The Dough and How to Format It

Dough

= reference pages at the top of each bread.

Purpose

To introduce users to QResearch, record Q posts and notable digs, and provide research links to anons. Also provides a thread of continuity, a framework for our work (to dig, meme, and pray).

Organization

Until recently, the dough had 4 parts: OP, Notables, plus two Resource pages.

Now it has TWO:

* OP Post:' Welcome, Q info, Q posts, Q Resources

* Notables: Globals, Notable Buns, Previously Collected Notables

Formatting

The dough has particular formatting conventions used both to make the information easy to read and to support the scraping of the dough by aggregators who get the information on the board out to the public.

Q-posts on OP page (page 1)

These are formatted with lines that help vertically align the posts. Q has not posted since Dec 8 2020, but we still have old Q posts that can be used as examples:

Thursday 02.20.2020

>>8200814 rt >>8200718 ————————— You have come far, Anons (Patriots). You are ready. Prepare for the storm (Vid: >>8200841, >>8201027)

>>8200590 rt >>8200492 ————————— Primary purpose of referencing 'Twitter' accounts? TOGETHER you are invincible (Cap: >>8258688)

>>8200462 ————————————–——– The puzzle is coming together. (Cap: >>8200480, >>8200552)

Notable Buns on page 2

The CAP shows a page that's well-formatted for page 2.

The key thing is to make sure each bun can be recognized as a bun:

• put a blank line above and below each bun

• do not put a blank line within a bun

• first line: put a # before the number of each bun: #19623

• last line: put the link for the final notables bun like so: >>15516951 #19623

Please follow the same formatting you see in the cap for each line in the bun.

For extra long notables that go over one page

Each bun has got to have a unique number and cannot go over a page.

Solution: split into two parts and divide like this:

#19623-A

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • page break

#19623-B

Advise using the above formatting; have been told it works. Do not know about other variations, e.g. #19623/1, #19621/2 (etc).

After baking, check for:

• Correct bread number

• Correct numbers on notables buns

• Match between bread number and notables page bun numbers

• No funny formatting (e.g., extra commas, etc.)

• No duplicate numbers

THE DOUGH AND HOW TO FORMAT IT

DOUGH

The reference pages at the top of each bread.

PURPOSE

To introduce users to QResearch, record Q posts and notable digs, and provide research links to anons.

The dough also provides a thread of continuity, a framework for our work (to dig, meme, and pray).

A key part of a baker's work is to protect and refine ("knead") the dough:

To protect it from shills and to update and refine it to be as functional as possible.

ORGANIZATION

Until recently, the dough had 4 parts: OP, Notables, plus two Resource pages.

Now it has TWO PAGES:

* OP Post:' Welcome, Q info, Q posts, Q Resources

* Notables: Globals, Notable Buns, Previously Collected Notables

The material in the two resource pages is now in the pinned Dough Resource thread.

There are links on the OP page to the posts in that thread, see CAP.

If a new resource needs to be added, a staffer can post in the Dough Resource thread and baker or BV can add to the OP resource links.

FORMATTING

The dough has particular formatting conventions used both to make the information easy to read and to support the scraping of the dough by aggregators who get the information on the board out to the public.

Specific formatting conventions - see next post.

TEN TIPS FOR NOTABLES

GENERALLY

1. Make descriptions informative but not too long; trim wordy ones down when you can.

Don't be afraid to shorten paragraph-like article and document titles.

1. Post about four times during the bread, (early, middle, last call, final).

Don't stick anything iffy in at the last moment, make sure anons can see it first.

1. Make notables easy to find with RED TEXT and BOLD.

Especially important if you may have to ghost–next baker needs heavy formatting to locate important info like notes.

1. Link notes to DOUGH POST, especially if you have to ghost (leave before the end).

That's where anons and bakers look to find out if baker is on duty and there are notables posted.

DECIDING WHAT TO NOTABLE

1. Look for anon noms, they are usually notable.

"Usually" because shills nom too. So do trolls, for fun. If not sure, either ask for a 2nd nom."

1. Look for special reports: planefags, boatfags, archives, etc..

Anons seldom nom these, but they are still worthy noting.

1. For noms for post that have NO description, ask for one.

These are usually anon diagrams, analyses & Q proofs. Hard to evaluate much less write a description. It's really the responsibility of the poster or nom-mer to provide one.

1. If there is too much news & bred is fast…

focus mainly on nommed posts, breaking news (if verified), news re Q concerns.

1. Check for two things: dates and whether it's been notabled (qresear.ch).

Easy during slow breads, hard during fast ones. Dates take priority. But if you forget, anons or shills will always let you know.

1. Be open to communicating with posters

…by asking for sauce (or better sauce), requesting short descriptions/titles (especially for videos); or expressing appreciation for good work.

1. During Q breds, notables are low priority. As soon as you know, search on "Q !!" to find posts, get to the bottom of the bread, and bake very early (around 640).

Keep your eye open for baker caps and fully-formatted Q posts w/caps.

Long notable buns: Make Them Readable

Anons have strong opinions about whether notables should be long or short. Interestingly, it's often bakers who have the strongest preferences. It may because they see the bun as a bun where busy anons don't necessarily read the descriptions but simply catch up on news by hovering over the link and reading the headlines.

But there are a few ways to make long buns easier to read:

• Put the headlines on a diet.

cut out extra verbiage and unnecessary details

• Avoid 'kitchen sinking' - throwing every single post in on the same topic

skim off the cream and leave the rest

- Make mini-buns to consolidate info if necessary

tip: best mini buns are those with short descriptions following the list of links

- Try to group like items together if there are a lot of them.

Makes the topic easy to follow.

Search QResearch to avoids dups

If the shift is slow, ck to see if already noted in an earlier bread.

"How do you keep up with notables?"

'''So, I'm sorry but how in the hell do you guys keep up with anons posts and Notables?

I try like hell to keep up but hardly ever am able.'''

From four baker/note-takers

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During a fast bread, i:

• rely more on noms, let anons do more heavy lifting. you do it long enough and it becomes second nature. Also helps if you have a decent internet speed (I don't which is why I can't do the entire bake and in this role). Suggest pairing up with a baker and doing notes for them first-most would not hesitate. Get proficient at that and the rest is a mechanical function

• don't always check for dups in qresear.ch.

• pass over current news items unless directly relevant to Q drops, current digs or POTUS' activities.

• barely look at anything that's hard to read or hard to grok fast. Let anons catch the really good stuff.

• Ask "anything missing?" or "any noms?" Put the ball in their court more.

II

Practice and a decent bit of memorization.

Once you have the ever-repeated shill material recognized, spotting big material becomes easier.

Reviewing Notables from a few days prior also helps with knowing when duplicate material crops up. Not a bad thing when it does - some Anons don't read the Notables, but many do and will appreciate a callback to prior breads if you can do so readily.

Once you have those things/materials in mind, "keeping up" is more of an automatic bullshit marker, whereby, once it's marked, you can spot the new and potentially Notable things with ease.

III

• You do it long enough and it becomes second nature.

• It also helps if you have a decent internet speed (I don't which is why I can't do the entire bake and in this role)

• Suggest pairing up with a baker and doing notes for them first-most would not hesitate.

• Get proficient at that and the rest is a mechanical function

IV

During Q breads:

• Focus on Q, first and foremost.

• Notables that are quick and easy to snag will make the cut; others will receive a "Please post at the top of next bread" request.

• If it's a Rally Bread or a major Q post spree that brings bread times to sub-30 minutes, Notables for that Bread are either

TO BE COLLECTED or NO NOTABLES OWING TO HIGH ENERGY

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TROUBLESHOOTING

Common New Baker Mistakes

Don't worry about making mistakes - all bakers make 'em. Not just at the start but every day. Goes with the territory.

Easy-to-make mistakes

* Incomplete copypasta (''Usually means not grabbing ALL the text when posting the dough)

Solution: Watch very carefully when copying.

* Accidental cut-and-paste instead of copypasta means baker deletes part of the dough.

''Solution: do it once and you'll never do it again. kek.

* Screwing up the bread title: either the spelling or the number

Solution: use Report to have BO/BVs correct.

* Forgetting to tag the dough post in handoffs, when picking up a ghost bake or when posting notes in a ghost bake

* Forgetting to use BOLD andred textfor handoffs, Notables posts, and other important comms

* Confusing "Create a Thread" in the Catalog with "Post a Reply" within a bread.

Solution: put Create a Thread tab far away from tab with current bread.

* Accidentally pressing Create a Thread before end of bread

Solution: report premature thread to BO/BVs, post a link back to real bread, post an alert & apology to anons, then return to original bake).

* Dough errors

Solution: generate new dough & post newpastebin link in the bread OR leave a message for next baker on the problem.

Timing the Bake

>>15549366

Dealing with Shills

>>15549390

What to Do When the Dough Doesn't Drop

How to Prevent Dough Steals

>>15525321

>>20796

REPORTING A THREAD OR POST

As baker you'll sometimes have to report something to the BO/BV team.

You could have made a mistake with the thread title and number

That's ok. Just report it and request that the BO/BV's rename it.

On your first post of the thread, beside the thread title, click on the triangle and 'report'. Type 'Requesting a rename to #2444. TY, baker'. A BV will rename soon and let you know in the thread.

Make a clear post on the board about it as soon as you can in the thread

-Incorrect Thread Number. This should be #2832

I have requested that the BV change it. Sorry folks, baker.

Somone could self dox

IF someone types in their email address, report the post for deletion as above.

Use the triangle on the actual post you're reporting.

It's good to tell anon not to do that any more, that it's not safe to share their info on here.

CP is posted

This is rare but it happens. Report and click 'GLOBAL REPORT'.

Put a red text message out the the board to report as well.

A Global Admin (one who watches and admins all 8kun boards), will then be alerted and will delete/ ban the poster/posters

Double Bakes or Split Bakes

If 2 or more threads are made, report the extra one/s as above, requesting the BO/BV's lock it / them.

Post a post on them directing anons to the working bread.

WHAT TO DO IF Q POSTS

• Keep it together and go up into 5th gear.

• Log it in the dough. Use a formatting line from a post below.

• Look out for anons posting caps, videos or docs for the Q posts. They will.

• Ready bake your new bake immediately.

• Line up your pastebin (Fullchan or ControlC) ready, immediately.

• Put a call out for anons to call out notables if that'll help you.

• Try to stay on the bottom edge of the thread and monitor for new Q posts.

The main thing is to get the Q posts logged as priority.

Anons will forgive you anything if you just get this part right.

BAKE SUPER EARLY

Starting at 630 - 650 posts should give you plenty of time

Q TEMPLATE:

insert here from archive

Baking Using CLONE Method

This is a more streamlined approach.

Here the baker does not download the dough into a text editor.

Instead, he adds notables directly into the dough online.

It's very fast. But if you accidentally CLOSE THE TAB, there go your notables.

So it's best for beginners is use the CLONE method with a text editor backup. That's what's outlined below.