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Open Thread: Rogue FYWP Alert

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I just looked at the top layer of the spam filter, and half a dozen regular commentors had been “sin binned” for perfectly unobjectionable comments about gardening, pet nutrition, Star Trek nostalgia, and which team deserved to win.

Apparently FYWP is in one of its random mucker phases. I’ll keep checking for How-the-Hell-could-that-get-called-Spam, but if you’re worried about your comments disappearing, my email address is AnneLaurie at verizon dot net (or click on my name near the top of the right-hand column).

P.S. Please don’t email Cole, I don’t think he can fix FYWP’s tantrum either.

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  1. 1.

    Corner Stone

    Anne, stop fronting. You know damn well you’re deleting those posts. Mainly because they rightly call you out for marklar marklar.

  4. 4.

    scav

    Don’t know, I’m rather enjoying the concept of a sentient FYWP emerging from underneath our very blather. We could match up incarnations of FPers against Spock and the Doctors. Work in a little Bladerunner. Tunch could crush the combined Dalek/Zygon/?? rubber-suited army.

    How many posts back to I have to read to grok markar? I’ve fled to a parallel reality for a few days. Is this the latest cudlip or is there more a laughing credenza flavour?

  5. 5.

    Southern Beale

    I’d love to know what FYWP stands for but I’m afraid no one can answer me without getting relegated to the sin bin.

    I’ve had so many comments sent to the sin bin because I’ve unknowingly used an embargoed word I can’t even count ’em. I still don’t understand why “S0c1al1sm” is embargoed … is BJ still getting Teanut spam about Obama?

  7. 7.

    Bnut

    Thought I would share this story. I was working the ACLU booth at a festival in Memphis Saturday, along with a friend of mine. A guy in jorts and a large white t-shirt with random holes cut in it walked by and said (in good humor) “I just wanted to see what liberals looked like. You seem pretty normal to me”. I responded with “Wait till the sun comes down, we sprout horns and wings”. We all laughed. Just then a really skinny college-age dude dressed in thigh high leather boots, a miniskirt and a tie-dye strapless top walks by with a RON PAUL 2012 sign. It made my day.

  9. 9.

    Corner Stone

    @scav: marklar is from South Park. It’s about an alien society that only has one word in their vocabulary…marklar.
    It’s pronounced with different inflection points but invariably…it’s marklar.

  11. 11.

    Southern Beale

    Also, @Bnut:

    Just then a really skinny college-age dude dressed in thigh high leather boots, a miniskirt and a tie-dye strapless top walks by with a RON PAUL 2012 sign.

    LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

  13. 13.

    RossinDetroit

    See, if this was a Charles Stross joint FYWP would be absorbing selected comments to build a knowledge base. Then it would become sentient. Then we’d really be screwed.

  14. 14.

    scav

    @RossinDetroit: Awk, if it absorbed our assorted personalities (didn’t something like that happen in the backstory of The Face of Evil?) as well as relying upon the jetsam, flotsam and orts of facts littered about our threads as input. Serious trouble.

  18. 18.

    cmorenc

    @Bnut:

    A guy in jorts and a large white t-shirt with random holes cut in it walked by and said (in good humor) “I just wanted to see what liberals looked like.

    And you should have responded: “a guy wearing JORTS in public isn’t in any position to mock anyone else”.

    But we’re all curious: just what the hell do “jorts” look like?

  20. 20.

    dmsilev

    20+ posts, and nobody has blamed Obama yet for WP’s temper tantrum? I blame Obama for somehow muzzling the commentariat.

  22. 22.

    No one of importance

    I guess it’s the same FYWP fault that caused you to selectively delete highly critical comments by me and Allan on your meltdown post. That was a FYAL fault, actually. You can’t fool people who actually work with WP for a living.

    Don’t worry, Anne Laurie. Nothing you do about this will change people’s opinion of you. Some people see random garden and pet posts, and uneditorialised cut and paste from other people’s sites, and other people see a desperate woman trying to regain the goodwill and reputation she pissed away in 24 hours of raw spite.

    You could try whitelisting email addresses, but that might allow people to comment on your posts without censorship. Can’t have that, can we, Anne Laurie?

  26. 26.

    magurakurin

    One last dig on ABL in an attempt to get her to reconsider her ill-advised judgement of Star Trek. I was led to this Whoopie Goldberg quote from another, unrelated, blog post on another blog

    She said, ‘Well when I was nine years old Star Trek came on,’ and she said, ‘I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, “Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there’s a black lady on television and she ain’t no maid!”‘ And she said, ‘I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be, and I want to be on Star Trek.’

  32. 32.

    Yutsano

    @Bnut: You’re cold dude. Funny, but cold.

    @Mark S.: Stevie leaves out one little detail: Hillary’s total lack of desire to run. But the PUMA spirit cannot fail, it can only be failed. Or something.

  33. 33.

    Anne Laurie

    @Southern Beale:

    I’d love to know what FYWP stands for but I’m afraid no one can answer me without getting relegated to the sin bin.

    Per the Balloon Juice Lexicon, ‘Fvck You, Word Press”.

    There isn’t, as far as I know, a blog-specific version of the forbidden-words filter. WordPress rejects ‘socialist’, also ‘specialist’, because it’s so dumb-stubborn it can’t tell the difference between a political philosophy and a brand-name virility enhancer.

    Believe it or not, things have actually improved since I first read this blog, circa 2007/8. Check out the Lexicon entry for ‘WordPress Error’ for the flavor of those unlamented days…

  39. 39.

    michilines

    I’d love to know what FYWP stands for but I’m afraid no one can answer me without getting relegated to the sin bin.

    It’s saying things AL doesn’t like. Oh, and she doesn’t want you telling Cole, cuz she got slapped for that already.

    She’s just being a PUMA. You knew she was hiding here, right?

  40. 40.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @RossinDetroit:

    I read Rule 34 a couple of weeks ago, borrowed from a friend who worked with me at a local ISP a decade back, and I remarked to him, as I started to read Part II, that I wasn’t seeing a problem with this (the spammers being systemically killed off).

  42. 42.

    TooManyJens

    @Anne Laurie:

    There isn’t, as far as I know, a blog-specific version of the forbidden-words filter.

    But I used to run a WP blog, and you don’t have to use the forbidden-words filter. Is Akismet really not doing a good enough job killing spam, that it has to be backed up by that silly thing?

  44. 44.

    Mark B.

    If your attack of raw spite lasts more than 4 hours, you should see a doctor. Twenty four hours in a row would certainly cause a permanent injury.

  45. 45.

    Roger Moore

    @No one of importance:

    Fortunately Cleek’s Pie filter works on Anne Laurie’s comments, but I wish there was a front pager filter for her too too.

    It’s really fucking simple dude. If you don’t like the FPers posts, don’t click on them and go in to post. If you’re incapable of controlling yourself that much, you probably need something more powerful than a pie filter, like therapy or somebody taking an axe to your computer.

  46. 46.

    Anne Laurie

    @cmorenc:

    But we’re all curious: just what the hell do “jorts” look like?

    Jeans shorts. Back in the day, we had ‘cut-offs’, but we didn’t pay someone else to cut the legs off our worn jeans.

    If you really want a nightmare, google “jeggings”… jeans leggings. Which make even young women with shapely legs look malformed, not that young-women-with-shapely-legs make up more than a tiny fraction of the jeggings-wearing population.

  47. 47.

    RossinDetroit

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    I read Rule 34 a couple of weeks ago

    Me too. First of his that I’d read. I liked it quite a lot. I then read 3 of the Laundry Files books. They were a lot more gross and disturbing. But I like Stross. The idea of the spontaneous AI growing out of information monitoring systems was brilliant and not all that far-fetched in sci fi terms.

  48. 48.

    Loneoak

    Did Tunch sit on the spam filter? I have no idea how the Intertube works, but I’m fairly certain Tunch sitting on it could break it.

  51. 51.

    michilines

    AL has been deleting my comments. Do I whine to anyone? No.

    AL is blaming it on WP. WP is not so bad as to delete certain critical comments.

    AL, I won’t ever complain to you or JC, but seriously, own up to your PUMA roots.

    To do otherwise is dishonest:

    Pretending that President Obama is a flawless god-king

  52. 52.

    handy

    STOP DELETING PEOPLE’S POSTS AL! The Truth Is Out There!

    Also, too, they filmed the moon landing on a Hollywood back lot.

  53. 53.

    gnomedad

    @Yutsano:

    Stevie leaves out one little detail: Hillary’s total lack of desire to run. But the PUMA spirit cannot fail, it can only be failed. Or something.

    Chapman’s a libertarian, not a PUMA; he’s just being contrarian here, but I think he believes what he’s saying.

  54. 54.

    Gilles de Rais

    Wow, this thread is like a martini made of nothing but Angostura. Did Anne Laurie kill somebody’s family? Or several somebodies families? Inquiring minds want to know.

  55. 55.

    4jkb4ia

    Um, I am posting to thank alan for referring me to the Mahler online. It was gorgeous and deeply spiritual. I really think I had never heard it before. To regain some street cred, I was at the Mahler 3rd with the St. Louis Symphony and Hans Vonk, which was one of his best performances with them ever.

  56. 56.

    Roger Moore

    @Gilles de Rais:
    Who in hell puts Angostura in their martini? That’s what Vermouth is for. And I think the bitter in the thread is just the flip side of the rabid anti-ABL gang. Damn this blog is dysfunctional enough to go on Springer.

  57. 57.

    scav

    @Gilles de Rais: Science Fiction and Fantasy are often stacked nearby each other in libraries and bookstores. Maybe that explains it. Thought of my other obscure mindworm about personality imprints on computers/AI. Destination: Void which apparently I’m the only person in the world to enjoy.

  58. 58.

    Catsy

    @Southern Beale:

    I still don’t understand why “S0c1al1sm” is embargoed

    Because whoever wrote the spam filter was either too incompetent or too lazy to differentiate between a string and a substring.

  61. 61.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    I suspect half of us could immediately write a filter that worked, and the rest of us could figure i tout very quickly if someone asked us to. It’s not that hard.

    And just for fun, we could have it immediately filter out Samara and Derf.

  66. 66.

    Southern Beale

    @Anne Laurie:

    WordPress rejects ‘socialist’, also ‘specialist’, because it’s so dumb-stubborn it can’t tell the difference between a political philosophy and a brand-name virility enhancer.

    OH! Again, I did not know this. My blog is on WordPress and I haven’t noticed any embargoed words, but I have noticed on rare occasions one of my regulars pops into the Spam filter. But not often. That explains why.

    For some reason I thought Cole was some kind of tech genius who had programmed his own filter. Guess I was wrong.

  67. 67.

    Southern Beale

    @Anne Laurie:

    WordPress rejects ‘s0c1al1st’, also ‘spec1al1st’, because it’s so dumb-stubborn it can’t tell the difference between a political philosophy and a brand-name virility enhancer.

    OH! Again, I did not know this. My blog is on WordPress and I haven’t noticed any embargoed words, but I have noticed on rare occasions one of my regulars pops into the Spam filter. But not often. That explains why.

    And that explains why sometimes I’ll post a comment that gets embargoed and I haven’t used any naughty words.

    For some reason I thought Cole was some kind of tech genius who had programmed his own filter. Guess I was wrong.

  69. 69.

    RossinDetroit

    I’ve got logs to saw so it’s lights out for me.

    FYWP hates our freedoms. And it hates our way of life.

    Cheers.

  70. 70.

    Roger Moore

    @Southern Beale:

    For some reason I thought Cole was some kind of tech genius who had programmed his own filter.

    What gave you the idea the person who programmed the spam filter was a genius? I thought you had posted on this blog for long enough to know better.

  74. 74.

    TenguPhule

    So word is the GOP Candidates are gonna endorse Privatizing Social Security…again.

    Oh sweet FSM, let it be so. Let them fry. Let them fry.

  76. 76.

    jheartney

    To those who are interested, Netflix is doing another marketing faceplant tonight. They are renaming the split-off DVD-by-mail service to kwikster.com and (here’s the faceplant) putting it onto a separate website, which will NOT share any data with the streaming website. Thus if you rate movies on one, you have to duplicate the same ratings on the other in order to get benefit from it. Also, you won’t get a notice if one of the movies in your DVD queue appears on streaming. It’s Bachmann-level insane.

    Over on the Netflix blog there’s already a horde of complaints. Most of which are pretty justified, IMHO.

  77. 77.

    No one of importance

    @Roger Moore:

    “If you don’t like the FPers posts, don’t click on them and go in to post.”

    I don’t. I’m only commenting now because of the outrageous irony of Ms Anne “Deleting Comments She Doesn’t Like And Hoping No One Notices” Laurie trying to cover her ass over the way she deliberately set up WP to send comments to the spam filter (and yes, she can do that with the click of a button, and certainly has been doing it) and trying to stop people complaining to Cole, even though he can actually do something about the problem.

    As one of the people she slandered heartily and censored with equal glee in *very* recent history, I feel entitled to bitch. I don’t turn up in all her posts and whine about her formatting and lack of post cuts or her possession of a uterus, like a great many people do to ABL. I’m making a specific point on a specific issue that she specifically raises.

    So fuck you, you sanctimonious dickhead. And fuck Anne Laurie’s hypocrisy too.

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