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Okay, now I have to comment just to check this thing out -- to think, technology to make the squandering of my time more efficient!


Posted by: Di Kotimy | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 8:26 AM
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Thanks, Di -- I didn't want to be the first.

Preemptive apologies: this thing is likely to break. Fortunately it's Friday and I don't really feel like doing substantive work anyway.


Posted by: Tom | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 8:31 AM
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Very cool, Tom. I may now have half a chance at keeping up!


Posted by: Di Kotimy | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 8:33 AM
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How long before chat lingo further infects our sacred Unfogged?

C U L8R.


Posted by: NCProsecutor | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 8:42 AM
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Seriously awesome.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 8:48 AM
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That's cool.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 8:53 AM
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Maybe this will lead to higher quality threads. Stop IM-spamming me, Timbot.


Posted by: Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 8:54 AM
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If you'd just accept that our love was meant to be, I would.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 8:55 AM
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This can only lead to disaster and procrastination.


Posted by: HC | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 9:13 AM
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lead to?


Posted by: Gonerill | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 9:17 AM
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So Timbot likes the IM bot?


Posted by: Nathan Williams | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 9:20 AM
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You're violating the sanctity of the off-blog communication. And that's not all!


Posted by: Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 9:25 AM
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Tom, you're a genius. I'm impressed not only by the technical achievement, but by the commitment to procrastination required to do something like this.


Posted by: mrh | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 10:26 AM
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I guess this is topical here: Can the resident wizard cocksuckers here add a link "Respond to this comment" at the bottom of each comment that inserts both the number and a link to the original post at the top of the response? And while I'm at it, how about automatically adding a "target=_blank" to all outgoing links?


Posted by: trialsanderrors | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 3:23 PM
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how about automatically adding a "target=_blank" to all outgoing links

I used to do this at my site and got many heated complaints about it.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 3:28 PM
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Ooo, that would be sweet. I have wondered about asking for exactly that, but don't have the face to ask for programming work given that I'm not going to do any.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 3:28 PM
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I ended up putting a checkbox at the top of my blog that would allow users to select whether links would open in a new page or not. And comity was achieved.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 3:30 PM
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16: I'm no web coder, but most of this sort of stuff is straightforward so unless I'm missing something I think this should be. Who amongst you does that bit?


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 3:34 PM
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Can the resident wizard cocksuckers here add a link "Respond to this comment" at the bottom of each comment that inserts both the number and a link to the original post at the top of the response?

Use the permalink at the bottom of the comment to which you want to respond to open a new tab, copy, and paste. Problem solved.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 3:37 PM
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I used to do this at my site and got many heated complaints about it.

That's because taking control out of the user's hands pisses a lot of people off. (And by "a lot of people", I mean "me".) Same deal with automatically resizing browser windows (or creating new windows that can't be resized). Let me fucking decide how I want to run my browser.


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 3:44 PM
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Use the permalink at the bottom of the comment to which you want to respond to open a new tab, copy, and paste. Problem solved.

You a sys admin in your day job? I know how to create a backlink from the permalink if need be, but given that the fraction of responses that refer to the original comment by number is somewhere around 50% and the fraction that actually provides a backlink is about 0.0001%, I thought that this might be a neat feature to have, and esp. one that doesn't require a lot of coding to implement.


Posted by: trialsanderrors | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 4:09 PM
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Well, I'm not going to do this.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 4:11 PM
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I figured.


Posted by: trialsanderrors | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 4:14 PM
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This technology, like nuclear weapons and accordions, can only be used for evil.


Posted by: Hamilton Lovecraft | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 11:45 PM
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What was that about the accordion?


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-13-07 11:48 PM
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Testing the new thing...


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 07-14-07 12:07 AM
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Wow. Tom: you're my hero. You must, like, live in apo's pocket.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 07-14-07 12:08 AM
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