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I’ve been playing around with this site for the past few months, not quite sure if I should move from the arms of the safe, easy Blogger system to something a little more risky but much more pliable.
Last week made my mind up for me. I had to close several comment threads because of a handful of jerks. I am past tired of babysitting this place just because two or three people can’t seem to behave and appear determined to ruin the experience for everyone else. Next month session starts again and I won’t have the time to monitor it like I do now. Something had to be done.
In theory, I can now weed out the bad apples who come here simply to cause trouble. I can track them down much more easily and block them from commenting, or even accessing the site itself, and then confront them one-on-one. I will, of course, continue to steadfastly maintain the privacy and confidentiality of the vast majority of commenters who know how to act like adults.
I’m aware that the new three-column format will take a bit of getting used to. The columns are slightly narrower than before, but the main column is dynamically sized, so just increase the size of your window if it bothers you.
I’ll be tweaking this site over the coming weeks to make it look better and perform faster. For some reason, the silver background stopped working on my Firefox browser, but it’s still working on my IE browser. Weird. There are a lot of things I can do with this site, like conduct live interviews that readers can also participate in. I’m excited about the vast number of opportunities.
Many thanks to Illini Pundit for his help with dynamic sizing and backup.
And a huge thank you goes to Bill Dennis, aka the Peoria Pundit, for moving my archives over from Blogger and holding my hand throughout the weekend. The archives aren’t completely up yet (bug in the system), but that’ll happen soon.
UPDATE: Fixed a problem with centered text on some browsers. Sorry about that.
posted by Rich Miller
Monday, Dec 5, 05 @ 7:29 am
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