A preliminary study done by... me in March 2005 found that there was no noticeable difference between 2channel and forums.gentoo.org in terms of useful posts, off-topic posts, and nonsense in a long thread about technical issues
LOL
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Anonymous2008-01-16 8:44
That ... site ... killed my inner programming child. What a concentrated fuckload of fail.
>>11
And oh look, TWO fucking locked sticky threads requiring me to page down. And all the mods are namefags and use gay capcodes to increase the size of their e-penis.
http://lol.7chan.org/pr/res/5247.html Hi guys, I made a simple PHP script that just rotates a bunch of images in the same folder. Same kind as in the banner here on 7chan, but this one's for mass distribution. Also, it has it's downfalls *shrug*.
I agree, Wakaba is nice, but Wakabamark is just stupid. Why force people to learn a different way to format text when everyone is already familiar with BBCode? I admit BBCode is fucking stupid and was invented by PHP programmers who can't write secure code, but let's face it, people are used to it and expect to be able to use it whenever BBSes support text formatting.
Waha's "HTML subset" is admittedly "The Right Thing", but it ends up being annoying when you're supposed to remember it JUST for posting on 4-ch.
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Anonymous2008-01-16 21:48
>>19
I meant wakabamark. It's just a light version of markdown.
Markdown is very easy to learn and a real timesaver if you publish stuff on the web, but it's not really suitable for imageboards or textboards.
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Anonymous2008-01-16 22:58
>>20
what can shiitchan's light version of bbcode do that wakabamark can't?
the only thing i can think of is spoiler tags. spoiler tags are completely useless except for EXPERT BBCODE PROGRAMMER faggotry.
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Anonymous2008-01-16 23:37
>>21
Not mangling people's post when they don't know about the formatting syntax. If you don't know about it, you can't accidentally use BBCODE in a post, but you can use markdown accidentally. (Not that I think it's enough of a problem to take issue with wakabamark, but it'd be better if wakaba/kareha defaulted to plain text)
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Anonymous2008-01-17 3:30
Java is still my favorite. I think everyone should learn java at some point in time because its the most effective way of learning to code properly in an object oriented way.
>>22
But that's precisely the point of wakabamark -- that you don't have to know the formatting to use it. People naturally write *like this* for emphasis in plain text, and use > to lead into a quote. Markdown has a lot of extra shit in it that screws up posts when you're not expecting it, but for the most part wakabamark tends to stay out of the way (unless you're writing line noise valid Perl code).
BBcode is ridiculous. It forces people to learn a new way to make text bold, even if they already know HTML, and it doesn't save a damn thing. The only reason UBB even invented that abomination is so they could apply a shitty regex to posts to convert [(b|i|u)\](.*?)[/\1\] to <$1>$2</$1> without allowing for injection attacks with other tags, and when they made it more complicated (with [url] and the like) it defeated its own purpose. Just use HTML and sanitize it properly, that way people who know HTML already know what they're doing, and those who don't know it are actually learning something USEFUL instead of a stupid halfassed subset of HTML with a new syntax that only works on message boards, and which is implemented differently from one board to another.
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Anonymous2008-01-17 8:58
>>27
Waha under disguise detected. No one on 4chan uses the sage feature correctly.