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[w35]

So, after a year of reading SSSS, I finally create a Disqus account! My goodness, that website is painfully bright. I present to all of our dark theme fans and Disqus users, a stylish, transparent, glowy, and dark restyle of Disqus. SSSS inspired the links, shadows, and purple, while the rest was from my favourite wunderground theme and my imagination. It is a total restyle of the disqus domain, including all websites using the external chat plugin.

You will need to download the Stylish addon for your browser, then go to https://userstyles.org/styles/110281/disqus-dark-and-transparent and select, "Install with Stylish." Everything is commented, so personal adjustments can be easily made.

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Link to download:
https://userstyles.org/styles/110281/disqus-dark-and-transparent

Cheers to our eyes.

(This site is next)

[Solovei]

oh woooow.
I don't know if I'll use it, but I gotta say, this is really awesome! Good job~
I like the transparency thingies the most, I think.

[w35]

Updated the style to comply with Disqus' changes, and made it more SSSSy.
https://userstyles.org/styles/110281/disqus-dark-and-transparent

[Cancvas]

So, I'm just curious how you use (mainly in SSSS context) Disqus voting system.

I use only upvote
- to agree with content comment is about (for longer statements with meaningful content)
- to express similar opition as commenter (for comments like "I agree")
- if i find comment amusing or otherwise moving (like those spinoff tRoLL diSussIONs)
- to express sympathy

-C

[hushpiper]

I don't have any hard and fast rules for how I use the voting system, but usually I upvote anything that I found insightful or that made me laugh. If a comment pulled a smile or a "huh" out of me, it's probably gonna get upvoted. It's sort of an easy and silent way of participating in a conversation when you don't have anything in particular to say. Kinda like smiling or laughing or making noises or gestures like you would do in a face-to-face conversation, I think--at least, that's what I sort of unconsciously equate it to.

[DB (f.k.a. DaveBro)]

::Upvotes Hush::

I'll downvote excess profanity and incivility, on the theory that it only matters if others agree with me enough to also downvote.  Maybe a down vote to the wise is sufficient?

[Fen Shen]

I usually don't up/downvote comments because I'm too lazy to login on Disqus everytime I visit the site. However, the votes of other help me because I often "sort comments by: best" instead of just reading from top to bottom - I'd never arrive at the bottom because I don't have that much time to spare...

[Krisse Kovacs]

So, I'm just curious how you use (mainly in SSSS context) Disqus voting system.

I use only upvote
- to agree with content comment is about (for longer statements with meaningful content)
- to express similar opition as commenter (for comments like "I agree")
- if i find comment amusing or otherwise moving (like those spinoff tRoLL diSussIONs)
- to express sympathy

-C

I use the upvote same way too.

I'd use down-voting if I am totally disagree with it, or I hate it, but I never ever used it before.

[Sunflower]

So, I'm just curious how you use (mainly in SSSS context) Disqus voting system.

I use only upvote
- to agree with content comment is about (for longer statements with meaningful content)
- to express similar opinion as commenter (for comments like "I agree")
- if i find comment amusing or otherwise moving (like those spinoff tRoLL diSussIONs)
- to express sympathy

Me too.  The upvote button can be a little tricky sometimes because it's too simple to fully express all those sentiments -- parallel to "Like" on Facebook; doesn't it seem strange to "Like" someone's post about dealing with cancer or whatever?

The downvote button, I only use for what I consider seriously abusive content.  I've probably only downvoted 3-4 times.  (I've seen other online communities where people vigorously up- and down-vote one another's postings, but they were more debate-oriented.  I personally wouldn't want the SSSS Disqus comments to evolve that way, but I know that's up to the community as a whole, not me.)

[Curry]

So, I'm just curious how you use (mainly in SSSS context) Disqus voting system.

I use only upvote
- to agree with content comment is about (for longer statements with meaningful content)
- to express similar opition as commenter (for comments like "I agree")
- if i find comment amusing or otherwise moving (like those spinoff tRoLL diSussIONs)
- to express sympathy

-C

Yeeppp, I'm not on the comments much, but this is pretty much how I use it! I also generally upvote the comments in a discussion I'm involved in as well (kind of like a way to say 'I read this' without necessarily responding to it.)

[Sc0ut]

Exactly as Cancvas. I've only downvoted a comment once, when an offtopic discussion got heated and someone was wrong and rude at me I mostly downvoted to prevent myself from replying to them.

[w35]

Finally stopped being lazy and updated the style for Disqus' latest changes.

https://userstyles.org/styles/110281/disqus-dark-and-transparent

[DB (f.k.a. DaveBro)]

Any chance it would get Disqus running again on my Windows 7 Neuter, er, Starter, on an Acer Inspire netbook?     Currently on Eternal Reload, tempting me to go watch the washing machine instead. 

We're up-to-date with FireFox.  FWIW.

[Noodles]

Just as an FYI, this site does already have a dark mode -- click the little moon just to the right of the News section, above the search bar. (Not that you can't make your own dark mode, but you don't necessarily have to.) :>

[w35]

DaveBro, is Disqus not loading while you have the style applied? Can you give more details, such as which pages, external comments, etc...

Noodly, I am aware. This restyling is for Disqus specifically.