I’ve held out nearly forever from adding a registration requirement to the commenting here, mostly for two reasons: 1) I didn’t want to inconvenience those of you who’ve been here with me for so long; and 2) I didn’t want to dissuade new commentators who wished to post a drive-by comment.
After nearly 9 years, though, I think it time to make a change. Over the last several months, I’ve added probably 40-50 IP bans to my Word Press account; I’ve also taken to banning email addresses — 30+ in the last 3 weeks. All of this was done to stop the onslaught of a single troll, who earlier this weekend decided to post as me and announce that my son has bone cancer. As all the regulars here know (and have been able to see), this particular troll — who has gone through at least 40 identities and 100 IP addresses to continue posting here — simply won’t stop, no matter what I do, so long as I keep the site’s commenting open as I long have.
So it is time to break down and make the change. What many of you can’t see is how much time I have to spend combing through every comment, making sure that each comment by you is actually by you. Then there is the collecting of the offending IPs (s/he uses and anonymizer); the collecting of the ever new email addresses (I’m convinced the comments being eaten of late is the result of a letter combination I banned that was being used as an email address); and the constant time spent in the WordPress system trying to get these bans to function.
I simply can’t do it any more. And so I apologize.
What I’d like to know from you all, though, is what you’d like to see me do. I could go right through WordPress and add a registration requirement. Once your email is registered and you verify the account, you won’t have to do anything differently than you already do when commenting, I don’t think. Or I could go with some outside commenting platform. I’m just not very familiar with many of them or how they work.
Let me know what you think. And again, I apologize for the inconvenience. I’ve long thought I had some of the best commentators in the blogosphere here, but over the years many have been chased off either by the vile persistence of certain trolls, or else by my reactions to the trolling.
This new arrangement might take away some pleasures from those of you who live to whack the “dissenters”; but it will also likely keep me from being the subject of criminal investigations for my ultra-violence, which to date has resulted in 27 arrests and 14 convictions no problems in the real world. Imagine!
Comment registration doesn’t bother me in the least.
Yeah, that’s truly unfortunate, but the vile little OCD trolls are ruining it for everyone: they contribute nothing but the internet equivalent of graffiti tagging.
I don’t have any advice on which to use, Jeff. WordPress has a cool commenting thingy. Plus – AVATARS. Bonus.
My 2 cents — go with the WordPress. The Discuss thingie at Stacy’s is a pain.
Jeff,
I don’t blame you for this, but that’s usually how it works though – one asshole has to ruin it for everyone.
I have no problem with registering under any method you see fit. Count me as a loyal reader.
TV
Speaking as a commenter: Disqus or one of the other cross-blog commenting systems makes it easy. Log in once somewhere in the blogosphere, and find yourself logged in across many blogs.
I don’t know how that works from the blogger’s end. ISTM that if some objectionable person puts an oar in, it might be more difficult to ban them from just the one blog; it’s across the ‘sphere or nothing. If that objection is not in fact the case, a cross-blog comment system would be what I’d recommend, and from a commenter’s point of view Disqus is the easiest that I, personally, encounter with any regularity.
OTOH, might it not be the least intrusive upon your resources to simply tick the WordPress checkbox? Again, I don’t know what the consequent burden on you would be. It works for HotAir and several others, but all of those that I know of also have staff to keep the wheels turning out of sight.
In the end, yes, unfortunately it’s time for PW to implement some form of registration. Pick the one that’s the least burden on you.
Regards,
Ric
Yeah, I don’t mind registering my e-mail address either JeffG; I may already be since I have an avatar that seems to show up when I comment at some WP sites Like Dan’s.
It might be unfortunate to not be able to assume amusing sock-puppet names from time-to-time, but so be it.
I don’t know much about the technical side, having never expended the energy to learn about wordpress mechanisms, but you could probably get some good advice from Dan’s brother who runs a web-service provider company and builds lot’s of folks sites and e-commerce systems.
Serr8d is pretty hip to this stuff too, at least it seems that way to me.
I call dibs on all sockpuppets.
Discus is worth looking at. Darleen is right it can be a pain, but it has some advantages too. But what ever you have to do.
Registration? Bring it on.
Oh, and I could murder a beer. Oops, better take that back. Walls have ears.
Wouldn’t that make it easier for a banned troll to get around the ban?
I’m fine with comment registration.
Perhaps you could also allow unregistered drive-bys to leave comments that would then go into moderation, with the clear understanding that they might never leave moderation, depending on the free time and whims of the moderator. If that is even possible.
I doubt the trolls would persist long without the free billboard space.
you’ve also had some of the best most colorful and silly and fun and original trolls along with some of the worstest mean stupid fascist meya RD ones
I’m pretty sure I registered here at one time a long time ago, so no worries on doing it again. I also signed up for an opendID account on a free server, which is another way you can go. They all require an email address of some kind, I think, but that’s all.
As Ric said, go with whatever works best for you. I agree that it’s time for registration, simply to avoid the abuse. No one needs that.
I’m cool with everything but Blogger. I fucking hate Blogger comments.
Oh, and that RS McCain post was masterful, a work of art.
Jeff, while whack-a-troll has its’ attractions, I’m good with any option you want to use. Disqus seems to have some kind of email and IP cross reference thing; there are a couple of sites where I can comment from one computer and not another (home vs on the road). I’m not sure if it will stop our more determined trolls.
Comment registration is a good idea and, as the others have said, go with whatever is easiest for you.
(For what it’s worth, I’d consider letting the trollish sorts who don’t constantly change their names to get around bans, namejack others, etc, register and comment. You could always ban them later. I don’t regularly read the lefty sites or watch MSNBC so it’s actually sort of convenient that they come here and drop the talking points from time to time.)
Most of those types are still here, and some over the years even converted a bit.
If that’s possible I’ll do that.
I really do want to keep the site as open as possible. That’s always been a hallmark of this place, but in the last year or so I just have grown tired of the personal stuff aimed at me or my family. Some of it coming from the right even.
Then when I try to stop it, either by changing the comments (if they won’t accept being banned) or exposing who they are in real life, folks like Patterico — famous for “outing” Tbogg — mounts a loud and constant protest against the methods I use on my site, one that always seems to end with him juxtaposing his own actions against the actions of others to show how truly good and brave and honorable he is!
Well, not really. I was being facetious about that last.
Oh, you can still do that. Provided you have a real email address.
ST/RD was using addresses like jg1@hotmail; jg12@yahoo, etc. Could have gone on forever.
I don’t use sockpuppets myself, so I’ve no idea how much fun those who do use them get out of having actual anonymity (’cause in many instances, we commenters never do know who’s behind the pretending) and hence how much will be lost once there’s a separate identifier or avatar tied to each poster. On the other hand, I have been attacked by someone using a sockpuppet to hide behind, so seeing an end of that might not be so bad from where I sit. Otherwise, go with what you find best Jeff, from whatever point of view you choose to measure best — then if it doesn’t work as hoped, either you’ll let us know or we you, and a change can be made.
Okay, I see we’re already registering. As I thought, I had registered before and PW remembered me. I had to get a new password sent to me, but that worked just fine.
Curses, foiled again!
Registration took all of 20 seconds. Couldn’t have been easier.
hello?
I *cough*
As I type this I haven’t (re-)registered. Let’s see what happens.
Ah. “Sorry, you must be logged in to post a comment.” Very good.
Save post and register?
I tried to sockpuppet at #22 and it failed. Oh well.
it’s still eating comments
Good enough. Now let’s see if I just changed the information across WordPress or not (no problem if so)
“Error establishing database connection”. I’ve been getting that occasionally for the last couple of weeks. Doing it again seems to correct it; it’s entirely possible it’s on my end.
I’ve been getting that a lot lately too Mr. Ric both at home and at that place I go during the day
Different usernames elsewhere. Good enough.
and awaaaaaay we go…
Sorry. I don’t know how to make that work without having you sign up for another workable email address.
I’m bothered by it as well. But I don’t know what to do.
[sockpuppet attempt]
Testing….
I want to fail at sockpuppeting something too just so I tried
WIN!
Registered fine. I hope this system works out as I have gotten quite used to the WordPress way here.
This could even let me stop using TrollHammer!
Ah. One small glitch:
Even if you are logged in, you see the “You must be registered to post a comment. Click here to register or here to login.” message, which is a bit confusing. Comments post anyway, though, so OK.
Cross-site logins are convenient if they work. I am militantly opposed to IntenseDebate, which prevents me from commenting on Breitbart’s “Big…” sites, among others, by sending me into an endless loop of “Login/Register/You are already registered”. OpenID is OK, except on some sites, it throws away comments if you are not already logged in when you submit — and there is no way to tell if you are logged in or not.
This is rather like a swanky gents club now, what?
testing
I think registration is past due, no slight inconvenience is worse than the trolls of late.
I remember when I first discovered PW, there was a touring word. We made a game of it, where you tried to use the word topically, remember?
Ahh, those were simpler times…
Losing the sockpuppet ability is a small price to pay for reducing the annoyance level due to people who don’t know when to quit being jackasses.
I gather Mrs. Jeff is still tweaking the site. I tried a couple of comments after my first at #38, and ended up with a blank page.
Was gibts hier?
Okay, now to try one of my rejected comments again:
[Venusian in a Time of Romulans]
This may be the way we have to do sockpuppets from now on.
[/Venusian in a Time of Romulans]
Ah. Tweaking in progress. I shall be patient. I shall. I shall….
Sockpuppeting can still be done, but it’s much harder. You have to go to your profile page, change the “nickname”, choose that from the dropdown list, and save the new data. Afterward, of course, you have to change it back… it’s not entertaining enough to me to be worth the work.
Regards,
Ric
Humm, Seems I have to go back to being lee, since I registered my email long ago. I’d have to register a new email address to, since you can’t change your user name.
Oh well…
Trying Ricks idea…
Depending on how WordPress handles commenter handles, that may not work. I know that in ExpressionEngine if someone is logged in and changes their screen name, all comments by that person will have the changed name — and when the name is changed back again…
And I think when I changed my admin username on my own site from “ak4mc” back to “McGehee” the change did include all past comments.
[Sinister Trampoline]
My free speech rights are being violated! Haven’t you read the first amendment, you Nazi?
[/Sinister Trampoline]
Trying again…
FTFM
Yea!
testing again
I may stand corrected.
Sockpuppet retry.
Let’s see if this works.
Okay, Ric is right.
Again.
<grumble>
And back to normal?
I see tweaking continues. The name and email-address boxes, leftover from the ancíen regíme, have disappeared, and instead I have a “Logged in as…” line. “You must be registered…” is still visible.
I’m getting both.
Which is fine.
…and now “You must be registered…” disappears!
Success! wooowooo!
Regards,
Ric
And now that I’ve posted a comment the top line is gone.
This is converging to a good state quite nicely. Thanks Mrs. Jeff.
I’m disappointed in all the sockpuppet hate. You’re all a bunch of haterz!
Can you see the real me preacher?
Can you see the real me doctor?
Can you see the real me mother?
Can you see the real me?
None that the name in the “Logged in…” line is a link to your profile, to make the sockpuppeting process as easy as might be considered reasonable.
Regards,
Ric
“None” = “Note”
arzfarzin zazzafrazz. Is there a preview option anywhere? [grumble grump d*n new rope is stiff]
Regards,
Ric
I finally gave up and turned spell-check back on in Firefox. It does me about as much good as it did before I turned it off.
Jeff: Not inconvenienced in the least. Slogging through untold hundreds (thousands?) of posts from the denizens of Murfeesboro, Tennessee — that was inconvenient!
(As an aside, you’ve now got your own personal in-joke “town where all the stupid people live” reference to use, sort of like Rush uses Rio Linda.)
Shazam!
Couldn’t have been easier.
If we behave ourselves, can we post images again?
I guess I’ve gotta be me.
Ok, since we’re on the topic of commenting, is there a list of commands I can use for simple commands, such as blockquote, bold, italic, and Giant Case Hoochies?
I’m sorry, there is only one giant case hoochie allowed on this blog…
Somewhere in the Pub I put a tutorial, SS. I’m too lazy to repeat it.
It’s just dead-simple HTML.
Regards,
Ric
Here you go, SS: a brief look at HTML at PW
Regards,
Ric
Same as it ever was. Good times~!
I think it was time for the comment registration change. It’s too bad certain internet cowards had to shit all over Jeff’s virtual coffee table and require this change.
I’m going to do what I can to return to my recently changed nom de blogge of DarthLevin and remove the taint of that Rove guy. Looks like taking the suggestions above should work, just need to poke around WordPress a bit I guess.
And just to mention it: while the Turing word doesn’t do to keep trolls of the RD/ST sort out, it sure is a lot of fun.
Well sdferr,
When I mentioned sock puppeting, I personally was referring to taking on names like “Barack Obama”, “Howard Dean”, and such so that ironic sounding comments could be made; and wasn’t advocating a name change to go after someone anonymously. I don’t generally do anonymous, aside from my now familiar nom-de-clavier at Dan’s; that name being used at the request of my wife, who has prosecuted creepy internet stuff as part of puttin the crooked civil servants away and asked me to do so.
I told her she was unduly worried, in my opinion, especially since I’m impervious to retribution so to speak, but promises are just that.
I hope Mr. button navigates the registration process
he makes the internet better you know
*buttons* I mean
What is funny, though, is that I first tried to register using my super-secret personal e-mail, and wordpress never mailed me the registration note!
Afterward, I had to register as some other name, the original callsign bestowed on me when I got to FRS, and set my nickname as my actual name; since the registered name can never be changed.
And I still haven’t recieved the mail notification for my original registration attempt…
About to test comment previewing. Please be patient.
Oh, I didn’t think you were advocating socks as means of anonymous attack Bob, sayin’ jus’ so’s you know. But the simple fact of the matter is, whether used for funning ironically or whatevers, without some marker or direct admission to the use, it can be impossible for us (as opposed to the admin who can see e-mail associations) to have any idea who’s behind a particular polyester-cotton blend critter.
Damn, forgot to close the
.
Testing preview. It shows up below the comment form as you type.
I wonder if psycho might choose to come back? It’d be a cheery day, I think.
testing to see if I can link the funky funky jams
psycho I have missed more than I can express with my feeble expressing skills
I can’t recall the episode you mentioned upthread sdferr,
It must have been while I was off-line and out west for 6 weeks over the summer…
Woohoo! Comment preview!
It even displays the simple HTML stuff that we can do
You know what’s amusing is that I can see my usual and customary avatar in the “preview” section. I had half hoped it would have posted with the comment like at other sites.
But it’s really unnecessary, we all know who we are-so to speak.
Didn’t amount to much Bob, even at the time, save conveying the idea of the thing I hadn’t thought to think would happen here.
Merrily we type along…
Nope. No preview visible.
Regards,
Ric
The real time preview is pretty nifty.
(Thanks for doing all this, Admin.)
I don’t see a “preview” thinger at all. Is I gots to do something to make it come up?
but looks like some HTML allowed in preview doesn’t carry over to the comment. My previous comment had subscript, superscript, red font, strikethru, and large text displayed in preview but not in the final posted comment. Something to remember.
Well, we’re back. And so it goes.
When I start typing the preview appears underneath the comment box, guys.
I approve of the preview.
huh, now it’s there, shor’nuff. Neat.
Bold. Italics.
Trying underline . . .
The simpler commands in Firefox’s HTML Formatting Toolbar are supported of course, but for font colors I always used span tags. The word “span” in the previous sentence should appear blue and in sans-serif type.
Okay. Span tags are not supported.
Yeah, the registration process was easy as pudding pie, but you never have to worry about my Troll Grandmother ever again. She’s kinda tech challenged.
Nope, no underline.
How about
strikethrough?Typing along… yep. It shows.
There’s a filter; only certain HTML is allowed (pretty much what I put in my short bit). You can’t see it, but in the page code there’s a list of tags that are arbitrarily closed after each post — this prevents the sort of thing that happens at JustOneMinute, where somebody failing to close an italics tag causes the whole page to be italicized. The tags that are allowed are the ones that are closed as a precaution.
Regards,
Ric
[whose computer is slow, causing real-time preview to be jumpy. That’s OK. Preview is better than no preview.]
Superscript. Normal. Subscript.
Thanks for all the cool tweaks Admin!
I’m going to disable Greasemonkey on my browser. The only thing I have it for is TrollHammer, and the only place I ever used it was here.
I am not, however, going to remove it entirely.
All I ever use is italics, bold, and blockquote anyway.
But do all of the “trademark” and “copyright” superscript notations work? And if so, can someone refresh my memory of how they’re done?
™ => ™
© => ©
©
Dammit.
© => ©
alt+0169 did the copyright
And, does this mean that we can all post at the pub now?
Trademark: ™ ™
Copyright: © ©
Others as I think of them.
Regards,
Ric
alt+0153 gives you ™
Also:
< => &
> => >
° => °
¢ => ¢
You get the idea.
Thanks Fellas for the inside™ information©
Double dammit.
< => <
Oh, and ® => ®
© is &#*169.
™ is &#*153.
Remove the asterisks. Reference here.
Maybe one of these days I’ll actually look at the preview before I hit “Submit Comment.”
Hmmmmmm. The “degree” one will come in handy. Is there a list of these online somewhere handy that y’all know of; or what I should “google” to get to one?
And append semicolons. Very important, as most of my errors above illustrate.
Thanks McGehee, that’s what I was looking for.
Testing 1 2 3
I think I figured out ¢ and ° by just trying them. Some of the codes make perfect sense, but it took me some headscratching to figure out why the pointy brackets were “lt” and “gt.”
Mr. WordPress said my password is weak. But I like living dangerously.
Angle brackets left < < and right > >
German quote marks left « « and right » »
Characters with accents é é í í (easier to use Alt-keypad if you know the numbers)
und so wieder…
Regards,
Ric
And the look of the comment page keeps changing around us. I like that we have avatars now.
Spliff!
Oh snap! My beloved skull-n-bones has been hoisted! That’s what I’m talkin bout…
I don’t see little wolverine before commenting, let’s see … ah yes preview is previewing nicely.
Hmmm, checkout the count and the disappeary parts (sorry Admin!)
Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.
It’s Wolverine & the Pirates Bob Reed, a funkadelic groove machine.
Now I need to know how to get me an avatar…
Most of the ASCII given at the page McGehee referenced is also available as three-digit ALT- sequences. Hold down the ALT key, type in the number, release alt, and (here for some reason, though not elsewhere) type another character. HOWEVER, many of the letters given as unused because they aren’t defined in HTML work fine from the keyboard:
Alt-127 ? a little bell-like thing
Alt-128 Ç Capital “C” with that French dangly thing
Alt-129 ü lower case “u” with umlaut
Alt-141 ì lowercase “i” with accent grave
Alt-142 Ä Uppercase “A” with umlaut
Alt-143 Å Uppercase “A” with Nordic ring (also Å Å)
Alt-144 É Uppercase “E” with accent acute
There are more. The nice thing about realtime preview is that you can test and see what you’re doing.
Regards,
Ric
go to gravatar.com Mr. Ric
That does sound like a Funkadelic album title motionview.
I can only see 45 of the comments right now, in firefox and in IE. Sorr if I’m reporting an already known issue.
Yeah, including yours it’s 47 cranky. It’s like the first 100 are missing.
They’re all back for me cranky and Bob. How’s it for you now?
Now they’re back…
Dude’s, y’all without avatars should get ye some. It’s the internet version of sartorial flourish, or of one’s bearing.
Or, you know, just a picture you like, if you’d prefer…
Ahhhhh. My handle has been purged of the “Rove” that was infesting it. I have an avatar. There is preview.
Jeff’s journey to the WordPress is now complete. Resume with the death threats!
Now, I must check on how the ground beef is thawing. The Young Apprentice is expecting tacos for supper tonight.
Darth, Darth, Darth…
Ground beef? You mean you don’t slow cook a nice hunk of beef until it’s shredelicious?
That gravitar place doesn’t seem to know me from [Adam] my WordPress login stuff, which is odd, given that it says it will. Anyhow, any alternative recommendations for making or acquiring an avatar thingy?
Ah. I now have an avatar also. Some of you will have seen the original…
Regards,
Ric
you have to register with gravatar – just your email and a password
Now we’re sucking diesel.
Thanks for the heads up on gravatar, ‘feets.
I did the gravatar thingy but no soap yet on it showing up.
Okay, there we go.
sdferr,
You can always shrink your fave image down to the acceptable size to be eaten by wordpress, and upload it to your profile.
Bob,
Not for kid tacos.
All comments are back now for me, too.
Testing
Okay, it works. That wasn’t so bad.
OK, I can dig that…
I often whip up carnitas on Football Sunday. This week though, only chili…
But in an intersting rub, I also add chorizo to the chili to make it extra zesty. But because of my lovely wife’s and MIL’s weak stomachs I can’t make it as hot as I like it.
That level’s reserved for gumbo…
Without Sriracha hot sauce, life would be a little less interesting. I go through a large bottle every two weeks.
My back pasture is suddenly infested with equestrians.
Later, folks.
Regards,
Ric
Can you spray for those, Ric?
Comments working ok for everyone?
The new improved pw is slick and strangely troll free.
S’aright Admin. Thanks for everything.
Say “Cheese!”
Yes, working great. Thanks, Admin!
Test…this is only a test. If this had been a real comment, it would have been preceded by a REALLY stupid comment. This has been a test of the emergency moron system.
How do ypu put pics in?
Go to gravatar.com for the avatar stuff. Once you register and log in, you can upload an image and it will automagically appear here with no further work.
woohoo! it works!
First test after logging in.
I’m not seeing any place to click on for profile updates?
Right below the “Leave a comment” thinger there is a “Logged in as” with your username. click that to work on the profile.
Duhhhhh….never mind – you click on your nick
bh chose ceiling cat as his avatar.
Not sure what to make of that.
And I’m kewl with registration. I love my distinctive pink bleeding-heart icon.
ST/RD was using addresses like jg1@hotmail; jg12@yahoo, etc. Could have gone on forever.
On another forum, one troll (former insider) created around 100 Yahoo email accounts to torment us: bi-polar, paranoid personality disorder, and a lawyer.
Can A Certain Troll beat that?
No, not the 100 identities, but the list of Things That Make You Too Screwed Up To Be In Polite Society.
Next test, avatar
Nope
Back again.
No, I can’t spray for equestrians. It requires professional-grade products, so all I can do is squash them as they come out of the woodwork.
While out and about I did take a picture. Not Ceiling Cat, but perhaps somewhat worthy.
The new system seems to work well and smoothly. Kewl.
Regards,
Ric
as per usual? I spoke before thinking….yup
I’m glad you decided to go with this, Jeff. I can’t think of another blogger who has had as many issues with threats against his/her family as you have. This is a great idea, don’t doubt it for a second.
I’ve always used the Alt + thing for diacritics and other fun characters because it works in non-HTML settings, such as Microcrash stuff.
0225 = á
0233 = é
0237 = í
0243 = ó
0250 = ú
0252 = ü
0161 = ¡
0191 = ¿
0241 = ñ
0231 = ç
0182 = ¶
0230 = æ
0181 = µ
I think Jeff attracted all the flack because he is consistently over the target. The complete failure of proggy plastic dashboard Jesus in the mid term was just one humiliation too many for this particular troll. Finding out your gods are mortal can be upsetting.
[…] there has been a lot of fruitless arguing about crazy stuff that only bloggers care about, so that Jeff G. has decided to resume his career as a murderer of blog-trolls.And that bums me out. Because what I’d really like to be doing now is posting Lingerie […]
Frito bandito here. All clear on the Texas front!
There. That was easy.
BTW, that creep timb showed up at Stacy’s blog, right on schedule.
test
That’s why Frey keeps timb, EricPWJohnson and Christoph around.
But seriously, does anyone care anymore? Are people who don’t hang at his place not yet aware of who Frey truly is?
test 2
Waldo
Furgeson
Whoa.
From this vintage link via Insty, dated 14 Apr 2008:
Serious, peeps. Anyone still in doubt that Dear Leader is a clinical narcissist?
And once again PF is using the “the machine ate my comment (you know, the comment proving that I win the internet and the site host/current target are mendoucheous twatwaffles)” excuse over at TOM.
You’d think that, when dealing with serial comment-deleting-folks, a clever person would keep a copy so it could be reposted if deleted. Or take a screencap. Or something comprising what people in the legal biz like to call evidence.
The question on everyone’s (okay, maybe it’s just me) mind is which trolls will register to comment here.
As far as PF goes, I answered one lie he told in that thread about a comment of mind, I’m sure he told more after that, but I didn’t check in again. I imagine he has escalated things as well, since that’s his pattern. He will now declare victory, retreat back to his blog, and go after some other target for a while.
Not that I especially need an avatar, but does anyone know why I had no problem registering here, but wordpress doesn’t acknowledge my existence when trying to sign in at casa de avatars? Is registering for wordpress a separate process than the localized version here?
It’s a Gravatar sort of thing. (WP owns Gravatar, but hasn’t really integrated it into the hive mind, or whatever the hell it is, yet.)
Don’t know why the gravatar place doesn’t recognize the wordpress login stuff Abe, but I can say it did the same with me as it seems it’s doing with you. I went with hf’s suggestion and just registered independently with ’em.
This blog uses wordpress software, but it is not a wordpress blog. The latter is a blog that is hosted by wordpress. So, you need to create a wordpress login to get a gravatar, separate from your login here.
It doesn’t suck.
I just feel weird with everyone knowing what I look like
Perhaps a bit less heavy on the rouge, happy, and you won’t be so self conscious.
Hey hey.. my gravatar is here! Can you read the fine print? lol
I’m sure you don’t draw inordinate attention in L.A.
Is that a bunny wearing a pancake chapeau Pablo?
Ah. The sad realization that a “sausage king” looks like a penis with a crown at these dimensions.
Well that was a huge pain in the ass.
OK. You can start the party now.
I’d use a picture of my ass,It’s my best feature, but the alloted space is too small.
Testing
Indeed it is, sdfeer.
Woot!
test
Me likey the preview. Now if I can just remember to look at it.
i don’t see no box to put the little pic into on profile
go to gravatar.com Mr. newrouter they will fix you right up
Aren’t there days when everything does, though? Or is that just me?
gravatar doesn’t think i was sent by wordpress
No problem here. Wish I could send some sugar now, but it is not to be this month.
This is not a wordpress blog. It has a login unique to this site. You need to create a separate login at wordpress.com to use gravatar.
now i knows why gravatar was grumpy
The registration requirement doesn’t bother me, ‘cept for one thing: I can’t change my handle to stuff like “The Oakland Raiders’ fan Dana” when appropriate.
But you kind of made up for it by adding the gravatars.
McGehee wrote:
[laughter!] Was he the one who was causing all of the problems? He’s a regular at my site!
i got all pissed off at the time cuz i type w/ one finger and i’m all ‘wtf?’and i had to register and fill out the stuff-and then they gave me this fourteen letter/number password and it wouldn’t kick in
and i’m like’arrrggh’
tried to change it, but it wouldn’t kick..
but i finally figured it out..
but, u killed pdbuttons today-he’s gone,toast,history
yesterdays papers etc. but after reading this post and seeing the bullshit u have to go thru,and knowing how this is my fav site-i thought-gee-so i had to type for 30-40 minutes with anger and kept saying [wtf,wtf,wtf] that ain’t nothing compared to what jeff gotta put up with
Pride is the worst Sin!
plus now u got the lil correcting comments thing-which might make me look less idiotic [sarc. yeah-right]
thanks for all ur good work jeff/pd
how do post a pic next to ur name?
i’l figure it out/any hints/thanks
Mr. croutons first find your picture you want and put it on your desktop… then go to gravatar.com and click where it says get your gravatar – it’s pretty easy not very much typing
now wordpress doesn’t want me either
How does one log in to Gravatar? It doesn’t recognize the WordPress username and password I used to log in here.
Just register over again there Spiny. They’ll send you an e-mail etc. blah blah blah
Oh I see cranky already explained… except the WordPress login and password I created a while back for another WordPress blog doesn’t work, either.
I’ve got to change out that rock.
Something a bit less jarring. Let’s see…
Sadly, yes, it was time to do something about the trolls. I’d have voted for drawing and quartering, but that’s just me…
Oh great. It says my username and email is already used. The username and password from that prior WordPress registration does not work…
Great. Now I can visit without the risk of bringing my infestations here.
You can always have wordpress.com email you a new password. That’s what I had to do here, because I had already registered years ago but lost the password.
Indiana wants me. Lord, I can’t go back there.
Hi, Dan!
Hey, Dan!
Trying on these new Gravatars is harder than M’Chelle looking for a new dress in which to flop on the world stage.
Hey, Pablo, serr, everybody.
There needs to be a gravitar randomizer that allows me to post photos of various sockpuppets. That way I can pop a pic of Glenn Greenwald in there with my sockpuppets.
Hey Dan.
What’s this about posting here without bringing your infestations?
And yet UR avatar is UR face. Not following you.
Hmmm. I got my old password and managed to log in, but changing the avatar image does not seem to be possible. (That one is horribly cropped).
Ok, I think I’ve got this gravatar thing worked out.
No, I didn’t want me. Where is the dang critter that shows up in the preview box? That’s what I want.
Oh, there it is. Much better.
Much better.
I see bh is using Ceiling Cat. Heh.
Woot! Long time reader & rare commenter checking in.
One more time
Hey, Dan’s here. Shame on me for not paying attention…
Hi Dan!
Avatar check.
i think the snowman look will be ok
OK, back to the Twitter look. Hold out your hand to me, you dirty socialist~!
meh, let’s try this one. Homeboy Lysander Spooner.
Don’t give up newrouter, you can come up with somt’in good…
pdbuttons wins the avatar selector thinger.
Tell me what you want to be, newrouter, I’ll fix you up.
Or, grab a Frank Zappa mugshot. That’d be cool.
This might be a good one for newrouter…
oh i was looking for a malfunctioning traffic light pic
I’m happy with IntenseDebate or Disqus, so far as outside platforms go. Or, get a tech savvy someone to install one of those cafeteria platforms, with many choices, such as you can find at NPR.org
Hmm, my PW login doesn’t work at WordPress, proper. Now where in the PW dashboard can I upload an avatar?
si login to wordpress directly see above
Do it up. Informed dissent is one thing, trolls are just noise, however.
newrouter, here’s one.
test test rest
Hi Dan!
#266 is good. ot i now have wp blog at govtsux though i just wanted an avatar
This is a test.
This is only a test.
Wow! An avatar. I feel so high tech….
Multiple avatars even. What fun!
Huh? It’s displaying the second avatar I created in the preview but still posting the first. Stupid computers….
One more time, the ever popular big hat, no cattle look….
Apparently it takes a few minutes to make the switch, Swen.
Nooooope. Oh well, I kinda like my buffarilla.
Patience is a virtue I do not possess….
Hmm.. So when you change your avatar it gets changed across all your previous posts? Okay, that’ll work. I’m feelin’ like a lounge lizard tonight….
Or perhaps I should just be honest with myself and appear as others see me? Sure, why not.
Ah, that’s better.
An avatar at last.
Meh, maybe I’d better put the buff back up. Everyone likes a little ass but no one likes a jackass….
…reg accomplished. Someday, I’ll even figure out gravatar.
#281 Swen — at any rate, that gravatar is taken :-)
Regards,
Ric
Weird.
Let’s try this.
Bobby Jindal evidently gives Obama & Co. a couple of good thwacks. Jesus, Mary and Joseph Bobby, where’s your proper fear man?
The entire world seems to have read Obama for a punk at this point. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
ALMIGHTY! ALMIGHTY! PBR STREETGANG RADIOCHECK!! OVER
NEVER GET OFF THE BOAT! Ernst.
So who do I have to screw to get one of those avatar thingies?
start at comment #145 and read down a ways to see the problems that were solved.
Weekly Standard is thwacking too but dicentra has plowed that ground thoroughly here.
The thwacking is going to be coming so thick and fast the next few months I expect a sympathetic backlash on the idiot’s behalf by people who still think him a dweeb but just can’t stand to be a part of any consensus. “Poor Barack,” they’ll say, “he’s a good man.”
Too late geoff. I got off the boat. All the way.
You might say I lost my head.
Purely as a matter of pragmatism though. I wouldn’t want you to think I was one of those purity demogogues who take their orders from the jungle.
My avatar looks forward to a jungle meeting.
– I’ll be out on the Death star, working with 7 of 9 on some ambling pentameter.
dan rooney, otr the rooney family don’t own the pittsburgh sreelers
tom brady does
booyah
It’ll be a while geoff, gravatar hates me too.
Tom Brady’s on my fantasy team, so I had a great day.
And the Seahawks won too!
– NE got lucky. Pittsburgh receivers dropped three very catchable touchdown passes.
Sounds good.
Well, my wordpress account still works. That’s good to know.
Lessee if this here gravatar thing works.
Testing, testing… let’s see if this woiks.
No. No, he’s not. Anyone who uses the kind of tactics he has and thinks the way he does (to the extent that he “thinks” at all) is not a “good man”. But you’re right, the people who’ve been raging on him — me even — will start feeling sorry for him if he gets the beating he deserves over the next two years. That won’t save him though because the people administering the beating will be from the disillusioned left (hell hath no fury, etc.) and they possess neither compassion, mercy, nor a sense of moderation. They eat their own, but they’ll beat him like a pinata first.
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Okay, the avatars are way fun. I think I’ll go with the ‘big hat, no cattle’ look today.
I will never feel sorry for Obama, seeing as I think he’s put at least 10 billion from the stimulus in an offshore account. Of course, I also think Obama’s IQ barely crests 99, so you know.
I’m a dude btw. I just need a haircut.
It’s starting:
Bets Obama will still be trying to figure it out Jan. 20, 2013, when they hand him his desk set at the White House door? Yet he’s “brilliant” and “talented”. Go figure.
But come to think of it, what are the congressional Democrats complaining about? Obama let Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, et al. run amok for two years, demonstrating on several occasions that he had little idea what was in the legislation they were writing (of course, neither did they). And now they’re complaining about a lack of leadership from the White House?
Let the circular firing squad begin! I’m makin’ popcorn….
[Uhoh, embedded links break the preview thingy? Either that or it’s another HTML FAIL on my part. Here goes….]
Oh good, it’s the preview thingy. When things don’t work it’s usually me.
And a righteous dude at that! But just judging from my savings and investments, don’t you think we’ve all taken enough of a haircut already?
Or perhaps it’s just that I don’t have much use for haircuts….
I’m not bald BTW, I wear it all off on the headboard….
I will admit I gots no neck though!
You can use these tags: Blockquote, Italics, Boldface, Strikethrough, Link
But not well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLso0ZBqOi4
Avatar Test.
Registered; not a deal-killer.
I can even log in on my brand new iPod.
So what’s the deal with Paddyrico, anyway? Did the Dillo hump his cat or something?
Testing
Testing
Avatar seems to be working. Huzzah!
Hey, what’s up? Word Press must hate me. It took a third email addy to get them to send me a password. Oh well. Here it goes. I think this was a great idea, Jeff.
BTW, I’m the commenter formerly known as Obstreperous Infidel. I figured with all the change going around, I’d get in on the action.
I think I’ve commented a grand total of three times over the years, but I had to show my support and register just on the principle (though I feel very tardy indeed being a day late to the discussion).
Plus I had to say that the whole comment thread – watching as everyone registered, logged in, and discussed the preview / HTML codes / avatar development – was one of the most entertaining things I’ve read in a long time.
I love this bar.
test. we love no trolls.
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