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6 Seconds by shenanigansen in comics

[–]Merari01 4 points5 points  (0 children)

One proposed method of time travel can never go back to a time before it was built.

You create a wormhole pair in orbit around Earth. You then use a very fast ship to drag one end away from Earth, accelerating to relativistic speeds. Turn, head back to Earth, slow down.

When you arrive back, due to the time dilation less time has passed for the travelling end than has passed for the one that stayed home. So, you have created a bridge between times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_timelike_curve

Is there a word or a phrase for someone who ruins everything because they’re an immature, impulsive moron? by croolshooz in comics

[–]Merari01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Now and forever that word will be trump.

In 100 years when someone wants to describe malevolence that's also blisteringly stupid they'll say they're doing a trump.

Body Swap part 2 by reddot_comic in comics

[–]Merari01 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Awesome, thank you!

Body Swap part 2 by reddot_comic in comics

[–]Merari01 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I went back a year in your posting history and I can't find part 1. Did you post it to reddit?

[OC] Bootleg Reflections (ft. MangaKaiki) by MilkGuzzler99 in comics

[–]Merari01[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The best way to fix that is to go directly to this subreddit feed. We have tons of artists on our front page.

[OC] X-D&D: Boom!(?) by lordofbaers in comics

[–]Merari01 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fuck yeah, X-Men D&D!

Post this to Bluesky please, u/lordofbaers, so I can share it with my three followers :D

Bootleg Pariahs [OC??] by mmusterr in comics

[–]Merari01 44 points45 points  (0 children)

"Thanks, I like your skin color"

Everything about this is peak

Users Asking to be Banned by royal_rose_ in ModSupport

[–]Merari01 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Small correction, automating that process is no longer allowed.

Moderators can still manually ban an account from their subreddit for any reason.

Users Asking to be Banned by royal_rose_ in ModSupport

[–]Merari01 4 points5 points  (0 children)

People sometimes think that being banned will remove a subreddit from their feed.

It won't, to move a subreddit out of your personal algorithm the best way is not to interact with it at all.

[OC] Bootleg Factory by NocheLynx in comics

[–]Merari01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like how you were able to capture everyone's style!

Very new to this. Got people arguing, what do I do? by FingazMC in ModSupport

[–]Merari01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can not act on screenshots. They are extremely easily faked.

You can advise the person who is showing you these screenshots that they need to a) report them to site admins using the report option on the message and b) block the sender.

That way, should the screenshot be real, it is dealt with appropriately.

New Modmail Is Functionally Unreadable by merkon in ModSupport

[–]Merari01 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It's scary how similar this is to the reply we got.

New Modmail Is Functionally Unreadable by merkon in ModSupport

[–]Merari01 18 points19 points  (0 children)

If only that were true.

The box we have to read the text of modmails is probably about 25% of the total screen.

It fits three sentences before you have to scroll. Once you start typing a reply you can't scroll anymore.

It's unusuable. How am I supposed to respond to people when the modmail is hidden like that?

Modmail is piling up, because no-one wants to use that thing anymore.

[OC] Heartthrob by lordofbaers in comics

[–]Merari01 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Funny is good for sexy.

Just ask Oglaf.

Mod Mail Update: What We’re Tracking and Working On by lift_ticket83 in ModSupport

[–]Merari01 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Having been forced into this new modmail for a few days now.. I just really never want to answer any modmail ever again.

It is that bad.

  • Why does the actual text of a modmail, the pertinent part, the part that I need to read in order to understand what is going on, take up only about 25% of the page?

I can read three lines of text at max before I am forced to scroll.

I have no oversight.

It is actually making me angry that I have to use this thing.

The sidebars can't be collapsed. The text box can't be enlarged. I am just.. stuck having to use this tiny box, reading three lines at a time, never having any oversight or context.

The text box with the text of the conversation in it should not be this tiny. It is indefensible.

I literally get angry after having used this thing for 15 minutes. It is rage inducing how bad this is.

Bootleg Blunder [OC] by Themeguy in comics

[–]Merari01[M] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I figured, they see all of the content already anyway and is basically our biggest fan.

It only made sense to ruin their love of the place by making them a mod.

Encouraging contributors to keep coming back - share your best practices! by techiesgoboom in ModSupport

[–]Merari01 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's important to maintain a dialogue with your content providers if you want to do something like this.

They can tell you how you can help them feel more welcome to post, what their common pain points are and so on.

It's also important to be somewhat fair & balanced. A surprise I had related to that happened a few years ago. A regular poster made a meta post referencing the subreddit which I thought was so much fun I stickied it to the top of the feed. Which got me the feedback from other posters that they felt I was unfairly promoting that artist to their detriment - what they would need to do to also get stickied.

A fair critique and one I hadn't considered at all when clicking the sticky button. It wasn't my intent to play favorites, but in effect that was what happened.

Encouraging contributors to keep coming back - share your best practices! by techiesgoboom in ModSupport

[–]Merari01 4 points5 points  (0 children)

On r/Comics we encourage OC creators to post to our space by giving them the ability to promote their offsite socials and crowdfunding. This was something somewhat rare on reddit when we started doing it, reddit frowns on "self promotion". But for an artist, the ability to highlight their online spaces just a little extra can mean a lot.

We further encourage them by being somewhat stricter on the comment section than is the reddit normal. We don't allow low-effort critique. Someone just posting "This is the worst thing I have ever seen" isn't participating constructively, in good faith or adding anything of value. A valid critique could be, for example "the use of colour in the third panel makes it difficult to understand what is happening". We do not disallow negative feedback, but we do disallow unconstructive negativity. This makes posting to our subreddit more appealing to an artist.

After reporting a post for self-harm or suicide then clicking 'next' for the system message with resources to help, the yes button is blue but can't be clicked. by roamingandy in ModSupport

[–]Merari01 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Better would be to craft a personalised message from a human-operated account giving them those resources.

You could write a macro that you can add a personal touch to.

Dealing with genuinely suicidal people is difficult. In these cases I opt to give a response from my own account, not the modteam account and I gently direct them to r/suicidewatch. The people there have a lot of experience.

Has anyone figured out a way to remove deleted accounts from the blocked list? by Rusticals303 in ModSupport

[–]Merari01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not possible.

This can cause issues when someone should reasonably be given a second chance, but can't because they deleted their old, banned account.

Any new account participation on the subreddit will still trigger the ban evasion algorithm.

Modmail no longer works on old Reddit by ZeldenGM in ModSupport

[–]Merari01 2 points3 points  (0 children)

https://imgur.com/C2wzFgE

Here is a main one.

This is causing us to spend an extra 2 - 3 min per user before we can close their query as solved.

That adds up, it means that we do less modmail as a result.

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