Blocking (open letter)

Detritus

<p>Wrong thread</p>

miss annie

<p>I'm not in favour of a blocking mechanism but I would like it if it was only possible to edit your posts immediately after writing them - just to correct spellings etc.</p><p>If you leave them overnight they should stay up as a reminder to oneself not to be a wazzock.</p>

Stella

This forum, so far, is one of the tamest I've seen. I've seen death threats on other fora, name calling, defamation -- just like here -- on a daily basis. I find that sad.<br><br>Some people have such constipation or whatever causes them to be so irritating, they need a public forum to get rid of their frustration. It's cheaper than a shrink, doesn't help much, though.<br><br>In case I'll run into them in real life, I will steer clear. Calling each other names is way below my level and I just don't respect people who do that.<br><br>One can disagree with me without telling me I'm a fucking bitch. They can say that about me, when I actually turn into a dog, being shagged.<br>

vetski

@Stella, thanks for the the chuckle!

Stella

And a hiccup as it appears. <br>

vetski

I know, I know - for a reason I cannot understand, I can't edit comments. I click to edit, the comment comes up in an edit box, but then the page just freezes. Methinks an extra-careful read before posting the comment would be in order...perhaps someone a bit more IT-savvy than I can explain what the problem is? I use IE - v8, I think, but am not sure.

Stella

About editing? Here's another chuckle for you: rant about facebook I'v posted on my blog today<br><br>Facebook -- you listening?<br><br><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> Well, if you have a minute, I'd like to talk to you. Why, you wonder? Don't be impatient, I'll tell you right now.</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.2in;"> You see, Facebook, almost every time when I log in, I will have suggestions aplenty, of who I should be friends with, which games the people I'm connected with play, adverts explaining to me how I would lose weight or pictures of funny crooked houses (I'm still unsure what that ad is about); you inform me about who changed their profile and who read what news. The point is, Facebook, I don't fucking care about all of that. It's hefty enough to deal with all the little red figures, forcing me to catch up with all the fifty six comments other people made on a thread I mindlessly commented on. </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.2in;"> Now, since recently you started to inform me that the person who posted on a thread is also a friend of my friends, and every time this person replies to someone on that thread, while I'm trying to type mine, this huge box appears, hiding what I'm typing. So I have to click it away or wait until it disappears, unfortunately, by then, the conversations has moved on or I've lost my thought. Or worse, I hit enter and the whole error riddled answer appears and while I went to the kitchen to get a glass of much needed red wine, the ability to edit my post that reads as if my iguana tried tap dance on my laptop, has gone, too.</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.2in;"> Not that this is the only worry I have. I have been known to update my status with – admittedly – rather confusing statements such as: I have <b>not</b> published my sequel. </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.2in;"> Much to the amusement of those who happened across it, which then developed into a long discussion and my ever growing embarrassment of not being able to change the innocent <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>t </b></span>to a <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>w</b></span>. Do you think it's funny that I accidentally called the lovely Catherine, Catering? Or the occasion when I drank red whine, making people think I probably had far more than it's good for me? </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.2in;"> For months now, I've been asking, no pleading, begging you even, to introduce an edit-button, so I can correct errors I stumble across the next day. Up to today, you denied me my wish. Why?</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.2in;"> And just to torture me a bit more and add to my, as you will probably think, trivial problems, you needed to introduce a new timeline – which, for those of us who use a touch pad instead of a mouse – is a pain to scroll down to the last comment and not an improvement to the overall performance. When I caved and changed to the damn thing, you promised me I could drag that picture around. I guess I don't have to tell you that it wasn't moving one bit. </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.2in;"> Facebook, if you can introduce so many useless functions and buttons, why don't you seem to be able to get one of your highly skilled people to get us an edit-button? </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.2in;"> <br></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> Because if you don't I will call you Failbook from now on! </div><br>