference between allegations not substantiated by actual evidence and facts. It’s Sunday, the Patriots are playing, and I was making a tongue in cheek joke about going back to watching the game, nothing more. Cya!

@jbartus lol, defensive you are.
My initial post was meant as a joke, referencing the recent South Park series. Now I feel bad.
Unless of course you too are using satire, which I believe you are. In which case I met my quota for the day. -.-

@jbartus @lysdexia

Ah, the joys of never having played football or followed football.

Personally, I find the ball too hard to kick. I get that it’s a sphere because it’s a ball, but why couldn’t balls be triangle? Then they’d be easier to kick. Also, I have no chance of getting it into the goal, especially with someone standing there with a stick and a mitt.

@lysdexia I am definitely a human, in no way am I a creature from the third planet of Proxima Centauri here to scout your planet for our water harvesting mission.

@jbartus o m g ._.
/erases history and all pertinent intel on meh.

Curious thought though re: laziness in meh forum code and profile updates (and after a couple hours of pen tests).
It would certainly be easy enough to manipulate voting, for that matter easy enough to post/vote with the legit uid, kinda making your app/script…

But then again, it is Meh! The basic foundation of the experiment implicitly implies laziness (not taking away anything from the wonderful staff). So to do that would be just as silly as, for instance, writing a few lines of code for profile pagination.

Will a lazy forum be trolled? Of course, because someone (not all) will find it funny - and I’m ok with that. Will it be hacked, I’d side with no - barring the possible exposure of some deep seeded feelings ex. posting a pm publicly, or the random exploit bot.

Personal opinion but what you’re attempting to do is take part of the fun out of a lazily coded, insecure place to chat. Trying to expose uid’s which could eventually lead to the upper ups looking at ips resulting in a ban, setting off a chain of events that… ahhhhh it’s Sunday Funday and I don’t want to think about it.

• on a serious note, if you are indeed from Proxima Centauri or the 3rd planet from - how do you feel about people from Connecticut that like the Giants?
  /walks away slowly

@lysdexia they’re dirty rotten traitors and should be drawn and quartered after being forced to watch the entirety of the last 15 years of Patriots game footage.

As for removing the fun or whatever what you’re missing here is that there are far more of us upset by this crap than are amused by it based on the responses here on the forums.

@jbartus last 15 freakin years?!
Welp, good thing I don’t watch football. ._.

@jbartus

there are far more of us upset by this crap than are amused by it

Questionable

@Ignorant Count me amused.

@sammydog01 @Ignorant @jbartus

I’m undecided, and for a very logical reason; I have a list with reasons why I sympathize with each side.

@lysdexia
@jbartus
@PlacidPenguin

As @f00l would have suspected if he weren’t so engrossed in this TrollTrace app, the first thing someone who knew they were caught would do is write an app/browser extension to cover his tracks (and for future lulz, when his botnet is complete and ready for phase 2).

Had occurred to me, of course, that the extension writer could be the troll. Logical possibility, but unlikely, in my defective judgement.

Or perhaps I am troll.
Or perhaps I am the Spartacus Troll.

Or perhaps phase 2

I am not here for your water. Or perhaps I am.
I might be here for your Dark Matter.
Or for all your Matter, Bright and Dark.

Might. Be.

I am feeling a bit deflatable.

/giphy the heart of the matter

“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax–
Of cabbages–and kings–
And why the sea is boiling hot–
And whether pigs have wings.”

@f00l

I really like Lewis Carroll’s style of writing.

@PlacidPenguin
He may not have known it, but he wrote for geeks.

/giphy Cheshire Cat

@f00l

Or maybe he did know it.

@PlacidPenguin
Yes, likely he suspected.

/giphy Spartacus Troll

@PlacidPenguin @f00l
Count me a fan as well.
I’m not sure if it were reading that, looking at the gify, or a mix of the two but I’ve just had my first (known) seizure. I think. I’m not sure. I’ve come from the floor, twitching.
Everyone thinks that I’m high and I am.

@f00l please have your ambassador contact our representative to the galactic council on Altair IV to discuss a possible division of resources. As you know our people have no use for dark matter and I think you will find our terms equitable. Together our peoples should be able to overcome any resistance these humans may manage to muster. cough

cough I mean… One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

@lysdexia

the mastermind that figured it all out

@thismyusername

@lysdexia well-stated what was obvious to many us us at the start. Yeah, it’s kinda clever, and funny too, from a POV, and makes a clever cute commentary on fonts and codes and site hacking and gently tweaking other persons and systems and norms. I think most of us saw that at the start. And skipped right over that aspect because /reasons.

Something like that, done quickly, and then, once noticed, removed quickly, or better yet, self-outed, can be quite funny, and is a probably, to many or most, a legit poke at the site, its tech design, and its people.

Something like that, done and then left in place, is another matter.

All conduct expresses unintended meanings and generates unintended consequences. Normally these extra vibrations are inconsequential in daily life.

Sometimes these meanings and consequences are notable, to the person/group originating, or to others. (Particularly with humor, power moves, expressions of status and belonging, disruptive gestures). I don’t think the people who responded badly missed the joke. I think they went right past the joke (which might have been worthy if done properly); to respond to something else: there is a hidden anon here with an alt public face who doesn’t “get it”.

Hacking the goat-vote is of tiny consequence. It does carry echos to many of us tho - most people who like ones and zeros a lot have long histories of failing to parse social norms and thereby failing socially, because the language, logic, and expectations of social norms are so complex.

Obviously the apparent corrupted voting could have been a logical poke at the forum coding and/or the community norms and habitués, and, done properly, might have been funny to almost everyone.

Only, it’s not possible to contain meaning to the bounds of the originator’s intention. The meaning such an gesture has to others cannot logically or ethically he circumscribed by the originator.

“didn’t get the joke” is a tricky form of reasoning - often flat out wrong (the recipient understood the joke perfectly), and that justification tends to boomerang, ethically. It’s a classic cover story. And comedy is hard.

Do I make too much of this?

Well, parsing the responses and fallout is the interesting part.

/giphy fool

@lysdexia I wonder what @jbartus thinks of people from Connecticut who cheer for the Kansas City Chiefs… not saying I do or anything…

@sammydog01 going by star count at this time looks like more of us were amused

@jbartus

@f00l please have your ambassador contact our representative to the galactic council on Altair IV to discuss a possible division of resources. As you know our people have no use for dark matter and I think you will find our terms equitable. Together our peoples should be able to overcome any resistance these humans may manage to muster. cough

It might have been a while since you vsited home? Your world now has all the water it might need, available to the system, so to speak, in an environmentally friendly way. We decided to keep your system pretty much as is.

Proxima Centauri is so cute and lovable that we didn’t just consume it. We took the dark matter for our purposes, and left the system to continue, as we intend to leave this local solar system to continue. Both are kind of “Galactic Parks”. Recreation zones.

We adore your world and this one also. And we particularly like you, because you are practically vicious for the Pats, you love Boston, are hard-headed, funny, and you volunteer to police font shenanigans. We have thereby elevated you to permanent Overlord Status.

The Galactic Council on Altair IV is also adorable. Next time you visit the Overlord Domain (you have an invite and domicile there in perpetuity), you can watch the stream of the Galactic Council backchannels.

Ah, reality!

/giphy reality

@mikibell
I’d be afraid to ask. Be afraid!
Not a Giants fan, more life long Vikings guy - but do sometimes wonder.

• Disclaimer: not a big enough football fan to do harm to anyone or expect harm done to me lol.

@Ignorant That’s of course assuming no further shenanigans going on in this thread. ._.

@lysdexia all the more amused I’d be.

@f00l I attempted to come up with a witty response to this earlier this morning - but as suggested last night, this morning I’m struggling with a heck of a hangover.
^ My excuse for lacking the intellect to comprehend your thought process, and judging by the star count (one from me, because meh), I have to think that I’m not the only one.

Admittedly I spent more time analyzing the gify. It’s pretty trippy, in that the conversation could be taken completely different based on whether you believe the ‘I believe in panties.’ was stated prior or after. I still haven’t figured it out.

What I gathered from your reply though - admittedly interpreted from my eyes - was that humour is relative. Barring it being destructive and using the flaws that were in place it seemed to be fair play.

It’s nice to be a very small part of a community of intellects, and I agree (if that’s what you meant) that the joke, or really anything cleverly written deserves some respect and confirmation of the effort involved.

We’re all looking for attention in one way or another. Those of us not always conforming or understanding of the social norm sometimes take it too far, but in this instance I think we can all give @jbartus a hug and a pat on the back for his efforts - even if he is a Patriots fan.
-.-

@f00l I have scheduled a time next Tuesday to read that wall of text.

@mikibell they don’t cheer for the Patriots so they’re already dead to me. Not as dead as Giants fans, though!

@lysdexia are you still implying that the ‘joke’ is or was mine?

@jbartus Sorry, never implied anything. Inferred maybe… not imply though!

Taking jokes aside though, nah I never was accusing you of rigging the election, I was merely inciting a mild riot of other joke (at your expense, sorry you like the Patriots and all…) that you could be involved.
Which is clearly absurd! ._.

@lysdexia I am in the same boat as you with football… I just like yanking @jbartus’s chain… he is too funny! and if @mfladd were around, we would yank his chain too

@lysdexia inferring is the act of forming a suspicion absent evidence, implying is the act of presenting that suspicion to others. You don’t have to feel sorry for me for liking the Patriots, 7 and 1 baby, 7 and 1!

@mikibell have you heard from him lately?

@jbartus exactly why I misused the term you’re too easy!

@lysdexia don’t you dare call me easy. I will have you know I am quite discerning about who I go to bed with.

@jbartus

Doesn’t your cat sleep with you?

@PlacidPenguin I don’t have a cat…

@jbartus

Just noticed that comment on the other thread.

@jbartus @lysdexia Here you go.

@sammydog01 @jbartus @lysdexia

I usually stay away from Simpsons gifs, but…

@thismyusername

I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a Wall Of Text today.

But by then there will be more text, and the wall will grow to consume the universe.

"Great Prehistoric Wall Of Texas"

@PlacidPenguin which comment on what other thread? This is all too hard to keep track of!

@jbartus

If you think this is confusing, try having a conversation with me IRL (never gonna happen though).

@PlacidPenguin @sammydog01 @jbartus
Never was a contest, just jokes. ._.

@jbartus I have not recently…I sent a package a while ago and never heard anything…he has been curiously quiet…

@lysdexia
The giphy in my post came after the text. Giphies called by a slash command ( “/” ) always come after you press “Say it”, and are somewhat random. I had no idea what giphy would show up.

I meant by the post:
that I saw the joke the first time - and saw the tweaking of the Meh interface and Meh community - and saw potential cleverness merit (to me, sadly, left unplayed). And did some others, who was said or implied so in public.

Also saw other aspects. In general, people not not crazy about votes they might care about being tweaked (even perfectly silly votes), and many really dislike having their uid’s messed with. And I suspect many are not wild about the idea that someone would pull that tweak and then have the perp not happily and promptly out themself. And these reactions are not wrong. It’s not a “didn’t get the joke” reaction - it’s a valid one. If a message is open to interpretation; as are all jokes and pranks), then the meaning or value is owned as much or more by the receiving side as by the sending.

So now you have the rather predictable (to many of us) consequence that some people might withdraw to a degree from participation in the site because they don’t like the joke as it was done. Intended?

Some are annoyed, and others amused; others both annoyed and amused; or intrigued. And after the vote-tweaking, there was suddenly, (and to most of us, predictably) very little interest in the goat vote topic. The tweaking, for a second time (as we found out, by a copy-cat) pretty much killed the voting and goat discussion in the thread. Intended?

And that those who “have suspicions” about the perp, fair or unfair, will view that person in a somewhat altered light. They have their reasons. Intended?

And then these things ripple out, get normalized, and fade.

/giphy fade

@mikibell hope he’s doing alright. He’s good people.

@jbartus me too… and I do agree wholeheartedly!

@PlacidPenguin This one.

@CaptAmehrican Firefox for Android (and iOS maybe?) supports add-ons including Stylish. The mod works fine on the mobile browser with the plugin.

Also while an official intervention would naturally be preferred this is a stopgap to help in the interim.

@CaptAmehrican
Firefox w extension “stylish” and this add-in to the extension might work. See @jbartis remarks & replies above.

@f00l that’s a U not an I. In case I wasn’t clear I tested to confirm functionality

@jbartus i use chrome. Basically I am not doing this. I have known there are a few jerks with a few different names that are trolling us all but no I don’t know who is who. Couldn’t you just clearly tell us?

@CaptAmehrican
We only know what the fake uid’s might be, not who is doing it.

@f00l ok then publicly say who the fake names are. Please don’t make us learn to code simply to try and puzzle out the insinuations

@CaptAmehrican they just keep making new ones and without the ability to see it in monospace there’s no easy way to tell the difference between @Shrdlu and @ShrdIu (as an example)

@CaptAmehrican
I don’t have this @jbartus code installed.

If there are apparently dup names, one of them is fake. Others I would have to investigate and I’m usually on mobile and way short of time right now.

Anything uid that looks like shrdlu’s is fake at the moment, I suspect. She removed her votes. I doubt she’s reinstated them.

@CaptAmehrican
You don’t have to learn to code. Just install Firefox on android or iOS. Then follow the rest of @jbartus’s instructions.

It’s difficult to keep a list, as the person keeps changing things.

@f00l How do we know @f00l wasn’t just a duplicate copy of the real @fool?!?! What did you do to him/her?!?!

@ELUNO
@f00l asserts that this is the real @f00l.

Check the profile or use the extension to verify.

@f00l’s fako doppelganger may play visual trix w uid’s and get some kicks from that, but @f00l doubts that the fako can duplicate the f00lish personal conduct.

@jbartus
I know your uid. I go fast on an iPhone. Lots of errors. Lots of creative “siri-style” autocorrections.

Apologies.

@f00l you’re forgiven.

/giphy don’t ever let it happen again!

@baqui63
@shrdlu has one of the uid’s that got faked-duped and appeared to vote twice. She removed her legit votes. She does not appear to be happy.

See the voting thread links for more re info.

https://meh.com/forum/topics/something-something-something-goat----something-something-something-nomination-thread-november-2016

https://meh.com/forum/topics/wait-what-its-almost-october-time-to-find-the-next-goat--october-2016-nomination-thread

@f00l

Well can you blame her? (Correct response: no)

Meanwhile, it looks some of the fake votes were removed.

@PlacidPenguin

Of course I don’t blame her. Had I voted and then the fake voting happened, I would have done the same.

Mentioned it because: Some people want to know which votes are fake. Unless she says otherwise, the apparent @shrdlu votes are fake.

That @jbartus thing might be pretty useful, as the fake “shrdlu” could post that the vote is real.

@PlacidPenguin seems like someone has gotten a clue that this isn’t funny the second time 'round.

@f00l best way to tell posts is to profile check, unless you want me to alter the default font for the usernames below posts.

@jbartus

let us hope.

Rule for comedians: know your audience. Know your context. Know your boundaries.

Messing up in those areas is responsible for the failure of a lot of comedy.

@jbartus
How would profile check work for locked profiles? Altering the font in any uid might be best.

@baqui63 It shows a certain annoying casualness, that a capital “i” looks precisely like a lowercase “L” (I used lowercase on the first, and uppercase on the second, not because I was being clever, but to make clear what I meant).

I have voted on very little over on the other thread (after removing my votes on the two choices). This would have an easy fix, though. Just change the damned font, and it’ll be obvious when there’s a fake account. It won’t stop the cheating, but it will at least help with some of the confusion.

@baqui63 @f00l @Shrdlu @jbartus

One of the reasons I changed my name from @tickledlizard was because of the “l” in my name. It’s a sad day for forums when people have to change their username due to someone trying to be “cute” or “funny” by making an impersonating acvount, even for something like voting for a goat

@f00l at a glance? Not easily but such a post would be inherently suspect and someone like me would come along and pick it apart and reveal it.

Disabled profiles display the username in all-caps on the page which would prevent most if not all issues. (O vs 0 issue should be discernible by shape)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@PlacidPenguin so you chose another name with the same issue?

@PlacidPenguin - @PlacidPenguin can be spoofed with @PIacidPenguin - @PIacidPenguin

@jbartus

Before making this name, I registered @PIacidPenguin for myself to avoid that issue.

@PlacidPenguin
It’s likely - I hope - someone who doesn’t get what plays as comedy.
If that’s not the motive, well - hmmm. No comment.

We can all remember stuff like this, at least from school days if from no other occasion. Think about who did this sort of stuff then.

@jbartus
Thx re profile info. Rarely mess with profiles. Perhaps now … sigh.

@PlacidPenguin touché

@f00l Just wanted to bring your attention to the fact that I edited my reply to you. Nevermind

@f00l

The more I talk to y’all, the more I realize how my upbringing/school days were completely different compared to most people here…
(And I’m not talking about different decades etc…)

@PlacidPenguin do tell?

@jbartus @f00l

The experiences which people have shared/things which they experienced often, I never had.

It’s a common theme in my “I have never” posts to @therealjrn

@PlacidPenguin
I figured you would know of and hear about prank stuff even if you weren’t directly involved.

Ya know, grapevines.

@f00l

Most of my experiences with pranks comes from watching Impractical Joker’s, although that doesn’t really count…

@PlacidPenguin
No school w kids in it? No living w other kids or being dragged into their presence?

Re pranks and kids being jerks, there’s always someone, or someone’s story, or someone’s sibling, or someone’s sibling’s story about someone else, or … the thread keeps going.

The line between “joke” and “prank” and “practical joke” and “jerk” is always indiscernible to some few, and infinitely tempting to a few others. And those gradations vary by context.

Comedy is hard. And even naturally funny people have to learn by brute failure the what when where how who and why of comedy.

Btw, as if a few min ago, you still have some fake votes.

@f00l

I went to “private” schools until college, and kept to myself in the colleges I went to. I was also a commuter so…

@PlacidPenguin I did the whole private school thing too, apparently our private schools were very different. (or decade differences apply, did you have nuns with yardsticks to worry about?)

@PlacidPenguin I didn’t have nuns or yardsticks, I was just hinting at corporal punishment keeping kids in line.

@PlacidPenguin
If you didn’t encounter jokesters, pranksters, bullies, spoilers, and jerks and with the usual collection of “the in crowd”, the normal ones, the quiet ones, the freaks, the outliers, etc, in school, your school was either very very unusual or very very private.

In any case I hope it was a decent place.

This sort of conduct (in the voting thread) comes across as more junior high than college to me. JMHO.

@f00l

Oh, we had what you’d call “jerks”, but no pranksters etc.

Most of the people I was with in high school I knew for 8 or more years prior to 9th grade.

@PlacidPenguin
I also followed a single neighborhood track going school to school, and knew many ppl from kindergarten onward.

public schools. Lots of people.

I think elementary was about 700.
Jr high possibly 1500?
High school about 3500?

In a large and expanding social mix, it’s easier for ones group of acquaintances to ebb and flow, and for behaviors to also ebb and flow. We had lots of jokesters and pranksters, staring with 1st grade. Ours were pretty benign - stiff that didn’t spoil things for people, or target the less-powerful.

There was bullying and ugliness and tormenting, but it wasn’t much disguised under the heading of “joke” or “prank”. There were remarks of “can’t you take a joke” and similar during tormenting, but no-one, tormentor, tormented, or others, believed there was any humor involved.

If your schools were rather small populations without increasing #'s as you got older, and most people knew each other or knew of each other from early years, I can see there being few stunts like this one. If you have a tiny # and everyone has known each other forever, way less likely that someone see a possible joke in this type of gesture, not even the would-be jokester.

@f00l

@PlacidPenguin was part of that very last possibility which the @f00l mentioned.

@f00l I got duped and didn’t like it either. I don’t want any mehnemies here.

@looseneck
I doubt anyone liked it, excepting the perp(s).

@f00l My graduating class had 175 students!

@mehbee @f00l

I had roughly 10% of that.

@PlacidPenguin wow! I loved having a small class.

@meanjene

@meanjene close but far, I care not if, who, or how many people have it I just provided the plug-in for those who want it. Other letters were also spoofed but you hit the high notes

@f00l

But is it jailbroken?

@PlacidPenguin
My iOS dev is not jail broken. I use rooted as a synonym.

Will install on android shortly.

@f00l and Google has no interest in add-ons for mobile. If I remember correctly from my initial research the Dolphin Browser also supports it but don’t quote me on that

@jbartus
I can’t load it on Dolphin for IOS either.

Searched the IOS AppStore for a browser with a reasonable extension library. Didn’t find one.

@f00l if you can find one that supports GreaseMonkey I can get you a Greasemonkey script

@jbartus
There is a greasepocket experimental project for safari, but only for jail broken phones. And it’s kinda alpha.

I can’t find a browser that does it at present.

@katylava
Any chance of offering the option of this as a site viewing option?

Would solve the prob for the non-tech, the iOS person, and stop there from being an incentive to create these “annoyance accounts”.

PS is my profile loading yet on a typical overloaded PCor mobile device?

@f00l Your profile just crashed Firefox on my laptop. Not gonna try that again, nope, no way, no how.

I am now gonna try it on Chrome.

@katylava

Re: Barney’s test
Hint: pagination option.

Thx.

@f00l Crashed my Chrome, too.

@Barney
/image purple thanks

@f00l loaded OK on my computer, just took a while (>15 seconds)

@f00l Checking your profile using Explorer on business laptop here at the office is NOT successful

@katylava
@Barney, @compunaut, and I all can’t load my profile.

Can we have a pagination option in the profiles, pls?

@katylava Here you go-

@katylava truthfully I never saw that post previously. Isn’t parallel development amazing?

@RiotDemon

I guess some people just like to watch the world burn.

I do, I do!

@Ignorant are you admitting that you’re the ballot stuffer, or do you just take satisfaction in it?

@RiotDemon both.
I was the original ballot stuffer, not the current ballot stuffer.

@Thumperchick if a dick is masquerading as 5 dicks wouldn’t that be dickception?

@DrunkCat 4 or 5 people are taking the goat a bit too seriously and getting mad at a joke basically.

@DrunkCat in the goat voting thread, someone is creating a bunch of usernames that look very similar to current users to add stars to the vote count. It happened last month as well.

Capital i looks the same as lowercase L, so most of the names take advantage of that.

@RiotDemon Oh wow, that’s pretty dickish. But, why even go through the trouble?

And why couldn’t @jbartus make such a simple explanation?

@DrunkCat I’m just assuming it’s someone that loves watching people get upset. I believe they’re usually referred to as trolls?

/giphy troll

@thismyusername This is kind of funny especially since we have so few goat nominees and so few real votes.

@DrunkCat because this thread wasn’t meant to be a discussion thread, it was only meant to get the tool out there for the people who already wanted it?

All of this attention was unexpected. ^^

@sammydog01 I think @snapster has a real chance this month…

@jbartus I still blame you.

@thismyusername

He’s beating me again.

Yay!!!

@DrunkCat It’s @ignorant’s month

@InnocuousFarmer
Or Meh should just set monospaced fonts or some other anti-ambiguity font for uid’s.

@f00l I mean, I’m not talking capital punishment or dismemberment. Just, you know, maybe a two-year minimum jailtime.

@InnocuousFarmer Lock 'em up! Lock 'em up! Lock 'em up!

@InnocuousFarmer Are you sure it’s not jaiItime?

@jbartuS
What about all caps? Is that hard to do?

The issue of “L” vs “i” vs “numeric #one”. Would all caps distinguish between all three?

@f00l not a fan, Capitalization is important to parsing some names

@jbartus
Yeah you lose visual info.

Are there other fonts that would fix it?

@f00l yeah I’ve just been distracted will push a new version when done

@jbartus
Just glad you’re messing w it.

@f00l thoughts?

@jbartus oh…btw…I didn’t star that as a vote…it just made literally laugh out loud! Thankfully, my family is already aware that I am nuts and disregarded the seemingly unprompted chuckle…

@mikibell
@jbartus
The ballot jokester started changing the uid’s to the "stuffed ballot"variations the 1st day. Only some were very slow to change, and I don’t know if they are all changed to an obvious prank or not.

Are they? On all candidates?

But this simple change does not and cannot address those persons whose votes are withdrawn.

Wonder if the trickster will communicate directly about that.

@f00l @mikibell @jbartus

At this point, I don’t the person/people will reveal their identity/identities.

If it’s someone we “know”, they know that people are mad at them, and they’d rather stay “liked yet guilt-free”.
If it’s a lurker, then they’d rather stay anonymous to begin with obviously.

@PlacidPenguin
Perhaps the individual will out themself eventually.

People tend to want attention in the end.

/giphy attention

@PlacidPenguin I don’t honestly think that a lurker would have the balls to mess with an inside joke they didn’t understand.

@jbartus

Just for the record, I myself lurked for a year before revealing myself. I took the time to study various aspects of mehmbers and such.

@jbartus
If you could do an alt style that set all uid’s to monospaced or to some other font that made variations in uid’s obvious, that would be cool.

If it were easier, if you could just go an alt style that set the entire forum view to monospaced or similar, I wouldn’t mind. Whatever is less work. I could deal with the typewriter look.

Clicking thru to a profile is annoying when reading. And someone could take the basic idea used in the vote uid hack and do worse by general posting. I’d rather have a go-to that is simple and covers the possibilities.

(Pls, you don’t owe me any work. But if you are interested, I’d owe you a favor, and think kindly about the Pats as often as possible.)

Love that dirty water

@f00l you never replied to this…

I can’t style inline ones that people write in their posts because they don’t get called out with a specific class (unless you wanted ALL links to be monospace/that font) but poster names and liker names would be covered.

@jbartus
Yeah. I did reply. Or thought I replied. Scroll up. Right under @mikibell’s.

Oops. I get it. I thought you were asking for a response on the uid changing. You were asking about the font. (ID10T shakes head at self.)

I am usually reading on a phone. Which means clear differentiation in characters is better. However, can parse that font.

I trust your aesthetic judgement more than my own. Go with your best judgement.

If you’re willing to do this, would prefer a style that either had all voting and posting uid’s in a non-ambiguous font; or else, same font for all the text in the forums. Or all the text on the page.

Whatever is easy or elegant or intriguing that you are willing to mess with.

Salutations for this.

@f00l in the screenshot the posting IDs are also in that font although I did not boost their size, I can do that if you feel the posting IDs are not clear enough.

@jbartus
On mobile a slight size boost might help.

What weirds me out is the possibility of spoofed posts.

I guess if that happened, the Meh coders would have to fix it.

Perhaps at some future point, if we still have goats, the monthly goat should be whomever on the developer staff decided to use a potentially ambiguous font for uid’s.

@f00l this isn’t a meh thing. The L i thing can be done on most sites, Twitter, PSN, Xbox live, or anything with a nice looking readable font.

@f00l what @Ignorant means is any site that chooses to use a sans-serif font which in modern style sensibilities is the vast majority of them. Honestly it’s not the developers’ faults that people are asshats.