r/ToR_Meta • u/[deleted] • Dec 28 '22

Advice Having problems with the footer in mobile, any solutions?

New to transcribing and couldn’t get the footer to work properly, it would work for the first few words but then show all the symbols in between the letters and not do the font it should be. Was told it was because I’m on mobile, is there any way to fix it?

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u/andrewsjakkko02 Dec 28 '22 edited Dec 28 '22

The best advice I can give you is to not transcribe on mobile, especially if you're new. Transcribing on mobile is much harder and the reddit app (and also web app from a phone) has troubles showing something that is formatted correctly in the supposed way. We recommend using a computer instead. For the footer specifically, you should just copy paste it from our guidelines and it will be fine. If you do this, and the bot doesn't tell you anything when you comment done then you have most likely placed the footer correctly. I'll place the footer here too, so you have it here as well.

Keep in mind that before you place the footer there should always be a line break, so every transcription should end like this:

transcribed stuff

---

^^I'm a human volunteer content transcriber and you could be too! [If you'd like more information on what we do and why we do it, click here!](https://www.reddit.com/r/TranscribersOfReddit/wiki/index)

Hope this helps, let me know if you have more questions! :)

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '22

Sadly I copy pasted the footer and it failed, is there any other way to transcribe on mobile or should I just transcribe a lot less but on my computer

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u/andrewsjakkko02 Dec 28 '22

What do you mean by "it failed"? Could you please point me to the specific post you're talking about? Maybe you have not failed and it's just the mobile that fails to show it correctly

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '22

Maybe one second how do you link a post?

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u/andrewsjakkko02 Dec 28 '22

If you're on mobile You just hit "share" and "copy link" and then paste it here. Anyway maybe I've found it is it this?

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '22

Yep! That’s the one!

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '22

The transcript is in there somewhere lol Sorry for the mess of comments from me and the bot

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '22

Ok couldn’t link it so I’ll copy paste as a reply

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '22

Image Transcription: Text and Image

My mom: I know how much you love Snoopy so I had to get you this

[Image of a hand holding a soft toy in the shape of a white dog. The toy dog is wearing a red collar with an orange tag and looks bored.]

I'm&#32:a&#32:human&#32:volunteer&#32: content transcriber and you&# 32;could be too! If you'd like more inform ation on what we do&#3 2;and why we do it,&#32 ;click here!

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u/_Diabetes Dec 28 '22

Hey! It looks like the issue you're having may be due to mobile copying or some kind of funky formatting on whatever you've copied; each line of the footer as it's pasted appears to have a singular blank space at the end, which plays havoc with how it shows up!

Maybe try deleting these spaces (so everything shows up as one long string), or recopy it from the one Andrew sent above, or here

^^I'm a human volunteer content transcriber and you could be too! [If you'd like more information on what we do and why we do it, click here!](https://www.reddit.com/r/TranscribersOfReddit/wiki/index)

Hope this helps (if you've not already resolved it!)

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '22

Thanks so much!!

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u/_Diabetes Dec 28 '22

If you do plan on transcribing on mobile in future, I'd recommend saving the (correct) footer somewhere on its own, just so you can copy it alone whenever you need it! Or use your clipboard or something, whatever works for you lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '22

It was copy pasted from the formatting page but I guess it went strange somewhere along the line so I’ll try to get a correct version into my notes app

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u/_Diabetes Dec 28 '22

Yeahh, mobiles are funky and Reddit doesn't mix great with them - even our examples like to break haha

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '22

Lol it’s ok I’ll figure a way to make it work

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u/andrewsjakkko02 Dec 28 '22 edited Dec 28 '22

ok so, the footer you have here is not exactly the footer as you find in our guidelines, you see, what you have there is

^^I'm&#32:a&#32:human&#32:volunteer&#32: content transcriber and you&# 32;could be too!  [If you'd like more inform ation on what we do&#3 2;and why we do it,&#32 ;click here!](https://www.reddit.com/r/ TranscribersOfReddit/wiki/index)

but you should have

^^I'm a human volunteer content transcriber and you could be too! [If you'd like more information on what we do and why we do it, click here!](https://www.reddit.com/r/TranscribersOfReddit/wiki/index)

If you look closely you'll find some differences. So i don't really know what happened but you probably copy-pasted the wrong thing. It's hard to copy paste from Reddit comments if you are on mobile, but be sure to copy the correct thing or it will break. An easy way to select and copy text from mobile is temporarily using the web app. And most of all save the correct version of the footer somewhere on your phone, so you have it in handy. But again, I'd tell you to avoid transcribing on mobile altogether, since it is really much harder.

Also... I know you didn't ask but there are some mistakes with your format there, I see Cloak told you about them already (in the ToR post) so please fix them (so use the Twitter format and not the Text and Image format). Also adding to what Cloak said you should italicize the header, so *Image Transcription: Twitter Post*, and you should also add in your description of the picture that the "white dog" is Brian, a character from Family Guy, since the point of the post is that the mom mistook Brian for Snoopy. So changing a little of what you wrote I'd rewrite your description of the post as:

[*Image of a hand holding a soft toy in the shape of Brian, a character from the TV show "Family Guy". Brian is a white dog wearing a red collar and looks bored. An orange tag is attached to it.*]

Also for the future, remember that the transcription should go in the partner sub post, not the ToR post (which is the one where you claim stuff), and that you can edit your transcriptions if needed, and it is far better to do that than deleting and rewriting the transcription (this is mainly true for the way our bots work).

For the question about mobile stuff... I still think making your first transcriptions on mobile is not the best idea (you can do it but it's really really hard). Switching to a computer would really make it easier. I understand that this way you will transcribe less often, but at least it will be much easier for you and you won't have the same troubles you're having right now. Also remember, we care far more about the quality of transcriptions more than the quantity of transcriptions a user has :)

Hope this helps!

Uh! Also we do have a Discord server where people can ask for help and hang out if you're interested, link is in our sidebar :)

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '22

Thanks! I’ll bear that all in mind though it may mean I take longer to transcribe 😄

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u/andrewsjakkko02 Dec 29 '22

No problem! I'm sure you'll be great, thank you for volunteering and happy transcribing! <3