blushes and now I can’t add tags to it. I knew there was something I forgot. So sorry, guys.

Guh, it might be a glitch. It did that to me a while back, insisting there were new posts, but there weren’t. :/ Then one day, it disappeared.

So glad I’m not reading this book…

New Article.

That’s because he’s being a teenager. Ignore it. :D

Clever, Puppet. :P

I take it none of you found my secret message, no?

What secret message? Anybody can read that address.

Good grief, Feedback is IMPORTANT. Yeah.

YEAH.

Oops. I just noticed that now.

I feel stoopid.

Because Sly had been getting a huge amount of spam through it.

Email it to him. Look back on the previous pages, this has been discussed several times before.

“Hey Spammers, instead of just having a button here that will email us your submission, we’ll just give you our direct email address to make it even easier for you.”

Like that?

I no longer have a website to give reviews to, and I want an excuse to watch Eclipse besides “generic lulz”, so is it okay with everybody if I end up doing an article for it?

“Hey Spammers, instead of just having a button here that will email us your submission, we’ll just give you our direct email address to make it even easier for you.”
Like that?

Yes, exactly like that. I’m pretty sure the II website has Sly’s email address on it anyway.

I’m going Wednesday evening… I’ll try to take notes.

Aww, poor Jeni.

See, I’m hoping to see Eclipse just to skiv money from The Last Airbender. I won’t see the midnight premiere or anything, though.

I haven’t seen New Moon yet either. Ah well.

I haven’t seen New Moon either. The only reason I ever wanted to (other than for sporkage) was because shirtless Taylor Lautner, but honestly… that’s just not a good enough reason.

I watched them. They were epic lulz.

I saw Twilight on DVD (actually, I stayed out of the room for most of it, since it disgusted me), and I saw New Moon with my sibs, which brought epic lulz.

Also, I probably should get the EWW’s back up and running soon, shouldn’t I?

YES.

XD Yeah, that only seems fair.

...Why would you want to delete that beautiful, beautiful gem?

...Well, it’s your choice. But it isn’t even that bad compared to some we’ve gotten, and it doesn’t insult any II members. I, personally, would keep it for the lulz. xD

Gotcha. It shall be left as a memorial to stupidity.

I find it easier to browse the forum holding the iTouch horizontally, as I’m sure you’ve worked out, but just in case…

Whilst the textile one isn’t a bad idea, I can’t help but think that people should take a little initiative and click the Help link available.

Maybe that’s what the textile FAQ can consist of, ho ho ho.

There is, I’ve been meaning to poke Elanor into doing something about it. Will get around to that now. Thanks. :)

This has been happening to me in Small Victories thread for a considerable amount of time now.

Ahh, I think it’s something to do with post counting in the thread. If I log out, that topic finishes on Page 12, the reason your screenshot looks like that, Puppet, is because there is no Page 13 yet (where your url is pointing).

No idea why it’s miscounting, though, I’m afraid. :[

Looks fine for me, although it did report two unread replies, even though my post was still the last one. Probably just your now-public posts.

Uh, isn’t the “Who’s Online” panel supposed to say “Phantom User” when someone hides themselves instead of “Hide my username from the ‘Who’s Online’ panel”?

I have no power…

At the moment he’s kind of busy… Have you tried hiding your username from the who’s online panel?

LOL @ Phantom

You’ve been stirring up trouble while I was away, haven’t you?

Um. Has anybody tried the hyperlinked News link on the main page lately? I assume it should lead to an archive of previous news posts, but all I get is a blank page. I mean, I look at the Page Source and there’s clearly meant to be a list of hyperlinks and such, but the page appears to be blank. Nothing to highlight, so it’s not a colour/contrast issue, there’s simply nothing there.

I saw that too, a while back. I remember it working before too.

Huh.. That happened a while back, too. I copy and pasted a quote from Wikipedia and for some reason it screwed up all the threads to look like that. Don’t know why it’s doing it there, though.

There is a CRAZY amount of spam comments on the site right now. Considering the way comments work here, I guess there’s not much that can be done about it, and it’s all on older articles so it’s out of the way, but… yeah. Why are there so many all of a sudden?

Isn’t that kind of what the Writing category is for, though? Although I guess that one’s more about threads about writing, not just pieces of writing.

Impish Writing, perhaps? I know that was originally for the critiquing thing, but people could post their pieces there too.

I was wondering how it is decided which articles are posted and when. I don’t have anything pending right now, but I check Text Pattern every now and then just see what’s there. Well, I’ve noticed that certain kinds of articles or articles by certain people are consistently posted right after they are submitted to be live, while others are left pending for days or even weeks. Also, some articles are left up for weeks, even when new articles are pending, while others aren’t even up for twenty-four hours. I thought that articles were posted in a first come first serve sort of way unless there was a special one for a particular event, but there have been articles that were just submitted that are posted before articles that have been pending for days (they aren’t meant for a specific occasion/day either). There are even some articles that have been pending since 2009 (I’m guessing there is a reason that they are still pending).

So, basically, I’m wondering if certain types of articles or certain authors are given priority, or if there are certain authors/articles that need to be proofread and are therefore posted later than those articles that do not need to be proofread for whatever reason. I’m not wanting names or anything; I’m just wondering if this is a factor or not. I know that the admins are busy, so I don’t fault them for not always posting things promptly, but I’ve just noticed that certain authors/articles are posted a lot more promptly than others on a fairly consistent basis. I wouldn’t be saying anything if I saw equal delays for all types of articles/authors.

Also, Nate has several articles that he titled as copies that were accidental, and he asks for them to be deleted.

This post is not meant to be hostile/whiny. I did my best to write it in a way that didn’t come off as either of those things.

^^All right. Thanks. I figured that was probably all it was.

Short answer: laziness and inattentiveness.

This probably answers that question too, but I’ve been thinking the same thing, Inspector.

^^ Yeah, college does kind of murder free time.

Maybe that everything is announced on Twitter instead of in the news, or that Twitter encourages chatspeak, which is detrimental to writing in general. I don’t use Twitter either, soit should be something else.

Sly’s really good with design and typography, I completely agree. It combines aesthetic with functionality in a really effective way.