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Q&A

So, don't quite know what the site is about, eh? Allow me to explain. My name is Trever Fischer and this is my contribution to the internet. Like most netizens, I use IRC. Now, way back in the early 2000s, the world's most popular IRC quote database, bash.org went offline. The moderators went on strike and a good bit of drama occured. Our little corner of the internet was (slightly) saddened. We didn't have a reliably fresh source of entertainment other than ourselves. This of course, was back when I was in the beginning of my PHP learnings. I threw caution to the wind and started creating my own 'replacement' for bash.org. Only our small channel used it, so there is plenty of history in here back when it used to be active.

Now for a more objective explanation.

Quiffle is a 'quote database'. Quotes go in and stay in. I don't delete submissions unless they aren't quotes. The lifetime of a quote can be described in these simple steps:

  1. Submission
  2. Moderation, which can lead to either:
After a quote has been rejected, there is nowhere else for it to go. Sure, votes still apply but it is relegated to the trash bin for eternity. It will only show up in the trash and nowhere else. Decisions are final.

Getting accepted puts a quote in danger of rejection. Each quote is equipped with a never-fail 'Reject' checkbox available during viewing. Should the viewer decide that I made a mistake, the quote is shuttled back to step 2. The only difference between going from 1-2 and from 3-2 is that the quote is still considered part of that cool group of 'accepted' quotes. If I decide I was wrong in judgement, the quote falls to the 'Rejected' status quo from which there is no escape. More often than not, I don't make a mistake so accepted quotes stay accepted.

The Interface

Have a look at this quote (its a personal favorite):

#318 25% (4/16)

<Yourself> only 32 million in all of canada?
<Yourself> no wonder the country seems so nice, not enough people to form a decent lynch mob

Note the grey bar above the quote. The number is a direct link to the quote. It may have different symbols in front of it:

That percent you see there is its relative approval. A quote with only one upvote and no downvotes is relatively equivilant to a quote with a hundred upvotes and zero downvotes. Following this percent is the absolute approval. It is the sum of up and down votes over total votes. Downvotes are worth -1. If the absolute approval is 0/0, relative approval is infinity because I think ∞ is shorter than 'indeterminate'. To change these voting numbers, you select an option out of the three items. The left button equates to a downvote, the right is an upvote, and the middle is no change.

The final box is the boat that sends that quotation across the Styx and into the moderation queue. If a quote is rejected or already in said queue, the box will be disabled.

My Quote was marked as spam!

And probably for good reason, too. Spambots continuously plague Quiffle. Every hour at least 50 spam quotes get added. Due to this incredible volume, spam quotes are automatically deleted after 7 days. Thats more than enough time for you to contact The Administration and request that we sort through the filth to find your gem. Sorting through it is a pain, so ask nicely. Providing your quote id isn't required but helps us get to the quote faster.

The critera for getting your quote marked as spam is quite simple. Just follow any one of these guidelines:

However, there is one simple rule that circumvents all those rules:

Your quote doesn't even have to be promoted to 'Accepted'! If you can find it anywhere in the database (yes, even in the trash), we've already validated that you are a human and not a robot.

Just for reference, we don't have any reason to believe you are human.