Welcome to the new-look Poll Bludger, brought to you as part of a broader incursion into the blogosphere by wealthy benefactors/gentleman admirers at Crikey. Note parallel developments from Possum Comitatus. The site has a new address in the Crikey domain: the old site will redirect here. The interior decoration is incomplete, so don’t despair for apparently missing features quite yet. To pre-empt the complaint which is now no doubt forming in many minds: no, you do not need to be a Crikey subscriber, trial or otherwise, to comment on this blog. However, you do have to register, which means providing a real email address which you will need to verify – I do not think anyone can rightly complain about this. To pre-empt another complaint: this site is run by WordPress just like my old site was and will run in very much the same way, without the limitations you might be familiar with from the old Crikey blogging platform. Beyond that, it will be business more-or-less as usual. There will be a slight difference in my moderation policy, which is to say that I will have one. More on that shortly.
As you can see, all the posts and comments from Wednesday are present and correct, so please carry on as before. Please keep this thread for requests/feedback/bug reports/complaints about the new order, and direct political discussion where appropriate.
No 43
Yep. Love German luxury cars.
No capitals in the user name, but if you click ‘Site Admin’ up at the top, you can change the way your name is displayed throughout the site. That’s how William and I have our full names displayed (but you can also have a completely arbitrary “nick name” if you want to stay incognito).
GP
SLK here. 🙂 Signs of my capitalist past. 🙂
And I like it how you get a new page after 50 comments, makes it easier to manage when reading.
Just testing
Wayne @ 46: I didn’t let your first comment through because I wasn’t sure it wasn’t spam (I emailed you about this). Your comments should go through with complication now.
The one sad thing about the setup though is that my big green smiley is now a monkey
Its all very gorgeous
congrats
My tongue poke is a ??? 😛
No 52
ML63. 😀 The tree huggers will now hate me even more.
Let me try again.
Jeff, can we have it so the recent page of 50 comments is the one that loads, rather than the first one? This was a long-time bugbear on the old site until I worked out how to change it.
I would encourage commenters to amend their profile names: the lower case names are freaking me out. As GP points out: “The trick is to change your nickname in your profile, save, then from the drop down list of display names, choose the capitalised nickname.”
Congrats WB
😉 🙂 😛
William, it’s doing the right thing for me… showing page 2 by default with this many comments so far.
Arrgh I’ll have to quote by the old way [like this]
zombiemao: We definitely need to fix that one! 😉
So it is, Jeff – sorry.
I suppose I should have thought of the comments section when I asked if you ever used IM. Hooray for inline support! 😉
Jeff, how do I turn on the Indenticon option?
Ok, new site looks good, will take a bit of getting used to 😉 ….. signing off to watch the footy now ….
oh, btw, on the US elections, this URL shows that if the election were held today, Obama would win, but as you see, the margin isn’t a wide one.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_vs_mccain/?map=10
Settings > Discussion > Avatars (choose identicons from the list at the very bottom).
test2
Done.
where upon this page do you find settings > discussion > avatars? I’ve looked top to bottom and can’t find it …..
Thanks Jeff.
This is a test.
http://www.watoday.com.au/national/liberal-defends-games-freebie-20080912-4ey7.html
Hmm, she’s in a spot of doggy doos’s 🙂
Blue my favourite random colour. 🙂
Julie, Jeff was talking to me – you need to be in admin to do that. If you’re trying to work out how to do avatars, try here.
So, got there in the end.
testing gravatar
Looks good William! Nice job.
hope it works
Silly test account to show the new “Preferred display name” stuff working during sign-up… that’s much better! 🙂
Very colourful
not sure how I like it. Any updates on the election?
Personally I find WordPress to be cumbersome, even though this new site looks spiffy.
All the avatar stuff, and profile settings should all be in one place.
Is there an update on how to amend the time zone?
Well, that took some time to work out. Not sure I like the layout of this place. Oh well.
No2
bilbo has set the system time to local(perth) time
I think
On PB – we’re all Sandgropers!
As he should 🙂
I LOVE it that you can see the names of other active threads at the bottom of the screen, it makes it easy to know when something new has arrived in the scene and if your comment is more appropriate somewhere else, you can move it there. Previously, I had to keep a second window open to the main page and then refresh that to know if a new thread was open.
Sorry Frank, but timezone changed.
G’day all!
I was formerly Progressive on Poll Bludger, now I’m Evan(my real name) over here.
Thanks William, and good luck with the new site!
Impossible, it shows the year as 2008 😉
Agree Julie, it’s a nice feature
Traitor 🙂 It should be user adjustable.
No 95
Thanks William.
Again, I can’t for the life of me work out why these things can’t be individually set by the user. Shame on WordPress!