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Daman09

Phase 1 of r/elections revamp: Get your Flair on

Okay guys, as I muddle my way through the land of CSS, I have finally mastered how the flair of this subreddit will work. It's quite simple.

There are three areas of which your flair will have info:

Flag: Because I am trying to implement a global Reddit, I would love for people to rep the area that best represents them. Due to the many geographical differences within the United States, I have decided it would perhaps be smart to implement only state flags for Americans, but, if you live in any other country, I can implement your national flag.

Party Affiliation/identification: This one is pretty self explanatory. It can be any official party, you can even identify yourself as an independent if you wish. The only restrictions in this area will be the length of the party's name. Repping yourself as being a member of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party may be a little distracting, and I will likely have to shorten it, or abbreviate it to something like OMRLP, or Loony Party. I will use this at my discretion

Local Political district: I thought long and hard about this, but ultimately decided to keep it. Basically, this sections will represent the federal political district you vote in. This doesn't necessarily have to correspond to your state flag, due to college, temporary locations, and that sort. For the US, this will be in the form of US congressional districts, for Canada, we'll use your riding, and so on and so forth.

Of course, all this information is optional, and you can also mix and match, say, you just want a flag, but not party ID, or want party ID and local political district with no flag. Just send me a message, or post in this thread, I should be able to implement your flair within a day or so.

As always, I'm looking for feedback, and would love to hear what you guys think. My next phase will likely be changing the look and feel of the reddit, which I will be doing gradually. When I finish, I shall make another post with an update

As election season ramps up in the United States, I have a soft goal of implementing all the changes I want to this subreddit by January, before the Iowa Caucuses.

Posted Oct 21, 2011, 3:45 PM UTC · edited

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