I even noticed my blog that I wrote a couple of days ago is back (though near the bottom).

This will help people’s efforts stay around long enough to be noticed. I think you should go ahead & just take the day off

…if old Blago gives his secrets away.

I’m hoping at least that Obama will have to make one of those “the notion that somehow…” speeches. Those are always fun.

The tabbing drives me nuts. When I tab from the title on a reply I expect to get to “your thoughts” but they’re in reverse order. (Reader tip: Shift-Tab does the trick or, if you’re a hard-headed creature of habit like me and hit Tab first, then Shift-Tab twice.)

On the profile page where we see our comments listed, could there be more contrast like on the tracker page of reply counts? For someone like me who posts a fair number of replies but not a lot of diaries, in addition to using tracker as kind of my normal starting point, I also like to go to the list of my replies and see if I’ve gotten replies to any of them. Most are usually 0, but I try to make a mental note of ones that are not.

Is there any sort of diary summary kind of along those same lines? It would be nice instead of seeing the longer version of diaries to see a bulleted list with a list of number of comments – something like that. Same story – would be nice to be able to quickly find ones that have new replies in case I hadn’t checked in a while and so will miss it on the tracker list.

I’m posting my belated rest of NFL week 15 picks here:

At;lanta
Washington
Seattle
Miami
NY Jets
Indianapolis
San Diego
Green Bay
Tennessee
Arizona
Carolina
Pittsburgh
New England
NY Giants
Philadelphia

the orange from the comment box.

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Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

that’d be Reeeaaallllllyyy Cool!

I seriously wonder if those involved in this scandal were Republicans, if the news coverage would be different?

Yes, that is a rhetorical question. We all know the answer to that one. The news coverage would be exactly like the news coverage we got on Sarah Palin during the election.

I wonder if there is a way we can get the media to actually mention that people are thinking that? I am leaving it in a few comment sections on newspapers, but something tells me it won’t make it to a level where it gets actually mentioned in the reporting.

I really wish it would!

and that was extending the list of reader comments. Between that and the extended list of Member Diaries, you have made significant improvement to the ability to interact. Very nice.

you really need to see more of the classics…

continued from this (click here) suggestion/discussion…

the “Get More” theme…. How ’bout

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GET LOCAL
[pick State pull-down]

GET PERSONAL
[pick RS Diarist pull-down] limit to peeps with at least 5? Diaries (to avoid Trolls)

GET SPECIFIC
[pic RS Category name]

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Dynamic list (alpha) creation of the drop-down-list-names only on a weekly (Sunday maint) basis to keep overhead low OR user input box to make user input a value cuz lists could get long (they should have a clue who/what they are looking for to use the thing)… Since the Pull-Down allows user to hit a Letter to jump to items that start with that letter users can bounce close to what they are looking for then scroll to find specific

RS Diarists or RS Members…. should be limited to “active” (if determinable by Profile record, you don’t want to bother to list any banned/barred user) and then user transferred to Members “My Diary” page

Again, thanks for just the opportunity to have input into making the site meaningful and useful to all Users (new and old, techie and non, etc…) I’ve had to train new-users before, so I know how easy it is for us IT folks to forget how difficult it can be for others.

Redirect Loop

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

It happens when I click on the latest member diary by “voteforamerica”

When I click on the Minnesota Senate Recount: 100% Precincts Reporting by voteforamerica link, I get a “Redirect Error” in Firefox.

Here it is in a nutshell:

I think, IMHO, the rec list can sometimes get a little stale.
I think if ‘recommend this’ presses should come with a life limit.
This would ensure that a recommended diary has to stay on the list via new pushes.

Im not quite sure how it works now, but here is how it would work with the life limit. It works as normal, with ‘recommend this’ button pushes, but your button push only stays alive for X amount of time. On top of that, you would be limited to only one ‘recommend this’ button push (that registers ). I think this would help eliminate some of the diary stickiness that occurs, I think, with the rec list.

This would also allow a broader view to be heard, to mix metaphors. As diaries go off the list new diaries would cycle in. Instead of having to have an X number of recs to get on the list, it would be based on highest number of recs at that given time.Now sometimes a diary is particularly good and the directors may want it to stay, but they can do that already.

Let me expand on that. The rec list is currently 9 deep. So you have X number, in this case 9, of slots on your rec list. These X number of slots would be based on highest number of rec votes, in this case the top 9 diaries. As I stated before, your rec vote only lasts for so long (X number of days or hours or whatever), so the list would be the top X number of top vote receiving diaries at that given time period. You would also limit people to one rec per diary (even after it has died, so you cant keep ‘rec’ing a diary) so as to ensure only fresh recs count towards keeping a diary up.

This would result in more rotation of new diaries into the rec list, as the new rules would force it. Also, the directors would be able to keep particularly good ones up at their discretion.

Thoughts?

ShareThis site delays when downloads of html or pic files are coming from their server.

The performance is awesome… I’m not sure I have ever seen RS perform as well as it does now.

One thing I’ve noticed is that there are a bunch of comments missing from this story. Not sure if it’s because there are so many comments there or something else.

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The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson