ursamajor | what one can do in a lunchtime

so i'm not really a goth. and i don't really go to goth parties. i mean, i can appreciate a hottie in leather and all, but the scene isn't really my thing.

now, people post goth party notices to

b0st0n, like, all the freakin' time. (i think the fact that i mostly unironically used "like" in that context disqualifies me from being mistaken for a goth, EVER.) and i'm sure these are nice people, but i don't really care enough about knowing that their parties are going on to keep it on my friendspage. however, useful info is still posted to

b0st0n, and defriending it would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

i suppose i could ask them to lj-cut their posts, but i'm too lazy and i prefer to avoid the drama. :)

so instead, i just wrote a function for my style that checks to see if a user posting to a community is in an array that contains the usernames of people whose goth party ads i don't really care to see on my friendslist. and if it is, automagically lj-cuts the post, marking it goth party spam.

i'm not a programmer. but some days, i surprise myself with what i end up managing to do, after all.

this is based heavily on the meme-cutter function.

this gets put up towards the top of your style, when various functions start being declared:


function contains_goth(string content) : bool {
	var string[] ljgoths = [ "othniel77", "morbidiqua", "j_cannibal" ];
	foreach var string ljgoth ($ljgoths) {
		if ($content == $ljgoth) { return true; }
	}
	return false;
}

and this gets put down somewhere in FriendsPage::print_entry , replacing the line

print $e.text; "<br />";:


# if (...) { should be one line!
if (($p.view == "friends") and ($e.poster.username != $p.journal.username) and (contains_goth($e.poster.username))) {
# following should be one line too, sigh
"""<br /><b>( <a href="$e.permalink_url">cut for goth party spam</a> )</b><br />""";
	}
	else {
	    print $e.text; "<br />";
	}

1/26/24: OH, dear self, when you wrote this post, you were ... just over a week into dating the Manray-attending goth you would eventually marry. ROFL. Also, Manray would close its doors a month later, but boy howdy would the goth event promotion spam continue to be an issue, hahaha.