It comes to all of us with age. As hairlines recede and waistlines expand, cosmetic surgery becomes more attractive. While this blog is just around 2 years old, in human-to-blog years that is almost middle aged. In the last few weeks, various regulars have suggested that the site needs work to handle the large number of visitors and entries. This is an attempt to see what you would like to do with the site. I view this site as belonging to all of the regulars and I would like to solicit your thoughts on changes that you would like to see from different cosmetic touches to different structure. This entry will also allow discussion of those things (not people) that you least like.
I cannot promise immediate changes (I am swamped in litigation), but it seems like the regulars would like to see some changes in structure etc. Remember: I am a chimp. I have little skills or knowledge in this field.
Everything is on the table (beyond my removal and forced retirement), so do not hesitate to recommend anything from the most mundane to the most magnificent.
“Must OF” misplaced your memos, which you no doubt would still like to delete, wherein you, as Bron98, admitted to high jacking my turlee identity when questioned by FFLEO et al which denial now makes you either a thief, a liar, or both.
You choose.
p.s. I was talking about my ‘island’,
Genius…
mespo writes: The trivial mind concerns itself with trivial matters.
is it consistency or obsession with perfection that is the hobgoblin of small minds?
Author: Jericho
Comment:
I did not mean a spelling checker for the bloggers, I meant a spelling checker for whoever the good professor hired to write the posts because if he’s typing it out himself, I wonder how he ever got passed high school… There’s not a news item on this site that does not contain a typo or worse… If he doesn’t have the time to check the language, I’ve already offered to do it for him, for a small compensation ofcourse.
some of us are great speller. fabulous, even. we just can’t type very well.
perhaps you ought to have checked your own post for the run on “ofcourse”
Your advice, is not being solicited by me. If you had read other post I specifically invited everyone but you to comment. So, please do yourself and a lot of other folks the pleasure of not commenting on their posts unless you can offer something positive. It appears I am not the only victim of this maelstrom vendetta.
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Patty C 1, June 9, 2009 at 6:29 am
My advice IS being solicited, by JT, AND in protest yo to your suggestion specifically, I am more than a smidge entitled to weigh in since you, as ‘AY’ and Bron 98, high jacked MY turlee identity, without my knowledge or permission and again over my objections, while continually to dog my every remark.
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I do not understand the message you are trying to convey. Please do not try and explain it to me though.
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It was brought to a new level last week when you joined together in an attempt to malign my partner, no less!
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I have no ideal of what you are referring to as I try and avoid your posts to moi or anyone else, unless specifically attacking.
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It is not I provoking you, AY. Not now and certainly not then…
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I have taken the liberty of obtaining a definition for you:
pro·vok·ing (pr-vkng)
adj.
Troubling the nerves or peace of mind, as by repeated vexations.
I guess it is subject to each individual interpretation.
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I voted you ‘off the island’ because I have some of the very basic of standards. I still want nothing to do with you.
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And you see that I am still here. I guess I was not hijacking you apparently then or now.
If you truly want nothing to do with me. Then leave me alone and do not comment on any post that I have posted. That should be clear enough for one as educated as you.
I am beginning to know what the definition of stalking means.
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The ability to delete a post that you would like to correct. Your own of course.
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NO – correct it or it stands.
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Thank you ever so much for your unsolicited advice. However, I strive to live to the standards you expect, I like a lot of others do fall short time to time. So thank you again.
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Please read the above.
Now lest we have time for mespo’s sage advice to Jericho:
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The trivial mind concerns itself with trivial matters.
I guess that should pertain to my response to yours as well. Good luck at the shore.
mespo –
Notice in Jericho’s entry:
“… I wonder how he ever got passed high school …”
Jericho, you must have meant “past” high school, yes?
But we all make mistakes. You seem to be willing to cast the first stone.
Jericho:
“There’s not a news item on this site that does not contain a typo or worse… ”
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The trivial mind concerns itself with trivial matters.
My advice IS being solicited, by JT, AND in protest yo to your suggestion specifically, I am more than a smidge entitled to weigh in since you, as ‘AY’ and Bron 98, high jacked MY turlee identity, without my knowledge or permission and again over my objections, while continually to dog my every remark.
It was brought to a new level last week when you joined together in an attempt to malign my partner, no less!
It is not I provoking you, AY. Not now and certainly not then…
I voted you ‘off the island’ because I have some of the very basic of standards. I still want nothing to do with you.
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Anonymously Yours 1, June 8, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Patty C 1, June 8, 2009 at 10:14 am
Anonymously Yours 1, June 7, 2009 at 7:15 pm
The ability to delete a post that you would like to correct. Your own of course.
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NO – correct it or it stands.
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Thank you ever so much for your unsolicited advice. However, I strive to live to the standards you expect, I like a lot of others do fall short time to time. So thank you again.
I did not mean a spelling checker for the bloggers, I meant a spelling checker for whoever the good professor hired to write the posts because if he’s typing it out himself, I wonder how he ever got passed high school… There’s not a news item on this site that does not contain a typo or worse… If he doesn’t have the time to check the language, I’ve already offered to do it for him, for a small compensation ofcourse.
Patty C 1, June 8, 2009 at 10:14 am
Anonymously Yours 1, June 7, 2009 at 7:15 pm
The ability to delete a post that you would like to correct. Your own of course.
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NO – correct it or it stands.
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Thank you ever so much for your unsolicited advice. However, I strive to live to the standards you expect, I like a lot of others do fall short time to time. So thank you again.
Patty,
I misread what you said. I think the differences between a chat room and a chat “Section” aren’t too vital to the point I was trying to make.
I’ve always understood why it’s been suggested, I just don’t think it’s a good idea.
Lawd, no one ever suggested a Chat ‘ROOM’ – just some other option aside from constant disruption of thread discussions and random entries on JT’s Bio page, as we had seen in the past.
Again, the ‘free for all idea’ was mine, and made last summer in the run up to the Presidential Election which started getting more intense as early as last spring, and in response to all the troll posts being dumped where they hardly belong. Surely, you will remember zak, niblet, dunder, and helen etc, not to mention Bartles/Cro/and Wayne and his multiple other personas.
Also in part because the trolls weren’t getting the traction they wanted from the group, obviously, and continued to amp until enough people got irritated to engage, and did so pretty effectively, although it didn’t work for very long, if you also remember.
I don’t know that it’s necessary now, what it would entail, or how else it might translate right away. I do think the Bio page is not the place for random discussion. That’s JT’s
‘Shiny Award’ space.
I really like this site as it is as well. Comment moderation, except for cut and paste troll posts, should be the result of each person who choses to post here having integrity and a good will towards the site.
Never much thought of myself of a traditionalist, and I am a big fan of plastic surgery when done moderately and by skilled artisans, why perform a facelift when maybe a little botox will do?
that said, i know nothing about how to build or manage blogs. I can’t even figure out how to make the camera on my phone work, send a text or make my facebook account do anything but sit there on the internet machine.
i kinda like things as they are.
Excuse me: “…load bearing…”
I’m of the school of thought that cosmetic changes in set up are well and good (archiving, the calender, etc.), but any format change (chat room, free for all thread, even to a certain extent hierarchical comments) will cause a large change the nature of the discussion of the site. I would prefer the site to stay as is in that regard.
Also, remember as much time as we in aggregate might spend here, this is strictly part time for the Professor. Moderation, which would be necessary to the kind of open thread or chat room suggested, would be way to time consuming and effort intensive for his schedule or for him to ask others to do on a volunteer basis. IT would go against the grain of JT’s philosophy towards this site.
I say, put up the new curtains, but don’t rip down any load-baring walls.
Reiteratively, I agree that any moderation must occur only *after* the post is submitted.
Some of the most informative posts from the regulars derive from responses to “trollish” posts. However, as with the J.E.B. posts in the Bio section, a time comes when the best of the regulars need to end the discussion.
Some of the most offensive posts are those lengthy irrelevant copy/pastes repetitiously spreading across numerous unrelated topics, sometimes repeated in all of the most current original topic threads.
Spell check is not needed, so add it only if it does not cost anything. Folks should compose, spell and grammar check, and proofread on their own WP, then paste it up,
Moderation would be good only if it is after the fact. Let the moderators automatically delete irrelevant or abusive posts and ones with links to viruses. Let readers ask for posts to be deleted. But do not delay the posts, since that would stifle the exchanges.
Bio should be frozen and its contents archived since the site is too full and very slow. But there should be an open thread for questions not related to threads. The nip and tuck idea popped up on bio.
Get areas for separate links to columns, testimony, TV appearances, law review articles, and so forth.
Almost all of the suggestions are good, but may be too much of a good thing for the good professor.
So, add a student board of editors to do all the newly suggested ideas, as well as to search out relevant links and to find follow-up information on earlier threads. It would be good experience for the growing area of legal blogs.
And they would be signing on to the No. 1 ABA legal blog.
Anonymously Yours 1, June 7, 2009 at 7:15 pm
The ability to delete a post that you would like to correct. Your own of course.
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NO – correct it or it stands.
Here’s my list:
1- Install spelling checker.
2- Embed videos, add the library of all televised appearances you’ve made on countdown in the last 8 years alone and you have a great introduction to both US and international law.
3- Try to review all comments before they get posted so the crazy can’t get through.
4- By all means, just keep on rolling, baby!
I agree with rafflaw/lotta/CEJ for the most part. Why not leave it be the way it be?
If it ain’t broke …