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View submission: The web redesign, CSS, and mod tools
Removing CSS will pretty much destroy /r/photoshopbattles as it exists now. And it's not just a matter of adapting to a widgets. The nature of our sub means it doen't work natively with Reddit's submission-based system, so we need a lot of customisation just to make our sub function. Removing this ability will kill:
We have a flair system that documents user achievements in a number of categories. This spans over 5 years of accomplishments by tens of thousands of users. These flairs are earned, using objective criteria, and as such there're a lot of users that're proud of them. They're also a real incentive for photoshoppers to participate - much like unlocking achievements in games.
It would be devastating to lose these. Not only would it be demoralising to our core userbase, it would undo well over a thousand man hours of work from the mod team (no exaggeration on that, unfortunately).
If the daily threads are a battles of speed, these slower contests are battles of quality. They've been run weekly since our sub's inception (with a few exceptions), and we're up to #255 on just the Weeklies.
They're a very important part of our sub; and, after the threads are over a day old, the only way we've been able to get traffic to them is via clickable custom images in our sidebar.
Our content is in the comments; submissions are just vehicles for creation. Across the rest of Reddit, deleting submissions is seen as normal; on our sub, it also effectively deletes other peoples' OC.
We've built CSS tools for dealing with this. Removing them destroys our only line of defence against these kinds of deletions.
We have a lot of idiosyncratic rules for submissions, and try our best to warn people about the counter-intuitive ones on the submit page. Not being able to do that will result it (1) a bunch of frustrates submitters, who get their posts removed; (2) increased mod workload; and (3) more rule-breaking submissions slipping by before we catch them.
And that's just the main points. There are so many other ways CSS is necessary to the functioning of our sub. And that's not even mentioning the aesthetics.
Comment by joedude at 25/04/2017 at 18:36 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
they don't care about you lol.