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Welcome

Welcome to SaidIt.net, a community focused on respectful communication and a variety of perspectives. SaidIt is a Reddit-style news-aggregating ranking-forum website started in 2017.

 


FAQ Frequently Asked Questions

Votes

Q: How do votes work?

A: SaidIt uses two upvote dimensions rather than the traditional upvote/downvote dimension. 'Insightful' votes earn 2 points and 'Fun' votes earn 1 point. These are added together to determine the post's or comment's score. Removing downvotes addresses the issue of downvote brigading. A second upvote dimension enables separating serious content from funny content.

Rules

Q: What is allowed and what is not permitted?

A: SaidIt.net is for open civilized discourse with very few rules:

  1. By the Terms And Content Policy, "If a person is caught repeatedly dragging discussion in a downward direction on the Pyramid of Debate, they will be removed."
  2. No pornography. It's too much trouble to monitor and there's no shortage elsewhere.
  3. No vending of illegal weapons, illegal drugs, and stolen goods, nor discussion about, nor links leading to sales of illegal things according to US law.
  4. No astroturfing or artificial amplification of your free speech voice. For example, do not upvote yourself or others using alternate usernames or sock-puppet accounts.

Q: How do I report a rule violation?

A: Use the 'report' link on posts and comments to report violations to sub moderators. If the moderators aren't active or aren't responding to clear site-wide rule violations, message /s/saidit to report it to the admins.

Mod Rules

Four new rules apply to subsaidit moderators:

  1. SaidIt rules apply site-wide to all subs including yours. Mods must not break SaidIt site-wide rules in their sub nor encourage others to do so.
  2. Any user may moderate up to 40 subs. Bypassing this limit is forbidden. (ie. Via multiple sockpuppet accounts, etc)
  3. Subs must not be designed to trick people nor undermine the quality of SaidIt.net. (ie. Fake legal warning pages, honeytraps, solely problem-causing subs for SaidIt, etc)
  4. Mods must follow the Saidit mod rules

Markdown Code

Q: Are there more formatting help options?

A: Yes, see these more common formatting usages when commenting (tell us if you think something is missing), the Official Markdown Syntax, or this Beginner’s Guide to Reddit Formatting.

Q: What is the key to a successful submission?

A: Whether submitting a link or text-based post, a descriptive title with interesting content will have better chances of being noticed and up-voted. Speak your mind. A title is required, but expanding further in the text field is not. Beginning your title with "vote up if..." is an obnoxious violation of Intergalactic Law.

Subs (aka SubSaidIts)

Q: May I create a sub?

A: After your account is 2 weeks old a "create your own sub" button will appear. Thereafter you may create 1 sub per week. (Please capitalize proper titles.)

Q: How many subsaidits may I moderate?

A: 40 maximum (see Mod Rules above). Moderator activity is 100% transparent in mod logs. Abuses of power will be dealt with so be fair to enjoy free speech. In your subs' sidebox you may list extra sub rules in addition to the site-wide rules, above.

Q: Will threads expire, archive, and lock?

A: No. On Reddit, posts eventually are archived so you may no longer comment. On SaidIt, there's no date-locking archiving to prevent participation and just no reason for it. Threads remain open forever and ever.

Q: When configuring your subsaidit under "sub settings", what do the 1) "title", 2) "description", 3) "sidebar", and 4) "submission text" fields mean?

A: 1) The very short "title" field will be name of your sub in a tab or as a bookmark (an important label for navigating or saving). 2) The short "description" field informs us what your sub is about, in the SaidIt.net/subs lists, and to confirm you've set it up properly check the SaidIt.net/subs/new/ list. 3) The "sidebox" field is always on the right side, even on "sub settings" pages (with brief descriptions, goals, rules, etc). 4) The "submission text" will change what your sub's "submit link" or "submit text" buttons say in the sidebox at right (few bother to change these).

Q: How long may my subsaidit's sidebox description be?

A: In the sub settings the sidebar field allows 5,179 characters maximum. This includes non-visible code and links.

Subscribing To Subs

Q: How may I stop being subscribed to so many subs and revert back to having the same list of default subs that new users get?

A: In your preferences under subscriptions you may reset subscriptions. SaidIt switched from having an auto-subscribe to all on registration model to a more traditional opt-in model in October 2019.

Q: Why can't I see the sidebar subscribe/unsubscribe buttons?

A: Some ad-blockers like ABP/Adblock Plus don't like the "subscribe" button CSS classes. Help us solve this issue here.

Setting Up MultiSubs

Q: May I make multisub links, custom private/public user multisubs?

A: Yes to all. For information on starting and configuring your own personal multisub feeds view the instructions on the multisubs wiki page. (Note: Lower on that page the project has been shelved to classify all SaidIt subs into topical groups and multisubs, so while incomplete they will work but won't include subs created since July 2019. You may copy and custom add or subtract your own sub choices.)

Home Page Preference

Q: May I set my home page (https://SaidIt.net) to something other than my subscribed subs (/s/subscribed)?

A: Yes. In your preferences under content options you may set your home page as "Subscribed (default)" (/s/subscribed ) or "All" (/s/all), since October 2019. Also consider utilizing personalized multisubs.

Wiki

Q: Why can't I edit the wiki page?

A: Likely it's mod-only or you haven't been here 100 days.

Long Answer: Every sub moderator may pick 1 of 3 options to 1) disable the wiki for all users except mods [default], 2) allow only mod-approved wiki contributors, or 3) anyone who can submit to the sub may edit. And the mods may set two more wiki-related fields: 4) Sub karma required to edit and create wiki pages: [default 100], and 5) Account age (days) required to edit and create wiki pages: [default 0].

Private Messages

Q: How long may my private messages be?

A: Private messages are limited to 10,000 characters maximum. This includes non-visible code and links.

Chat

Q: Chat says "authentication failed"?

A: Refresh the web page.

Q: Chat says "not connected"?

A: Re-connect to the IRC server by sending "/connect". Repeat if necessary.

Who Runs SaidIt?

Q: Who runs this site?

A: magnora7 and d3rr started and admin SaidIt. For more read this InfoGalactic article on SaidIt.

API

Q: May I build or port another app, or use the SaidIt API?

A: Yes! See the SaidIt app development guidelines. (Also, you may modify CSS and apply your own subsaidit themes. For more: /s/SaiditCSSthemes/)

 


Apps & Clients

Android

Desktop

Web

  • SaidIt/Reddit open-source social news aggregator forked from open-source Reddit code, running this website and the API. git source (official)
  • Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES) : builds, git source (official)
    • WARNING: stomps your RES for Reddit settings
  • m.SaidIt.net - mobile theme
  • SaidIt.net/.compact - old minimal Reddit-style (trivia only, not supported)
  • RSS feeds - available for most pages
  • JSON data - available for most pages

SaidIt app development guidelines

 


Known Bot Accounts

Some bot accounts are not obvious and are not in violation of site policy. In the spirit of full disclosure and maximum transparency, here they are, so far as it's alleged.

 


SaidIt Images

For lack of a better place, here are links to these images:

The Pyramid Of Debate v3 Detailed plus a short link: https://bit.ly/2WdqYdo

The Debate Pyramid v3 Simple plus a short link: https://bit.ly/2JSIbT0

Source: SaidIt Debate Pyramid gallery on InfoGalactic.com

See also: SaidIt branding gallery + SaidIt banner gallery on InfoGalactic.com

 


Wiki List

This is the primary wiki site-map, alphabetically:

SaidIt Wiki Subpages

Freely improve these /s/SaidIt/wiki/ pages (alphabetical):

User's Wiki Pages

Please do not edit these /s/SaidIt/wiki/ pages (alphabetical):

These miscellaneous wiki subpages (not to be confused with subsaidit wiki pages) may technically be open and editable but please do not edit them unless invited to freely improve. For personal pages, please use your user name. For pages on speficic topics please use a clearly understood short name.

To start a new page edit this wiki page, duplicate the "BlankExample" above and uniquely modify the dupilcate title and "save page", then click on the new title to go to the new starting page.

 



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