Comments on: Major Site Design Change Coming Very Soon

By: jwest

jwest — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:11:20 +0000

Kathy,

That’s the difference between conservatives and liberals.

We speak truth to power (T-Steel and Joe) in an effort to improve the world around us. Liberals pander seeking popularity and acceptance, ignoring the long-term harm caused by their short term thinking.

By: jwest

jwest — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:08:31 +0000

By: kathykattenburg

kathykattenburg — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:57:41 +0000

Let’s hope that someday the content will also undergo an update to achieve some semblance of balance.

What a sad sack you are, jwest. You could have left out the above sentence and let the first one stand on its own, and everyone here would have complimented you for one classy, appreciative comment.

By: T_Steel

T_Steel — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:42:55 +0000

I can't take all the credit for the new design upcoming. But more on that later.

By: AustinRoth

AustinRoth — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:58:10 +0000

Duh. Yep.

By: GeorgeSorwell

GeorgeSorwell — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:38:56 +0000

AR--

I think you mean GD instead of GS.

Which is a massive relief to me! Please feel free to give credit for everything GreenDreams writes! ; )

By: AustinRoth

AustinRoth — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:30:03 +0000

I was added and agreeing with GS's comments to jwest, but to GS, and so indirectly to jwest.

By: HemmD

HemmD — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:20:24 +0000

Looking forward to new format.

Maybe I'LL finally be able to get an personal icon up instead of the square headed generic. I never could find the docs for uploading one, and any I selected within my profile never showed...

Thanks for all your hard work on the upgrade.

By: GeorgeSorwell

GeorgeSorwell — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:20:19 +0000

Austin Roth–

Did you mean to direct the comment about auto dealers to Jwest?

By: AustinRoth

AustinRoth — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:02:06 +0000

GS – even without the current development, that story didn't make sense.

Suppose for a moment that Barack and others DID decide to protect a few favored, big, well-connected donors (as I think they did – hey, that is politics). Having done that, would anyone other than say Blagojevich then go out and make it obvious that any favoritism was being done? And by closing only Republican dealerships?

I may have differences with Obama, but I do not think he is stupid. And that would have been beyond stupid.

By: GreenDreams

GreenDreams — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:18:57 +0000

mildly interesting link, jwest. You probably linked to that before the latest update that pretty much trashes the argument, made in the article, that somehow the White House itself is shutting down GOP owned Chrysler dealers as payback for donating to republicans. As it turns out, car dealers are mostly Republicans, 88% according to analysis by 538. 92% of dealers to be shut down are GOP donors, not a significant difference. Nice try. BTW, I doubt you or any Republican ever quibbled with Chryslers' decisions about who GETS dealerships, did you?

By: GreenDreams

GreenDreams — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:08:08 +0000

me too T-S. Think i got a brief glimpse when commenting a few days ago, alternate comments were color coded (though not like the memeorandum widget, which would be interesting.)

By: tidbits

tidbits — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:45:00 +0000

Thanks for your hard work. Looking forward to he new design.

By: T_Steel

T_Steel — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:23:43 +0000

Darn politics! They find their way into everything. Ever site design! :-p

By: jwest

jwest — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:16:09 +0000

T,

Perhaps the new version of the website could incorporate a counter that would keep track of the number of articles on one subject. Here’s an example:

Sotomayor’s Teeth Just As White As Anglo Justices (87th)

It could serve as a reminder that every possible aspect of a certain subject has been covered and it’s time to move on – maybe even to things not normally found at TMV – like:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs...

By: GreenDreams

GreenDreams — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:18:28 +0000

“Let’s hope that someday the content will also undergo an update to achieve some semblance of balance.”

You mean censoring your comments so the rabid right content matches the <25% your views represent among the public? Nah, we don't want to censor even the wackos.

By: archangel

archangel — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:13:42 +0000

much appreciation Tyrone… thank you for all the updates. I know you have little kids, a family, a demanding day job, and your own writing, and just 'life' in general… I join others, both expressive and silently appreciative of you…. that we so all are knocked out by your skills, your time and love you give to TMV…. and therefor to support for the word. Thank you T-man!

dr.e

By: AustinRoth

AustinRoth — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:50:25 +0000

Anything that speeds up DISQUS is a good thing!

By: GeorgeSorwell

GeorgeSorwell — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:27:19 +0000

Thanks for all the work.

Break a leg!

By: jwest

jwest — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:24:02 +0000

T,

It’s great that you’ve worked so hard to update the site. Keep it up, we all appreciate it.

Let’s hope that someday the content will also undergo an update to achieve some semblance of balance.