Idea: Strip labeling as a command.

[SolientArt]

Pasting from IRC so there's a more easily found record of the notion:

Label strips using something like the rem command: like ".label 1416711583432 Shady's brain hates him so hard" would cause the title of strip 1416711583432 to become "Shady's brain hates him so hard" instead of "1416711583432" or whatever else would be output. Would probably need a bit of checking to prevent injecting URLs etc. but has the benefit of turning strip labeling into a group activity. This could make funny strips easier to find in the long run, as an archive listing similar to AYP1's "!suck" could be created, listing only labeled strips.

[skalnik]

I like the idea of labeling strips just so its easier to pick good strips out of the noise, but part of me also wants markov chain generated titles for maximum random giggles.

[SolientArt]

I think markov titles are a great idea and are totally in the spirit of the comic. 👍 They may prove superior to labels, too - it would be cool if a strip was automatically given a markov title when it's generated; then it could be labeled (updated) at any point in the future with the .label command (or whatever the labeling syntax turns out to be). If the existing .rem database can be converted into label backfill that would help the funny stand out of the existing archive.

[sshirokov]

it would be cool if a strip was automatically given a markov title when it's generated; then it could be labeled (updated) at any point in the future

This seems reasonable conceptually, we'll see where technology fucks on implementation 👍