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JANUARY 31, 2008

A Quick Explanation For Commenters

BY NOAM SCHEIBER

I've seen this create some confusion among our commenters and just wanted to clarify: When you see a comment that begins: "The Plank says..." That's not a commenter but an item over at The Plank, our sister blog, linking back to the item whose comment thread you're in. If you click on the hypertext, you should be able to pull up the Plank item in question. (And it's not just Plank items. A lot of blogs show up in in our comment threads when they link to our items. You should be able to click over to them, too.)  

--Noam Scheiber

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This is, perhaps, a glitch that will be fixed?

- drdannyu

January 31, 2008 at 6:36pm

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Geez, why not just say: "Bcbaird, you ignorant fool, it's a lead in!"

The sad thing was, I figured that out before you posted this.

/hangs head in shame

- bcbaird

January 31, 2008 at 6:38pm

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And all this time I thought "The Plank..." was just some d-bag who could never finish a thought!

- virginiacentrist

January 31, 2008 at 6:42pm

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Who are these damn canadians who can't manage your IT system, and which drugs are they smoking instead of fixing hte probem? I'm sure they're very polite, but they probably need to be arrested for criminal negligence... I have a feeling that if you gave me two weeks of time and a couple of books (I have scant knowledge of JAVA), I could design a java message board that would beat this one.

Ok I'm done:)

- virginiacentrist

January 31, 2008 at 6:55pm

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drdannyu -

II think it is meant to be a feature rather than a glitch. As Noam Scheiber points out you can, if you wish, click on the link to go to the reference.

- ndmackenzie

January 31, 2008 at 7:59pm

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Any chance the other post you post as a link can include a post that links to another post with a link back to the original post? Because then it's theoretically possible that we would all get sucked down into some downwardly spiraling digital mobius until a random lightning bolt happens to fry a server outside Milwaukee and--BOING!--a glistening electronic sphincter somewhere dilates and out we squirt, plopping down into a vibrating Maxfield Parrish-like field of warm breezes and giant giggling sunflowers.

I mean, I'd use a vacation day for that.

- williamyard

January 31, 2008 at 9:44pm

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Oh, it might help if you

A: Put the text in quotes

and

B: Ended in an ellipse.

- bcbaird

January 31, 2008 at 11:41pm

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I agree with will's sentiment, and note that every time I click on one of those links my bank account's emptied by one of those Nigerian bank fund fraud scams.  It would be nice to have that fixed.

- jet

February 1, 2008 at 12:23am

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