Ratings & Comments

Rating: Undecided.

Do you test with the browser called lynx? www.lynx.browser.org

The old comment system streamed all text, so I had to enter comments with
html tags so at least they would look good when I viewed them with lynx.

If this comment is one paragraph, I still will need to, with a few extra
step which isn't all that bad.

Rating: okay so far.

Okay, I can do without html tags. For emphasis, there's time-honored
*usenet* format.

I don't like that the comment stuff is only at the end. Top & bottom was
better. You want to *encourage* comments/feebback.

I am considered fairly clever. However, it was only a lucky guess that led
me to the idea that one must first preview and then submit.

Either you should include a submit (for the confident) or change the button
to read

Well, hey, if I can format my comments without HTML tags (whatever those
are), then I may be happy.

Let's see.

I am NOT considered fairly clever, except at my very narrow professional
specialization, which 99.44% of the readers here will never have heard of,
even though I approach 30 years as a computer professional.

-JCL

I'm with gnohmon on the desirability of providing feedback buttons at top
and bottom.  I like that the most current feedback is shown; you know if
there is an interesting conversation going on without having to open
another page.

For now, please avoid using double quotes. I will be working on fixing the
problem 'real soon now'.

I've jury-rigged it so that double quotes are replaced with single quotes.
Who's idea was it anyway to revamp the commenting system!?! :)

This is a double quote believe it or not! --> '

Previous comment has an invisble smiley.

Regarding 'cockles', below.  Note that the link actually provides no
solution to the meaning of 'cockles' in this sense.  Neither does the
Oxford English Dictionary, which has much the same info as the editor's
link.  The upshot is, we don't know what 'cockles' are.
I once read a hypothesis that suggested that expressions that were used
formulaicly, but made no sense (like 'dead as a doornail') were actually
the punchlines of forgotten jokes.  Sounds dopey, but think of how many
punchlines you use as metaphors in colloquial conversation, and how often
you really tell the jokes they go with.

What about ratings abysmal, mediocre, and superb?

Keeping the discussion alive alive O, I always thot that cockles were a
type of dialectic seafood, suitable for the musselbound.

However, if in doubt, the question can be submitted to alt.usage.english, a
font of linguistic wisdom.

Submit without review is not necessary as long as it is made obvious that
submit can be found within review: we are accustomed to pesky and insecure
programs asking us 'are you sure, are you really reaaly sure, should I do
what you said or are you a jerk?

99 and 44/100ths, not 99.4; Ivory Soap (tm). It's your turn in the barrel,
as Safire recently apologized for saying -- the phrase is the punchline of
a *dirty* joke, you see.

Many adages and colloquialisms come from jokes or from Ad Age; and they are
ephemeral, for example who today would know what ad agency I one worked for
if I specify that it sounds like a suitcase falling down a flight of
stairs, as Marcel Duchamp once said. Oh, sorry, it was Fred Allen who said
it.

As comedians in the Borscht Belt once asked, 'Where's the beet?'

Back to topic, how can there be a Comdey Chess, in which every move is a
joke??

if a comment is submitted in html mode, its left margin is indented.
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Non-html comments start at page left.
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The above is true when viewing with lynx. Your mileage may vary if you
use
any of the inferior alternatives.
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if a comment is submitted in non-html mode, things that appear to be html
tags are not printed. Are they interpreted? here's an hr:<HR>
<P>
The previous line appears blank but contained left-angle-bracket. P,
right-angle-bracket.
<P>
This is inconsistent behavior.

if a comment is submitted in non-html mode, things that appear to be html
tags are not printed. But the preview prints them!!!
<P>
The previous line appears blank but contained left-angle-bracket. P,
right-angle-bracket. In preview mode, I saw the html tag, but when viewing
comments I see a blank line.
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This is inconsistent behavior.

Most of the recent flood of commants/feebback was caused by my article on
''Chatter Chess'''', which has not yet been seen.
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Imagine what may happen if chatter chess ever sees the light of day, will
the comment system be able to handle such volume?
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These are important considerations....
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