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OK. Stop Donating

by John Cole|  March 7, 20126:29 pm| 153 Comments

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We have enough for the website and I have sent her the money via paypal, so please stop donating. However, you can use this thread to talk about site issues. Thanks!

*** Update ***

I’m going through the comments suggestions, and while there is a lot of good stuff, let me be perfectly clear.

We are not doing a like button, rated comments, or nested comments.

We are not doing avatars. That failed miserably the last time we tried it.

We are not opening links in new tabs. If you want that to happening, try holding down the CTRL button while you click a link. You’ll be shocked and awed. Same with a link to go to the bottom of the page. Look at your computer. Press the buttons marked “home” and “end.” Prepare to be amazed.

You are not getting permission to post videos and pictures. I’m not going to wake up one morning and discover that Punchy has posted Two Girls One Cup 100 times in every comment thread.

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  1. 1.

    Skippy the Wondermule

    March 7, 2012 at 6:30 pm

    How about alternative places to donate for those in the mood?

  2. 2.

    currants

    March 7, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    @Skippy the Wondermule: Charlies Angels!

  3. 3.

    Lee

    March 7, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    …to talk about site issues.

    Too many cats commenting on this site :)

  4. 4.

    BGinCHI

    March 7, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    Did we raise enough to send Veritas to the GOP convention?

    If so:

    VICTORY!

  5. 5.

    MikeJ

    March 7, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    @Skippy the Wondermule: Why not Obamajuice?

  6. 6.

    dmsilev

    March 7, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    To save some time, what issues are already on your to-do list?

  7. 7.

    dmsilev

    March 7, 2012 at 6:34 pm

    @BGinCHI: Surely there was some better (or at least more amusing) place to send him? Preferably some place without Internet access, like say the depths of the Amazon rain forrest.

  8. 8.

    BGinCHI

    March 7, 2012 at 6:36 pm

    @dmsilev: Imagine his breathless reporting though.

  9. 9.

    Veritas

    March 7, 2012 at 6:37 pm

    I see some people on here have concluded that Romney won’t have enough delegates by the convention.

    On the contrary, after the victory in Ohio last night its all over but the concession speeches.

    Looks like “progressives” will have to run against by far the most electable candidate in 2012 in a bad economy.

    \And that’s not even taking into account high gas prices, Iran, and the new election integrity laws…looks like a tough road to hoe for Obambi.

  10. 10.

    Veritas

    March 7, 2012 at 6:38 pm

    BTW, I think Cole banned one of my IP addresses again. How many fucking times do I have to tell you people–you can never get rid of me. I’ve got an unlimited amount of alternate IP addresses.

  11. 11.

    kindness

    March 7, 2012 at 6:39 pm

    @Veritas: Doesn’t matter. Still a butt head.

  12. 12.

    BGinCHI

    March 7, 2012 at 6:39 pm

    @Veritas: I agree with you that if the President tries to hoe the road, he’s in big trouble. There is just no way a tool like that can do anything against such a surface. And even if it did, what would you have? A well-weeded path for transportation, which would be a huge waste of time.

  13. 13.

    Violet

    March 7, 2012 at 6:40 pm

    I didn’t even get to donate as I was away from any online access all day. Maybe next time. Glad you got the cash.

    @Veritas:
    So you’re like herpes?

  14. 14.

    drew42

    March 7, 2012 at 6:41 pm

    Oh, lawd:
    http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/03/why-obama-needs-to-repudiate-bill-maher-if-he-wants-to-win-the-rush-limbaugh-fight-1.php

    Here’s one difference between Limbaugh and Maher:

    When a Republican criticized Limbaugh, that person almost invariably had to give an immediate, humiliating public apology.

    No Democrat gives a shit about Bill Maher. Hell, if I didn’t get HBO (mainly for Game of Thrones) I wouldn’t have known the guy even existed.

  15. 15.

    James Hare

    March 7, 2012 at 6:43 pm

    Is the mood swings meter making it into the final build?

  16. 16.

    pragmatism

    March 7, 2012 at 6:43 pm

    @Veritas: who hoes roads?

  17. 17.

    scav

    March 7, 2012 at 6:43 pm

    @BGinCHI: Well, if we can get the road bits in cobblestone size chunks, aux barricades!. Nice (?) to have VERITAS! back for his Rain of Error.

  18. 18.

    RossinDetroit

    March 7, 2012 at 6:44 pm

    Now I know who Veritas reminds me of: Baghdad Bob.
    As invading troops rolled unopposed through the city: “We’ve got them right where we want them!”

  19. 19.

    JPL

    March 7, 2012 at 6:45 pm

    This is a copy and partial paste from boston.com… Heaven forbid, I wouldn’t want to copy the entire thing..

    Dorchester’s own Mark Wahlberg is producing a new reality show, “Teamsters,” for A&E, according to Deadline.com. The show will focus on the lives and struggles of members of Boston’s Teamsters Local 25. One of the co-producers on the project will be Stephen Levinson, who worked with Wahlberg on “Entourage.” We’re still waiting to get details from Sean O’Brien, who runs the Local 25, which boasts 11,000 members. We have to assume that he knows Wahlberg, seeing as the Teamsters would have worked with him with local films such as “The Fighter.” The reality show sounds like a labor of love for Wahlberg: his late father, Donald Wahlberg, was a Teamster. …

    I’m in love with this guy

  20. 20.

    pragmatism

    March 7, 2012 at 6:45 pm

    @scav: which is correct more often: mcMEgan’s calculator or bagdad bob a/k/a veritas?

  21. 21.

    scav

    March 7, 2012 at 6:46 pm

    @pragmatism: Rhodes hos, those overeducated sluts.

  22. 22.

    JGabriel

    March 7, 2012 at 6:46 pm

    Veritas:

    … after the victory in Ohio last night its all over but the concession speeches … looks like a tough road to hoe for Obambi.

    Dog on Car vs Actually Has A Damn Dog. Obambi vs R-money.

    Who will win Veritas Thunderdome?

    Hey, what’s Veritas’s predictive record so far on checks you can take to the bank?

    .

  23. 23.

    Amir Khalid

    March 7, 2012 at 6:46 pm

    @Veritas:

    a tough road to hoe for Obambi.

    Tsk, tsk. It’s a tough row to hoe. (You know, as in a gardener hoeing a row of plants.) And did you not watch the Disney cartoon all the way to the end? Bambi vanquishes his rivals to become king of the forest.

  24. 24.

    BGinCHI

    March 7, 2012 at 6:46 pm

    @JPL: Maybe his brother will get work then.

  25. 25.

    scav

    March 7, 2012 at 6:47 pm

    @pragmatism: oooo I never was any good with imaginary numbers.

  26. 26.

    Maude

    March 7, 2012 at 6:47 pm

    The new iPad came out today and I haven’t seen much about it. That’s odd. It should have been a huge deal.

    @dmsilev:
    #6 Don’t think the site will get tarted up.

  27. 27.

    pragmatism

    March 7, 2012 at 6:47 pm

    @RossinDetroit: samesies. hope all is well in the town of Mo.

  28. 28.

    pragmatism

    March 7, 2012 at 6:49 pm

    @scav: you can get a scholarship for hoeing? outstanding!
    @scav: maybe veritas has gastritis as well.

  29. 29.

    BGinCHI

    March 7, 2012 at 6:49 pm

    @Amir Khalid: In one of the Bambis I saw, people’s clothes all fell off and a plumber showed up that wasn’t the usual plumber.

  30. 30.

    j

    March 7, 2012 at 6:50 pm

    Keep getting a message that I am not on my regular computer; or am posting from an outside source. When I tried to use the contact addy I got a message that your email address in invalid.
    jgriffincole [email protected]
    This is an invalid email address:

    jgriffincole [email protected]

    Please use an email address that looks like [email protected] or a nickname or a distribution list name from your Yahoo! contacts.

  31. 31.

    Calouste

    March 7, 2012 at 6:51 pm

    @Maude:

    The new iPad came out today and I haven’t seen much about it. That’s odd. It should have been a huge deal.

    You haven’t seen much because it wasn’t a big deal. Higher resolution and that was about it.

  32. 32.

    scav

    March 7, 2012 at 6:53 pm

    @pragmatism: Thank you for catching up, that was getting a little dizzying in retrospect.

  33. 33.

    Killjoy

    March 7, 2012 at 6:54 pm

    Rombambi manages to beat someone who he outspent 5 to 1 in a state where his primary opponent wasn’t even on the ballot in 20% of the state by one percentage point. His campaign obviously has the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why is he so popular?

  34. 34.

    pragmatism

    March 7, 2012 at 6:56 pm

    @scav: VICTORY

  35. 35.

    Warren Terra

    March 7, 2012 at 6:57 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    Tsk, tsk. It’s a tough row to hoe. (You know, as in a gardener hoeing a row of plants.)

    To be fair, Republican infrastructure policy will eventually leave most of us (though not the Rmoneys of the world) with roads that can be hoed.

    And Republican policies on the social safety net may leave people needing to hoe the roads, to grow food.

  36. 36.

    RossinDetroit

    March 7, 2012 at 6:57 pm

    In other news 45 advertisers have now turned their backs on Rush. I wonder at what point it starts to have an effect.
    Wait. No I don’t. It never will.

  37. 37.

    BGinCHI

    March 7, 2012 at 6:58 pm

    Countdown till Limbaugh calls women hoes……

  38. 38.

    cathyx

    March 7, 2012 at 6:59 pm

    Does that mean that auto refresh is still in the running?

  39. 39.

    Yellow Dog

    March 7, 2012 at 6:59 pm

    The results from last night were, for me, just this side of ideal.

    I was beginning to worry that none of the current candidates would be able to sew up the nomination and that it would go to a brokered convention. I was worried that, somehow, the R’s might come up with a better candidate that Dr. Paul and the 3 douchebags (yeah, I can’t think of any either, but anythings possible).

    It looks like we’re going to get the Republican version of the Bataan Death March.

  40. 40.

    Amir Khalid

    March 7, 2012 at 6:59 pm

    @BGinCHI:
    I’m pretty sure that wasn’t a Disney cartoon.

  41. 41.

    pragmatism

    March 7, 2012 at 6:59 pm

    I’m going through the comments suggestions, and while there is a lot of good stuff, let me be perfectly clear.
    We are not doing a like button, rated comments, or nested comments.
    We are not doing avatars. That failed miserably the last time we tried it.
    We are not opening links in new tabs. If you want that to happening, try holding down the CTRL button while you click a link. You’ll be shocked and awed. Same with a link to go to the bottom of the page. Look at your computer. Press the buttons marked “home” and “end.” Prepare to be amazed.

    john has some lilly days, some rosie days and some tunch days. today is a tunch day. can we use this scale instead of the color scale?

  42. 42.

    Chris Wolf

    March 7, 2012 at 7:00 pm

    Not even a “follow me on MySpace” tag?

  43. 43.

    Joel

    March 7, 2012 at 7:01 pm

    The regular site is fine. However, a link to the top or bottom of comments would be great for the mobile edition. I understand if you can’t do it.

  44. 44.

    Thymezone

    March 7, 2012 at 7:01 pm

    Slightly off topic but …..

    Oh oh, your electronic communications — gps, phone, wireless modem, 3g/4g device, tablet, could be adversely PJDNNI_)9-09e-09e-09e-9)(*#&()*&#4 could be adversely aff===0()9309398Llkjdel)(*_)(*#_)(*$/////////

    could be adversely affected tonight or tomo++++++++++++++390874098739*&(87(*&897999(((((((((%%###################&@&@&&@%&^@&^#f*ck it goddam it ……

  45. 45.

    Thymezone

    March 7, 2012 at 7:02 pm

    Sorry, f@@@@@@@@@@@rgot the link:

    This is the link.

  46. 46.

    jlow

    March 7, 2012 at 7:03 pm

    @Veritas: I think you meant “Roto Ho”.

    Edit: Oh, I see that I was the 41st person to comment on that.

  47. 47.

    Cain

    March 7, 2012 at 7:03 pm

    I just want one thing, Cole? That the fucking site loads behind a firewall. I mean jeezus, most of the time it is network error. The site is called network error by firefox.

    Everything else I don’t really give a damn about.. maybe a little better css.. and there should be a tunch tab, but that’s about it.

  48. 48.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 7, 2012 at 7:03 pm

    What I want from this site is instant gratification of wants I have not even begun to think about yet. I want future satisfaction guaranteed.

    I also applaud John for rejecting nested comments (boo!) and ratings. Mainly because my comments will, invariably, be given thumbs down by the usual trollish suspects. Parle vous Trollaise? Naturalment, mon ami!

  49. 49.

    scav

    March 7, 2012 at 7:03 pm

    @Thymezone: link? http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/03/two-strong-solar-flares-could-disrupt-earth-communications-power-grids.php?ref=fpnewsfeed?

  50. 50.

    harlana

    March 7, 2012 at 7:04 pm

    you should never tell people to stop donating :)

  51. 51.

    Maude

    March 7, 2012 at 7:04 pm

    @Calouste:
    Faster chip, too. They used to hype the devices to the hilt.

    @RossinDetroit:
    Clear Channel isn’t a charity. They have to have the ad money and so do the stations.

  52. 52.

    harlana

    March 7, 2012 at 7:04 pm

    i’m sorry but Tweety has been totally cracking me up about Romney. and he called the republican field a bowl of cold mashed peas.

  53. 53.

    BGinCHI

    March 7, 2012 at 7:05 pm

    @harlana: You know who else told people to stop donating?

  54. 54.

    Mrs. Whatsit

    March 7, 2012 at 7:05 pm

    I haven’t seen this mentioned here, and I am sure you are aware of the problem, but I still randomly get the mobile site when the “www” appears before balloon-juice.com.
    ETA: I guess I need to read the whole site before commenting. Sigh…

  55. 55.

    JPL

    March 7, 2012 at 7:05 pm

    Gosh..John sure likes to update his posts.
    Wouldn’t it be nice if he just used the comment section like the rest of us since we don’t often go to the orig. post for updates.
    lol

  56. 56.

    Elizabelle

    March 7, 2012 at 7:06 pm

    I’m glad you’re not doing nested comments.

    Hate them.

    Also hope you’ll keep our comments numbered.

    Don’t like the new comments software at NYTimes or WaPost or LATimes at all. Have to keep reloading and reloading, and it’s just a sea of words, as opposed to discrete, numbered comments.

  57. 57.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 7, 2012 at 7:06 pm

    @Veritas:

    Romney pulls out a squeaker in Ohio, and fuckstain here calls it a VICTORY!.

    I am so going to enjoy November, when the vile sack of shit is utterly crushed by the Muslim/Atheist Usurper.

  58. 58.

    harlana

    March 7, 2012 at 7:06 pm

    We are not doing a like button, rated comments, or nested comments.

    not getting another effing dime from me, Cole! 8)

  59. 59.

    scav

    March 7, 2012 at 7:06 pm

    @Thymezone: Well, I couldn’t manage the link either. We’re clearly in big trouble — it’s here already! ! !

  60. 60.

    debbie

    March 7, 2012 at 7:06 pm

    @ Killjoy:

    I just listened to an interview with Mike DeWine, the Ohio AG who dumped Romney and endorsed Santorum a couple of weeks ago. Hes saying Romney outspent Santorum 10 to 1. More laughably pathetic.

  61. 61.

    Birthmarker

    March 7, 2012 at 7:07 pm

    Could the linking be improved? If my inability to link is simply my stupidity, could we have an explanation in the lexicon on how to link?

    Btw I can link in other places, including Rivals.com, which offers the clunkiest site on the internet and has the gall to charge $10 a month for the privilege.

    Also, better searching would be great.

  62. 62.

    Cain

    March 7, 2012 at 7:07 pm

    @Killjoy:

    Rombambi manages to beat someone who he outspent 5 to 1 in a state where his primary opponent wasn’t even on the ballot in 20% of the state by one percentage point. His campaign obviously has the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why is he so popular?

    I heard that, why wasn’t santorum on the ballot?

  63. 63.

    Percysowner

    March 7, 2012 at 7:07 pm

    We are not opening links in new tabs. If you want that to happening, try holding down the CTRL button while you click a link. You’ll be shocked and awed.

    Or if you are running Firefox, install Tab Mix Plus. It gives you all sorts of options for handling tabs. It is one of the addons that keeps me from even considering Chrome.

  64. 64.

    Thymezone

    March 7, 2012 at 7:07 pm

    @scav:

    Sorry, damned sunspots LKJDLJR$(((((

    this link works for me, but of course my head and PC are both wrapped with 400 sq ft of aluminum foil

  65. 65.

    Violet

    March 7, 2012 at 7:08 pm

    Suggestion: Can there be some kind of preview function? I know the thing to the right of the spell check above the comment box serves as a sort of preview, but I mean one that shows you what it would look like on the page with the proper fonts, etc.

  66. 66.

    pragmatism

    March 7, 2012 at 7:08 pm

    @Thymezone: i blame solar warming.

  67. 67.

    harlana

    March 7, 2012 at 7:10 pm

    You are not getting permission to post videos and pictures

    do we have permission to request regular, scheduled postings of Tunch videos, pictures and the like?

  68. 68.

    Arclite

    March 7, 2012 at 7:11 pm

    It’s really too bad there won’t be nested comments. This blog has really outgrown it’s flat thread layout. Oh, well. Maybe next time.

  69. 69.

    eemom

    March 7, 2012 at 7:12 pm

    We are not doing avatars. That failed miserably the last time we tried it.

    It did NOT fail miserably. YOU said you hate avatars and killed it at whim, like the brutal authoritarian dictator you are.

  70. 70.

    freelancer

    March 7, 2012 at 7:12 pm

    @harlana:

    Harlana

    wants

    to

    nest

    her

    own

    damn

    comments!

    ETA: VICTORY!

  71. 71.

    Maude

    March 7, 2012 at 7:12 pm

    @Thymezone:
    Better put on more tin foil. A large solar storm is on the way.

  72. 72.

    BGinCHI

    March 7, 2012 at 7:14 pm

    @freelancer: That is so cool. Except it gave me a seizure.

  73. 73.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    March 7, 2012 at 7:14 pm

    Punchy is a sick fuck.

  74. 74.

    harlana

    March 7, 2012 at 7:14 pm

    @Birthmarker: you copy the link, then go to your comment, block one or more words in your comment (will be highlighted in blue as a link in your published comment), click the link button, paste your link address

  75. 75.

    maya

    March 7, 2012 at 7:15 pm

    I’m going through the comments suggestions, and while there is a lot of good stuff, let me be perfectly clear.
    We are not doing a like button, rated comments, or nested comments.
    We are not doing avatars. That failed miserably the last time we tried it.

    So, Emoticons is OK then?

  76. 76.

    harlana

    March 7, 2012 at 7:16 pm

    @freelancer: that’s why DKos makes my head hurt

  77. 77.

    pseudonymous in nc

    March 7, 2012 at 7:16 pm

    A smarter mod filter, please: one that puts you back in the comment editor instead of sending you into moderation limbo.

    Fix multi-para blockquotes.

    I hate nesting in comments: if you look at nesting on The Atlantic, you end up seven levels down with comments formatted one letter at a time.

    And if Mittens is paying Reality Chuck, that explains why his campaign is farting and sputtering its way to victory like the old guy who rode a lawnmower across the US.

  78. 78.

    shortstop

    March 7, 2012 at 7:17 pm

    let me be perfectly clear.
    …
    We are not doing a like button, rated comments, or nested comments.
    …
    We are not doing avatars. That failed miserably the last time we tried it.
    …
    We are not opening links in new tabs. If you want that to happening, try holding down the CTRL button while you click a link. You’ll be shocked and awed. Same with a link to go to the bottom of the page. Look at your computer. Press the buttons marked “home” and “end.” Prepare to be amazed.
    …
    You are not getting permission to post videos and pictures. I’m not going to wake up one morning and discover that Punchy has posted Two Girls One Cup 100 times in every comment thread.

    If this piece of writing can be improved upon, I don’t know how.

    ETA: I mean in the choice of stuff to say “fuck, no” to. However, I wouldn’t mind comment preview and remembering email addresses.

  79. 79.

    KG

    March 7, 2012 at 7:17 pm

    @Veritas: victory in Ohio? Really? That’s what you’re calling 1% of the popular vote (still under 40%), and winning half of the delegates?

    You’d think, at some point, that this guy who is going to be so tough to beat in the general would actually be able to get a majority (or at least solid plurality) of REPUBLICANS in a primary in a swing state.

  80. 80.

    harlana

    March 7, 2012 at 7:17 pm

    @Violet: preview would be very nice, i second that

  81. 81.

    Violet

    March 7, 2012 at 7:19 pm

    Please, none of the dumb commenting requirements that you have to log in via Facebook or something.

  82. 82.

    Raven

    March 7, 2012 at 7:20 pm

    So I’m not sposed to post pictures?

  83. 83.

    harlana

    March 7, 2012 at 7:20 pm

    @pseudonymous in nc:

    that explains why his campaign is farting and sputtering its way to victory like the old guy who rode a lawnmower across the US.

    bahahahaha! you win the internets

    see, we need a Like button for this :(

  84. 84.

    Thymezone

    March 7, 2012 at 7:20 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    Maybe, but I’d like to see that Two Girls One Cup thing.

  85. 85.

    Calouste

    March 7, 2012 at 7:21 pm

    @Maude:

    Well, you would hope that a year later they have a faster CPU. I consider that a given for a computer.

  86. 86.

    Raven

    March 7, 2012 at 7:22 pm

    You don’t want to see Bohdi the day we found him?

  87. 87.

    freelancer

    March 7, 2012 at 7:23 pm

    @shortstop:

    If this piece of writing can be improved upon, I don’t know how.

    When blockquoting it, put 2 underscores between lines instead of ellipses.

  88. 88.

    gogol's wife

    March 7, 2012 at 7:24 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    The only place I comment at the NYTimes is on the crossword blog. It’s really strange, because if your comment gets “liked” a few times it moves up in the thread rather than staying where it was. So if you go back to see if anyone answered you, you don’t know where to look for your comment. I hate it!

  89. 89.

    harlana

    March 7, 2012 at 7:25 pm

    i want a Meh, Like, Not Like, Sucks, Sucks Bag of Dicks button and to be able to post and share directly to and from my FB :)

  90. 90.

    MikeJ

    March 7, 2012 at 7:25 pm

    @maya:

    ಥ_ಥ

  91. 91.

    rikyrah

    March 7, 2012 at 7:25 pm

    outside of the ‘ like’ button, I like BJ pretty much as is.

    PLEASE for the love of all that’s good..

    don’t go to some sort of ‘captcha’ system. I hate those things and they are pain in the ass to figure out and type

  92. 92.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    March 7, 2012 at 7:27 pm

    @cathyx:

    CTRL+R is the solution to your problem. F5 if two keys are too much for you. If reaching for the keyboard is too much of an effort, a refresh is one mouse click away.

    But you usually have to move the mouse a little bit to make that method work, admittedly this could be taxing to some Americans. ;p

    Thanks for not ‘updating’ this place into another GOS. No PC/Thought Police hiding comments, no groups organizing to game the rating system, no ugly avatars that do nothing and waste my bandwidth.

    Thank you.

  93. 93.

    rikyrah

    March 7, 2012 at 7:27 pm

    I really do like the site as is..maybe make the font a little easier to read.

  94. 94.

    TooManyJens

    March 7, 2012 at 7:28 pm

    Same with a link to go to the bottom of the page. Look at your computer. Press the buttons marked “home” and “end.” Prepare to be amazed.

    ::looks at phone::

    Nope. Damn. I would have been amazed.

    Oh well, at least if Cole’s not putting in those links, I won’t have to French kiss a troll.

  95. 95.

    Raven

    March 7, 2012 at 7:28 pm

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: No shit, I really am glad I found this joynt.

    In other news, my rebuilt differential rocks!

  96. 96.

    harlana

    March 7, 2012 at 7:29 pm

    @Raven: i’m sure you will still be able to link to your flickrs and stuff

  97. 97.

    cathyx

    March 7, 2012 at 7:30 pm

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: I have a mac, and I have a refresh button I could click, but that’s why I want auto refresh. Yes, I’m that lazy.

  98. 98.

    Raven

    March 7, 2012 at 7:30 pm

    @harlana: And my youtube groundhog vids I hope!

  99. 99.

    Cassidy

    March 7, 2012 at 7:31 pm

    Auto updating like Topless Robot. It doens’t just refresh the screen, but as you’re reading it will tell you how many new comments were posted and give you the option to show those comments.

    And just for BJ’s purposes, flagging comments for the year end informal awards.

  100. 100.

    Raven

    March 7, 2012 at 7:31 pm

    @cathyx: Refresh button? Donde?

  101. 101.

    cathyx

    March 7, 2012 at 7:32 pm

    @Raven: On my address bar.

  102. 102.

    Raven

    March 7, 2012 at 7:35 pm

    @cathyx: O

  103. 103.

    BGinCHI

    March 7, 2012 at 7:36 pm

    @cathyx: Second worst reveal of the day.

  104. 104.

    TooManyJens

    March 7, 2012 at 7:36 pm

    @rikyrah:

    I really do like the site as is..maybe make the font a little easier to read.

    I eagerly await a 200-comment thread full of typeface experts like the one that popped up the last time this was tried.

  105. 105.

    JPL

    March 7, 2012 at 7:37 pm

    @gogol’s wife: I’m impressed. I comment on certain cites on the Times and have received comments back but I have never commented on the crossword blog. I am so intimidated by those that do. I do love Deb though and loved her clip of the movie A trip to the moon. I loved Hugo.

  106. 106.

    srv

    March 7, 2012 at 7:37 pm

    Just make sure this site works with The New eleventy-billion pixel iPad, since it will become my primary browser. Remember, padpeople are more important than those andriod people.

  107. 107.

    cathyx

    March 7, 2012 at 7:37 pm

    @BGinCHI: Why?

  108. 108.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    March 7, 2012 at 7:37 pm

    @Raven:

    Yup, this is my political home. The only one on teh internets for me.

    I had to laugh at your mentioning your differential because just today I was thinking about that and that nobody has had any automotive issues for me to help them with lately.

    The things I think about while shaving can be odd at times…lol! Glad to hear that the diff is working great for you. I’m getting ready to pull my alternators (yes, dual) out of our Mustang to rebuild them. I figure that twenty years and almost 90,000 miles is a pretty good service life so now is the time to pop new bearings and brushes in them. I’m also thinking of pulling the internal regulators and putting adjustable external regulators on them.

    I like tweaking shit. :)

    @cathyx:

    Not me, I want my web pages to stay the way they are until I decide to refresh them.

  109. 109.

    Jager

    March 7, 2012 at 7:43 pm

    @Veritas: That would be “row to hoe”

  110. 110.

    Mark S.

    March 7, 2012 at 7:43 pm

    We are not doing avatars. That failed miserably the last time we tried it.

    The way I remember it was we had avatars for like 4 hours and then grumpy man Cole got rid of them and told us all to drink Drano.

  111. 111.

    Raven

    March 7, 2012 at 7:45 pm

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: Christ, I bought a damn replacement glove box from and aftermarket outfit. Goddamn thing is cardboard and is just to narrow. It’s making me nuts trying to get it in!

  112. 112.

    cathyx

    March 7, 2012 at 7:45 pm

    @Mark S.: I actually liked the avatars too, as long as they didn’t move or blink.

  113. 113.

    LowProfileinGA

    March 7, 2012 at 7:47 pm

    @eemom:

    Speaking truth to Power!!

  114. 114.

    scav

    March 7, 2012 at 7:47 pm

    @Mark S.: be fair, some of were drinking Drano to get away from the damned avatars.

  115. 115.

    Arclite

    March 7, 2012 at 7:48 pm

    Also, too: Two Girls One Cup? That’s fucking gross.

  116. 116.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    March 7, 2012 at 7:50 pm

    @Raven:

    Much like the body panels that are stamped out in China and shipped over here. I’ve read some pretty gnarly stories of people trying to get their thin stampings to mount and align properly.

    If you can hit a junkyard for something like that you can save yourself a big headache. That or be creative and make your own!

    I’m crazy like that, I like to make stuff to replace difficult to obtain or poorly designed parts. :)

  117. 117.

    shortstop

    March 7, 2012 at 7:51 pm

    @freelancer: No.

    @scav: Awesome.

  118. 118.

    BGinCHI

    March 7, 2012 at 7:54 pm

    @cathyx: I thought there was an actual button I was unaware of…..

  119. 119.

    shortstop

    March 7, 2012 at 7:55 pm

    @Arclite: It’s a running motif here. How well I recall the night it was gently explained to me. I felt naive and unsullied, which was kind of a novelty for me.

  120. 120.

    Sad Iron

    March 7, 2012 at 7:56 pm

    How about a mock “Awards Section” which begins with the “Andrew Sullivan Award”? Definition: Being a despicable, hateful, evil person is totally cool if you like the Pet Shop Boys, were nice to someone in private, and there is at least one claim that you were a good family man.

  121. 121.

    cathyx

    March 7, 2012 at 7:57 pm

    @BGinCHI: You can press command, R, and refresh too.

  122. 122.

    p.a.

    March 7, 2012 at 8:02 pm

    @TooManyJens: kerning! kerning! investigation may show that the real J. Cole, Bush conservative, was eliminated sometime around the Schiavo fiasco and his comments have been faked by Tim F. since then. investigations of literary styles and usages will begin shortly.

    The font is boring but very readable. I can live with that. Maybe a buff page color would be a little easier on my 53 yr old eyes. Don’t want to cost anyone $$$, but a ban on active ads (ads with motion/video effects) may help the page load quicker. Or a button for a low def. URL option for those suffering along with dialup connections. I would love to take part in the occasional survey, especially if the demographics get posted. Am very curious about you folks. (Hope most aren’t as f’ed up as I feel most of the time and as our host claims to be!)

  123. 123.

    gogol's wife

    March 7, 2012 at 8:13 pm

    @JPL:

    Crosswords are one of my many useless talents. Knowing the lyrics to all Shirley Temple songs is another one. But there’s no blog for that.

  124. 124.

    gogol's wife

    March 7, 2012 at 8:15 pm

    @scav:

    Yes, I was some kind of flying purple people-eater, AGAINST MY WILL.

  125. 125.

    Arclite

    March 7, 2012 at 8:23 pm

    @shortstop: I’ve been visiting this site almost daily for five years. Not sure how I missed it…

  126. 126.

    MikeJ

    March 7, 2012 at 8:26 pm

    @gogol’s wife: Stop shoving space monsters down our throats!

  127. 127.

    Birthmarker

    March 7, 2012 at 8:33 pm

    @harlana: Thanks! Will try next time I see something both worthwhile and germane.

  128. 128.

    Mnemosyne

    March 7, 2012 at 8:36 pm

    @Arclite:

    I still have only the vaguest idea what it is, and I like it that way. There are some things (wo)man is not meant to know.

  129. 129.

    Lyrebird

    March 7, 2012 at 8:41 pm

    I *love* the upgrade whereby I almost always get today’s instead of yesterday’s headlines at the top of the page again, THANK YOU ! ! ! ! Please keep that!

    I’m with Odie Hugh re: page refresh… I prefer to do that myself. Otherwise it messes with my scroll settings. Also my head.

    I also love not having the DKOS i mean GOS comment formatting. This is funner.

    Please also make sure the pie filter still works. Haven’t tried it yet, but it sounds fun!

    ETA: Love edit. Do not like auto-emoticons. Prefer
    to type
    my own!
    : – )

  130. 130.

    Lee

    March 7, 2012 at 9:00 pm

    @Arclite:

    I agree threaded comments make for much more dynamic commenting in large population sites.

    Hopefully we’ll at least get the “New Comments since last visit” option.

  131. 131.

    Jimbo316

    March 7, 2012 at 9:04 pm

    @Veritas: Keep in mind that the GOP is waging full scale war on the American economy in order to derail Obama. In addition to the forced austerity and consequent drops in infrastructure investment and layoffs of teachers, police, etc., the new bit is all of the GOP candidates screaming violently for war against Iran. This has the effect of ratcheting up oil prices, which is intended to screw the economic recovery. See the pattern? The Goopers don’t care about this country. They care only about their power. This is an orchestrated campaign.

  132. 132.

    Anoniminous

    March 7, 2012 at 9:14 pm

    @Cain:

    Santorum wasn’t on all the ballots in Ohio because he’s an incompetent doofus.

    Santorum and Gingrich weren’t on the ballot in Virginia, like at all, because they are incompetent doofi.

    Just the people you want deciding which country of brown people to bomb next.

  133. 133.

    JR in WV

    March 7, 2012 at 9:29 pm

    If the font isn’t biggen enough, press cntl-plus and it will magically get enbiggened!

    ETA:I also think you can set a different background color, more buff/tan, or just turn the brightness down. But I don’t remember the magic to make it happen.

    Some younger geek will have to help us out there.

  134. 134.

    Poicephalus

    March 7, 2012 at 9:30 pm

    Dude,
    I just saw your tweet about drowning your salad in ranch dressing. I want to endorse the color-coded warning for your mood. Gonna go with orange there.
    Yeah, definitely orange.
    Looking forward to the rebuild.

    C

  135. 135.

    John O

    March 7, 2012 at 9:31 pm

    I gotta say it would never even occur to me in the slightest to ask someone to alter their website for my personal tastes, even if I wished it so.

    Strange.

  136. 136.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 7, 2012 at 9:38 pm

    @Raven:

    O.
    M.
    G.

    That is quite possibly the cutest puppeh I’ve ever seen in my entire life.

    (a couple of minutes later)

    Yup, went back and checked again, just to be sure. Definitely the cutest. Did I say EVAR?

  137. 137.

    scav

    March 7, 2012 at 9:40 pm

    @gogol’s wife: the trauma you endured was indeed shared by many. I was only a green something or other, with teeth or wings or something. hard to tell. but I was spared purple.

  138. 138.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 7, 2012 at 9:46 pm

    How long ago was the avatar experiment? I’ve been hanging around BJ for a good five years now and I sure don’t remember that. Must have been an aberration of John’s wingnut persona.

  139. 139.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 7, 2012 at 9:53 pm

    @gogol’s wife:

    See the sugar bowl do the Tootsie Roll
    With the big bad Devil’s Food cake!
    If you eat too much, Oh! Oh!
    You’ll awake with a tummy-ache!

  140. 140.

    MikeInSewickley

    March 7, 2012 at 10:02 pm

    Thanks for fighting the good fight to keep the site as simple as necessary to serve its primary purpose of informing us of political and human stupidity.

    I teach all this tech and a lot more in a university setting and just discussed social computing in class. The failures (Second Life, MySpace, Avatar Chatbots, etc.) are becoming all too common as folks try to glitz up their sites.

    So that’s why I donated – money well spent on a useful and friendly site design.

  141. 141.

    TooManyJens

    March 7, 2012 at 10:12 pm

    @John O: Well, he did ask for suggestions.

    @SiubhanDuinne: I think it was the same site rebuild that gave us the slightly tweaked color scheme — last year sometime. The avatars lasted less than a day, IIRC.

  142. 142.

    Evolving Deep Southerner

    March 7, 2012 at 10:52 pm

    Home and end. Straight to the bottom of the page, as advertised. I’ve tripled my productivity through this one simple shortcut.

  143. 143.

    Evolving Deep Southerner

    March 7, 2012 at 11:07 pm

    @eemom: Bad as I hate to admit it, eemom is right here, Mr. Cole. You did kill avatars arbitrarily. I don’t recall any posters bitching about it. I think you thought they were fruity or something.

  144. 144.

    Marcellus Shale, Public Dick

    March 7, 2012 at 11:33 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead:
    but does he cuddle after?

  145. 145.

    FlyingToaster

    March 7, 2012 at 11:34 pm

    Update from a couple upgrade threads back: Firefox 10.whatever on OSX Lion on the new MacBookPro is pulling up the site with no issues. Now that my cable is back on (something went dreadfully wrong for my little ‘burb and all RCN customers went black at 6:05 ET until 7:52).

    However, my husband is still occasionally getting the mobile site on his bigger Lion MacBookPro, so there’s definitely a misidentification happening at the initial load. He uses the site w/o the trailing slash or without the www. and it comes up fine.

  146. 146.

    The Dangerman

    March 8, 2012 at 12:21 am

    I don’t think that’s a saunter; it appears he is scavenging and trying to decide if the carpet is edible. Poor little guy looks famished.

  147. 147.

    Raven

    March 8, 2012 at 6:16 am

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: I have thought about making one. I can’t imagine finding one in a junkyard for a 66, the originals are paper as well and they hardly could still be in good enough shape.

  148. 148.

    gorillagogo

    March 8, 2012 at 9:44 am

    You are not getting permission to post videos and pictures.

    heh

  149. 149.

    boctaoe

    March 8, 2012 at 11:23 am

    lol I was grumpy this morning until I read the above post. John sounds like my HS math teacher. Full of snark, but still loveable.

  150. 150.

    Death Panel Truck

    March 8, 2012 at 11:36 am

    @Thymezone: Actually, no, you wouldn’t. Put it this way: you’d never eat chocolate ice cream again for the rest of your natural life.

  151. 151.

    slag

    March 8, 2012 at 11:49 am

    @Lee:

    Hopefully we’ll at least get the “New Comments since last visit” option.

    Yes. This would be nice.

    Nested comments cause more problems than they solve.

  152. 152.

    MosesZD

    March 8, 2012 at 2:26 pm

    We are not doing a like button, rated comments, or nested comments.

    We are not doing avatars. That failed miserably the last time we tried it.

    We are not opening links in new tabs. If you want that to happening, try holding down the CTRL button while you click a link. You’ll be shocked and awed. Same with a link to go to the bottom of the page. Look at your computer. Press the buttons marked “home” and “end.” Prepare to be amazed.

    You are not getting permission to post videos and pictures. I’m not going to wake up one morning and discover that Punchy has posted Two Girls One Cup 100 times in every comment thread.

    Yay! Like I said, i’m pretty happy with the way things are and the only suggestion I have is when you hit quote it brinds the whole message down. But even then, it’s not a killer. CTRL-C the text then hit ‘Reply’, paste, blockquote the pasted text and it’s done…

  153. 153.

    Lee

    March 9, 2012 at 3:20 pm

    Just thought of this one. It will require that a user register for the site….

    Something where you can flag a post as a “Favorite” on the site. Yes I realize that I can do the same with my browser, but it would be nice to be able to flag a post (reddit has it as a ‘save’ feature).

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