I'm happy to announce that we now have flairs!

I decided to try something else than just deleting things. Instead of deleting borderline stuff, I'll for now add a flair to them.

Important note: The rules as stated in the sidebar are still in effect. Violating these still trigger a delete.

Also Rule 4 will be added. It states that submissions must be accessible from everywhere globally. Explicit exception to this rule are censor filters implemented by companies or local governments. Those affected may have our sympathy. This rule will be added once saving the text doesn't error out

Available flairs

No flair – For anything that there's no real flair for?
Meta – Meta discussions
OT – For off-topic stuff. Somewhat programming related, but then not really.
Security – Stuff that's security related, security patches, advisories, "Don't store passwords as plaintext" kind of articles, etc.
Help – For when people are seeking help on a programming related issue, how to get into it, that kind of stuff
Microsoft/Linux/Apple – For submissions specific to products by MS or Apple, or specific to Linux based operating systems. I haven't seen yet a BSD specific, so ...
Opinion – Submissions that are less objective and more opinionated towards something.
Educational –- Submissions that are generally educational
Beginner – Submissions targeted at beginners in general or for something specific. A tutorial for a first project in some framework or basic knowledge find their place here.

We're full. We can't add any more flairs.

Anything missing? I forgot a flair? Wanna discuss rules? Bring it on. I'll keep this thread as sticky for 48hrs.

Edit: Updated the list of flairs. Also, I'd like you to welcome discopig as second active moderator in this subvoat. He and I had a chat about /v/programming, and quickly came to the same conclusions. I'm happy to have him here, so say "hi" ;)

Edit²: 48 hours are over -> sticky no more

10 comments

3 u/V-sync 21 Jul 2015 15:36

Please don't use gray for every flair. I did /v/pcmasterrace and can show you how I did the flairs there if you like the way they look. Or if you don't then please make them all colored in some way, this place is gray enough already.

You also can have up to 10 flairs right now.

0 u/discopig 21 Jul 2015 18:44

That's a good idea, deleting definitely should be kept for irrelevant posts and spam.

0 u/Sorahzahd 21 Jul 2015 22:52

As someone who was critical of the removal of the post that brought up this issue, I feel this is much much better than just (semi-)arbitrarily removing stuff.

Good move Craftkorb.

0 u/leixiaotie 22 Jul 2015 08:56

Similar with stackoverflow eh? [Migrated/Closed/Duplicated] Nice one though, I prefer something like this. Hopefully we can search by flair later on.

Please add [Tips n Trick] or [Technical] flair for articles that is technical (ORM and design pattern for example). And I think something about [Discussion] will purpose good here.

And hopefully we can mark reposted article though.

0 u/Craftkorb [OP] 22 Jul 2015 12:15

We now have 10 flairs, which is the maximum. We can't add any more.

0 u/leixiaotie 22 Jul 2015 12:21

In your post above it only shows 8 (and one of no flair). What is the other 2?

Or, where can I see the list of flair in one subverse?

1 u/Craftkorb [OP] 22 Jul 2015 12:24

Count again. MS/Lin/Apple are separate flairs.

1 u/leixiaotie 22 Jul 2015 12:43

You just updated the flair list. Sweet move.

Edit: The help/education/beginner IMO is redundant. Isn't help/education is sufficient here unless multiple flair can be used in same post?

1 u/Craftkorb [OP] 22 Jul 2015 13:21

I have to disagree. Help is for people seeking help, educational is an article about something educational, so pretty much the other way around. We decided to have a beginner flair to mark these submissions, as they may be educational, but only for the beginner. I'm sorry, but if I'm browsing articles, I don't want to read for the billionths time about ls, cat, or this new cool kid "htop". /u/discopig felt the same.