Comment o’ the Week and Stuff!
Welcome to Friday, everyone! First up, some reminders and helpful tips for commenters. Then, Comment o’ the Week!
The Comment Code of Conduct page is here. You’ve all been pretty fab lately, but I just thought I’d mention it for n00bs. Also, that page has some tips, which I will paste here for your convenience, since we still get emails from people asking about them:
Replying
To reply to a particular comment, log in and click the little arrow by that comment’s post number. A link back to that comment will automatically be pasted into the comment box.
Prettyfying Yer Comments
Spice up your comments with some HTML! These tags <strong>make things bold</strong>, these <em>give you italics</em>, use these tags <a href=â€http://www.skepchick.orgâ€>to make a link</a>, and <blockquote>these are handy for when you’re quoting someone.</blockquote> Don’t forget to click the “Preview†button before posting to make sure your comment looks the way you want!
Avatars
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COTW
If you see a comment you particularly like, nominate it for the Comment o’ the Week by replying to it and including “COTW.†Comment o’ the Week is awarded every Friday. The winner gets to choose the following Wednesday’s Afternoon Inquisition question!
Okay? Okay. On to Comment o’ the Week! This week’s choice is short and sweet, in response to news that the Messiah appeared in a bag of Cheetohs:
Zapski // May 28, 2009 at 9:39 am
Cheesus is the reason for the season(ing)
Well-played, Zapski! Your prize is to choose next Wednesday’s A.I., so send it in using the contact form.
Congratulationscongratulations<a href=”http://skepchick.org/blog/?p=7451#respond” Congratulations
<a href = “http://skepchick.org/blog/?p=7451&cpage=1#comment-62018”
Woot! So funny! Good job!
<congragutlations
@Gabrielbrawley: LOL
oh and
Aye, thanks for that addition!
@Kaylia_Marie: just trying to get the damn link code to work right.
I never click the preview button :(
w00t!
Now to think… and to plan… since I’m going to be away from my computer until Tuesday….
Cheesus gets moldy after 3 days in a damp tomb.
Congrats! And it must be Friday…, we’re discussing food and booze!
@James Fox: BOOBS!
(can’t forget those.)
For reasons unknown, the reply and preview buttons don’t work when I’m at the office. If I’m not feeling too lazy, I’ll type in the “a” tag manually.
@marilove: I never do… Boobies
@Zapski: Congrats!
@Zapski: Aye, gratz, I nominated you, I think that makes me cool by proxy.
Congooooo rats!
Wait, congo rats? AHHHH! RUUUUUUNNN.
Also, I’ve been playing around with the tags myself and having fun re-learning them, but I have to wonder…
Are there scripts out there we can use to create a tag automatically? Either in the browser or on a text program that you can cut-and-paste from?
@marilove:
What? I can’t hear you. Bearies? Bubbies? What are we talking about? ;)
@marilove: Thoughts of boobies are persistent and not effected by the day of the week.
@MiddleMan: Greasemonkey script, perhaps?
@tiger kitty: BOOOOOBIES!
@James Fox: This is true.
@MiddleMan: I’ve considered installing some kind of comment editor for you guys, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. I’ll add it to the to-do list!
@marilove:
Ah, boobies. I have some. Yours are pretty nice, I’ve seen that picture.
@tiger kitty: Yay for boobies! I have boobies too!
Wow, it must be 1:30 ono a Friday.
Did someone say boobies? I sensed it from another browser tab.
@Kaylia_Marie: Even the preview button won’t catch all my stupid typing errors.
@Rebecca: OK, I’ll do some research myself as well.
@marilove: Good place to start, but I think this is more for Firefox than a general browser app.
@marilove: And lets not think persistent means disease!!
@Kaylia_Marie:
that it is, that is is….lol
@Kaylia_Marie: I’ll fix it for you –
“Wow, it must be 1:30! Oh no, a Friday!”
Better?
@Steve:
Do you have a script blocker or something like that?
@Rebecca:
No! Make us do some work for our comments. That kind of work is healthy brainfood.
However, as I mentioned somewhere esle in this here joint, I really do think you should recode and move the Preview button up above the previewed text and the Submit button
Preview button
Submit button
@SicPreFix: True, It’s fun learning new ways to tag like this, not everyone who come here
@MiddleMan: Oops! Screwed up that last one…
True, It’s fun learning new ways to tag like this, but not everyone who come here is going to be proficient at tagging, Having the basics set up for them let them make the best use of their posts.
But that doesn’t mean that we can’t play around on our own.
@MiddleMan:
Good point.
Obviously it’s not meant to be taken literally. It refers to any dairy-based seasoning.