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Comment System Upgrade Tonight

July 13, 2009 in Wordsmoker Commenting

Hello Cat People

Your Editor and Howard Stern Ass-hat Wannabee (apparently) is upgrading the Magical Wordsmoker comment system this evening, about midnight EST if you’re facing North.

If anyone has any problems commenting after that, please electrically post a message using your or a close friend’s computer box to

mail (at) wordsmoker (dot) com

and I’ll back out the changes, right after publicly blaming you for being technologically inept.

UPDATE: Yeah, if you read the below comments, it didn’t work and brought up the same error as before. So I backed it out, and went with the previous “worky” version.

Apologies for the excitement.

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  • BookishLookish

    Thank you, darling.

    Can you check your PM when you get a minute? whispers *It’s about the porn-off*

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/fictionsinmotion/ Vaquero

    One of these people emailing you is going to be me. I just know it. Each upgrade tries to heave-ho me. But I ain’t going.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/berightback/ berightback

    Can we blame the new commenting system for the sudden, dismaying emergence of Tawny Kitaen “negging” herself today to promote her website on BalknChain’s post from March?

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/fictionsinmotion/ Vaquero

    BRB: Did you click? Tell me. What was it like?

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/berightback/ berightback

    V: Not actually Tawny, alas, but someone devoted to apparently documenting, with questionable grammar, her every televised indignity. Not worth the click, unfortunately (although it is at least somewhat heartening that it wasn’t actually Tawny herself, I must admit).

  • BookishLookish

    @BBR and everyone: That was some good, funny writing by Balk. I was glad to revisit it.

    Ooh, “oldies” night on Wordsmoker!

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/unfun/ Unfun

    I just want to see if this works. I guess if I am reading this now (in the future) it works. I’ll be relieved in that moment to know that you are all not worried. I am still among you.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/monkeyrash/ monkeyrash

    Does this mean I get to keep my star?

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/bigleggedwoman/ BigLeggedWoman

    Monkey, I’ve got your ‘star’ as you call it, and there is a king’s ransom to pay.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/belltolls/ Belltolls

    @Monkeyrash. Too meta. Monkeyrash is unstarred

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/monkeyrash/ monkeyrash

    Well, fuck.

    (BLW – let’s share, baby)

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/viruswithshoes/ VirusWithShoes

    I HAVEN’T UPGRADED YET.

    I got too busy writing to Renesance and doing other stuff. But seeing how it’s 2am EST which makes it Wednesday, June 2nd, 2005 in the West, I’ll give it a try in about an hour.

    Fingers crossed YOU BASTARDS. GET TO SLEEP.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/monkeyrash/ monkeyrash

    I can’t sleep. I had a diet pepsi around 9ish EST. I’ll be doing laundry or something until about an hour before work, then I’ll crash.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/viruswithshoes/ VirusWithShoes

    I may as well test it on this post.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/viruswithshoes/ VirusWithShoes

    Seems to be okay.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/sfbirdie/ sfbirdie

    You can’t fool me, Ed., as a westcoaster I fully intend on awaiting this and then giving you shit… soon enough, my friend, soon enough… unless you give me a star or something, then I’ll be fine.

  • http://wordsmoker.com tester

    This is a test from Internet Explorer 8

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/viruswithshoes/ VirusWithShoes

    Ah, fuckage. The hourglass problem is still there.

    *screams, goes away to tweak shit again.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/viruswithshoes/ VirusWithShoes

    Okay – another test with something disabled.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/viruswithshoes/ VirusWithShoes

    Nope.

    Shit.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/sfbirdie/ sfbirdie

    @VirusWithShoes: Ahem, star please? (obviously, I’m kidding – I may be obnoxious, but I have some dignity ;)

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/viruswithshoes/ VirusWithShoes

    Final test prior to backing it out.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/viruswithshoes/ VirusWithShoes

    Okay – backing out.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/viruswithshoes/ VirusWithShoes

    Sfbirdie: We don’t do “stars” here. I’m a socialist.

    Anyway – as that modern philosopher “Moby” reminded us of recently

    “We Are All Made Of Stars”

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MOcDqwzoVw

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/viruswithshoes/ VirusWithShoes

    Testing the back-out.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/viruswithshoes/ VirusWithShoes

    Back to where we were some hours ago.

    *writes letter of complaint*

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/sfbirdie/ sfbirdie

    @VirusWithShoes: I KNEW IT! jk… please learn to appreciate my humor because ‘you can’t ignore what’s goin round’.
    I can’t believe I just quoted Moby. I need some sleep.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/viruswithshoes/ VirusWithShoes

    @Sfbirdie: That makes two of us, honey.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/viruswithshoes/ VirusWithShoes

    Okay – being strung out on caffeine, I’ve decided to play with the look of the comments instead.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/chillbearlatrigue/ Chillbear Latrigue

    Okay, is this one of those things that I didn’t participate in and find out a week later that it was actually a contest like the “Jackie Awards?” I went to bed on Monday @ 11 PM EST which apparently makes it 2013 in Scottland and there was 29 comments. I want to know when the valueless prizes are on the table. How else do you expect to keep conservatives like me and famous Virus agitator, Thatsrightnate trapped in this liberal bastion?

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/viruswithshoes/ VirusWithShoes

    @Chillbear: Damn, you’re either up really early or up really late.

    Conservative or not – can I tell you how much I hate Internet Explorer?

    I hate Internet Explorer.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/ninahagen/ Nina Hagen

    Scotland: The Land that Time Forgot. That’s what my mother-in-law told me anyway.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/viruswithshoes/ VirusWithShoes

    @Nina: That’s correct. Although in Scotland’s defence, “Wales” is the land that time tries to forget.

    Yes. There’s always someone worse off than yourself.

    Unless you’re Welsh.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/kid-twist/ Kid Twist

    You’re not supposed to apologize! Even if you get thousands of complaints and your most loyal readers start to abandon you in droves, you must remain steadfast, breaking your silence only occasionally to issue brief, cheery but stiff missives insisting that the new comment system really is better. Haven’t you learned anything lately?

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/viruswithshoes/ VirusWithShoes

    @Kid Twist: The laugh you just gave me made it all worthwhile.

    Also – YOU’RE BANNED.

    Only kidding.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/ninahagen/ Nina Hagen

    VwS: In The colonies here we say “Thank God for Mississippi.”

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/kid-twist/ Kid Twist

    @Virus: It’s OK. I’m used to getting kicked around. Today, I was stripped of my twinkly yellow symbol. On that site I won’t be visiting anymore.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/ BookishLookish

    @Kid: Hi, Mr. Reles, glad to see you over here. Much love to you!

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/kid-twist/ Kid Twist

    @B’ishL’ish: Much love right back to you.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/renesance/ Rene Sance

    @Kid Twist: How nice to see you here! That other site’s loss = our gain. I rarely spend any time there anymore, but believe it or not I tried to reply to a comment of yours on the Frank McCourt post just this morning. But of course their new commenting system is monstrous, and even had it been saved my comment would have been in invincible ink on a page way in the back anyway.

    So, did you go to Stuy? When?

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/kid-twist/ Kid Twist

    @RENE SANCE: Good to see you, too. You know, for some reason, I’ve been much more productive at work today.

    Yes, I did go there. I’m old: Class of 1983.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/ BookishLookish

    @Kid: I too am olden. Class of 1983 in da house!

    For those who don’t recall, Stuy used to be in the East Village. Kid, did you hang out at the Gem Spa on St. Mark’s? It was some cute boys who went to Stuy, as I recall.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/renesance/ Rene Sance

    @KID TWIST (when did all our names get capitalized?): You want to talk about old?? Class of 1976 here!

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/misspeacock/ MissPeacock

    @BOOKLISH LOOKISH: Darling, you ARE here! Oh, my day is complete. I registered for the site moments ago…just for you.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/kid-twist/ Kid Twist

    @Bookish: I was a good, nerdy boy back then. And way too closeted to venture down to St. Mark’s in search of cute boys. It was a “bad” neighborhood, you know. The closest I came to misbehaving in those was cutting class to play frisbee in the park near the school while secretly hoping certain of my friends would take off their shirts.

    But it’s good to see another ’83er in the house. From what I’ve read of you, we are also fellow Hudson County residents — I’ve been in Hoboken for about 17 of the last 20 years.

    @Rene: Awesome. I was actually inside the 15th Street building last year. It’s changed, and yet, so much of it hasn’t. So anyway, I didn’t actually have Mr. McCourt for English, but we were on a say-hi-in-the-hallway basis. My kid brother had him.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/mama-penguino-2-2-2/ Mama Penguino

    *Knock, knock, knock* May I join you all?

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/dahlelama/ DahlELama

    Hell yeah, welcome Mama!! Let’s get your “20 Things about Mama Penguino,” stat.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/mama-penguino-2-2-2/ Mama Penguino

    @Dahlelama: Seriously? I’m so flattered! How do I go about doing this?

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/dahlelama/ DahlELama

    You can either create a new post from your dashboard, or if you can’t figure that out, e-mail something you’d like posted to Virus at mail@wordsmoker.com. Anything and everything, darling. Welcome to land of the free, home of the awesome.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/ BookishLookish

    @MP: Penguino!

  • http://wordsmoker.com/ BookishLookish

    @MP: Peacock! Oh, goody! It’s getting all animal up in this piece!

  • http://wordsmoker.com/ BookishLookish

    @Kid: Check your PM, Mr. Reles.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/mama-penguino-2-2-2/ Mama Penguino

    @Bookish: Thank you for inviting me here, BL! This is such a relaxed place. I just finished my 20 Things and am submitting. xxoo

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/kid-twist/ Kid Twist

    @BOOKISH: I can’t retrieve PMs for some reason. Getting “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.” Sorry.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/ BookishLookish

    @Kid: I will try another time.