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Request to Label OP from Crossposts (piefed.social)

submitted 4 months ago by QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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I noticed something about crossposts and I'm curious if anything should happen differently with a very minor aspect of it.

I saw a post in one community and crossposted it to a different one (using Voyager given the current limitations with cross posting image/discussion posts and apparently PieFed still works to track comments from both posts, which is awesome!).

OP has since responded to comments in both the original post as well as in the one that I crossposted. However, in the crossposted post, OP from the original post does not appear as OP. In a way this makes sense because someone else is responsible for cross posting it there. However, I'm wondering if there should be some sort of label appearing in this particular case. Maybe something like "X-OP"?

The post in question:
https://piefed.social/c/starcitizen/p/1533992/getting-star-citizen-running-on-a-steamdeck-complete-guide

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[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Could be tricky as I don't think there's a way to identify the OP just from a link

[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't know much about AP's insides but couldn't it be handled in frontend?

Posts would need to have an additional, optional field "Original OP" (or make "author" a list?) and during the action of cross posting it would be filled from the original (or that's what you mean - the link is not enough, it would require a db lookup?) That would also have an added benefit of being able to choose if dragging OP along is a good idea or not

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 3 points 4 months ago

that’s what you mean - the link is not enough, it would require a db lookup?

That's what I meant yes

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It should be possible to implement, at least for PieFed to PieFed cross-posts.

But would you have multiple OP's then?

OG-OP and OP ? OP and OP jnr.

[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 3 points 3 months ago

I think that in such case there are in fact multiple OPs. But I don't have strong feelings about how to name them and if differentiate them at all

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 4 months ago

I trust blazes opinion but for what its worth I like the idea.