A recap. Once. No promises

"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
09/08/2020 at 21:10 • Filed to: Recap

The fact that there was once a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! series came up today when lamenting the new Kinja format which does its best to turn a community into a random collection of discardable flyers.

So I thought I’d experiment: just how hard would it be to generate a “best of” the past week?

Well, obviously, hard. Very hard. So hard I doubt I’ll do this again.

Nor am I going to call it “Best of Oppo”. If I do in fact try this again, I’ll come up with name of my own and a tag of my own.

Don’t hold your breath.

So, without further ado, a very simplified dump of posts from the past week that meet some arbitrary criteria I’m not going to share because who wants the grief?

(One criterion I will confess to: I’m trying to avoid the political posts here.)

(And pip bip: I apologize, but the fact that your overnight efforts help keep the site moving comes, well, overnight...which means your posts almost never get any attention and I have no idea how to find the ones that deserve it without spending even way more time on this than I am.)

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But first

Here are tags. Tags are güd. Use them when you post. Check these links out periodically because there’s some brilliant content here, often the result of hours of labor so READ THEM.

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And of course, da blog

!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! is a curated list of some of the long-form posts here.

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Now back to our regularly scheduled unscheduled recap.

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Kinja gone wild

Posts reflecting on the fact that I need to do this shit.

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Fires gone wild

It’s been a rough several days out west.

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It’s a grand wang after all

Oppo was, overall, not terribly plussed by the announcement of the new Grand Wagoneer.

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Hydrogen, wherefore art thou hydrogen

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People. Jerks or not jerks?

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Everything else

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DISCUSSION (14)

AestheticsInMotion > Just Jeepin'
09/08/2020 at 21:23

I like finance oppo. I've learned so much

Just Jeepin' > AestheticsInMotion
09/08/2020 at 21:24

Is there a tag to follow that? I try to avoid any finance posts because it depresses me too much.

Goggles Pizzano > Just Jeepin'
09/08/2020 at 21:48

I see mention of shit, talking shit, random shit, and shitty shit, but sadly no shit posts. :-)x

Just Jeepin' > Goggles Pizzano
09/08/2020 at 21:51

Sounds like a shitpost recap is calling your name!

VincentMalamute-Kim > Just Jeepin'
09/08/2020 at 22:00

Yike! Get a new hobby!

Seriously, that must’ve been a ton of work to do manually. Someone here must be computer/html or something proficient enough to let software do this automatically?

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Just Jeepin'
09/08/2020 at 22:23

I’m always amazed by just how much I missed and I follow Oppo probably closer than I should given my current school load.

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/people-are-poor-because-they-aren-t-working-hard-enoug-1844951641

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/man-people-can-be-jerks-1844961748

These two in particular but there were others.

Thank you for doing this. That clearly took a lot of effort. You did miss Pip’s Chery J3 review. It’s easy to overlook a post with a video as the lead image.

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/2014-chery-j3-an-oppo-review-1844980944

Oppo is so busy, which, while great, makes it easy to overlook great posts.

Just Jeepin' > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
09/08/2020 at 22:30

Thanks, I added a new review section with a few I found from a quick search.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Just Jeepin'
09/08/2020 at 22:37

I think the following categories would be great including the ones you have

Reviews

DOTS

Hot Takes

Planelopnik

This Week In Auto News; or, This Week In Kinja/Living/Etc

The Rest

I think a separate category for DOTS would help sort things. I really like seeing all the stuff in one place. Of course you aren’t committing to anything but it’s fun to speculate.

HammerheadFistpunch > Just Jeepin'
09/08/2020 at 22:50

very cool! I think a few of us have tried this in the past and, with all sincerity , I wish you the best. Its my experience its a pretty thankless and tiring job and really hard to keep up, but anytime someone does make the effort its always appreciated .

My 2 cents would be to drop these Sunday afternoon around the same time, but its your show.

ClassicDatsunDebate > Just Jeepin'
09/08/2020 at 23:14

Boy howdy that’s must take lots of time and effort! It was an enjoyable read...I gotta respect the hustle.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Just Jeepin'
09/09/2020 at 10:10

I just invited you to be an “author” on OppoBlog, so you’ll have rights to share the best stuff there (we don’t catch everything, and it’s even harder now with the latest Kinja changes) . If you look in the drafts there (at the bottom of that list), there are some old in-progress drafts that DasWauto did, if you want to mimic the format he used. Honestly, I don’t think he’d have any problem with you taking up the torch and using the Best of OPPO name or the tag, but if you don’t want to, I get that, too.

Just Jeepin' > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
09/09/2020 at 10:18

Ok, thanks. I’ll give it some thought, still not sure I’m willing to put in the time each week.

Appreciate the trust.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Just Jeepin'
09/09/2020 at 10:26

It’s A LOT of work, which is why DasWauto gave it up, and why I never took it up (I had considered it in the past). Maybe a more reasonable solution would be a “Best of OPPO” post once a week at a regular day/time with just like 3-5 “top posts” for the week and then a link at the bottom to OppoBlog to remind folks to check over there regularly for stuff they may have missed. That would give motivation for writers/photographers to make the week’s Top Three (getting mentioned on Best of OPPO or getting a share to the FP always felt like a huge honor) and would result in more great content here.

Appreciate the effort.

superdave847 > Just Jeepin'
09/09/2020 at 23:23

Oh geez.

The rust bucket short-wheel-base 911S from BAT, I posted about has now been reposted.

That turd went for $36,500!

I don’t understand anything.

Also, welcome to Best of OPPO! I hope you do it.