User talk:JonBuck/Changing America
Blog Comments?
Just floating an idea for the other Paradise authors. Since much of this story is written through blog posts by the characters, is there any interest in submitting comments I can use? --Buck 03:18, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
- I'm guessing some of these comments should be rude, since Serena mentions that she was "outed" by the commentors. After all, the anonymity provided by the Internet does make people more daring and willing to flame, so I guess that it would be logical to have a couple making a lot of insults, sexual innuendo and the such. And also, with the "flame war" that began on the blog, I guess quite some commentors would be interested only in arguing and insulting each other, so I imagine a number of the comments may not even be related to the topic in question.
- Not all the comments would be mindless insults, of course, since some of the commentors should be still be, y'know, logical and mature to an extent. So a few might be discussing the topic, some others would be engaged in flaming combat, and others will be trying to break up the fight, right? And the comments don't have to have any part in the storyline, right?
If the above is correct, I can try dropping a bunch of comments for you! If you don't mind? Just give me the green light, and I'll do my very best! Oh, and great story, by the way! It's awesome. :)--Drake 18:15, 10 June 2009
- Go ahead and write down your comment ideas here. If I like 'em I'll make them official. :) --Buck 06:56, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
- Followup: Thinking about it, "canon" comments should add to the story in some way. Otherwise I doubt people will read them. --Buck 20:04, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
- Got it. I guess it makes sense that the comments should add to the story a little. They don't need to be as long as Robotech Master's, right?--Drake
- There do exist people who post long comments on blogs, you know. :P —Robotech Master 04:25, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
- I know, I'm sometimes one of those people myself. But most of the time, people just drop a short comment like "Nice one!" or something, because they usually don't think too deep into whatever they just read, or because they're just in a hurry. And can someone help get rid of the wierd boxes around the comments? It's ugly. :) --Drake
- Having a variety of commenters is good, honestly. --Buck 04:29, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
Comments
Post One: Introductions (Comments)
This one is the part where Serena gets "outed" by commentors. Comments are short and succint, like most are on blogs. If this is ok, JonBuck, then I'll drop more comments for other sections.
User: SilverFox
March 15, 2010, 10:12pm
User: AsianLeopard
less furs 'round here. And the climate's a lot easier on us. Guess you just have to bear
with the cold...
March 15, 2010, 11:23pm
User: Furry1337
interesting!
March 16, 2010, 1:07am
User: AwsimAlpha
transgendered, right?
March 16, 2010, 9:02am
User: xXFreakyDogXx
March 16, 2010, 9:26am
User: LemmingsREVOLT
This blog is such a rip-off, then. All that bullshit about "female
perspective", it's crap. You've spent your whole life as a male, now
just 'cos you got tits you say you're full of female perspective? MY ASS!
I'll go somewhere else with real perspective!
March 16, 2010, 9:45am
User: AwsimAlpha
woman's body.
March 16, 2010, 10:23am
User: AsianLeopard
I'm sure she'll surprise us.
March 16, 2010, 11:47am
User: LemmingsREVOLT
Fuck that you asshole she's not even a real woman how the hell
will she give any "female perspective" you dick?
March 16, 2010, 2:35pm
User: AsianLeopard
woman yourself? It's objective and undefinable because
everyone has their own opinion, so what makes you
think you can say she's not a real woman?
March 16, 2010, 2:48pm
User: LemmingsREVOLT
you. I'm heading over to some other blog. This
one's so gay.
March 16, 2010, 4:10pm
User: SilverFox
March 16, 2010, 3:52pm
User: S3XYFur
references>
--Drake PS Can someone get rid of the wierd boxes? I only wanted the layout. Thanks!
- Done. Created a nice template for you people to use. -- ShadowWolf 14:48, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
Serena's "Suck It"
User: JustAnotherVixen
You go, girl! If you want to belong to the superior gender, who am I to discourage you?
Seriously, I think this is something people are going to have to think a lot about. Everybody should be thinking about it, because they never know if one day they're going to wake up and find they're playing for the other team. Isn't that scary?
Anyway, it's not as if this is the crude surgical method people have had to use up 'til now, that sorta makes you look or feel like the other sex. This is the real deal. You get your genes scrambled but good, and a fully-functional bod with all the right hormones and natural cycles included. If that doesn't make you the gender you end up, what does?
I'd like to think it'll bring about greater understanding to have people out there who can write how-to-relate guides from personal experience on both sides. But people being people, they'll probably just screw it up again.
—Long-time vixen, first-time poster
March 21, 9:07 pm
—Robotech Master 03:01, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
The Envious Alan
User: JustAnotherVixen
(Perhaps it might be too blatant, but on the other hand it's so obvious that it has to be said out in the open sometime... —Robotech Master 20:42, 11 June 2009 (UTC))
Style/Template work
There ya' go. Template:CA comment is good to go - designed to be easy to use. Basics is {{CA comment|<username>|<text>|<date>[|<reply comment as template>]}} - in other words, for a comment by 'Drake' that has no reply you'd do {{CA comment|Drake|This is an example|August 17, 2010 23:45:50 UTC}} and if there was a reply to it you'd do: {{CA comment|Drake|This is an example|August 17, 2010 23:45:50 UTC|{{CA comment|Drake|Replying to myself as an example|August 17, 2010 23:46:30 UTC}}}}. The first of those examples would create the following:
User: Drake
August 17, 2010 23:45:50 UTC
And the second of those examples would create:
User: Drake
August 17, 2010 23:45:50 UTC
User: Drake
August 17, 2010 23:46:30 UTC
Comments can be nested in each other to any depth you'd like. Wish I could have made it simpler, but there are limitations to what the template system is capable of. Sorry. -- ShadowWolf 14:58, 12 June 2009 (UTC)