ddg: schwartzian transform perlmonks

Google doesn't seem to have this problem (anymore), any chance to adjust the robot text?

google: schwartzian transform perlmonks

This node in

• bare
• mobile

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Hmm ... these results with my FF searchbar are very different from the monastery markup [ddg://...]

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=schwartzian+transform++perlmonks&ia=web

G'day All,

Would it be possible to truncate individual "Nodes To Consider" items that exceed a certain size.

This request was prompted by the fact that, for about the last day or two, the first three entries take up about 20 screenfuls (on my 27'' monitor with my browser extended to its full height). I have encountered single items like this in the past, but never this many: it makes navigation very difficult.

I'm not fussed about what actual size is chosen, perhaps 2,000 characters. I wouldn't want the number of lines to be the criterion: the second item, at the moment, contains a single line with 4,263 characters.

I'd envisage some simple line, following the truncation, which says something like: "Truncated at 2,000 characters, follow the link above to see the full post.".

Normal posts which exceed a maximum number of characters — I'm not sure of the limit; 64K? — have something similar. Perhaps the code used for that could be reused for this.

I notice that the monks appear to have succumbed to the popularity gods and implemented a similar system.

In all seriousness: there are only 2 kinds of readers:

1. . Folk who know their stuff, understand the situation, and properly cast a ++ vote.
2. . Ev everyone else - especially including trolls, angry fools, idiots who don't-know-shit, folk who do not like the subject itself or happen to have a different opinion to it, haters who dislike the poster or their alias, and so forth.

I propose to delete the -- option entirely.

Think really carefully about this:
a) what kind of person do you need to be in order to be qualified to cast a "++" vote?
b) what kind of person do you need to be in order that your casting of a "--" vote is on-topic and useful to the conversation and deserving to decrement the vote of person (a) ?

See my point? There's no possible way to ensure that only skilled down-voters are counted, so not counting any downvotes at all actually sovles the problem. Garbage still ends up with "zero" reputation as it properly deserves, and all the gems are all but guaranteed to float to the top - without risk of being scuttled by fools.

Just stumbled across this today...

When I click on any of the reviews in the Module Reviews section, I see, not the contents of the review, but metadata for the node. For example, the entry for the review of Acme::Apache::Werewolf by rob_au displays:

• node_iip: none
• package: 0
• type: modulereview
• core: 0
• nodeupdated: 2005-08-13 16:55:42
• reputation: 69
• locktime: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
• node_id: 307626
• author_user: rob_au
• hits: 2110
• title: Acme::Apache::Werewolf
• ucreatetime: 1069065933
• createtime: 2003-11-17 05:45:33
• postbonus: 1
• votescast: 69
• lockedby_user: none

The reviews in the Book Reviews section are displaying correctly.

Cheers,

id://11136579, doc://pack and mod://Text::CSV_XS no longer work in the search box. I just get redirected from https://www.perlmonks.org/ to https://perlmonks.org/.

id://11136579, doc://pack and mod://Text::CSV_XS still work in posts, though.

Perhaps broken by the Open redirects are disabled change?

I recently graduated to novice(?) and have been allocated some reputation points to bestow on other people. I read that there would be some +'s and -'s next to the posts in my threads. I've been unable to find them though but whether that's due to my mediocrity or your appallingly wonderful UI I'm not sure. I've tried reading around but either I'm too lazy or the explanations are too opaque.

Any chance of a link to a dumbed down version?

Regards, sbrothy.

Is there a way how to get the target link from a shortcut? I.e. I don't want to redirect to it, I just want to get the link back so I can open it myself.

I got this message yesterday

NodeReaper says I've reaped a node you considered: Re^3: Why does it seem as though Perl has the only community of friendly, non patronizing or demeaning, programmers? What is with every one else? -- because: REAP: No need for anonymous insults

Alas, the post was unreaped and there is no entry in janitation history by whom and why...

Voting inside longer sub-threads with many posts is easy, you select ++ or -- and hit return.

But the request will return at the very beginning of the page and you need to scroll again to were you started.

actually there are anchors allowing to return from where you voted, like

?node_id=11135115#11135141

one only needs to isolate the ID from the radio's name <input type="radio" name="vote__11135141" value="-1">

Minor complication is that one can vote on multiple nodes at the same time, identifying the one where the request was triggered might require some JS trickery.

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In hindsight, implementing to vote with an AJAX request might be the better approach tho. It wouldn't require to reload the whole page and fiddling with the current vote mechanism.

Can someone with the proper access and authority please look into this? Thank you.

G'day All,

I had some problems with the rendering of the title of a post. I can't find any specific information: Super Search with keywords like title is not particularly useful. I suspect this may be documented somewhere; I hoping someone can point me to that.

The specific problem occurred with "Re^2: @ARGV ignores quotes [ZERO WIDTH SPACE]". That node's title currently renders as: Re^2: @ARGV ignores quotes [ZERO WIDTH SPACE].

Originally, the end of that was [&#8203;] which rendered as: Re^2: @ARGV ignores quotes [].

I didn't think that entity references were honoured in titles; however, this indicated I was wrong (or so I believed). I thought that would be an easy fix and changed the end part to [&amp;#8203;]; but that rendered as: Re^2: @ARGV ignores quotes [&amp;#8203;].

As I couldn't work out the apparently contradictory behaviour, I simply took a pragmatic approach and changed the end to [ZERO WIDTH SPACE] (its current value).

Any help with this would be appreciated.

How do I get "Newest Nodes" to permanently show more than the last 24 hours of questions again (i.e., get back to the way it was before I cleared "last checked time")?

Due to "popular demand", PerlMonks now supports Markdown formatting for writeups. Note: Initially, Markdown is only supported for comments (aka notes). If everyone likes it, we will extend the capability to root-level posts as well (SOPW posts, etc.)

Some relevant past discussions:

• Making Perl Monks a better place for newbies (and others)
• Wiki-Style syntax for posting
• better wiki-like shortcuts.
• Markdown syntax useful to the Monastery?

Sorry it took me a minute to implement this feature. :-D

To enable the use of Markdown in your comments, go to your User Settings and change the "Format writeups as:" selection from 'conventional' to 'markdown'.

Be aware that this is a global setting. You can't select the format at the time you submit the writeup.

When you are looking at a writeup entry box (textarea), you will see a short note immediately above it indicating which markup you can use.

This change was actually relatively simple to implement, since modules for converting markdown to HTML already existed.
I would like to know if there is any demand for any other Lightweight markup languages.
For example, we could add support for Textile or some flavor of wiki text.