We had to get rid of the comment buttons in the comments because that addon just sucked. In place of buttons is a list of things you can do. For example, if you want to block quote something, it should look like this while you are writing it:
The finished product will look like this:
If you see a WP site with a comment button plugin that works well, let us know. Until now, you have to do it manually.
Also, we can now do polls:
[poll id=2]*** Update ***
There is no plugin that can deal with end-user stupidity. If you can not figure out how to use the tags listed below from the pictures I have given you above, this is not my problem or a problem with the html. That is simple operator fail.
Or maybe not. It looks like something is all funked up.
zzyzx
No one ever likes a redesign at first.
John Cole
This is how you blockquote something:
This is how you embed a link:
I love the new site- is my favorite site
dr. luba
well, there’s still all that Pajamas Media crap in the left column.
At least put it on the right (preferably far right and off of my
screen) where it belongs…………… Otherwise, cleaner
interface, nicer fonts, but I’ve only just now glanced at the re-do
the first time. Worth it, though, if I can stop seeing that
WordPress error screen every other time I try and log on.
Kevin
Harumph.
Hey look at that.
FAIL
joe from Lowell
So, you upgraded to something less functional?
Annette
That also cleaned up a boatload of apache errors in the system
logs. Testing refresh to verify no oddball junk bloating the
logs…
John Cole
For christ sakes, are you people drinking? I am not going to go through and fix every blockquote. Why do you all insert spaces all over the place?
blockquotetag+text you want blockquoted+closeblockquotetag
I figured it out.
SpotWeld
I like the look, but I’m still deciding on the interface.
TheFountainHead
Should read: “You can attempt to use these tags:”
John Cole
Kevin- I have now edited your post twice. You keep going back and inserting shit so it does not work. Are you doing this intentionally?
Comrade Bey
‘cept me. New = shiny! Well crap. Blockquote hosed.
Ihate everything now…..
TheFountainHead
If this were a real emergency, your hair would be on
fire. Edit: Apparently the blockquote emergency broadcast system is
FAIL. Expect to burn to death.
SGEW
test.
test
test
?
Annette
@joe from Lowell: No, a piece of
crap, outdated plugin was dropped so that people would use code
that actually works (manually) rather than relying on a hit or miss
use of something that works marginally.
SGEW
The goggles! They do nothing!
John Cole
QUIT FUCKING HITTING RETURN AFTER YOUR BLOCKQUOTE OPENING TAG. DID YOU SEE ANY SPACE IN THE PICTURES ABOVE?
Christ on a crutch.
SGEW
??
Why do some blockquotes work but not others?
I swear I did nothing different!
?
SGEW
I didn’t! I swear! [I’m editing this post now, and it
appears that a return was added, even though I didn’t hit return.
For reals! And when I go back and edit (after removing the return)
it’s back! This shit is above my pay scale. Me feel stupid now.]
Billy K(hrushchev)
The best part of Balloon Juice 3.0 is watching John’s meltdown over
his retarded commenters. Onward to BJ4.01!!!
Kevin
@John Cole: Sorry, I never saw that
you had edited it, until just now.
I have no idea what I am doing wrong, I mean, I put the <
blockquote > and < /blockquote > around what I’m trying
to quote, and the quoted text gets moved below the blockquote. I
thought I understood HTML tags..
John Cole
SGEW- Please tell me you are screwing with me and you are not this stupid. Please.
John Harrold
I tried to post this in the test poll thing. Is it possible to get
rid of the numbers beside the comments? They take up a lot of
screen real estate but don’t really provide much in the way of
utility.
Comrade Bey
/crosses fingers At the risk of infuriating the great
and powerful JC — me too. Something is inserting the returns. I
remove them and presto! they reappear
Billy K(hrushchev)
SGEW is right, John. I didn’t hit return after my blockquote tag,
but one was inserted anyway. It showed up properly on the preview.
Stacy
SGEW
test
John Cole
You all keep inserting extra stuff. I have no idea why. All you need is:
{blockquote}TEST OF BLOCKQUOTE{/blockquote}
but subsititute { with < and } with > and you get:
I have no idea why you are throwing in all sorts of /p and other crap in there.
Scott H
I prefer hand-coding.
If John Cole is driven to the f-bomb, thing are truly
well coming together.
Edit: The ‘submit’ button is inserting the crap, btw.
Edit 2: Yep, When I hit ‘submit’ leading spaces are being
inserted to the cited text.
Billy K(hrushchev)
Also, are we not Communists anymore? I didn’t get the memo! Why
didn’t anyone tell me to take off my commie hat?
John Cole
I give up. It works every time for me doing exactly what I have said. I have no idea why it is not working for you all and hopefully Stacy can figure it out.
Billy K(hrushchev)
Patrick Lightbody
Testing two links… Ow My Balls! and
Trophy
Fail
SGEW
I fail. I hand in my hat. Yes, Mr. Cole. It appears I am that
stupid. (weeps)
NeeMoh
I suggest that different contributor’s posts be in different fonts,
so it’s easy to tell who wrote immediately without looking for the
author’s name.
John Cole
I will be drinking soon.
John Harrold
John, In my comment above WP inserted returns after the words
‘get’, ‘of’, and ‘of’. I didn’t put those carriage returns there
and it looked fine int he preview. I didn’t put any returns in this
post either.
SGEW
“I have no idea why you are throwing in all sorts of /p and other
crap in there.” I was told to do so on another thread! They made
me!
Eric
The block. It quotes. Or is it an illusion?
Billy K(hrushchev)
Well done, team.
AkaDad
No, but I’m preparing for the debate. +16
xyzzy
Seems to work perfectly well to me…
Thomas
I like the look of the new site, and I’m used to using my own tags
for html formatting, so… Win.
Looks fine in the preview. But not in the post. Sorry
John, but there’s something wrong. On the “edit comment,” there
seem to be random hard returns, as well as original HRs missing.
John Cole
Ok. Pretty clearly this is not user error.
xyzzy
….or not.
Billy K(hrushchev)
Testing strikeCausing more problems.comrade chopper
so let’s see… edit: even better. so now the text
quoted shows up, after the blockquote.
Scrutinizer
lt/blockquotegt. What I see when I view page source is
blockquote/blockquote, then what I typed. FF3, Vista.
Davebo
I Are Emphasized! I are Italicized
You are FAIL!
Kevin
wtf?
Let me try this again. I give up too.
John Cole
And I apologize for dropping f-bombs and calling you all stupid. Even though I really meant it, it was rude.
Eric
So this is what a Palin Presidency would look like. Interesting.
srv
Wasabi greasemonkey magicians or somebody – can we add back in a
horizontal scroller and widen the comments column? Unless I switch
to a 21 inch monitor, the left + right columns = 50% and the
comment number takes up 25% of what’s left… Leaving a little over
a third for the comments. Not practicable for those with a browser
up and multiple applications on a laptop. Other than that, I like
it.
comrade chopper
i think the server has become self-aware and went back and read all
the posts on this blog.
TheFountainHead
The preview and all logically thought says I have done
this correctly. Now I hit submit…. EDIT: The preview is a lie. I
can’t handle this kind of stress…
AkaDad
I followed the instructions and I still fail.
Nathan R
Yeah, I’m just gonna delete this whole comment, since it’s pretty
clear that the content’s been covered already.
GeneJockey
How the hell do you break comments into paragraphs?
4tehlulz
Testing my favorite tag again.
This uses a striketag.
This uses a delete tag.Shinobi
….. Edited to remove my own stupidity. I like this editing
function a lot!
Comrade Bey
So, we’re back to normal then? (The above block quote
was created without spaces or returns by the Comrade Bey.)
srv
Oh, you have a horizontal scroller at the bottom of the page here
(!), bit it isn’t attached to the browser pane, it’s inside of
it… Crazy. At least on Opera and Firefox…
Davebo
Programming since 1984 but I can’t make blockquote work. Epic Fail
am I… And yes, it does work in preview. But that’s….. OK….
Cain
John obviously is not well suited to computer support. We can thank
our lucky stars that we don’t call up and get him on the other
line. ha. Now I want to test blockquote.
Works well in preview.. now..hit the submit. I have
re-edited and had to remove the CRs in the text. Lame. cain
Billy K(hrushchev)
[blockquote]I followed the instructions and I still
fail.[/blockquote] Story of my life. (I’m just gonna do my
blockquoting like this from now on.)
Comrade The Moar You Know
This is why I keep coming back here.
Interesting. The software really is inserting carriage returns on
its own.
john b
let’s see if i can blockquote:
and maybe an image for fun: (exclamation test):
!http://tijiuanahitsquad.com/pics/panda.jpg! (html test):
edit: and just to confirm, I did not put carriage
returns in that first blockquote. those were kindly inserted by the
site after i pressed submit.
SGEW
ALL HAIL FAIL!
Montysano (All Hail Marx & Lennon)
Testing paragraph
testing paragraph again
Testing link
testing paragraph again
My computer password here at work is “HTML”, so I feel safe in
saying “it ain’t working”.
Thomas
No work.
Still looks fine in preview
Steve V
Could you please put up a poll for us to vote on whether to keep
the mobile version? :)
Comrade Scrutinizer
Now I’m going
I hope it’s not a browser problem. Hmmm.I
JGabriel
John Cole, I know you addressed this in an earlier post, but I have
to add my voice to the bad font brigade. The new font renders
weird, with uneven kerning – for instance, in “financial” the ‘i’
is much closer to the ‘c’, rather than being centered between the
‘c’ and the ‘a’ – and some of the letters look blotchy, for
instance, the peak in the middle of the ‘w’ looks bold compared to
the rest of the letter. .
AkaDad
@Eric: I Lol’d. The quote thing
doesn’t work like I thought it would.
4tehlulz
The most frustrating part is everything looking fine in Preview but
not when it actually posts.
JL
It is so nice not to be greeted by word press error Thank’s John.
JGabriel
What happened to the paragraph breaks? Oh, fercrissakses, I give
up. .
D. Mason
This is only a test.
(edit) I used the blockquote syntax as described and got the
above results, it seems the text is being re-formatted to include
a space after the blockquote tag and again after the quoted text,
I hope this helps.
Comrade The Moar You Know
testing of “strike”works in previewsrv
In IE, you have a vertical scroller inside the pane that’s not
visible in Opera or Firefox. Never seen anything like that. So get
rid of these embedded scrollers and let the browser do it.
Stacy
HeartlandLiberal
In the ‘Thar She Blows…3.0’ post, in the comments, using FireFox
3.0.3 latest, noscript but trusting the site, at comment 156 and
below the screen pages disappears completely into a black hole, the
rest of the page rendered from there down is solid black from side
to side to the end of the page.
Billy K(hrushchev)
Stacy
@HeartlandLiberal: Yes, we’re aware of that and working on a fix.
Billy K(hrushchev)
How you did that, Stacy?
cyntax
SGEW
? Oh, fuck it. This is not my job.
Comrade Bey
@Stacy: Now you’re just showing off
…..
Comrade Dreggas
Товарищ НеинтереснаяСобака
Let’s see: McCain is suffering
from Alzheimer’s.
Billy K(hrushchev)
Typical. The new site only costs $800, but it’s an extra $100 if
you want blockquoting. Should we get a fundraiser going? Any other
hidden costs, Cole?
Stacy
@Billy K(hrushchev): I think it has to do with John and I being logged in as admins. Still poking at it…
Comrade Scrutinizer
I like the fonts, John. JGabriel is just a whiner. :)
cyntax
Everytime I post, I’m sent to this error page (but the post comes
through):
Comrade The Moar You Know
Not in my browser (Opera 9.52) or in IE7. Try another
screen resolution.
Billy K(hrushchev)
@Comrade Scrutinizer: I agree; fonts
are fine. Whiners zip it.
Stacy
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse
John, go ahead and start drinking now. I’m already ahead of you.
Data point #1: John, as King Sultan Supreme User, seems to get to
use all the comment area width, while most of us plebes get
wrapped against our will about 2/3 of the way across. What’s up
with that?
Data point #2: In teaching, we don’t call it “user error”. That
hurts people’s feelings and your end of day assessment scores go
down. What we do is walk over to their chair, sigh, and say,
“Gosh, it’s that PEBKAC problem again. Let me help you fix it.”
(PEBKAC = Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair).
Billy K(hrushchev)
@Comrade The Moar You Know:
LRN/2/BLOCKQUOTE
Товарищ НеинтереснаяСобака
Wow, that’s fucked. I can’t fix it in edit, either.
greynoldsct00
I’m not going to even try to quote something, I’m only going to say
that John dropping f-bombs and thinking we’re nuts is all part of
the charm of BJ and it’s why we hang out here and take it. I like
the new site, the fine tuning will take a few days.
Comrade Scrutinizer
Stacy is cheating.
It doesn’t bother me so much that it doesn’t work,
it’s that Preview shows me it does. For some reason, that really
annoys the shit out of me. I do like the upgrade, John. This will
rock when the kinks get worked out.
cyntax
Well at least there’s still some barrier to entry for posting; for
awhile there I was starting to miss the WP error messages.
cleek
i shall quote myself
truly
Michael D.
Comrade jnfr
I told you in the last thread that something was inserting hard
returns, thus causing comment lines to wrap funny.
Now what I am seeing is that some comments have the hard returns
and some wrap normally. I do not know why, but it could be
related to the problems with blockquote.
Trying some P and BR tags. Let’s see how this does.
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse
Stacy is Queen Sultan Supreme User, so she gets the nice stuff.
What are you, some kind of commie?
Nick
Let’s see if I fail. Confirmed that. I fail.
RSA
Okay, it’s fucked. Blockquote and img tags not working for me.
Comrade jnfr
Well I got some line spaces at least, but still hard returns at the
wrap points. Very odd. My WP installation doesn’t do this.
D. Mason
Wow you notice too much shit.
TheFountainHead
Obama just released an iPhone app. Not gonna lie. I yipped a little
in excitement. Clearly BJ needs an iPhone app to make my geek-life
complete.
bago
Ah, cmon. F-bombs are a vital tool against the eaasily offended!
Nick
Let’s try this again:
I fail, again.
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse
And Michael is the Jack of Diamonds. Rank hath its privileges.
We’re plebes. We’re fucked. Get used to it ( at least until Stacy
beats the bug into submission, which she will by the time I get
back here, I bet).
Comrade The Moar You Know
“And I apologize for dropping f-bombs and calling you all stupid.
Even though I really meant it, it was rude.”
This is the best “apology” ever.
Billy K(hrushchev)
Stacy, when you’re done fixing blockquotes, can I have a pony?
Товарищ НеинтереснаяСобака
Yeeooww! I just turned off font smoothing to see what you people
were complaining about, and WOW!. That is one ugly font. It looks
just about perfect with ClearType on, though, so I’m not
complaining.
Test Monkey
cleek
wow. that last post of mine was supposed to be a simple blockquote
inside another blockqoute. but WP totally hosed it.
cleek
i like the font.
Scott H
I am impressed that John Cole has a base who are more than happy,
actually completely enthusiastic and overjoyed, to keep banging at
this thing until his host and designer can get the bugs worked out.
I am into the merlot +1. Huzzah.
Stacy
Not even going to talk to someone who actually brings up KERNING as it relates to website rendering.
Because it doesn’t.
pb
Comrade Scrutinizer
Hmm. If I can’t blockquote, can I use it as a rule? ?
I’m about to
reach the adult magazine black screen of opacity. Is that going to
pop up here soon?
JGabriel
The Moar You Know:
Interestingly enough, I’m also using Opera
9.52.
…
Perhaps there’s a font I’m missing and the system is replacing
it with something fugly. Can anyone tell me in which font text
should be rendering?
…
D.Mason:
Yeah, yeah, fuck you too.
The Other Steve
HURRAH! The Page down keys work again!
You should see it from my home in Alaska!
cyntax
Quoting without hard breaks:
And with:
AkaDad
…………………………………………………………………………………………
Stacy, when you’re done fixing blockquotes, can I have a pony?
…………………………………………………………………………………………
That’s pretty fucking insensitive. For five and a half years, John McCain couldn’t have a pony.
Yes, I just made my own blockquote, bitchez.
Roonieroo
I’m almost scared to try this
Stacy
FearItself
I only got through the first thirty or so posts before I was overcome by the suspicion that the inability to do blockquotes by Balloon Juice commenters is somehow related to the inability to do pass blocking by the Steelers’ offensive line.
Did it work? YES! No sack on this snap! Wooohooo!
TheFountainHead
This Obama iPhone app uses the GPS to locate you and suggest nearby Obama campaign events.
Nifty.
It also appears to allow you access to their caller database to call voters.
Uber-Nifty.
The Other Steve
Weird. The carriage returns hork up the blockquote.
Scott H
The font looks good to me. I am using the Safari browser with default encoding set to "Western (ISO Latin 1)" – whether that makes any difference or not.
Comrade Bey
Nicely done, dad.
Billy K(hrushchev)
…………………………………………………………………………………………
That’s pretty fucking insensitive. For five and a half years, John McCain couldn’t have a pony.
…………………………………………………………………………………………
Well, I’m an élite, and I need a pony for my terrorist arugula farm.
Roonieroo
Woohoo! It is in the box! I can blockquote and not get called names by John!
Billy K(hrushchev)
But will it give me hope?
Annette
Scrutinizer
That better be something Stacy did.
TheFountainHead
I think the Obama App just locked up my iPhone.
Less than nifty.
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
Does anyone here know how to design a Firefox widget that will insert the tags easily? I used to have one for Kos, which I plan to reinstall on this computer eventually, but the tags are different here.
Just wondering.
cyntax
Well, when you’re rooting for the Dems, you do become habituated to a whole lot of fail, so this is just like warm exercises for reading about what Congress’ latest scheme will be for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory…
Comrade The Moar You Know
JGabriel: I don’t know what font this is supposed to be. You may want to follow a suggestion above and turn on ClearType if you haven’t already. Also, what OS are you running? I get weird rendering issues in Linux sometimes, especially with Opera.
TheFountainHead
"But will it give me hope?"
No. But it is beautifully rendered.
Blue Neponset
Why are average, pro-button Americans being ignored? This html stuff is elitist.
Nick
@Scott H:
Even if he only insults us and then gives us a half-hearted apology when he figures out it isn’t our fault. It is pretty impressive we’re still here.
At work -1. I’ll need alcohol to make up for the debt…
Dennis - SGMM
Seems like just a few days ago BJ would be randomly non compos mentis, leading to much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Now we’re hearing about kerning.
I’m beginning to believe that "progress" actually means "the granularity of the bitching has increased significantly."
Roonieroo
Does anybody else get a HTTP Error 403 page whenever they post comments? My comment posts but I have to reopen Balloon-Juice.
The error I get is:
Error 403
We’re sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for /?p=11572#comment-1054795 on this server.
You do not have permission to access this server.
Your technical support key is: 1899-cbf3-dfd9-b1ad
You can use this key to fix this problem yourself.
If you are unable to fix the problem yourself, please contact jgriffincole at gmail.com and be sure to provide the technical support key shown above.
Scott H
Safari keeps giving me a "Slow Script" alert if this means anything to anybody.
Michael D.
Kevin
I was going to try that out, but now you have scared me off.
Billy K(hrushchev)
It means Michael Bay is never going to option your boring screenplay.
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
No stickiness in Firefox 3 – just saying…
Michael D.
Comrade Bey
GET OUT!
That felt good. For some reason, I suddenly want a cigarette…..
TheFountainHead
It didn’t actually lock up my iPhone, it just took a long time to load a page. It’s working smooth now. It’s actually the prettiest iPhone app I’ve ever seen. I could see it being very useful for canvassers.
Heh. It sorts your contacts by battleground states so that you can call them to be sure they’re registered to vote. Brilliant.
AkaDad
……………………………………………………………………………………..
Nicely done, dad.
………………………………………………………………………………………
Thanks, comrade.
Marshall
The design is fine, but the progressive shading at the top of the page as it loads looks very similar to the progressive shading beginning at the top that signifies a Mac OS X kernel panic. Twice now I have loaded BJ and had a moment of kernel panic panic. Some, of course, might regard this as a feature.
jake
This is the funniest post evar. John reminds me of the dad on a cross country trip. The kids are either fighting and crying or making fart noises and laughing like helium sucking hyenas. Though he tries to concentrate on the road he keeps flipping out because they Won’t. Shut. Up.
JGabriel
The Moar You Know:
XP.
I may have to turn on Clear Type, though I’ve gone w/o it for 6 years and really hate to turn it on now. It makes most fonts look blurry, to me anyway.
Maybe Annette or Stacy (hint hint) can chime in with what the default font is supposed to be?
.
cleek
i repeat myself when under stress
the more i look at it, the more i like it.
i do think it’s good.
i wish you were here to see it.
cyntax
WIN!
cleek
oof. and there’s the censor bar!
Michael D.
Stacy:
A couple of things I am noticing.
1. I can’t use the Page Up/Down keys to scroll through the site. I can’t use the arrow keys either.
2. Whenever I leave a comment, it takes me to an error page – although the comment does post.
3. Whenever I come to the site or refresh, it seems to lock up for about 15 seconds and I can’t do anything.
I am using IE 6.0.2900
Billy K(hrushchev)
I noticed that, as well. And yes, we Mac élitists even have delightful BSODs. (I got one yesterday at work – first one in a couple years.)
jake
Yep, every time. But if you hit Back your post is there. Allegedly it is because the spam filter caught malicious crap from your IP address. I think John put it in there to remind us he can bring back WPE if we act up.
cyntax
@Roonieroo-October 2nd, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Yep, getting Error 403 evertyime (using IE 6.0); emailed it up the chain.
Billy K(hrushchev)
There’s your problem.
Polish the Guillotines
The frackin’ Black Wall of Censorship is still in full effect with FireFox (2.x).
It seems to kick in just after comment #162 on any thread that runs longer than 162 comments.
Please, please Annette & Stacy: Save me from having to use IE7! I beg of you!
AkaDad
With Firefox 3 the page goes black after 151 comments, but works in IE 7.
Comrade The Moar You Know
JGabriel: ClearType’s "blurriness" is somewhat monitor-dependent, worse on some than others. Try it for testing purposes, you certainly don’t have to leave it on.
You’ll be happy to know that when you are eventually forced to "upgrade" to Vista, Vista’s version of ClearType is much, much better.
I’m probably the only person on the planet with a fully working, no problems whatsoever Vista install. I have dealt with enough Vista installations that didn’t work properly (or at all) to say that I could not in good conscience recommend it for anyone. But mine, for some weird reason, is awesome.
Kevin
Also works with Google Chrome.
SGEW
It’s been said earlier, but I shall second it.
BEST. THREAD. EVER.
I’m never going to get any work done at this rate.
Billy K(hrushchev)
Annette & Stacy….Annette & Stacy…. weren’t they the two keyboard players for Prince in the Purple Rain days?
cyntax
Meh, looks like I’m missing out on the Wall o’Censorship, so I’ll call it a push.
Comrade Scrutinizer
I’m now getting the
on FF3 after comment 162.
Don’t make me use this piece of MS crap, Please!
Billy K(hrushchev)
Chrome & Safari = Webkit
Internet Exploder = WTF MS BBQ?
Firefox = Gecko
Hmmmm…..
TheFountainHead
I have no black walls of death, FF v. 3.0.3 on a Mac running Leopard 10.5.5
AkaDad
The paig okazunally freezes up in IE 7 and I have no spel chek.
Comrade The Moar You Know
No prono censorship in Opera.
Polish the Guillotines
Try using the ClearType tuner. You can do it online or download and install it. If you do it online, you’ll need to use IE.
JGabriel
Moar: Yep, Clear Type makes the site look much better, readable even – except for the blurriness/blotchiness that’s inherent to Clear Type itself.
Frankly, it’s pretty annoying that one has to turn on Clear Type for the page to render correctly.
John Cole, please change the font to something that renders correctly without requiring Clear Type. Please? That really shouldn’t be a requirement.
Anyway, glad to hear Vista is working out for you, Moar. I’ll probably switch to Linux rather than do the forced upgrade, but we’ll see.
.
TheFountainHead
Man, I hope I get to blockquote again by tonight, I suspect there will be some funny-ass quotes to mock this evening.
cyntax
Yeah you say it’s lack of spell check but that looks a lot like being +4/5.
I’m not saying, I’m just saying.
If it walks like a duck…
Billy K(hrushchev)
Blockquoting is fun.
jake
Why does John Cole hate fire and foxes?
JGabriel
Polish the Guillotines:
Thanks, I’ll try that. But I still object to throwing away processor cycles on Clear Type.
Irritating, that is.
.
greynoldsct00
greynoldsct00
I block quoted
/snoopy dance
Marked Hoosier
This thread is full of win. :D
greynoldsct00
SGEW
Wait . . . be still my beating heart . . .
Can our childrens learn?
SGEW
Our childrens can learn!
Yay!
Now Mr. Cole maybe not yell at me! Or skull fuck a kitten!
Billy K(hrushchev)
Don’t get your hopes up…
greynoldsct00
Now I just have to figure out the posting of the links thing…
Comrade Scrutinizer
Another feature.
Polish the Guillotines
Yet you’re 188 comments into a thread about web design. Isn’t that throwing away life cycles? Why do hate America?
tripletee (formerly tBone)
@JGabriel: The default comments text is Lucida Sans. Yes, it looks like ass without Cleartype enabled. Sack up and deal with it.
@The FountainHead: the Obama iPhone app is really slick (no lockups for me thus far). I don’t know who handles the campaign’s web presence, but they’re pretty amazing. Even though they didn’t invent the Blackberry.
Fun fact: Wendy & Lisa currently do the music for "Heroes."
Bad Horse's Filly
Now I’m going to be late for work, but this thread was so worth it. I’ll miss the debate, but can’t wait to get home to see what you crazies have to say about it, blockquotes or not.
Bad Horse's Filly
The B-J experience. Come for the snark, stay for the abuse.
The story of my life.
Jen R
Oh my God, this thread is making my day.
I took a drink just before reading #51 and almost choked to death.
Xanthippas
This is possibly one of the greatest threads in the history of Balloon Juice (or at least since I’ve been coming around. I don’t even know how to describe it…it’s like a sitcom where the kids pick on the beloved uncle with a legendarily short fuse, who then flies off the handle to the amusement of the family and audience alike.
Xanthippas
Never mind, Jake at 160 has a better analogy. Also, I just fucked up a blockquote in a newer thread, so I’m really glad I wasn’t around to test this earlier this afternoon.
littlesky
preview says it’s all good, but I hear preview is a damn liar…
edit: it eated my picture. oh well…
MelodyMaker
Whoah! this blinking cursor indicator goes to China!
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My real comment was going to be about readability. At work I keep a reely skinny little browser box so the prying eyes… That’s been working for me with Digby and WaMo and even TPM, but reading BJ posts is now a few words per line. Now I go back and read some comments.
MelodyMaker
you could have just moved into the oldedit: somthing took a drink
ouche’
MelodyMaker
benen place.