Comments on The Satyrs’ Forest
Several pages on this site (including this one!) have a comments section at the bottom. Those on The Garden use Wordpress’s built-in comments, but on the main site, i’ve put together my own janky little system to let you all roast me. (Fun fact: i never want to even see the letters PHP again.)
The rules
Be excellent to each other. That’s pretty much it. I trust you’re all normal enough not to hurl insults and spam at each other.
This isn’t really a rule rule, but i might edit your comment if it’s misspelt or all lowercase, solely because i’m a pedant and it annoys me.
Rubric
Comments on the main site use a spinoff of the ubiquitous Markdown, which i’ve decided to call Rubric. The basics:
- Headings:
# Header 1(h1),## Header 2(h2),### Header 3(h3)… - Quotes:
> Blockquote goes here - Lists:
- A bullet-point list item,1. A numbered list item - Bold:
*Bold type*(b),**Strong type**(strong) - Italic:
/Italic type/(i, for text formatting),//Emphasised type//(em, for emphasis) - Hypertext:
[https://google.com External links],[[https://i.imgur.com/R390EId.jpeg Multimedia]](with alt text),[[https://i.imgur.com/R390EId.jpeg alt text] Figures with captions] - Miscellaneous:
__Underlines__,~Small font~,~~,Strikethrough~~::Small caps::
Secret word
The “secret word” works a bit like a trip code does on the more degenerate parts of the internet. Posts with a secret word have a little hash code — say, 2w8373gz — at the top, next to your name. That way, if you put the same secret word for all your comments, you can confirm that it’s really you (or at least the same person who’s been leaving all those other comments).
I’d like to use it to let people upload custom avatars one day, to replace the old email-based system — keep your eyes peeled!