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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
Is this a test?
Oh shit, we’re all fucked!
If I went over to that other blog I bet they would be making some really great posts for that strip.
“It’s inspires creativity. Totally minimalist understatement. Blah Blah Blah.”
I gotta enough work already with the honey do list, now I’m on call here? Oh well, if it’s for m.
It’ll be worth it, Sparky!
~:D
Please Stand By? Don’t you mean Sit By?
So who is MightyConservative hooking me up with? Maybe worth “standing by.”
re: #6 by yah
If you must.
re: #2 by Iron Fist
In more ways than one.
(570) A homeless guy asked you to feel your boobs, you accepted in exchange for his broom to go with your witch costume….. that’s when I cut you off.
This is from textsfromlastnight.com
Has anyone seen this site? Its hilarious.
I have no idea what that means.
re: #6 by yah
You’ll have to get behind Lance on that one.
Oh goodie goodie gumdrops! I love a painless moving day!!!!
About to post the new design and a couple of nifty touches that will help with posting.
m, I sent you an email …
Also things may look weird for the next 15-20 minutes once things change over but don’t panic – that just means I am working on it.
LMAO!
Oh wait- you really think liberals are the adults and conservatives are children, don’t you?
Bwahahaha!
Wingnuts are children, but how dare people on the right question the patriotism of those adults on the left. This is far from an accurate characterization- of both sides, since no one here except you thinks teh left iz perfek. I loved your back peddling at the end so you could give yourself wiggle room should anyone dare criticize your brilliance (not all conservatives- just wingnuts!) except you didn’t use wingnuts throughout, did you? Since I know you check your dings obsessively, I will tell you why I dinged you down- it’s called “projection”.
This is Sharmuta smacking up the Weasel.
Where is the photo of the stack of beginner web development programming books to show how intellectual you are?
/sarcasm
re: #13 by vagabond trader
Painless?!
*pushing a set of hand-trucks to VT*
re: #15 by RIX
lmao
For the sake of those involved, I reeeealy hope that Sharmuta, Weasel and IR are all separate people.
I’M SO EXCITED… AND I JUST CAN’T HIDE IT…
IMMABOUT TO LOSE CONTROL~ AND I THINK I LIKE IT…
re: #18 by bellamags
re: #18 by bellamags
I think that Jimmah & Weasel could be tha same creature.
re: #20 by m
i love pop tarts. what kind? The smore’s are my fave. with a glass of cold milk.
re: #17 by m
Ok where do you want it moved?
re: #16 by Escovado
Or the link to buy the post-it notes on amazon.
*snicker*
re: #21 by RIX
I sooooo concur!!! Jimmah getting in touch with its fem side. Blecch.
re: #21 by RIX
Way before any of this went down, (like a year ago) I often would get the weird idea that Sharm and Charles were the same. But I kept that to myself.
re: #19 by m
Do we getta keep the pole, cuz I got Washingtons!
re: #22 by bellamags
Ok, how did you get into my webcam?
(smores n’milk! yuummmmm)
re: #26 by bellamags
You aren’t the only one but those in the know have reassured us they are unique organisms.
re: #18 by bellamags
Ha, lol tri-polar disorder.
What time is it? Either I’m going crazy or the time changed last night.
re: #23 by vagabond trader
uhm… uhm….
BREAKTIME!
/union movers
re: #30 by davehm
Three faces of weasel.
re: #27 by Sparky
I’ll have to slide a few of those to MightyConservative to make sure we get to keep the stripper pole! I mean, it goes with anything!
Good thinking.
good morning all
MORNING TW!
re: #32 by m
That would be hubby. Wait til he gets home and sees all the leaves he has to move.Cleared them all on Friday and they’re baaaaaack!
re: #34 by m
There is a bar downtown that has a stripper pole in the middle of the dance floor for patrons to use. It makes wonderful opportunities for video and picture blackmail.
Backing everything up now …
Morning everybody!
Dumb dumb question. Will we have to re-register?
re: #25 by vagabond trader
When Weasel took a weekend off, there was no Jimmah.
They always tag team & have something called Jimmah/Ice Producions.
Weasel doesn’t think that she is schitzo & neither does she.
re: #40 by Rightside
Morning! We’re moving to our new shiny home!
re: #26 by bellamags
Charles & Sharm the same? That is a truly disturbing concept.
re: #31 by bellamags
We “fell back”.
Good morning typicalwhitey! Grab a broom ~ we’re in clean-up mode ~:)
re: #38 by bellamags
I know a place in Morgantown WV that has a twenty-five foot high stripper pole with a bike horn at the top for the girls to honk if they get all the way up there.
The place is called Lady Godiva, and there’s also a giant rocking horse at the back of the stage for the first girl to ride after her act.
re: #41 by vagabond trader
I don’t think so. We’re still wordpress based.
re: #42 by RIX
Yup saw that.Jimmah also posted under a sock on defenseman.Its into that sort of sockery. I knew it was him and called it out. Received a lot of bile from its vulgar mouth but no denial.Then he slightly altered the sock but it was the same person.We’re onto you Jimmah and your fem side Ice hole.
Gotta go to the country to visit Grandma!
BBL
re: #43 by vagabond trader
Sweet! today?
re: #44 by RIX
On SO MANY levels.
re: #50 by Rightside
Affirmative, as we speak!
Bumr50! Tell her hello from us!
~:)
re: #46 by Bumr50
Is it a strip club? The giant rocking horse sounds fun, can anyone ride it?
re: #41 by vagabond trader
Nope. We are just putting a nice new coat of paint on and a small breakfast nook onto the kitchen here.
re: #49 by Bumr50
Just stay away from rocking horses with strippers atop!
re: #55 by MightyConservative
But we’re keeping the pole, right?
:insert angel smiley:
re: #46 by Bumr50
So many euphemisms, so little time…
re: #48 by vagabond trader
lmao ice hole…
re: #52 by vagabond trader
Woot!
re: #57 by m
I’m just doing additions
Is it true that Mandy… got the stick? If so why?
re: #59 by bellamags
My hubby has always used that instead of the obvious expletive. It seemed a natural to graft it onto that thing from the outerwebs.
re: #62 by BenZacharia
Mandy won’t put up with bullshit. She probably called out one of the gods of the blog and got whacked.
re: #63 by vagabond trader
I got it from the movie Johnny Dangerously.
Fargin ice hole.
re: #63 by vagabond trader
very natural and appropriate.
re: #65 by MightyConservative
Awesome movie, funny as hell!
re: #48 by vagabond trader
That’s what I think.
re: #61 by MightyConservative
whew!
I mean… ahem… some people like to makes use of it and all…
And we DID move it all the way here from the dead,dead,thread over there. It has history! MTNester, Lance, Redstateredneck and more helped build the platform and everything!
Oh man, I need to find that thread one day and save it before cj zaps it. It was a hoot!
*getting teary eyed*
re: #62 by BenZacharia
Seriously?!?
re: #62 by BenZacharia
Mandy has nine lives. Don’t believe any such rumors without hard evidence.
re: #62 by BenZacharia
Where did you hear that rumor?
Backup complete. Now uploading new stuff and will be flipping the switch on it shortly.
re: #45 by m
Don’t you mean a mop???
LOL
selrahC’s latest photographic masterwork looks like the kind of thing that happens when you suddenly grasp the camera dangling at your hip and accidentally hit the shutter.
It’s shot of part of a boat, along with a whole bunch of harbor water.
My first time over there in a couple weeks and I busted out laughing soon as I saw it.
@ kirls place #567?
going to look again
m – It would be funny if your post read “bad craziness”. LOL.
re: #69 by m
I’ll be happy to install some motorized shades for the new place,so we don’t need to look at the old house across the street. Why do they just stick their faces against the window and make faces, aren’t they allowed to come out and play? No matter, this will fix’em.
MandyManners
Mon, Oct 26, 2009
“It got whacked.”
Monday, October 26, 2009 7:35:00 PM
re: #69 by m
I’ve got the whole thing on my hard disk, just in case it’s disappeared.
re: #75 by Edouard
Yup. He doesn’t have a very good sense of composition.
re: #79 by BenZacharia
This is from the 31st
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re: #60 Conservative Moonbat
OT:
Texas Officially Makes The Universe Ageless
Have you sent this to Charles?
re: #75 by Edouard
Here is a picture. Not the greatest composition, vaccum cleaner in the background but the subject…..adorable!!
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m263/christie44/100_1544.jpg
(I am TRYING to limit it to just one a day!!!)
Sidebar is screwed. Let me switch back for a second.
Ok I hit refresh and things are very different now….I am scared….I want my mommy………
Wow!!!
nice!
OK this is a different look
Wow, what happened
LOVE the header you had up there Conservative!!!
reverted… clearing cache
It looks like we have some alignment issues, at least in firefox.
neo? morpheous? you there?
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/01/boxer-no-more-troops-to-afghanistan/
Need to recreate the sidebar in the new theme. I expected this, just give me about 20 minutes.
Where are the kindle ads?
If you hit ‘quote’ now it will copy the whole post in automatically for you. I also added some formatting buttons for posting comments.
Thanks, still got a little ways to go before all is said and done.
why am I not seeing anything new?
Clinton told senior Pakistani newspaper editors in Lahore, AFP reported. “The percentage of taxes on GDP (in Pakistan) is among the lowest in the world… We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move, and that’s not what we see in Pakistan,” she said.
Umm…that’s a bug, not a feature.
re: #94 by typicalwhitey
This is what she needs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAvNLx8G-Yc
hmmmm. I like the dude in the red shirt (red, he he he. note its not blue)
#98 MightyConservative
Whe I hit quote, it shrinks the comment box down to one line readable only. Not good.
quaote reply does not work in Windows 7, IE 8.
I’m testing!
Oh, nice options for the Comments box!
I’ve got to get my buns in gear. I’ve started reading Nonie Darwish’s memoir, They Call Me Infidel.
She’s coming to Toronto this week!
This is so cool!
Let me address that problem, hold on.
nice!!!!!
hoooray! moving day!
i cant wait.
in the mean time i have to wash and pre-winter wax our cars today…so i’ll do it now.
i do offer a discount to blogmocracy netizens.
bbl, and good luck mods!
aint growth grand?
Cool from IE7
Wow, now the comments layout is different! Groovy!
I messed up my underlining, though. Sorry about that.
Well it looks like you are doing an awesome job. I will be offline for a while, my main comp wont work and I am on my backup. Taking to the city so I look forward to checking out the changes when I get back!
Also, someone should close the underline tag.
oh my – thank you so much admins and everyone. this is so fantastic! And, I would have been thankful just to have gotten rid of the black background and gray typeface.
Woot Woot for the design and everything.
Ah, better on the comment box and the underline tag.
Thanks for the pointer, tw. Gawd, I despise that woman. I wonder if that is her “veteran” husband accompanying her (along with the pin-striped thug)?
Hmmm. Not sure what to make of the comments layout. I think I prefer the old look. At least on the old Wordpress layout I could instantly see who made each comment. Now the nics are tiny and to the side. And everything has underlines and is in blue. Is that something that is being worked out?
I don’t mean to be critical of anything or anyone’s work. Just throwing my two cents out there.
Ah, I see the blue, underlined text in every comment is now gone. I spoke too soon!
AVATARS!!!!!!!!!!!
Are we supposed to have comment numbers?
Very nice, good work
Wow, what a really nice looking website.
WOW! When the screen refreshed, it was a new universe!
I simply LOVE what you’ve done with the place.
(Nothing like the smell of new carpets
)
I see… the underlining is a temporary glitch.
The new header and footer look great. I love seeing Ronald Reagan.
May I make a suggestion? Have you tried putting the script for “The Blogmocracy” in black? That way, the ink blots will look a bit more… well… ink-blotty.
Still with the ‘Submit’ button? sheeesh! If each comment was being reviewed before displaying it might be correct. However we post directly so ‘Submit’ is wrong in more ways than one.
oh damn, that footer looks like the header I submitted for use…similar pic, not the same one.
For what it’s worth, I would humbly ask that the commenter’s nic be either boldface or colorized or larger maybe? As it is now, it just gets lost to my eyes.
looking good!!!!!
will my avatar work?
yes
do you have to use gravatar?
I wonder if the problem is that we changed midstream in this thread theme-wise?
Whoever said that, I agree
just a little more tweeking and a few adjustments
Seconded
WOW! Totally freaked me out when I refreshed! Why the changes?
With avatars back, playing the Moslem troll “Mo” is going to be much difficult.
Three cheers for MightyConservative! Hold the critiques until the word is given for assessment. I see smoke coming off the keyboard over there.
it would be nice if the eagle had a lizard dangling from it’s mouth…..i’m kidding….the site looks terrific
Sorry – not much for change. It was easier to read before…JMHO…
Hey! ME LIKEY!
Wow…this is great.
I love it!
MC
Overall, KUDOS!!!!!
Let the tweeking begin
Savage’s Girl! We’re leaving the lizard green behind!
Love it!
Savage’s Girl~ He’s not finished. The main theme has changed and now it’s on to the tweaking.
a little OT, look retirement beni’s for terrorist
Here, here!
looking sweet!
linky feature not ready yet.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,570747,00.html
try this
This looks really good. How do you do an avatar?
OK, how do I upload an avatar. I have it on my wordpress account, do i just need to wait or do something from this site?
Classy!!!! A++++
No numbers on each comments?
http://en.gravatar.com
vagabond trader
November 1, 2009
9:20 am
Classy!!!! A++++
No numbers on each comments?
That’s gonna be a prob
Good morning all. This is a test post. So far I like what I see.
But…I don’t see any “quote” or “reply” buttons on the individual postings. Also I agree with others who want the posters names to be more prominent.
Are more changes coming today?
Welly, welly, welly, well…isn’t this interesting. Nice design. Paid for by the Conspiracy to Destroy the Republican Party by Making Them Behave Like Republicans™? People will talk, Clairice…
There seems to be a problem with the quote plugin I was using. I am wondering if it is because there is a bug with it (which I didn’t encounter in my own testing) or if it was because we switched midstream and caused some malformed HTML as a result.
The numbering will come back, just give me a couple of minutes as I am trying to tie this all together.
Today more then a few people will show up to church an hour early.
Very nice indeed. Congrats to Mighty Conservative and all the admins for the sharp new look!
Okay, now I see posters names are in bold face. Good! Now, about those “reply” and “quote” buttons??
Nice design! Easy on the eyes. Looking better each time I refresh.
I believe they are still working the kinks out of the system. Each time I refresh I am seeing different things, so with some patience, we will be back up and running smoothly.
HoW ’bout nic over avatar?
getting better, mad skillz
Very cool. Like moving into a new house. I hope to be able to find my way around without bumping into too much furniiture and too many walls.
Grateful thanks to Mighty Conservative and the admins for all the upgrades. I’ll be patient while the tweaking is going on.
Love it!
Wow. I really like it. I’m sure it will be perfect by the end of the day. A jump to bottom thingy would be cool and as someone else mentioned, comment numbers (I’m sure you are working on it).
and voila!
[[and the edit! yes!!]]
Wow this place is looking BEAUTIFUL. I go out to do a little gardening and come back to this stunning development. I love it.
YAY. . . the ART WORK WONDERFUl.
test
let the games begin
Only you get the edit M. Still working on numbering at the moment. Please hang tight.
phoey no rainbow
*IT WORKED*
BenZacharia,
No unicorn, either. I’m gonna sue…
Wonderful Headers and Footers. They really make a statement. I actually like the footer more. And the posts are so easy on my eyes. Very easy to read. I was always happy with lgf2 because of the content. And now we have “New & Improved.”
Thank You to all who created and work on “Blogmorcy.” Well Done and more.
textfromlastnite.com
IF
Which comment # are you repling to?
RE# 176 –
Isn’t that website hilarious???????
Beautiful banner!!!!
Impressive new look! You’ve got to be thrilled with your results!
Wow! Just Wow! Quotes, and boldface and italics! The whole nine yards. Wonderful job, guys. Just logged on briefly and what to my wondering eyes did appear ..,
Very nice!
177 BenZ,
172
back to top/bottom?
Belle…
If they are to be beleived.
Hey all. Is it all right if I hang out over here?
Stunning improvement. Good job !
This site got one hell of a facelift!
With every refresh – this is just getting better and better!
Thank you so much admins.
I think the same thing sometimes, but they still make me laugh.
OK I am going to try to activate the quote feature again.
(914): I just hemmed my dress for halloween, never felt more like a man
not neo just conservative
Does a bear…. Welcome!
Dang.
I bet the quote feature works just fine on a new thread.
Wow! The new format is looking good. Kudos to the worker bees.
Thanks Kali.
Um, Okay — dumb question — but how do you work the quote thingy? Trying it in various permutations and cannot get it to pick up the comment I wanted to quote. Or is my question premature, and I should just shut up until the site is in final form?
Give me a second to look at the quote feature.
OH! Forget I said that!
Ok, every time I refresh I end up closer to the top than to the newer posts. Can that be fixed (since there are no numbers I can’t find where I was easily)?
re: #194
Stunning Bella..
Hello everyone. I just registered. I am a three-time bannee (sailordude, Reno911, Anchors_Aweigh) over at 1.0. I have been watching the “evolution” of 2.0 and have to say that I am impressed and want to be part of what you all are doing. I am a retired naval officer, merchant mariner and am currently employed by an agency of the USG working in port security.
Here. This is kind of quirky but cool idea:
http://www.biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=16297
Re #187 – Not Neo Just Conservative
Sure, come on in, enjoy! I’m a relative newcomer myself, but I’m sure the official greeting committee will be on the scene shortly.
Man there is something in the quote feature that is leaving a tag open, and I can’t figure out why. It would be super sweet for that quote to work since you can multi-quote posts as you head down a thread.
Newcomers
Laurel and Hardy handshake, blah blah blah
SADM
That’s awesome!
Trix are for kids!/
Welcome sailordude
Re# 204
(blushes)
Welcome aboard, sailordude, retired enlisted here. Glad to have you.
Gypsy,
I’ve been lurking for quite a while. After walking away from you-know-where, I’ve been a little reluctant to get back into things.
Welcome all newbies! What a day to start posting with the new digs and all.
hi sailordude – there is no bannee like a three time bannee!!
Welcome!
And, don’t cha just love what the admins have done.
Welcome sailordude!
The open bar for newbies is in the back corner next to the stripper pole, help yourself. Tips for the bartender maybe left in the tip jar, Cold Warrior will by later to restock if needed.
#205 sailordude
Welcome!
Can we close this thread and start a new testing thread? I can’t see a reason the inline comment quote feature shouldn’t work.
I remember you.
Welcome. This is a great place.
Wow, italics, bold, link function.
Awesome! Welcome to the 2ks.
OK, I’ve changed all the watches and clocks. God, I could’ve slept in an extra hour. Darn!
How come everything is coming out underlined? Just curious…
Thanks Yellow Flag. It’s kind of like old times. Lots of familiar faces.
#217 -Not Neo Just Conservative
I hear you. I too took a hike last March — felt out of place what with all the manmade globull warming and creationism threads and the creeping left liberalism in general.
Cool, new face lift and we have two new folks.
Welcome, not neo just conservative & sailordude
Thanks to all for the kind words of welcome.
To each his own.
Gypsy,
Amen. I quit commenting for a long time because I couldn’t manage a civil conversation when I tried. One day I posted a single one line comment “Charles, please delete my account.” That was it. No flounce, nothing. The inmates rattled their cages and screamed and flung poo for the next 100 comments.
It’s an unhealthy place over there.
How do I upload an avatar?
Hey Bar. Thanks.
Roger all shipmate. I was enlisted (QMC) also before going over to the dark side (Deck LDO).
flug poo. LOL. hinting at the evolution threads?
#234
Here.
http://en.gravatar.com/
#234
I am wondering the same thing. How do I upload an avatar?
http://en.gravatar.com/
CHANGE!
We can believe in!
This is going to be great!
The blog of the unwell.
http://en.gravatar.com/ It’s easy!
And Zombie has the blog of the undead. And the unwell go to the undead to fling poo.
#240
BenZ – what if I don’t want to sign up on the gravatar site? Do I just stay “avatar-less”? Savages_Girl
Sailore Dude
Welcome aboard.
The unwell are the unbanned. The undead are banned, and so are we. That makes us the banned dead, I guess. All I know if I’m grateful.
#233 – not neo just conservative
Well, you’ll really like it here. This is a great place. When you visit here you don’t end up grinding your teeth or expecting someone to explode all over you. (You were politer than I was — I just took “French Leave” — if they want to ban me they can, if they can figure out what my nic was over there.)
Wow – I hit the refresh button on my browser where I’d kept last night’s Blogmocracy and the entire world changed before my eyes!
Nice work, MightyConservative!
#246 Savage’s Girl~ yes. But once everything is settled, we could make a generic Blogmocracy logo that goes there instead of the big G.
Savages_gal
get a throwaway email addy at mail.com
But Gravatar is free and non-intrusive. They don’t send emails or anything and the gravatar linked to your email address will follow across most blogs/platforms.
It individualizes :}
Hey Snork, (formerly OR, right?)
not neo just conservative
Whenever I posted a link to support my argument, it would get deleted with Charles saying “Don’t link to that hate site again, or else your account will be deleted!” There weren’t any sites left to link to for me and I thought this is BS and left.
I saw your exit, that was cool!
Ooh. Just noticed the favicon at the top too… the green should be GONE!
I’ll play with making a new one… maybe a lil’ flag or something… hhmmm…
Not Neo, snork is the poster formerly known as Earth2moonbat. OR hasn’t come to play with us.
Absolutely fantastic! Eat your heart out Little Green Footballs!
m
OR a small selection of stock avatars?
My karma was negative bajillion when I left.
not neo just conservative
Welcome! I remember you from the other place.
snork is e2m? huh
#257, M
Whoops. Apologies, Snork. I new that. The keyboard Turettes kicked in on me there. Thought one thing and typed another.
Hey Speranza
(631): im so bored in class… i just made a pie graph of my favorite bars and a bar graph of my favorite pies
college daze in the twenty first….
Hello Everyone…
Love da new house!
How do you get the reply button?
Yeah this is looking really nice
Welcome *not neo just conservative* and *Sailerdude*.
Hey DEZ. Thanks.
Soouper.
Really like the “makeover”. The site looks terrific. Got to run now. Be back later.
Wow, somebody is working hard. Place looks good.
I have to wait an extra hour before I can drink beer today.
This time change is bull shit.
#10 – bellamags:
Speaking of pony tails:
post 8 nails it.
I had to look twice…
What a difference a day makes!
This is kewl!
Where on this site do you load your avatar? I thought I could just go to “profile” and find a button to load it. But there is no place here that says anything about loading one. Thanks for any info.
I am just so thrilled with our new look I want to be part of dressing it up.
See ya later folks. Gotta go. Will check this out again when I get back.
Lemme see…
WOW, the new look is great, all bright and shiny. I thought at first I’d made a wrong turn until I saw all the familiar faces.
A little dissension in the ranks
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re: #27 iceweasel
That in particular is kind of brilliant.
It’s been said that the difference between the way conservatives love their country and the way liberals love their country is this: conservatives love America like a young child loves Mommy; everything Mommy does must always be right, and anyone criticising Mommy is evil.
Liberals meanwhile love their country like an adult: they love it passionately but can still see its flaws, and believe that making it better (and becoming better) is part of what love is.
This is a pretty partisan way of putting it, and I don’t think it captures reality, but the bit about conservatives does capture a bit of how the deranged wingnut type on the right thinks– the kind of people who think antiwar protesters must hate their country. (It’s not an accurate characterisation of all conservatives IMO, let me say, just the deranged wingnut type, before people freak out and think I’m arguing that)
LMAO!
Oh wait- you really think liberals are the adults and conservatives are children, don’t you?
Bwahahaha!
Wingnuts are children, but how dare people on the right question the patriotism of those adults on the left. This is far from an accurate characterization- of both sides, since no one here except you thinks teh left iz perfek. I loved your back peddling at the end so you could give yourself wiggle room should anyone dare criticize your brilliance (not all conservatives- just wingnuts!) except you didn’t use wingnuts throughout, did you? Since I know you check your dings obsessively, I will tell you why I dinged you down- it’s called “projection”.
The quote thing is almost working. It quotes the quote link in addition to the text you want to quote. I’ll have to see about getting that working right or finding a better quote feature for the blog.
I took a nap after I got up so I son’t feel that pain.
Ok I figured it out. Duh!
OK guys, I gotta go. The place looks great. See ya later.
Dig the new look!
Works but copies the “quote” link, which it shouldn’t.
Wow! Looking better and better.
It’s terrific. Thank You.
Now all we need is to restore the function where you click on the number, and it scrolls up there.
And the links to adjacent threads on the bottom.
Testing the “quote” feature. About avatars…I followed the link upthread and went to Gravatar. It was easy! Try it. (Sorry, don’t know how to do links yet. Still learning.)
And can we have dings and karma?
/Ducks…
Going to try something here, hold on.
From Hillary Clinton’s mouth: Clinton told senior Pakistani newspaper editors in Lahore, AFP reported. “The percentage of taxes on GDP (in Pakistan) is among the lowest in the world… We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move, and that’s not what we see in Pakistan,” she said.
OK me and wordpress dont get along e-wise but I think I got it to work
Looking goooooood!
MightyConservative wrote:
I think works better?
bingo!
@ coloratura:
Testing a reply vs. a “quote” here …
snork wrote:
On 1.0 subjects only would be cool.
Welcome sailordude.
No updings/downdings please!
To whoever (upthread) linked to Gravatar—a million thanks! An amazing site.
OK, I think this reply/quote functionality could work.
coloratura wrote:
I am not a fan of “karma” because it basically turns into a popularity contest instead of the intended use.
MightyConservative wrote:
@ MightyConservative:
Does it?MightyConservative wrote:
@ MightyConservative:
The site looks fantastic, love all the new toys…
Now if I can just figure out how they work!
@ Speranza:
Oh how true! LOL (yeah right)
Which is why businesses take the time and expense to board up their plate glass windows when liberal protests take place and nothing of the sort happens during Tea Party events. How do ya figure that?
@ MightyConservative:
Test reply
A preview function would be handy…
@ AZRedneck:
Hey AZRedneck, is that pup a long eared Doberman? (your avitar?)
@ teacake:
That’s because all those insane Paulians have every one brainwashed to act correctly so they can hide their coup intentions.
What I just noticed is that with all the new toys, the site is not shutting down! That’s the coolest feature of all.
Hi!
@ sailordude:
Welcome Sailordude. Waht was your nic at the cess pool?
Lolly Gator wrote:
That’s what I was thinking. . . if I can just figure out how they work. LOL
Working on getting the link back on comment numbers.
You betcha!
No dings and karma please. All that does is encourage groupthink and sychophancy, both of which I find disgusting and repulsive in human beings.
MightyConservative wrote:
What makes you think that wasn’t the intended use?
It’s nice that we don’t have dings here, although it is cute when someone says “DING!” as a response in words.
Hey Dark_Falcon blow us!
You seem to know a lot as to what is going on here – stalking?
161 Dark_Falcon Sun, Nov 1, 2009 7:13:55am replyquote
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re: #146 laZardo
Whatever happened to JamesTKirk anyway?
re: #148 Alouette
He’s dead, Jim.
He didn’t die, he turned into a stalker troll. He’s now posting at The Deuce.
@ lobo91:
Well, you may be right, but the original intent of anything like that is to improve signal-to-noise ratio. I’m against a karma system because in my opinion any good community will self-police to an extent to where good commentary and behavior results in favorable treatment and trolling gets what it deserves.
Jesusland wrote:
I agree. No dinging up or down.
CJ at the nuthouse did that to control everyone and shut down debate.
It was not about karma at all. It was about group think.
@ Eliana:
test
Eliana wrote:
more test
Good news: Arizona cops found that Iraqi immigrant who tried to kill his daughter by running over her because she was “too westernized.”
@ chickadee:
CJ at the nuthouse did that to control everyone and shut down debate.
You can date the beginning of the downhill of that blog when he introduced that stupid dinging.
@ rain of lead:
Testing too!
My first post here and all I can say is WOW! I’ve been watching this place grow with many of those whose posts I always enjoyed reading at “the other place”. Never did get banned, just stopped going there when anyone with a dissenting opinion became an enemy of the state. I’m retired Navy and the son of retired Navy. About as conservative as they come.
Also, I love what you’ve done with the place.
daybyday
My avatar is working!
@ lobo91:
That is great news.
@ Bublhed:
Welcome!!!
Note:
After you go to gravatar and attach your avatar to your e-mail account you use here, you may need to clear your browser cache for it to show up.
Speranza wrote:
Exactly, people no longer felt free to express themselves and that is just want he wanted.
Once he came down on someone’s point of view, his suck ups piled on and that ended the discussion because the next threat was a wallop with his cudgel. Fck him.
still testing
@ Bublhed:
Vilkommen and enjoy the freedom to disagree.
@ bar:
bar wrote:
Yes, this is what I had to do to see my own avatar.
testing
Hmm…that didn’t work so well
1. It seems several people missed the sarc about the dings and karma.
2. We have an issue with clicking the @ links. The way the old system worked, you clicked the number, and it took you there, and then the back arrow on the browser took you back. There appears to be no way to return now. Am I missing something?
Amazing job guys. Love the new look. Classy and powerful.
oh yeah!
this is great!
remembering how to to all this stuff
@ Bublhed:
Good to see you here!
Testing:
Yea! I can now read the articles. Thanks very much!
bar wrote:
I was taken by surprise when mine showed up automatically. I had selected the photo, cropped it, rated it and then I didn’t know what to do after that. I closed the gravatar site, signed on to Blogmocracy and bingo! The avatar was up and running. I thought it would be more complicated than that but instead it was amazingly simple.
Thanks to all for the welcome. As for the freedom to disagree, I’ll just quote an old Navy axiom,
“A bitchin’ sailor is a happy sailor.”
snork wrote:
I just took out the smooth scrolling, maybe that was the cause of the problem?
For the gravatar to work, it has to be tied to the email address you used to register with here on the blog.
Wow, the site looks great!
Thanks for all the hard work you guys do.
@ MightyConservative:
That fixed it.
@ chickadee:
We dinged each other quite a bit but it was more to make fun of the whole stupid system he put in. Like I really effing care if wrenchwench likes what I would post and she would up/downding me. I hope that Chaz is happy with the boring blog he engendered.
This is a great design, Mighty Conservative!
@ MightyConservative:
great job!
the place looks awesome
@ Speranza:
You’ll note that there is very little downdinging anymore. Use to be an unpopular comment got you 5 or 10 downers…. and then blocked.
The ones left are afraid to say anything that may constitute a major disagreement with the group.
Note also that the overnight threads used to be active with overseas commenters, ( a lot of them Israeli), now its dead quiet until MM wakes up.
Lastly, while there are still several thousand comments on a good day, they all come from the same 20 commenters on the same 3 subjects over and over. Even the space and music posts get just a few comments.
Nothing interesting left at all. However, it’s all to the good of 4 or 5 other blogs including this one.
@ MightyConservative:
Seems to work now.
@ Poteen:
The evil isn’t in the dings per say. The evil is in making the dingers public. What he’s done is the equivalent of card check. If it were anonymous, I don’t think we’d get all this politics and drama, but when you know who’s dinging you, you’re asking for war.
If the dings weren’t public, I think you’d have a very different dynamic. Of course, the proprietor would still know, and that’s another source of evil.
Hello, there. Love the new look. Makes me wonder if the URL for the Blogmocracy has changed as well.
Am I the only one left without an avitar? Gravitar won’t let me create an account, for some reason. Must have hosed up a previous attempt.
Oooo! I like this! Nice job guys!
Sarge
I think I have most of the immediate tweaking done for now, which hasn’t been too bad. We aren’t finished with things though. We’ll have to do things in stages.
I donated my time and expertise because I felt like this community deserved it, and because I could. I’m tired of people talking down conservatism, and people painting conservatives with a brush the size of the space shuttle. This is my way of giving back, and I will continue to be available to advance this community however I can.
I do thank everyone for the commentary on the design. The design is just a candy shell. The real treat are the people that make this a great place.
With that said I am about to check out and watch some football for a while. I’ll check in later to help stomp out any bugs or weirdness that needs unweirding.
@ snork:
I disagree. The dings end up doing little more than promoting groupthink. You ultimately end up with an endless karma measuring contest. How many discussions over there degenerate into who has the most comments, been registered the longest, or has the most karma? If you fail to toe the party line, you get dinged. Eventually you end up with an echo chamber where that anyone with a viewpoint counter to the prevailing one gets piled on.
@ MightyConservative:
Thanks MightyConservative!!
@ chickadee:
Charles and I generally seemed to get along. We exchanged a couple of emails when I did the colors (he, naturally, was given one. Those of us that got them paid a little extra to cover it so as I didn’t take the whole hit), and he seemed pleased. Ironically, he mentioned that he’d shown them to Robert Spencer who liked them. That was when Robert Spencer was golden at LGF.
Times change. The first conflict I had with him was during a disagreement I had with KKKilgore Trout (surprise! You didn’t see that one coming, did you?) over the Waco Massacre. Trout was being his usual charming self, gloating over 80 men, women, and children being burned alive (that was deliberate, but not as the government put it out. They didn’t go in there with flamethrowers, but they did run over a lantern to start the fire. I’ve seen the FLIR tapes myself). Surprisingly, I kept my cool (or not surprisingly. People who know me know that if I’m blustering and threatening and such it is OK, but if I’m quite, polite, and reserved when I should be in a murderous rage, well that is a different kettle of fish). Charles stepped in and broke it up (at least KKKilgore didn’t call me a N*. Too bad, really. It would have been instructive to see how Charles dealt with that). It was after that that I noticed posts of mine going missing for reasons other than the dingos that occasionally eat posts, but I wasn’t terribly concerned. His blog, his rules, but he once deleted the lyrics to the song Pussy Liquor by Rob Zombie. I guess the Zombie ain’t up to his refined standards.
I never conformed, and ultimately was banned for it. I saw the ban-stick coming, but Idid start to moderate my comments. I wasn’t free to express myself, especially when it came to the Mohammedan problem. By the end, I was mostly just giving weapons advice and mild commentary. Until Charles completely lost his mind and banned me for not being suffiently gentle with Lord Obama’s dignity and refusing to say that an image man from Borneo with Obama’s face photoshopped in was evil racism because everyone knows Borneo means Africa.
If I ever know I’m going to meet Charles, I’ll have my nose pierced and wear a bone through it. Heh™
@ MightyConservative:
Thank you for this fine effort, it is most appreciated!
@ not neo just conservative:
I wasn’t defending them, just saying that the proprietor went out of his way to make them as pernicious as possible.
I think I’ve been pretty consistently critical of the basic concept.
@ MightyConservative:
Thanks, man, for your work. You done good
@ MightyConservative:
You dun good. Live switchovers are never fun, and most are a lot more bumpy than this. Thanks.
[Now, can we embed youtubes?]
@ MightyConservative:
I’m kinda mixed on Gravatar. The site is very easy to use, but I think I’d prefer to be able to change avatars based on the site I’m on instead of by the email address.
Still, very awesome look. Thank you for the hard work on it!
@ snork:
True dat.
He created a hostile environment.
The natural anonymity of the i-net protects commenters from having to have the face to face courage to back what they say/type. So they ding/type to start keyboard confrontations and claim some sort of accomplishment otherwise absent from their existence.
/ Lefty links don’t hurt as much as a left hook.:)
@ Poteen:
It is the same damn topics day after day: Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Creationism – even if you dislike Glenn Beck, how much can your take of threads abut him?
@ snork:
snork wrote:
I hadn’t ever thought about it quite like that. It never occurred to me that he may have built it that way on purpose. I always thought that he just kept tweaking things and liking the results. Either way, the outcome is the same.
It’s kind of like the story from back in 2000 where the Manhattan socialite was aghast and stunned that Bush won the election as nobody she knew had voted for him. That place is about the same. A small universe that thinks it’s larger than it really is.
@ snork:
No kidding!!
I’m working on a Wordpress site for someone else and we’re not doing a live switchover while lots of users are commenting, that’s for sure!
@ bar:
Hey Bar your aviator or whatever the heck it is looks like me without my Moma’s tablecloth on my head.
@ Poteen:
Quite true. Also, it was a place where the ground was always moving.
After being here for six weeks, I’ve totally forgotten what it’s like to post comments on a blog where I wonder from comment to comment if I’m going to be banned.
It was like that for me every time I wrote something on the other place. “Will this be it for me? Will I be gone in 15 seconds?”
I wasn’t even flouncing. I was just writing.
Coming here and knowing that I’m not standing on a trap door with an evil overlord keeping his scaly hand on the lever is a wonderfully freeing experience after that place!!
MightConservative ROCKS THE HIZZOUSE!
/heeey- you need a logo in the design! With your linkaaage.
@ m:
Hey M I have to thank all of you for this beautiful site.
@ Eliana:
This blog is open sourceish in concept, and what we just did here in a couple hours is an entire beta test cycle.
Pretty cool, huh?
@ MightyConservative:
So it was you. Well beautiful job. thank you
@ m:
Photos of Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill, Menachem Begin, and John Howard would make the blog even nicer. They all were men/women of great courage.
Wordpress is a very cool platform, especially on a private server!
As mentioned, I’m working on a Wordpress site for someone else right now. It’s not a political blog or anything. It’s a private community of Orthodox Jews who know each other in person. Some have moved to Israel from America so it’s a way to keep in touch and also to share links and stuff without simply using email.
Wordpress is good for all sorts of uses!!!
@ snork:
Amazing!!!
(oh, and lemme hint… he’s working a user submitted links thingie)
@ Grimcargo:
Thats funny.
My avatar is me wearing my Ghutra & igal.
@ m:
Yow!
Fantastic news!
The Link Viewer with actual conservatives providing all/most of the links is the only thing I still miss from the other place.
@ Eliana:
In the last year I have been studying WordPress inside out and begun implementing it on projects where I could. It is a great piece of software and it is extensible if you know what you’re doing so you don’t have to hack the core to add new functionality.
It has really helped me create some great sites quickly.
Speranza wrote:
Exactly. Nick Griffin is a turd. Agreed. Now we know. OK what next? VB?
VB is a minority group in Belgium fer Chrissake! They have some shady supporters. Great. Now we know.
Beck,Limbaugh, RS McCain. Outside the chamber everyone’s a warming denying, creationist nazi militiaman.
RE: VB
//What we also know is that they are NOT in the forseeable future going to open any Flemish run extermination camps for Jews or blacks. Because no one would sell them carbon credits for the ovens. However, religious American blacks and Jews should be wary because their wingnut creationist beliefs, supported by well known racists and nazis on conservative talk shows will be the death of the nation and must be destroyed “by any means necessary”.
Al Gore will supply the credits. When Soros invests in solar oven technology, the final solution to conservatism (and freedom) is at hand. ///
— let’s see how they like the same nomenclature—
@ m:
11ty updings!!!!!11
@ bar:
The avatar with the fake nose and glasses was funny!!
@ Eliana:
You got it!
Saw you going at it with Moe last night. Being lapsed Irish catholic I had no dog in the fight but it was good to see you both left unfettered.
@ MightyConservative:
I’ve only been working with Wordpress for a few weeks.
I’m growing fonder of it every day!!
The first thing I figured out is how to make slight changes to the appearance of the Wordpress site by using the editor in the “Appearance” option on the admin page. Very slight changes can make a huge difference.
I have some Wordpress books that I bought awhile ago so I’ve been going through all sorts of things while ramping up. I love it!
Wordpress also works to build a static site with no comments.
m wrote:
Thanks. Well I am going to go ahead and out myself … no point in worrying about it really because I pretty much say online what I would say to someone in real life. I have nothing to hide.
My portfolio site can be found here ( http://builtbydavid.com ) and I did link it in the footer of the site. Thanks for the exposure.
Only about 250 comments over at 1.0 today, it looks like we get as many or more here at blogmocracy. The wheels are coming off Chuckies wagon!!
@ MightyConservative:
Very impressive web sites!!
Do you create all your own graphics for the headers and footers, by the way?
snork wrote:
To show a video in your posts, paste YouTube video URL with httpv:// (notice the ‘v’).
Important: The URL should just be copied into your post normally and the letter ‘v’ added, do not create a clickable link!
@ Eliana:
Yes I write all the code and I do all of the graphic design. The all-singing, all-dancing revue.
On the video above, YouTube is down for maintenance at this very moment.
Love the new look here!!! Especially the fact that the page is not cluttered with dozens of “donate” buttons!!!
I don’t do the actual artwork though – I just use stock photography or art elements if that was what you were getting at. I just realized what you might have been asking there.
@ MightyConservative:
Very nice!!!!!
@ MightyConservative:
No – I was just asking about the actual graphics. I wasn’t asking if you did the artwork. Your graphics are a beautiful and imaginative use of stock photography, etc.
Very well done!
We don’t have an edit button, do we?
I thought I saw someone mention one in the other thread but I don’t see one when I post comments.
@ MightyConservative:
MightyConservative
If you are Shree’port/Bossier, you are not far from where I was when I lived in Texas. I was in Tyler, but I made it to your neck of the woods a few times. coughriverboatscough
The video that I posted has video from the Six Day War and modern Israeli jets, by the way!!
@ RedneckNaRocknRollBar:
Well, now I see who has the longest username. :/ I gotta figure out how to get you some room so it doesn’t run into the post.
Yeah I call Shreveport my home.
@ Eliana:
I can see if we can put the ajax edit comments plugin back online. That is the only plugin I have seen for editing comments on the front end.
@ MightyConservative:
If you need to wait until moving to the new server, that would be ok.
I think it was taken out because it slowed things down on the current server too much.
Thanks!
@ MightyConservative:
Maybe if I hit “enter” a couple of times before posting. Test.
it’s beautiful!
test!!! loooooking good!!!
Wow! Good looking and easy to read.
I like it!
@ Eliana:
Eliana, what a beautiful avatar — I love it.
How do I get an Avatar? Are they local?
@ Empire1:
Thanks!
Very Nice job!
Mazel tov!
Off topic here, but I finally got an image for my avatar. I’m still reading that book, by the way.
Awesome. Thanks to all who are making this happen.
Oh, this is FABULOUS!!!!!!!!Eleventy!1
Some of my comments have gone missing. Hope it’s just a glitch.
No, I was wrong. The comments I was looking for are in the thread just above this one.
Hey, looks like we have moved to an upscale neighborhood.
Good job.
testing for avatar
Wasn’t it Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution that popped the famous phrase “Well let them eat cake then..”. She was later convicted of treason and guillotined.