patrick.net

Yes, that would not be hard. Thanks for the idea!

Get back to 'debt is slavery' and homes are overpriced. post the original rant about income vs. home price, and when it makes sense to rent.

your advice literally saved my life. it could save more

It's still available, in the footer, broken into 3 parts:

10 reasons it's a terrible time to buy
8 groups who lie about the housing market
37 bogus arguments about housing

But yes, hoping to make the site more about specific topics instead of continuous flame war, and housing should be one of the top 3.

Looking for people who want to be moderators for a given hashtag (topic). Moderators will have:

moderation power for comments and posts for their topic
ability to whilelist or blacklist users for their topics
ability to free comments in their topics from comment jail
ability to upload a css stylesheet to be used for their topic
a donation link (paypal, patreon, or bitcoin)

also thinking they should be able to appoint deputy moderators

It would be cool if I could take private notes on each user. Eg, add a new button or link near the user's profile picture area on each post/comment right next to the link to their profile, that when clicked, opens a popup / tooltip that has an editable text box. This way I can easily keep track of my interactions with people. It's hard for me to remember names, but I sometimes I wish I could note that a certain person was friendly, or a dbag, or that they helped me with a certain something.

Obviously, I could keep my notes in a text file, but it would be a nice touch to have it integrated into the UI for me.

Also, since people would probably not store any notes on most users, the button should indicate whether or not I have stored any notes on that person yet. That way as I read through the comments in a thread, it sticks out if I have notes on the author of a comment, and I can then just click the button to see the notes.

I guess you'd want to store data this server side, associated with their account.

Anonymous posts need to be civil if you want them to remain.

disable submit buttons onclick to prevent double submissions.

anon_04599 says

another test of an anonymous comment

Looks good to me. I do like that you made it a longer number. I don't want to be biased out of the gate with anonymous users . So if the number is longer and harder to remember I think that's good if you're looking for more users, even if they don't register. But if someone is being an ass, there's at least some identifier to know, especially if it's spam.

We'll find out tonight when the "oil" starts getting slick. Or they may legitimately be paid and have the weekends off. We'll see. We'll actually see if I'm here tonight. Got things to do.

patnet should support unicode characters like the rest of the modern web.

simply setting the following header on all textual pages will likely get you 99% of the way there:

content-type: text/html;charset=utf-8

goat says

patnet should support unicode characters like the rest of the modern web.

simply setting the following header on all textual pages will likely get you 99% of the way there:

content-type: text/html;charset=utf-8

Thanks! Don't know how I missed that.

Better now?

People complained about the post titles being links to the external stories, so I put it back.

Now the main title is the patrick.net link once again. The (domainname.com) part after the title is the link to the external story.

Now you can, I think!

Thanks for telling me about this. Fixed a bug.

Works?

@Sniper does it work for you too now?

@Patrick

It appears you can no longer see anything but the last 40 comments in a thread. You used to have a link to see (say) comments 1-90 in a 130 comment thread, but now it's gone.

Damn, you're right.

Will try to fix during my commute.

OK, fixed it!

Get some ad revenue. We all ignore ads on other sites. You should make some money from your work here.

Somebody would love this demographic. Maybe the company that makes freeze dried yams?

On Chrome on my Android phone the submit button does not work. Other browsers work fine.

Any chance you can add how many people are on the site, regardless if they are registered or not? I like how you have the users that are online, but how about "guests" like a lot of other forums do? I don't know if there are only 3 "guests" or anons viewing the site at anytime or 300, but usually it shows something like 3-8 registered users online. That's not a good look.

I'm thinking a lot of people that could become active may be turned off by the low numbers that are clearly visible at the top of the page. Even if there are only 3-5 registered members online, but another 30 anons viewing the page, that might be motivation for someone to become active or post. I think I may have posted this in another thread (or even this one) but it would be nice to know the audience size a new post might be able to reach.

Yes, good idea. I should have "and 24 lurkers" or whatever it is.

Patrick says

Yes, good idea. I should have "and 24 lurkers" or whatever it is.

Or "69 pussies that won't register and put a username behind their words." Just kidding ;)

Sorry all, site was down most of last night. My fault for trying to fix things that were not broken!

WookieMan says

Or "69 pussies that won't register and put a username behind their words." Just kidding ;)

Nope just me1-69, Patrick offered me 72 virgins if I could keep the site going through the weekend. Naturally I accepted.

What you couldn't tell every anon was me?

Patrick says

My fault for trying to fix things that were not broken!

@patrick, speaking of broken. The ability to Edit a post is broken again. This is the error that comes up.

node server says: Cannot read property 'post_title' of undefined

anon_961a0 says

Patrick offered me 72 virgins if I could keep the site going through the weekend. Naturally I accepted.

You failed. No virgins for you :(

Sniper says

Patrick says

My fault for trying to fix things that were not broken!

@patrick, speaking of broken. The ability to Edit a post is broken again. This is the error that comes up.

node server says: Cannot read property 'post_title' of undefined

Fixed now. Thanks for telling me.

I did add the user_name reporting uncivil comments to the comment jail page:

http://patrick.net/comment_jail

BTW, you have to be logged in as a registered user to see the names.

@Patrick - Minor suggestion. If it's hard or not worth it, just ignore it.

Comment and thread times for people in other time zones is a bit weird. I just commented in the bitcoin thread and it says it's 5am or whatever. It's 7 am where I'm at. If you posted at that time, it actually is 5am if you're in CA at that time. I'm not sure what this actually improves, but it's just weird to not know what time people may actually be posting.

I know nothing about this stuff, but I assume it would have to be a user adjusted setting, right? They select their timezone from a drop down or whatever? For reasons I can't explain I'd like it as a feature, but as I said, if it's a pain don't worry.

Indiana Jones says

What the hell happened Patrick?

He's catering to the MINORITY (and sometimes a singular poster) instead of the MAJORITY.

Indiana Jones says

I know! Change name from patrick.net to mysogynist&racistswelcomehere.net

What the hell happened Patrick?

I suppose this is your true colors or you wouldn't allow all this crap on here. It's shocking, really. And sad.

I came here for the housing news initially. It was so vibrant then. And now it's like a cesspool of misogynistic and racist cretins.

All I can say is good luck with promoting your backward and hateful ideas. And Adios Amigos!

Which post(s) are you referring to?

mell says

Which post(s) are you referring to?

He's just trolling while attempting a weak virtue signal. (Don't expect any evidentiary support for his flaming.)

CBOEtrader says

(Don't expect any evidentiary support for his flaming.)

You mean like this?

/post/1313561/2018-02-03-patrick-do-something

CBOEtrader says

virtue signal

virtue signalling while being anonymous?? makes no sense

anon_7c0c9 says

He forced a hard right bias and now the board is heavily moderated against anyone liberal

Apparently you're missing all the daily TDS posts by the usual subjects here. The liberal narrative is STRONG here.

anon_c1d53 says

CBOEtrader says

virtue signal

virtue signalling while being anonymous?? makes no sense

Dear Mr self important anon, we were talking about IJ. He was even quoted. Read the thread.

anon_c1d53 says

virtue signalling while being anonymous?? makes no sense

We are all anonymous personas.
It's the persona that is virtue signaling.

Toddthebod says

Here's my two cents. The day calling someone a liar became abuse and those posts got deleted was the day the site was finished. When you have a group like the alt-right which can't even write a reply without lying, it eliminates all discussion and all that is left is a mountain of bullshit. People don't want to read bullshit all day long so they stopped reading patrick.net.

And TPB/Captain was never called to be banned by those who flounced (and often return anonymously) precisely for "Personal Attacks" that were "Ruining the Forum".

Toddthebod says

Calling out a liar is always ad hominem. Therefore now this place only appeals to liars. Clear enough?

Nope, calling out a liar and proving proof that poster lied is NOT ad hom. Sadly, you left wingers just can't handle the truth, and when called out on BS, play the Ad Hom card.

It's when you left wingers call someone a liar, but don't provide any substance, does it become Ad Hom. A certain feathered animal was an expert at that.

anon_c1d53 says

virtue signalling while being anonymous

Man, it's the coolest anon ever!

Get down with your bad self!

Miss a little miss a lot I guess. Jesus, this got derailed.

@Patrick - No rush, just want to make sure my suggestion at the start of the day doesn’t get buried in the 8th grade drama.