Hey how to I do the "from source" thing in the descriptions of the posts?

I assume you mean section DText, so

Would result in

You can use whatever you want past the equals sign, not necessarily "From Source", but it must end with that closing square bracket.

siral_exan said:
I assume you mean section DText, so

[section= From Source] *source text here* [/section]

Would result in

From Source

*source text here*

You can use whatever you want past the equals sign, not necessarily "From Source", but it must end with that closing square bracket.

Yup thanks

This is a feature of Idem's Sourcing Suite that allows filling a post info quickly and additionally adds "Copy Description" button which is useful for resources from which you can't upload directly (i.e. Pixiv).
If you want to do it manually for whatever reason, use this code:

From source:
[section,expanded=Section Title Goes Here]
Text Goes Here
[/section]

Idem's Sourcing Suite does this automatically.

^{Edit: I guess I was too slow}

It's not really needed, though. Just put what's at the source in the description, there's no need to indicate it's "from source" since uploaders shouldn't be putting random things in the description anyway. Unless otherwise specified, any description should be assumed to be from the source.

Also, absolutely definitely don't put the source description in a collapsed [section] block. Users already have an account option to hide the description by default, so it's extremely annoying for those of us that have descriptions visible by default to have the description forced hidden by the uploader because they needlessly used a [section] block. The only time a non-expanded section block should ever be used in the description is when dealing with a several-paragraphs-long story.

watsit said:
It's not really needed, though. Just put what's at the source in the description, there's no need to indicate it's "from source" since uploaders shouldn't be putting random things in the description anyway. Unless otherwise specified, any description should be assumed to be from the source.

Also, absolutely definitely don't put the source description in a collapsed [section] block. Users already have an account option to hide the description by default, so it's extremely annoying for those of us that have descriptions visible by default to have the description forced hidden by the uploader because they needlessly used a [section] block. The only time a non-expanded section block should ever be used in the description is when dealing with a several-paragraphs-long story.

I did it to distinguish me from the artist in question. The art description on twitter states "*I* did a series" so I wanna put any descriptions that say I/me/myself in to a "from source" context

temblob said:
I did it to distinguish me from the artist in question. The art description on twitter states "*I* did a series" so I wanna put any descriptions that say I/me/myself in to a "from source" context

One of the benefits of posts no longer showing the uploader next to the image, less of a chance for the uploader to be confused for the one making the description, rather than the image's creator.

hexen said:
This is a feature of Idem's Sourcing Suite that allows filling a post info quickly and additionally adds "Copy Description" button which is useful for resources from which you can't upload directly (i.e. Pixiv).
If you want to do it manually for whatever reason, use this code:

From source:
[section,expanded=Section Title Goes Here]
Text Goes Here
[/section]

Ah okay got it. But what should I name the section title? Just "from source" again?

temblob said:
Ah okay got it. But what should I name the section title? Just "from source" again?

Depends on where from. Places like FA and DA have titles for posts, which would be good to have there.

watsit said:
One of the benefits of posts no longer showing the uploader next to the image, less of a chance for the uploader to be confused for the one making the description, rather than the image's creator.

Yeah I get that it isn't really necessary but I just have a habit of Contextualizing things.

watsit said:
Depends on where from. Places like FA and DA have titles for posts, which would be good to have there.

I'm gonna need to memorize my username and password to get on FA on mobile so for the time being I'm sourcing all of it from twitter.