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Some guy called Obama

Yikes Crazy do your own blogs you loon, they get way more comments than mine anyway SO ratting you out

Okay anyone who wonders why I am not answering comments on my own resurrected blogs hear ye hear ye
I didn't do it and the faster they sink back out of sight the better

It was Crazy

RE: man or dog

Pink booties AND ribbons?

Not overkill?

Some guy called Obama

but but but but but but that was my threat to show people what a pain it was to have a blogger monopolising the place I never would have done it

you are so BAD

RE: man or dog

Mine used to be a man-eater but she's mellowed immensely.

Maybe I should have put her into pink booties and ribbons, that might have helped.

RE: An Actual Real Blog

I like real blogs

Some guy called Obama

Crazy popped by for my last glance before midnight and bedtime and nearly had a heart attack

Some guy called Obama

Dragoeneer, thanks for popping by. It's been very.

Actually I do appreciate you not getting abusive, you had a point and you made it and that was pretty cool.

And now I have to go explain that it wasn't me stirring up old blogs

Some guy called Obama

Badly you had to say 700 didn't you. You just had to say it.

Listen, I had nothing to do with the sudden emergence of a ton of my old blogs damage control is hastily being done by bloggers appalled by a sea of identical grins

Some guy called Obama

Track, you put your pants back on yet? I have to know before I join the party

Some guy called Obama

Red, och hen dinna fash, nae harm done so long as Cat didn't see it and doot his ain existence until he read on ...

When's the move???

Some guy called Obama

Badly, take a smack up the head for truly awful punning, SHEESH

If you were South African it would be a klap and if you were Scottish it would be a skelp so if there is an American term appropriate to a smack up the heid please let me know

Any shrapnel collected from your second drawing is not covered by this blog's insurance

Some guy called Obama

Chat, different places have different cultures and CS is primarily a social site. I can't see it changing immediately to suit those who want to recreate MD here but I guess us boring old diehards can be taught how to do things the MD way eventually - after all, that turned out well.

When I moved to the UK I learned it is standard to practically paper the place with Christmas cards and I was buying charity card packs by the cartload and spreading around 100 cards on average, a fair chunk of those to my neighbours, some of whom I barely knew by sight. I always got more than I sent out, and I always felt guilty and rushed round buying more at the last minute. What a pain, but it was local custom and I did it.

When I reached Spain eek no charity card shops and the tiny range of Christmas cards available was eye-wateringly expensive. Fortunately, phew, turns out there is little or no card-giving here, close family and friends only. So I went with local custom.

It just seemed natural to fall in with the local way of doing things.

Some guy called Obama

Kal, I have an irritating leak too! It doesn't drip through but does stain the ceiling grrrr.

If the mods have watched at all they will now know we want
a) to revert to one blog showing per blogger
b) but also the status quo maintained
c) another hundred or so bloggers recruited
d) all blogs with 3 or more exclamation marks in the heading deleted instantly and the blogger cast into outer darkness
e) blogs to be statements of facts with no comments AND blogs to be chatty interchanges

so I think we have cleared it up nicely for them

RE: Our Daily Bread...

Rizla, useful first phrase, can't really use the second in class

Chat, you probably both know more words than you realize - I've picked up half a dozen words just from my students and we're supposed to speak only English in class. Mind you, probably very different words ...

I think one needs around 600 words in English to be able to communicate on anything beyond basic terms - I know I've got a vocabulary of around 1000 words in Spanish and although I can now understand most written stuff I'm still flailing helplessly when speak it I try. Luckily the Spanish are far more patient with me than most English-speakers are with non-English speakers, phew.

RE: Feeding a Need

If you can turn your hobby into your job, you will love going to work ...

RE: Copyright vs C& P

Hpylady, wow, that is so absolutely not true about CS regulars wanting you guys to leave.

Some MD habits are what ended the popularity and viability of your site and yup we don't want CS to go the same way so we kick up a fuss. It's the mindset, not the bloggers, that are unwelcome. Mindsets change. We're adapting too. Change is good.

Some guy called Obama

Chat, well, yeah, we tended pretty much in days of yore to blog with the intention of chatting so the MD culture of not responding to comments took us a bit aback. I have a blog in real life and rarely get comments on that, even though I have around 1000 followers they don't interact much. Some blogs get 20 readers and some get shared and suddenly there are lots more, and a lot depends on the tags I use. CS is more like FB, I expect to chat because it is specifically a social site.

And ditto - my RL blog talks a lot about work on my house in Spain, which is also an ongoing (and possibly lifelong project)

Some guy called Obama

Imp, you've put your finger on it, it isn't political as such but the ugliness and overt hostility which is so jarring and so out of place on what is, when all is said and done, a site to meet others.

I'm thinking that perhaps we've learned from the defunct site that the worst reaction the rest of us could have is to hurry by, eyes averted. Bullies must be tackled like bullies. Report them to teacher, drown them out in a chorus of other blogs culled, if necessary, from the past. Other solutions? Not much point going in direct because mules can't listen, they can only kick.

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Badly, all draw their own interpretations from great art so, hmmmm, to me that says 'more power to your arm'

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Ha, enjoy your outing

Some guy called Obama

And got the 100th, sneaky besom

Some guy called Obama

Irksome details?

Sheesh. All we (not just me, others on this blog) are saying is bring back one blog on show per person BUT leave the current default of showing most recent made.

That's not irksome.. No fortune would need spending on the change. Everyone would still be able to blog right here in the same place instead of having to move to the local forums. The alternative we are all going to be nagging about WILL be local forums, you know. One political blog per person per week, any more than that has to go to forum. In the blog you can point your anxious readers needing their fix to your latest offering. Reasonable?

You're not that frequent a blogger, you very rarely have more than one blog on the first screen anyway!

And if some had to combine several comments on the same subject on one blog instead of raising a bunch of almost identical copy-pastes, well ... see the tear in my eye.

Cheaper for the site to maintain, as well, I'd guess. Awful lot of cyberspace wasted on repeats right now.

Coffee? or is it beer time yet? It is here. Salud.

Some guy called Obama

Badly, they're building a wall? Oh, that won't go down well.

I was surprised to see a US FB friend I had always considered pretty rational taking up arms, you should pardon the expression, in favour of the right to bear arms. But, but, but ... he said he's been using a rifle on the farm since he was a child, and in the hands of someone who has been properly taught they are completely safe. Well, yeah. Never said not. But how about the loonies getting handguns and going on a shooting spree? He was completely taken aback that I could think he was supporting THAT. Well - yeah you are -

Some guy called Obama

Chat, mmmm, I foresee an immediate rise in you-scratch-my-back, I'll-comb-yours alliances? Also anyone who does post on an older blog would instantly being accused of whatever the clique version of nepotism is called, which would be not only irritating but inhibiting. And no long blogs could be updated by OP on long-running subjects - if the Mueller report, for example, had been confined to one blog it might have been interesting to follow.

Many of the current multi-bloggers don't care whether they get comments or not, they are already working on the next blog.

Last worry, how could I start my counter-attack, bumping 50 of my own blogs a day to crowd out everyone else until my point was made, under that ruling?

Dinna fash, that was a joke ...

Some guy called Obama

Mick

am SO

and now I shall go do stuff and when I have finished doing stuff I may come back and put new comments on every one of my 300 or so blogs MWAH HAHAHAHA

Some guy called Obama

Fair comment Miguel. In my own scrambling way I have managed one or two blogs which people have been kind enough to visit. I daren't look back to check, of course.

Thanks for popping by. I look forward to seeing a lively blog from you in the near future?

Some guy called Obama

Badly, that's draconian, a one comment limit on a blog, the joy of a blog that darts off in all directions is the banter / blether / craic

Enjoy your covefe having a hamberder with that?

Some guy called Obama

Mimi and Fay - are we men or are we mice? Eh? EH?

See, my view on life, per my LAST blog which if I get my way will vanish rarely if ever to be seen again, is the world should always be sorted to best suit me.

If it suits a bunch of other people as well, super cool

And if it suits the majority, WIN.

But leaving because my favourite albeit only blogging website is being ruined, RUINED I tell you, by a bunch of numpties is my last resort. First, I see if sweet reason, whinging, and complaining, will sort things out. Your solution of letting them eat cake somewhere else is lovely and all but jeez how many bloggers have we lost as a result? Nah. It is not a sensible option. Bullies flourish when nobody likes to make a fuss.

Fay, with respect - you'd have enjoyed CS a lot more the way it was, and your last website was wiped out by not taking a fuss, so laissez faire is obviously not the ideal solution.

Like Miguel felt moved to say - I'm a busybody nag who likes to micromanage.

Trust me. We can Make CS Great Again.

Some guy called Obama

Ah well Mick if you sorted the current blog list back into date order some older blogs vanish instantly and forever to the backlog

So whatta we want? one visible blog per blogger, default view being blogs sorted by most recent comment
When do we want it? NOW

Some guy called Obama

Aha I remember now why we remember it differently. The default list showed current blogs but you could re-sort by recent comments, which I always did.