Post author: salb918
As long as we’ve got a new blog, we might as well get the action started. Vince Shlomi, of ShamWOW! fame, has been arrested on charges of felony aggravated battery:
According to Shlomi, 44, on Feb. 7 he met a prostitute named Sasha Harris at a nightclub and pre-paid her $1,000 for “straight sex.” When they returned to his $750-a-night hotel room (those infomercials really pay well), the couple began kissing when Harris suddenly bit Shlomi’s tongue and “would not let go.”
OK, let’s get this thing going! I imagine it will take a while for us to find our rhythm, but we’re all friends here and it’s my sincere hope that any disagreement you might have with me will not worsen my incipient cannibalism.
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FREE KRAUT! 
Someone stole this link from me that I posted last night in the AN dld. Possibly poppy, who replied earlier. Since I can no longer trust any of you, this will be my final post at freekraut.
It was me. What are you going to do about it? I’m an f’in mod.
I’m going to ask you to make me a krauthor, if you know how.
I have no idea how to do that. In the meantime, you will have to bow down to me.
I will pass on your invitation to make a height joke, because we aspire to do better than low humor at this blog.
I dub thee KRAUThor mcaskin!
But since you’re leaving anyway, I might as well smack you on the way out with this.
As we’re getting into the learning curve here…is it possible for me (or any other KRAUThor) to grant KRAUThorhood? How does one do that?
Also, does anyone know how to give a post authorship? I wrote this post, for example, but it doesn’t say that anywhere.
to grant KRAUThorhood, go to the dashboard; then click on Users (bottom left navbar). There will be a list of users; as each person accepts their invite, they should show up as, I believe, a “Contributor” — you can then check the box next to their name, and use the pulldown menus to switch them to Admin.
Hunh … post authorship. Let me try and figure that out.
Aw, nertz.
Looks like it’s back to the virtual drawing board. I’m really kind of surprised how limited wp’s template/customizability/color selection is. The functionality and programmability is great, but …
Anyhow, what’s our preference: pick another design template, remind everyone to announce who they are when making posts, or embrace the anonymity and fold it in with the flat-organization/no-hierarchy thing and just leave all posts quasi-anonymous?
It’s probably just easier if each person just announces their identity at the beginning of the post.
I agree with sal. Pretty easy to just sign the posts.
The “Connections” template doesn’t look too bad — I could make that one work pretty well.
Also — avatars: should I just go ahead and kill ’em entirely for the site? They eat up a lot of real estate.
And, of course, that should be “we” — any of us can go in and rejigger the site.
Why don’t we wait and see if people want avatars. I don’t .
Looks like the threaded comments become a new post when they reach the edge.
Not sure about that. I intentionally started a new post to say the threading looked ridiculous (I think).
You mean … in the layout *I* chose, threading looked ridiculous? PERSONAL ATTACK!!!!
Ya been lurkin’ ain’tcha?
Is there a comment previewing feature that I missed?
Yep. Jest a little.
No preview feature. You break it, you buy it.
As one of the four or five people who actually uses it on a regular basis, I miss preview. Oh well, can’t have everything.
But you can always go back and edit.
Not as good for composing, but much better for ex post facto dissembling or deleting.
Is there truly a difference between attacking your site and attacking you?
Your site is great, but you have questionable sexual tastes.
Vanilla? Chocolate? Strawberry? Neapolitan?
I prefer something with peanut butter.
“I Can’t Believe It’s Not Perverted!”
And I can’t follow which replies go with what…
Agreed. It’s all so confusing.
It’s much more artistic with unthreaded replies. Interpretive blogging!
Without threading, screws become more difficult.
You’ve worked your way though the whole Yummy Sutra, haven’t you?
What do you have against Adam West?
Uh, whoops — meant to link “nertz” to this:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/showing-author-of-posts?replies=2#post-243971
I can’t read your link, because it apparently contains one of the key words that I have my browser set to block.
Guess it’s a good thing I didn’t sign up as “Sleestak,” eh?
The nesting looks ridiculous after a point.
I switched templates midstream. Check out how the front page looks. I don’t like the font, but this template doesn’t allow font changes like the other one does. The date/author presentation and defined layout is a lot better, though — and the comment nesting is, while limited, much more clear.
I turned off the avatars; looks like that doesn’t really save any space. I’ll turn them back on for now.
I think this current (as of 9:20 pm) template (“Contempt” … any Godard fans in the house? Where is xbx?) strikes the best balance between clean fp layout, customizable header, automated authorship posting, and readable/flexible nesting. Plus, the template simply doesn’t accept avatars. I vote for sticking with this one for a while.
Yeah, this one is good.
Plus, it has a certain roguish theme.
If this were really “Contempt”, it would be smoking hot and suddenly give you the silent treatment, and then run away with Jack Palance before it crashed.
and we have our first QOTM!
NEEDS MOAR WIDESCREEN.
And Kraut.
Also, why the hell doesn’t my username look right? I specifically typed MikeTheV when I signed up.
Clearly WordPress sucks.
OK, fixed. I think.
:shakes fist:
Widescreen: a larger model for the obese.
Adding a picture of Jason Kendall somewhere on a sub-page: to make the experience … more pleasant.
Why
do
I
feel
like
I’m
reading
Chinese?
B
T
W
my AN
user
name
was
taken.
Rats.
Go to your profile, put tdf in the “nickname” field, and then choose it in the “display publicly as” menu.
Yesss. Thanks!
I was similarly vexed. I’m happy to be whole again.
The RatsFather?
Hey!
To some, perhaps.
This community just isn’t what it used to be. This morning, there were constructive and insightful conversations. Now, it’s just a bunch of n00bs, idiots, and 12-year-olds. {Sigh}
(You guys let me know if you need any technical assistance. First complaint: Nobody has an 800 pixel monitor anymore!)
dammit, the one thing i forgot in my email was a tech-assist bleg. yeah, whatever help you can offer would be awesome.
heck, since you’re an ADMIN, you could just go in and fix/improve whatever you want!
I just wanted to say that I’m above all this partisan bickering.
Have left control Z in the ditch?
Hunh. WP’s threading technology is … questionable.
Am I here?
WP kinda sucks. We could all invade AthleticsClubhouse.com (I’m an admin there)
monkeyball was right, you do run half the internet.
The lesser half, though.
in other words, no pr0n sites? that surprises me …
Can he help me reap these internet millions I keep hearing so much about?
Tigers place Dontrelle Willis on the DL with an anxiety disorder.
Is this for real, a la Grienke? Or is this a novel cover for acute suckitis?
Given the surrounding timestamps, the placement of this comment is…curious.
So, in the event that sal linked to … what i want to know is this: did she demand “Shlomi the money!”?
can i post pics?
i just submitted a comment, yet i do not see it… :-(
Test
How come I can’t post new comments here?
LOL!
Why are my comments way up here and not at the bottom of the page?
that was a pic, posted as
argh…
Hi all, I’m using my FARK.com name since doctorK was already taken (bastard).
Here’s some linkage:
Vasetomies are surging in popularity due to the poor economy. All I can say is, “Operation, operation, snip and tie, snip and tie”.
Cool – the video linky can be viewed in full in the preview box.
whoa. that just blew my mind.
go to your wp user page, and you can choose to display any name you like (i.e., doesn’t have to be your login username)
(its a bit weird that we can edit each others comments – gso)
Thanks, that worked great.
“vasetomy”? is that what you put your orchids in?
My first spelling FAIL (here). It’s enough to bring a tear to my eye.
Better than an orchidotomy, methinks.
Dr. K would be a great name for a doctor performing operations on serial sex offenders.
RiP Stirrups.
Okay, THIS comment will appear at the bottom of the page, hopefully.
I give up.
I dunno if this is gonna work, as I like expensive thrills and cheap whiskey.
so long’s your cheap whiskey and my expensive one both end up sloshing back and forth in a trough urinal, we good.
That’s what he said.
This thing on?