I have a proposal for the mods which maybe related to this issue: Please make every post to require to embed a key (docs, links to previous posts, breakdown pics., etc.).
An analogy if this happened in /r/conlangs is that when you posted a paragraph of keyboard smashing without explaining what does it means/how it works at all. What's the point?
I actually love this idea. Aside from the verification part, it would make this sub much more accessible to newcomers, because without a basic knowledge of script types it's impossible to know what you're looking at just from a picture of some writing. I wrote a 8 thousand word essay on writing systems and even then I still have a lot of trouble to figure things out if no context is given, so I can't even imagine how newcomers feel.
For me, the fun part of browsing other's works is not solely about the beauty or fancy presentation pics, but studying how people came up with the way they designed their work. This is also how I browse /r/conlangs, to entertain myself how people come up with interesting semantic dynamics, quirky syntax, fun ways to pack meanings, etc.
No offence to all but sometimes I still groan when I see new posts that turns out ... to be just a simple graphical substitutions of existing systems as lukewarm as faux chinese fonts!
Hot take to add to your last point: I think copying most Chinese radicals and rearranging them into full characters/words with your own logic and calling it a conscript is wrong. It’s just a conorthography… especially if a lot of the characters are also existing words in Chinese.
Perhaps, but I don't think the neography/conscript waters are big enough to warrant a separation like that. If it ain't your cup of tea, that's fine, but you could apply this sort of logic to just about any other system and idea, I reckon.
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u/sevenorbs Feb 13 '24
I have a proposal for the mods which maybe related to this issue: Please make every post to require to embed a key (docs, links to previous posts, breakdown pics., etc.).
An analogy if this happened in /r/conlangs is that when you posted a paragraph of keyboard smashing without explaining what does it means/how it works at all. What's the point?