I will be moving my blog here to WordPress, but I’m still working out the details. In the meantime, my blog is still on Blogger, and you can reach it at Manboobz.com.
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I’ve lately been getting constant errors trying to post to the old blog, so hopefully things over here will be a little smoother. 🙂
How am I supposed to derail the topic when there is no topic?
Harumph!
Good
-byeday, Sir.I said GOOD DAY!
At least the reply function works. I think.
Looks fine to me.
I was getting pretty tired of banging out a reply on the other site, only to get umpteen errors. I had even copied one comment and tried to post it 4 or 5 times, paring it down until it was almost nothing. Still didn’t work. Hopefully this is more reliable.
(Watch this comment get eaten …)
This is certainly.. Odd. I’m not quite a fan of having the “comments” and “leave a comment” links in the form of tabs when they don’t act as such.
Still. *shrug* whatever works. I like the idea of a reply button!
I’ve kinda relied on the preview button to give myself some time to notice any new commments that have popped up while I was writing a comment, as well as to make sure all the html works. Preview would be nice if it could be brought back.
Posting from my smartphone. OH YEAH!
“How am I supposed to derail the topic when there is no topic?”
“You’re cherry picking quotes to make MRAs look bad, rape statistics are false, and oh hey let me show you this damning Andrea Dworkin quote!”
That, gentlemen, is how it’s done.
My site’s powered by WordPress. I do some under-the-hood tinkering (CSS and PHP both) with it as well. So anything you need help with, let me know.
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YAY DAVID!
Just out of curiosity, how easy is it to transfer a Blogger blog’s contents over to WordPress?
The theme is tolerable, except for the irritating right angle bracket before each headline. What theme designer thought that was cool?
Different layout will take some getting used to.
Haha, Johnny. However, there is indeed a topic: moving. And so, here are a couple of suggestions for derailing:
Talk about when you had to move and what how much worse/better/more exciting it was for YOU (or someone else you know), on and on ad infinitum. Until nobody even remembers that the post was originally about David moving in the first place.
Complain about how “da wimminz” are always screwing up moving: making it necessary to move, making the moving process more difficult, etc.
Hope that helps. 😉
David, best of luck. Hope this works out better for ya.
Looks good so far. I’m sure your in process of doing all these things, but I’ll mention them anyway:
-No subscribe link.
-No long About description, Store, Faqs, etc (they can go in the pages up top)
-No boob roll
Also, you should think carefully about whether you want threading or not. Pros: clarifies the discussion, makes it easy to skip stuff that doesn’t interest you. Cons: Fragments the discussion, encourage people to reply without reading everything, makes it difficult to find and read just the new posts.
I see you’ve turned on moderation; only moderate if you’re up for the sheer amount of moderation you’re going to need to do. People will get annoyed and leave if it takes half a day for their comments to show up.
Hey all, didn’t expect so many comments! To answer various questions:
1) I’ve got the blog set up so it moderates comments the first time a new person posts; once I’ve approved one comment from that person their comments won’t be moderated. So all you guys can now comment to your heart’s content.
2) It’s not that hard to transfer old posts and comments over from blogger; wordpress will do it automatically. (And the posts are also left on blogger.) There have been some glitches, especially with the layouts of transferred posts.
3) Speaking of which, those brackets in the headlines seem to be one of those glitches; they only show up on transferred posts.
4) There is actually a subscribe link, but it’s not clear that’s what it is, so I’ll put up a new one. I’ll be adding the rest of the sidebar stuff before I make the big switcheroo.
5) On threading in comments — what do you guys think about it? Not sure I want to keep it.
Oh, and “preview” — I’d be happy to add it, but I’m not sure how; I don’t see it as an option in my settings for comments.
I would say keep the reply function as it lets people argue within a response and may help with the post derailing.
Oh and my contribution to derailing-I just started reading Marriage, A History by Stephanie Coontz. One thing that seems to be apparent is the more that a society has private property, the more restrictions on women that start popping up. Guess that means that my bonobo society will require communal living when I conquer the island it will be on.
John Cusack is bad at accents. That is all.
Unfortunately there’s no way to add the preview comment feature to a wordpress.com blog. Adding plugins requires that your site be on your own hosting.
I had a pretty smooth transition to WordPress, myself, apart from some old posts being doubled.
I set up the comment moderation as you have and it has worked beautifully. The trolls can be put into moderation forever. I moved in large part because I wanted better control over comment moderation, and I was glad I did it. I think you will be, too.
Drawbacks to WordPress: It’s totally fascist about embedding stuff. I can’t put a sound file stored at box.net into a post. Embedding Youtube is easy, but for other videos I use Vodpod to grab the embed code. The Vodpod extension no longer works with the latest version of Firefox (for Mac, anyway), so I’m using Chrome now if I want to embed a clip from the Daily Show, say.
Keep in mind that anytime you Google for info on how to use WordPress, you need to be alert to the distinction between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. The latter offers a lot more flexibility, but requires self-hosting and a level of technical understanding that I just don’t have.
Good luck with this! I’ll keep reading no matter what.
The chief hazard of a no-preview blog is that you only find out about tag fails after you post.
Things can get really ugly if your tag fail affects subsequent posts.
So, after civilization collapses and humanity dies out, the bonobos will be able to carry on. A noble project. I wish you luck.
Thread derail: which species would you like to see succeed humanity after we’re gone? I vote for dogs.
Also, I see that the Girlz in the Hood post didn’t make it across.