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This is a test comment. Test!

Seems to work.

That said, having to prove I'm not a robot gets more difficult as the letters I have to type in become more and more difficult as the letters become more and more illegible.

Um... no option for commenting without some sort of account held by a third party? ("Anonymous" and "Name/URL" options are the usual ones.) I have a spare OpenID token I can deploy for things like this, but I'd rather not have to use it every time.

I think I have the entire Slacktiverse link list now. Check the right hand side and let me know.

Hello all! Yay, shiny new digs! \o/ Testing, testing.

Okay, I wonder if my LJ OpenID will actually work here...duh, no it won't I don't use LJ in Chrome.

Let me see if this works...

need at least three keywords for each candidate for the Debate Drinking Game.

Obama: "Let me be clear."
Romney: "heh heh (fake laugh)"

More suggestions please?

Let's see if I can comment now...

Well, now let me try to comment; perhaps third time will be the charm?

Ooh, a drinking game! I'm skipping the live debate (to write lesbian porn instead) but I know I'll be reading the transcript or at least the reactions tomorrow.

I was watching the debate with friends. The best quote of the night: "Next time, a middle school teacher needs to moderate this debate."

I'm Canadian and still I am haunted by US politics. I have friends who are angry enough with Obama on certain key issues (drone attacks especially) that they talk like they might vote Republican just to get back at him, and they hate the way politics are treated like team sports, but this is leading them into some kind of Jon Stewart zone (and I like Jon Stewart except when he does this) where things like 'the poor deserve to eat' or 'queer people should not be discriminated against' are totally relative concepts that people can reasonably disagree on. I feel there is a desperate need for more organisations and more speakers who are neither the media arm or a political party nor unprincipled parrots who repeat everything without remarking on whether it is true and/or morally hideous.

On a blog-related note, how limited is comment editing here? I used name/url for my comment, and it is uneditable (such as the typo that should be 'media arm of'). Do people using other logins have editing power?

The biggest drawback to Blogger commenting (imho) is that there is no editing. That's why I use Disqus on Ramblings; I edit frequently.

It is a major drawback, but it's also something I'm used to from typepad, and since that's where we're moving from...

I actually have no point.

Do TBAT want their blogs on here, given their expressed intention of not returning to the community?

With the exception of people publicly and repeatedly attacking the community I don't think The Board Administration Team at Typepad ever removed someone's blog from the blogroll without a specific request for removal from that person.

I think that's a perfectly good policy to maintain.

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I have made just a post at Typepad saying that if TBAT, or anyone else, doesn't want their blog linked to they should send an email to the shared address saying so.

My position is that it's better not to try to guess what people want, and I think requesting that people make an email asking for a change if they want one is probably the best way to do that.

That said, it's just my opinion so if anyone thinks they have a better idea, feel free to share.

Since the most of the outbreaks of trolling/triggering posts/comments between the various groups who once followed Fred at the original site seems to center around feelings about the members of TBAT, it would probably be best for the health of your new board if no member of TBAT appears to be associated with it, and since we won't be participating here anyway, including links to us seems unnecessary. Please remove all our names from the sidebar.

Any commenting I do over here is going to be under my Dreamwidth OpenID, EllieMurasaki, not under the name I was using on Typepad Slacktiverse, MercuryBlue. Please edit my entry in the blogroll to reflect that.