Barbarian.
What’s with so many people hitting the panic button?
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All the content on the Message Board is user-generated. It’s not like the new overlords can come in and fire posters.
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I’ve always understood that the only paid staff is whatever amount of time Ed (and Jerry?) can carve out of their real responsibilities. I suppose if Ed were to leave there might be some long-term changes in the tone of the place, but who’s to say there wouldn’t be long-term changes in any case?
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Given that the Board is not exactly free nor is it exactly subscription-based, a change in the business model either way won’t destroy the framework of the universe.
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Creative Loafing went bankrupt. Atalaya has been selling off properties whenever they could. It’s not like there was an aggressive, hands-on ownership that has been pumping resources into this property.
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Even if Cecil’s column were to be killed off, I’d bet good money that most of the posters would still come here – if only to bitch about it.
Don’t rest so easy just yet. Further decoding reveals:
BTW, I hear the Giraffe boards have multi-quote. I can’t believe *those *idiots can handle it but not the folks here.
Yeah, it’s not like they would shut it down in mid po
Don’t look at me. I’m only here to grovel at the hem of Cecil’s coattails.
Can I see his gold plated “package” a natural or is he just wearing gold plated shorts? These sorta details are important ya know.
Because it pops out a tasty pellet.
It is one of the sadder comparisons, yes.
Er, we do have that feature? The little quotation button with a “+” imposed?
Or am I being whooshed here?
Rhythmdvl is referring to the ability to multi-nest quotes, I think, without hand-coding. We tried it not long ago, and it went down in flames and sarcasm.
He means nested quotes. Since we operate on the “million monkeys at a million keyboards” model, nobody gets too hung up on formatting.
I think it boiled down to them being willing to try a hack that limited the number of nested quotes to one (or maybe two), but us being unwilling to try it after the first hack failed.
Both boards had problems when nested quotes were allowed to be infinite. (Another board I know of makes such “quote pyramids” a bannable offense. Seems to work.)
The official word as told to me is that The Straight Dope is going with the Reader.
Missed the edit window.
Yes I know earlier folks posted the link that says straightdope.com is going. That’s not necessarily the same thing as The Straight Dope. So I’m being pedantic.
I Can’t FIND THE PANIC BUTTON!!!
Yeah, it was cool.
You could see the back of your head!
You can do that without mirrors if the universe you’re in is very, very small.
On this message board, we obey the laws of physics, Mister!
Yes, and no particular reason to fear it would change. It is, however, the only vaguely-possible bad thing that I could think of offhand, so I mention it for the sake of completeness and some vague idea of “balance” in my writing.
Try the pedantic button instead. That’s what we hit most of the time around here anyway.
All of the time, if you’re going to be pedantic.