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COMMENTERS: WE FEEL YR PAIN! We are aware of the ongoing tragedy, in that many of Wonkette’s loyal, bestest commenters are still locked out of the system, even though they’ve tried to re-register, and did everything as instructed. Hold tight; the tech team is working to fix it, and like Hillary, we shall overcome (these minor technical difficulties). Will post an update as soon as the problems are resolved. Sorry!
I got your sorry right here… (I ain’t bitchin’. I just thought saying that would be funny.)
Took a little bit, but I’m up and I’m in. Thanks Jim.
Am I in?
Thank you. If you could tweak my quotes, I’d be (shudder) so grateful. oooh!
Will you be able to restore the “@” reply feature that was in the old Wonkette? And the embedded youtubes?
How about answering the most important question to the Wonkette community: Will we be eligible to become star commenters and have the ability to follow our favorite commenters once again?
I got in the next morning, does that mean I’m not a bestest?
I guess I’m really not that loyal either.
But I’m a clean old man.
Oh, and when the fuck will we be able to embed photos and YouTube videos again?
If this helps anyone who still hasn’t gotten in — I created an account and then tried to login three times unsuccessfully — until I actually read the login screen and noticed it was asking for my email address, not my login name.
And Smoke Filled Roommate I think that’s because you have spaces in your name. Some software does that, especially newer versions of software that didn’t allow you to use spaces before — because they meant something else previously (like a new name, column, paragraph, etc.) they have to do something to compensate. Ditch the spaces in your name and the quotes will probably go away.
Can’t you just do the whole “view source” thing on Gawker and do things the rest of us make web pages?
being a total noob and having no laurels here i feel i should yield to one of the locked out bestest. then the Hillary side of me says screw you, i’m in it to win it.
Welcome back, Graceless and Wookies!
And that is probably true about the quotes happening because of the spaces. Very interesting…
It says “Welcome back, upperleft!” but it didn’t post what I wrote.
Have you installed a boring filter? No, obviously that’s not it.
Hmmmm.
Ooops, I get it. It delays for a while. Boy I’m lovin’ me some interactive technocologicalist stuff.
Tomorrow is my birthday and I want real estate.
@ Ken Layne: This all a very expensive and elaborate way to kill off RssDude. Don’t think I didn’t notice. You were trained by the Ford Foundation, weren’t you? You are part of the left wing of the CIA, hmmm? I’m watching you, goddamit.
Also, for those trapped on the outside, I have a couple of suggestions if you lack the patience: 1) Download a new browser and try again. I did this, and was able to get past the “try again later” screen from the confirmation link. (Firefox worked for me where Safari didn’t.) 2) If you are really desperate, create a new name or slightly tweak your old one, get yourself a new e-mail on gmail or some other freebie, and try again. This worked for me as well.
My friends, if, after you have submitted your comment, it does not appear, wait a few minutes and then refresh your browser. The toobs need time to send your comment to the Wonkette bunker, out of which the snarkiest of the snarky opperate. Then, after it has been approved by the Wonkette elders, it will then appear on your elite plasma monitor screen.
Thanks ronald, it’s so good to be back!
I am being disenfranchised!
@wheelie: my sentiments exactly!!! But I think DryFactDudeIraCatsZeeb is with us now…I can feel his Alex Jonesin’….
@SiWW: Sometimes “it” happens, sometimes it doesn’t..
You owe us make-up sex, Ken.
I say those who were having trouble getting in should have 1/2 of their commenting privelages revoked, to be fair to the spirit of democracy.
Audicityofhope, I’m trying to reply to you,
Does this mean that I have to re-earn my star? Do I only get half a star? Do I have to split my star with somebody else?
@SiWW: like now.. ? It’s strange, I did have underscores in my name before..
@ronaldpagan: I was busy getting drunk all weekend. I was going to post some sort of “Oh, just waking up — did something happen this weekend?” thing but those Democratic BS & Bylaws videos just sorta blew my mind. Like, before that I thought the whole committee meeting beginning of that Star Wars movie was absurd and idiotic and unrealistic. I take that all back now.
@Smoke Filled Roommate: Hmmm…are you using different browsers? I’d say change the spelling to eliminate the spaces and it’ll probably go away all the time. Just a guess, though.
@graceless: After the rapture we were all made bitterly equal, and equally bitter.
@graceless: The only thing you can do is adopt a ’star’ or ‘whore diamond’ avatar. Ask loquacious about it..
Smoke Filled Roommate: What the — alright, knock it off! Okay, I have no idea.
@graceless: You’ll have to give half your star to AngryBlakGuy.
You can also post your name with a star at the beginning of all of your comments, like this: AudicityofHope★
………snarky snark snark………
Right now, it’s like we are out on a camping trip and we are getting by without our hair dryers, vibrators, reply buttons, activity pages, comment previews and teevees. But soon we’ll get to move back into our newly remodeled and exterminated Wonkette palace, and begin our lives anew! Right?
I can’t even figure out how to “reply” to people anymore… the point and click thing just isn’t working :-{
Everyone, just cool it and take five.
@graceless: You’re pretty much stuck with typing out “@” plus “SnarkyNickNameHere”. Or, if your HTML code savvy, than you can embed a link to the comment.
@AudicityofHope: Thanks, I’ll do it the unsavvy way, for now. I’m sure they’ll get it worked out.
AArgh!! It ate my vid.
Fuck it, here’s the link. Make sure you don’t have to pee or anything.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8pU2SEkBb4I
Like so
Another test.
@graceless: I posted this on the wrong thread: But when I was a kid we didn’t even have separate reply threads. And we wore an onion on our belt, which was the custom at the time.
http://wonkette.com/400100/wonkette-invades-dnc-protesting-alien-hordes#comment-2443
I’m pretty happy with the new site. I had to re-register but otherwise the transition was fairly painless. Then again, I was drunk all weekend.
Who thinks that the cunty lady will be calling it quits on Tuesday? My guess is that a parade of superdelegates go to Obama right around then, but she’ll wait till Friday, to crap on whatever electoral momentum comes out of those primaries. Go Harriet Christian! Go Inadequate Black Males!
I’m angry at the comments and I’m not gonna shut up! Before the Wonkette switch-over I was a second class citizen; now I’m less than nothing and alls I’ve got to show for it is this Hillary Clinton jack-in-the-box. Thanks for nothing you inadequate elitists!
@Darehead: i was a broken recovering Paultard and i found Wonkette only the day before the rapture, accepted it as my savior and, poof, i was among the last new converts allowed on Obama’s heavenly airplane.
i feel a bit like i snuck in without paying but i’m glad to be here
@sayitwithwookies: Very funny. I’m on a Macbook, no right click. I don’t even know what an html is… I suck.
i have to say i feel quite elite, now.
also, the email address/user name switcheroo left me a bit confused before i remembered that sometimes new things are “different” and “special”.
ummm…i also miss the @(reply to) option and the “following”, and photo/you tube embeds, etc. NOT complaining, but sort of.
I’m going to go to Barry’s hopeful speech in St. Paul on Tues. My guess is that it’s no victory one. Take a look at old “Honest” Harold Ickes.
http://www.winnetkahistory.org/gazette/people/honest_harold.htm
The new one is so lame.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0407/3595.html
@graceless: Oh, crap — I’m sorry about that. I even have Safari (on Windows) but forgot about the Apple mouse thing. Any help from the Mac users on getting the href?
@wonk_the_heck: A true born -again Wonker! Nice to have you on the heavenly airplane! LOL! I was critical of Ron Paul from the beginning, but every time I tried to leave straightforward critical messages on Paul-blogs, I either was not let on at all, or got hit with, “How dare you….” from hundreds of Paultards. Hence, my avatar was born.
@Wookies: I don’t have an apple, and I’m using Firefox, but how about you just click the link to the comment and it shows up wherever an URL shows up? That’s what I’ve been doing.
Actually, I had to create a new email account on lycos (I’m A Dork!) before I got the golden registration email..
@graceless: instead of right click, hit ctrl click, it does the same thing
also, jim newell does drugs and has gay sex in limousines. and is a muslim. hillz ftw!
I have a Compaq Presario laptop which I bought a little less than a couple years ago (back when there were still computers with XP on them; this one’s Vista compatible though, if I ever do decide to go down that trecherous road.) I hate Firefox and I’m not particularly fond of Safari. Windows IE7 is my browser of choice.
There was really no point in saying that. I just thought since everyone else was sharing their computer information…
@AudicityofHope
I don’t even have a computer. I’m actually using a typewriter, hooked up to two tin cans and string made from the hair of a unicorn.
We’ll get reply/basic HTML for the comments soon. Maybe even change the font! YES HILZ CAN
I’m going to veer off topic for just a second with this video. It was on YouTube’s front page and something compelled me to click on it. Little did I know it was going to be a Hillary Clinton ad.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eTdCa6vbvTk
@DizzyLizzy: But does he have a crazy black Christian preacher? Now that is the question.
Yeah, the thing where you enter email and password was weird. Cuz I’m thinking, wait, emails have their own passwords, and on Wonkette we have avatars with our passwords, and besides in Wonkette 1.0 emails were optional, so WTF? But anyway here we are!
Also in our previous universe I used to be a man, Darrin Stevens; then I was reincarnated into a dog (Triple Dog Dare), so now in dog years I’m older than John McCain and the numbers didn’t go high enough.
Good news about the reply feature!
@Did this work?
@ Darehead: I thought it was weird how we had to tell them our first kiss. I did it anyway though.
@Tunamelt: I assume that the hair is from the Hope unicorn that Barry rides to travel from rally to rally.
John 12:14
And Barack, when he had found a young unicorn, sat thereon; as it is written.
@SayItWithWookies:
The biggest not so well-kept secret of the right-click on macs is the all knowing and mysterious “ctrl” key. Yes, you have options. Sometimes you even use alternatives. Occasionally you even want a special “function.” And you command all the time… but what the fuck is control? Don’t you inherently control your computer? Of course not. It works in mysterious ways, like God, but on a quicker time scale and with more smitings. But with this special button, you can make your mac do whatever the hell you want, like correct spelling in web browsers, finding links and codes, hell, I even just got an option to “quick add [this comment text field] to google calendar”. I think I’ll try it, see what happens. Anyway, that is what graceless should do.
@Audicity: Presario C300? Just wonderin’
Vista ain’t that bad; my boyfriend has it running on his ‘puter.. Along with Age of Conan.. fucking dork. Really, though if you try to run Vista on your Compaq even though it’s Vista-ready, it will sloooowww it down considerably.
@Jim Newell: WE CAN HAS HTMLZ?
@Smoke Filled Roommate: No. It’s a V5000 and I’m perfectly content with XP. A friend of mine upgraded to Vista a while back and it has given him nothing but fits since.
As Andrew Sullivan said, “Barack is like a Mac and Hillary is like a PC.”
@AudicityofHope
Of course, how else could I access the intertubez?
Also, I finally watched the Recount movie tonight and OH MY GOD. Laura Dern as Katherine Harris is the most disturbingly funny thing I have ever seen. I appreciate her office knick-knacks–the praying hands and the horse statue. Camp comedy gold.
It was made more disturbing by realizing that I was 14 when the 2000 election happened. I can’t decide if I felt old or young.
@Wookies&DizzyLizzy: Thanks folks, I think this might work. It’s 2am, and I’m learning something. Any guesses as to who isn’t getting laid? Jim, we’re all jealous of your limo sex. All of us, except Mike Piazza, your limo mate. (Mike Piazza used to play baseball, for those of you too tired to google.)
@tunamelt:
OMGZ ME 2!!!!
Well, 13 really. Missed the ‘04 election by three months too. Probably a good thing, since I was still teh stupidz then. But I know what you mean b/c it’s like looking back at someone totally different/receiving my RushLimbot commands daily just by entering the isolated universe that is my parents’ house.
While the whole world was watching Hillary in Puerto Rico, Barack was at the Corn Palace. Coulda been some major photo-opp stuff here cuz dude, this is the only corn palace on the planet, but I couldn’t find anything ‘xcept on this guy’s nice blog. (thanks, nice guy)
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/zachedwards/gGBmn8
@TunaMelt: I was fighting off my evil 5th grade Bush loving peers on my elementary school’s playground the day after the election in 2000. Gawd, that seems like eons ago.
@NotUrEvryDayWEzl
To fully showcase what kind of kid I was in high school, I was at a high school marching band field show competition the night of the 2000 presidential election.
My dad actually is not a citizen of this country but supported the Republicans. My mom is a Democrat, although currently she’s a Hillary supporter, as she is a woman of a certain age.
It’s weird what 8 years will do.
Hey I would have voted for Nader in 2000! But then I was 13 too.
@tunamelt: Wow, I was 28. I feel old. Fuck me.
Shit, Dukakis came to my high school.. (that’s my only claim to fame on here).
@ Smoke Filled Roommate: You know we all would, Cougar.
How did you get rid of the quotes around your name while keeping the spaces?
I don’t know, sometimes it feels like a quote, sometimes it don’t.. ‘It’ is weird.
@ronaldpagan: .. I ain’t no coug. grrr
@Smoke Filled Roommate: The coolest visitor(s) that I had the pleasure of seeing in school was when the Seattle Seahawks’ mascot along with a few of the players came to my elementary school when I was in 4th grade. I think they trump Dukakis.
So would ronaldpagan and I be considered “kittens” or “cubs”? I like “kittens” personally. “Sex-cub” just doesn’t sound right.
@Audicity: Well, you’re young. ‘Nuff said. It was tough being in a school full of 80’s Repubs with a mohawk… Also, I’m an Eagles fan and you really don’t wanna talk football with me. You play fantasy? I’m here..
AudicityofHope: Sex cubs sounds like some sort of Cub Scout / Boy Scout transition — and you’re clearly not republican (or a young boy, thus not hot to Republicans) — so I’d go with kitten.
@Smoke Filled Roommate: No, I don’t play fantasy football. But I’m sure Hillary does! Everything’s a fantasy for Hillz; poor thing. Being 9 years old and living in Seattle, it was hard not to completely love the Seahawkss. I’m not the biggest fan of them now. I love the Colts and the Saints. I’ve kept up with Peyton ever since he was a scrawny little crooked boy playing at UT (I was living in Knoxville during his college years). I’ve been rooting for the Saints since Katrina. I took a trip down to New Orleans Christmas of ‘06 and it had a profound impact on me. That’s another story though.
I also love baseball. GO REDSOX!!
@AudictyofHope: (channeling Jezebel) It’s ‘kitten’ if you want to feel objectified, ‘cub’ if you want to feel strong in your objectification and “sex-cub” if you are Cherry 2000.
@ Smoke Filled Roommate: Audicity can be jailbait, but can I if I’m 21? No? What if I brought poppers?
@Smoke Filled Roommate: I’m all for objectification; whatever will keep Hillary from becoming president.
@AudicityofHope: That’s interesting that you’d say that.. I love all sports, actually. I played soccer as a kid. I love fantasy football. My dad took me to Flyers games all the time.. I grew up in PA, bowled, hunted with my father, lived in a working class neighborhood in Bucks County but I’m for Obama.
@ronaldpagan: Like John Popper? oh, you mean those little benzos and crap you guys trade at yer uh, ‘pharm’ parties and such.
@ronaldpagan: left out of my last post was
“taking a generic ativan” (as we speak)..
@Smoke Filled Roommate: I would love to compare sleeping pills but that’s what gets me banned. This is why Wonkette needs private messages along with our ho stars, comment replies, Manchurian Candidate, Laura Ingalls Wildest, Zeeb, and embedded videos.
I agree! I really miss Zeeb (newest incarnation) and his vids. He used to annoy me to no end, it took me awhile to realize he was just Zeebin.
Thank you, Ken, Jim, Sarah for all your hard work and patience with us whiney snarkers. Can I just say though.
Archives. What I miss. Most of all. I now feel the pain of the androids.
@Darehead: I second all the gratitude towards Ken, Jim, Sarah, and Liz. But the archives are around, if you know where to look (Michelle’s Senior Thesis, for example, is intact.) I miss the comments on the archives. Are those ever coming back?
Oh and PS: has the comment system fixed? I typed mine and - BOOM - it showed up just like that. I didn’t have to wait 5 minutes and then refresh it.
@ ronaldpagan: yeah, that’s what I meant, our personal activity pages. I thought they would be stored on Gawker but if you click there’s nothing.
Oh really? Let me check that…
@Darehead: Really? They work on my Gawker profile (although I had to go back a couple identities to ronaldpagan 1.0.) Do you want to hear some songs?
Well, my Gawker profile gives me a list of comments, but then if I click to see the entire comment, it takes me back to an empty thread. I bet I can rescue some limericks though. And are the old comments ever coming back?
@Ronald: I’m getting Error 404 - Not Found for all my previous Wonkette comments. It would have been fun to save some stuff. I did get our whole Sound of Music saved and you got the Paultard Mountain–still we had a lot more, sweetie!
I have a whole bunch! You want to exchange them via Gawker? My profile name is JohnCocaine there; I assume yours is Darehead. So check your messages.
Jim I can’t upload an avatar– any tips?
Rosalind…you should be able to click on “Edit Profile”, see where it says upload an avatar, and then browse through your pictures. But if your Wonkette is all weird, as I’ve heard is often the case, I don’t know what to tell you.
Mine did not work until I updated the avatar, in case that helps someone there.
I’m in it to win it.
RIP DeliveryDevice
@Darehead: it’s like we are out on a camping trip and we are getting by without our hair dryers, vibrators…
Speak for yourself! I for one have gorgeously blown out locks and am feeling very satisfied.
On my MacBook, I can right-click by tapping two fingers on the trackpad. You have to turn on the “Tap trackpad using two fingers for secondary click” option on the Trackpad tab in the Mouse & Keyboard control panel though.
Now if only I could middle-click with three fingers for my Unix programs.
*sighs*
Enough geekiness, time for a little pre-office buttsecks. Here, kitty kitty….!
Wow! I finally made it back! This is starting to work again. So good, abstinence has been tough.
@SayItWithWookies Dude! When *I* was a kid, not only did we not have teh Intarwebs, we had to write our comments out on punch cards, then hang them taped in a chain from the ceiling for ‘threads’ and use a step-stool for ‘browsing’. Ahhh, many’s the day I remember making a typo and having to retype the card to a certain point using the ‘DUP’ button. (We were all DUPs in those days.)
They you’d spill your coffee over the punch cards and the card-reader wouldn’t take them! Ohnoes!
Damned kids these days and their ‘keyboards’.
@sanantonerose: OK, if you’re blown and satisfied, I’ll stay away from your tent. Too bad though, I would have shared my chicken n’ dumplings with ya.
Can’t you all see what happened?
Its so obvious.
The ultra cons from http://countryaboveself.com/
HACKED WONKETTE!
YOU HAVE BEEN SHIT ON BY AMATEUR GEEZERS!
I, for one, feel so dirty and used.
The CSS is fixed! Looks good now!
AxmxZ: EEEEK!
Hmmm…CSS fixed. Must attempt another image reference…
WONKETTE ERASES THE COMMENTS OF ITS USERS BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID OF COUNTRY ABOVE SELF AND HOW UTTERLY SCARED WONKETTE IS OF THE TRUTH.
I am so sad they locked the comments on that site. I think we all had a great time going off on them. Truck NUTZ!!!
shortsshortsshorts:
THEY ARE MAKING FUN OF US AND CALLING US NAMES. JUST LIKE WE WANTED THEM TO DO! THE FOOLS!
It was entertaining while it lasted.
I miss the feature that allowed you to look up your old comments. It helped me keep track of threads with conversations going on. As long as we’re all asking for ponies.
We are aware of the ongoing tragedy, in that many of Wonkette’s loyal, bestest commenters are still locked out of the system, even though they’ve tried to re-register, and did everything as instructed.
Never liked any of you anyway.
shortsshortsshorts: I wanted to read through them and they were gone. I was so sad.
Did I take someone’s spot? I’ll sell it back. Cheap - it’s not like I’d want to take advantage of anyone’s desperate need to make arch, witty, banter lampooning the foibles of our glorious political class.
tunamelt: Tra: All good things must come to an end I suppose.
Test post (some commenting problem at my end I think)