Guide to modhood
So, you have taken upon the task of leading a sub(section)of the Saidit community with your wisdom. No only are you wise in the gathering of your own truth (or other) sources, you have found yourself capable enough to deem sources of others worthy or unworthy and users allowed, restricted or banned/barred.
This is the latest version of the plain-text-Grimoire from the still active Mnemonic1 , it tells of it's journey from a "clickity-clack I'm really just a hack"-mod to the fully revered 'modgod', aka The Cyber-Aeon, aka Brahman's PDA and last and most a 'Saidit moderator'. As you can read, perhaps hear if Saidit has nice accessibility tags [If not, seek help and notify someone], this information is freely available2 and gives one enormous powers. Although mods are an important part of Saidit, they themselves have to take care of their sub(s) which are even more important. For this duty mods get a couple of tools, styling options and more. The beginning of the mod journey begins with these basics and therefor this text starts with it, some parts are skipped over and will be revisited later.
0000 Naming your sub
The name of your sub can be personal (like a blog) or when tackling a broader theme/topic it might be good to choose a name that people who are looking for that stuff can recognise it instantly (See /s/Internet {shameless self shill}). Keep in mind the Capitalisation of letters for the URL is permanent. When musing about the name take some time to think of how you envision your sub going, this will help when you finally create it and filling out the other forms and representation.
0001 Creating your sub
It's as easy as filling in all the forms:
Title [is the title in the tab (html <title> tag)]
description [Is what people see in the sub-list, short summary of your sub]
sidebar [Can be a long description of the sub, is found right under the chat and above the moderation tools.]
submission text [A small text message people see pop up under the sub choice section when choosing your sub as sub to post the link/text to]
all the options till look and feel [self explanatory, later in the section about those, best left untouched unless you know what you're doing]
look and feel [Your header Around 170px in height and not larger than 1376px wide (You can use a wider one, but that is explained in 0010)]
You can adjust these setting by going to your sub, look right and scroll down till you see the 'Moderation tools' and choose the first link 'sub settings'.
0010 Banner/header
For having a wider banner/replacing the saidit banner altogether, you will have to go to the Moderation tools and click the second link 'edit stylesheet'. Here you have to first upload your banner (under the code-edit block) and then paste this code (with replacing 'Banner' for your bannername as stated below after the upload).
/* This is used for when your Banner is too wide, it replaces the original saidit one and makes it scale with the screen instead of adding a scrollbar, No need to use the banner option in the settings menu if you do this*/
#header { background-image: url(%%Banner%%); }
#header-img, #header-img.default-header { background-image: none; min-height: 170px; }
Depending on the height of the banner just have to adjust your min-height to where it all fits nicely. Save and tada!
0011 Sub settings
Public, private or restricted?
A public sub is viewable by all users and all users can post content and comment.
A private sub is not visible to users unless they are granted access. (further research required for how it goes after granting access)
A restricted sub is viewable by all users, only approved users can submit content, all users can comment.
(not yet written)
0100 Moderation of submissions
If you have a good general outline in your description of the sub about what sort of content you want posted and encounter a post that is off you’ll have to reflect back at your description and outlined posting guides (maybe this post is technically correct, so you want to update them). Then if it’s outright spam/nonsense posting you can delete it right away (if it’s a nonsense post inform the poster of why it was deleted). If it’s a good post but just doesn’t belong in your sub I recommend PMing the poster to please remove it and that you will be deleting it otherwise within (let’s say 12 hours) explain why it doesn’t belong on your sub. This way the poster can re-post it in another (hopefully more fitting) sub and everybody is happy.
0101 Moderation of users
The Moderation of users aka banning them should be reserved for only (ad)spammers [This might be edited in the future]
0110 Wiki usage
(not yet written)
0111 Moderation tools
(not yet written)
1000 Appendix (CSS-class cheatsheet)
The classes in order of appearance:
js cssanimations csstransforms
moderator hot-page theme-nightmode subscriber listing-page loggedin contributor
width-clip
dropdown srdrop
selected title
drop-choices srdrop
choice
bottom-option choice
sr-list
flat-list sr-bar hover
separator
random choice
default-header
hover pagename redditname
tabmenu
selected
user
userkarma
nohavemail
nohavemail access-required
flat-list hover
pref-lightswitch pref-lightswitch-off choice
pref-lang choice
logout hover
side side-chat chat_size_default
spacer
infobar
sponsorshipbox
sidebox submit submit-link
morelink
login-required access-required
nub
sidebox submit submit-text
sidebox create
chat-link
chat-iframe thelounge
titlebox
hover redditname
hover
fancy-toggle-button subscribe-button toggle
option active remove login-required
option add
subscribers
number
word
users-online fuzzed
leavemoderator
toggle leavecontributor-button
option main active
togglebutton
option error
yes
no
toggle flairtoggle
tagline
author may-blank id-t2_1mx flairselectable
flairselectbtn access-required
flairselector drop-choices
userattrs
usertext warn-on-unload
usertext-body may-blank-within md-container
md
bottom
author may-blank id-t2_1mx
age
clear
sidecontentbox collapsible
title
collapse-button
content
flat-vert icon-menu hover
reddit-edit access-required choice
edit-stylesheet access-required choice
community-rules access-required choice
moderator-mail access-required choice
reddit-moderators choice
reddit-contributors access-required choice
reddit-traffic access-required choice
reddit-modqueue access-required choice
reddit-reported access-required choice
reddit-spam access-required choice
reddit-edited access-required choice
reddit-ban access-required choice
reddit-mute access-required choice
reddit-flair access-required choice
reddit-automod access-required choice
reddit-moderationlog access-required choice
reddit-unmoderated access-required choice
sidecontentbox
helplink access-required
more
sitetable linklisting
thing id-t5_goj odd link
parent
midcol unvoted
arrow up login-required access-required
score
arrow down login-required access-required
thumbnail may-blank loggedin
entry unvoted
title may-blank loggedin
domain
expando-button collapsed video
live-timestamp
author may-blank id-t2_2e8
flat-list buttons
first
bylink comments empty may-blank
share
post-sharing-button
link-save-button save-button
state-button hide-button
toggle remove-button
togglebutton access-required
state-button approve-button
access-required
report-button
reportbtn access-required
toggle lock-button
toggle marknsfw-button
reportform report-t5_goj
expando expando-uninitialized
error
child
clearleft
thing id-t5_gf1 even link
midcol likes
arrow upmod login-required access-required
entry likes
bylink comments may-blank
toggle del-button
reportform report-t5_gf1
thing id-t5_g5f odd link
author may-blank id-t2_2p5
reportform report-t5_g5f
thing id-t5_gih even link
reportform report-t5_gih
thing id-t5_gfa odd link
reportform report-t5_gfa
thing id-t5_fy5 even link
reportform report-t5_fy5
thing id-t5_fj0 odd link
author friend may-blank id-t2_95
friend
reportform report-t5_fj0
thing id-t5_fgz even link
reportform report-t5_fgz
thing id-t5_ff7 odd link
reportform report-t5_ff7
thing id-t5_fbw even link
reportform report-t5_fbw
thing id-t5_f8p odd link
reportform report-t5_f8p
thing id-t5_f3p even controversial link
author may-blank id-t2_ee
reportform report-t5_f3p
thing id-t5_f5a odd link
reportform report-t5_f5a
thing id-t5_f24 even link
reportform report-t5_f24
thing id-t5_f7d odd link
reportform report-t5_f7d
thing id-t5_ezh even link
reportform report-t5_ezh
thing id-t5_f2f odd link
reportform report-t5_f2f
thing id-t5_e5b even link
author friend may-blank id-t2_1h
reportform report-t5_e5b
thing id-t5_e33 odd link
reportform report-t5_e33
thing id-t5_dwu even link
thumbnail default may-blank loggedin
toggle rescrape-button
reportform report-t5_dwu
thing id-t5_dsr odd link
reportform report-t5_dsr
thing id-t5_dxh even link
reportform report-t5_dxh
thing id-t5_duz odd link
reportform report-t5_duz
thing id-t5_dkk even link
reportform report-t5_dkk
thing id-t5_dm6 odd link
reportform report-t5_dm6
nav-buttons
nextprev
subreddit-report-form rounded
action-icon action-icon-info c-hide-text may-blank
reason-prompt report-header
report-reason-list
report-reason-item report-reason-reddit
site-reason-radio
report-reason-display
report-reason-item report-reason-other
c-form-control
error TOO_LONG field-other_reason
report-header
c-submit-group
btn c-btn c-btn-secondary report-cancel
btn c-btn c-btn-primary submit-action-thing
status
report-reason-item
gold-wrap cloneable-comment
gold-banner
fancy
fancy-inner
fancy-content
gold-form gold-payment
close-button
container
sidelines
transaction-summary
indent
hidden giftmessage
buttons
note
throbber
gold-snoo
gold-wrap cloneable-link
interstitial
interstitial-image
interstitial-message md-container
c-btn c-btn-primary
footer-parent
footer rounded
col
flat-vert hover
flat-vert title
bottommenu
footer-banner
The ids in order of appearance:
config
header
jumpToContent
sr-header-area
sr-more-link
header-bottom-left
header-img
header-bottom-right
mail
modmail
search
searchexpando
moresearchinfo
search_hidemore
search_showmore
flair_enabled
form-t4_6jzem
moderation_tools
siteTable
thing_t5_goj
thing_t5_gf1
thing_t5_g5f
thing_t5_gih
thing_t5_gfa
thing_t5_fy5
thing_t5_fj0
thing_t5_fgz
thing_t5_ff7
thing_t5_fbw
thing_t5_f8p
thing_t5_f3p
thing_t5_f5a
thing_t5_f24
thing_t5_f7d
thing_t5_ezh
thing_t5_f2f
thing_t5_e5b
thing_t5_e33
thing_t5_dwu
thing_t5_dsr
thing_t5_dxh
thing_t5_duz
thing_t5_dkk
thing_t5_dm6
subreddit-rules-report-template
report-action-form
subreddit-default-report-template
reddit-report-template
report-reason-template
signed-false
message
giftmessage
archived-popup
hsts_pixel
.1 [Yes, it was snek, Inventresse of Everything]
.2 [You can always donate somewhere in the footer or your local charity, because when 127.0.0.1 is not stable you become less able.]
revision by Mnemonic— view source