What made you smile today?

Yeah youll see the down votes but they dont do anything anymore. The upvotes push the recommended watch this video and it use to push videos into obscuredom but not anymore.

Have you ever seen a programme hosted by Gordon Ramsey where he looks at failing restaurant/hotels and tells them what needs fixing? Your above quotation reminds me very much of the responses he gets. You have an emotional attachment to the thumbs down/up feature and can't admit it's no longer fit for purpose.



I'm sorry Mr Gentel but those are just meaningless platitudes. The thumbs up/down feature is broken. Why not get a 13 year old to go on A2K, and ask them to fiddle with the thumbs up/down? I guarantee most of them could work out how to do it within 5 minutes.

As for permanently banning the offender, do you honestly think they're using their own account to do this? They're probably using a sockpuppet, and can switch to another the second the offending one is banned.

You've been talking about new features for at least two years and it's still just a pipedream. Jam tomorrow. Why not do something you can do right now, get rid of the thumbs, they're well past their sell by date?

Vote fraud is a rather grandiose description of the behaviour of multiple downthumbers on a tiny website like this, it's not determining the outcome of an election, get a bit of perspective.

Btw, I'm not the one doing the multiple downthumbing, and I have no idea who it is.

Right-O, important to keep priorities in order. And thumbs up for preserving the Constitution.

Moving on from the all-thumbs debate, I'm so happy that I can listen to NPR without hearing about Hillary and her stupid emails. And if there's a story about them, I don't have to care anymore.

As usual you have no idea what you are talking about but aren't going to let that stop you. I have no emotional attachment to them and don't think they are working well as they are at all.



You won't find any disagreement from me, but like I said I do not have time to change it now, and it will have to wait to be changed in a future version.



Do you think I have not considered such things? When I get around to banning users for voting fraud it will be comprehensive and I'll put the work into keeping sock puppets away as well.



Nothing is as easy as for the man who does not have to do it himself. As I have already stated I do not have time to "get rid of the thumbs" and these things do not magically happen when snapping one's fingers.

Remaking this site will take thousands of man hours and we'll get to it when we can afford it, this is a hobby and not our jobs.

I have a better solution planned and when I have time to implement it I will, you have no right to demand a whit of my time. I do not owe you anything, you are just a free user of one of my websites that I have paid to maintain and build, you do not so you don't get to call the shots and tell me how to spend my time.

Another successful recipe McGyvering.

To paraphrase one of my favorite Romantic poets (William Wordsworth), my heart leaps up when I behold a birthday check in the mail.

I haven't demanded anything just pointed out that getting rid of the broken thumbs feature is a far simpler stopgap than all the wonderful changes that are just around the corner.

Sorry for not being deferential enough.

Ignoring the thumbs is what Ive always done. Rather than getting all schoolmarmy about it, just chill and ignore.

Breathe in, Breathe out.
See? Some people like to practice their math skills by counting these thumbs . The people who deliver the thumbs to the masses of us, I find, arent especially insightful (unless someone is espousing violence and really needs censure) . So BFD, why not just forget it ?.We really have no forensic tools to investigate the thumbers.

It doesn't bother me, but it is broken. You're right though, I'll ensure I'm not the slightest bit critical of A2K in future.

there you go.

It's a holiday in the US, but not here at The Widget Factory. (We get the
day after Thanksgiving instead.) So I drove to work in light traffic.

Ahhh.

I'm also working this Veteran's Day. We also have the Friday after Thanksgiving off as well.

as always, it makes me laugh to remember that this song was on the album that was part of my first exposure to the English language

Harry Lauder - A Wee Deoch An Doris

It's a miracle I ever made sense of the language.

You don't need to be deferential, just don't be a rude guest. You are a freeloading guest on my property and don't get to tell me what renovations to my property I must make (with my own time and money, not yours) to accommodate you.

You wouldn't do that if you were visiting someone's house so why on earth would being a free member of a website entitle you to my money and time? Not all websites are backed by millions or billions of dollars. This has always just come out of my pocket and there are limitations to what I resources I can afford to spend on it.

Yes I get that the future update is "vaporware" right now. That is because it will take several hundred thousand more dollars to implement and my business hasn't been able to afford that yet while we focus on what actually makes us money. We will do this as we can but our limitation is time and money. The new version is at least a year away, and I don't like talking about it this early. But when things change others complain that not enough notice was given etc so I talked about the new version briefly to socialize the changes that are coming.

Robert, you just made me smile.

I love being able to come here at all. The site is a part of the family to me, the way a dog or a TV is part of the family.

Most of us appreciate all you have done to develop this site. If and when you come out to the San Francisco Bay Area, please let us know. I wish to treat you to a great meal in the City.

Where's paradox?

All the polls were wrong

https://www.facebook.com/viralthread/videos/598130190359668/

Time at the pool and afterward with M and T.

The lifeguards had some great music playing for our swim, including some super-funky Earth, Wind and Fire.

The head lifeguard has given up trying to braid his hair - got a new cut he has dubbed the angry soccer mom. I adore those lifeguards, they really make me laugh.