I need to take a survey.. results will be tallied and forwarded to Admin – if he doesn’t follow the results as they happen.
Question: How do you like the “Ratings Widget” that POPS up and blocks you view and obscures parts of the comments when you give someone a up or down thumb.
I hate it with a passion and have since it got stuffed onto the Web Site.
So lets have a survey how many people would like to see it go or stay? Lets say “thumbs up = stay and “thumbs down = shit can it”!
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Tough shit Muck. The ads pay the bills. I really don’t give a flying fuck what the results of your survey show.
If you don’t like it, go someplace else. ZH and virtually every website I go to has the same exact thing.
Sincerely
Admin (who does all the fucking work to keep this site interesting 365 days per year)
Methinks Admin’s response above is just the INTJ way of saying:
“Thanks Muck! I’ll take it under consideration”.
Actually, what it looks to me like the original post was about was not the pop-up advertising but the stupid panel that pops up above the thumbs rating thing when you click thumbs up or down on a comment. Hopefully, maybe I should be referring to that in the past tense cuz I hope that I just did a little CSS trickery to get rid of that.
FWIW, I hate the particular “rating widget” thumbs thing that we are using and I have tried pretty hard several times to find something to replace it. But so far, I haven’t found a system that would work for TBP yet. I’m still working on it and I have a new comment / rating system to try out on my test system when I get some time, so maybe we’ll be able to retire it soon, but no promises.
In the mean time, maybe y’all won’t have to put up with this particular annoyance anymore.
Sincerely,
TMWNN (who does some of the fucking work to make it possible for Admin to do all the fucking work to keep this site interesting 365 days per year)
Sorry for forgetting about all your fucking work behind the scenes to keep this fucking site interesting. Muck is a crotchety SOB and when I read his post before my first cup of coffee it got my blood boiling and I responded as I tend to do in those cases.
I use an ad blocker to block my own ads, so I know how annoying they are. But, tits and asses generate revenue, especially when TBP’s readership is 80% white old fart men.
I refuse to do ad-blocker because I am afraid I will never see her again:
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I agree with Muck! ?
Yes, I also believe it was about the stupid pop up panel when one votes.
And you fixed it !!
YEAH for TMWNN!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Man with No Name: Thanks. You fixed the problem and the Ratings Widget has vanished!!! That was indeed what I was referring to – not the ads (I’ve already got them blocked) -BUT BUT I also have the Amazon web Site’s Link in my bookmarks that earn TBP 6% of all Amazon orders.
Please use the following link to access Amazon any time you want to buy something for them and TBP gets 6%!
“https://www.amazon.com/s/?rh=n%3A283155%2Cn%3A!1000%2Cn%3A48&bbn=1000&ie=UTF8&qid=1360178070&rnid=1000&tag=thebur01-20&camp=15329&creative=406801&linkCode=ur1&adid=1FFW5HKYG9TGRTCZ1JZ5&”
Thanks again and a gold star to the Man with No Name!!
I now await a modest and simple apology from Admin for jumping Ol’ Muck’s ass unnecessarily! We think far to highly of you, Jim, and wouldn’t cut down the money making aspects of TBP.. In fact, I’ve passed along the magic link to no less than a dozen others I’ve introduced to TBP..
Sorry Muck 🙁
Muck, if you hate it so passionately, stop giving thumbs up/down!
Widget is a funny word.
Well so is “muck about”.. We all know what a widget is, right? It’s an engineering term that mean this little custom tool or jig is absolutely essential to what ever job it is supposed to work on (which you can’t remember) and must absolutely be saved din a desk drawer just in case it is (n)ever used again!.. In this case that rating “widget” was eminently disposable and never needs a replacement.
The widget is a large nuisance. Reading from a smart phone is even worse. I tend to think the mutliple ads in the middleof an article to be worse only because they are so large -they take up most of the page, which at times can make it seem like it’s the end of the article. And scrolling down past such a large ad is a great annoyance.
The widget is a large nuisance. Reading from a smart phone is even worse. I tend to think the mutliple ads in the middleof an article to be worse only because they are so large -they take up most of the page, which at times can make it seem like it’s the end of the article. And scrolling down past such a large ad is a great annoyance. On the other hand, ads do pay the bills. But maybe rearrange them better on the pages?
I’ll put the bigger ads at the bottom of the articles.
Wow. A suggestion and results! THANKS!
Make that two suggestions: One fixed by Admin, the other by TMWNN!
Outstanding..
The private sector at work.
Read from the Comments page on the Dashboard. You never see any thumbsies…….up or down.
Indecent,where you been?Your name has been taken in vain a couple of times & you haven’t responded?
I got bigger fish to fry right now. I consider it an honor to have my name taken in vain by the pole smokers around this place though.
LOL… Muck, FWIW, I get annoyed at the shit on my phone, but I’ve learned that if you don’t play the thumb game, that particular one never shows up.
Thumbs down! Get rid of it, please!
Good shout-out, Mr. Muck!
If Admin does something that I don’t like enough, I will stop coming to this site. His tolerance of total dickheads irritates me a lot but his commitment to freedom of speech TRUMPS all. It is his site and he can pay the bills as he likes.
No way cliff-I’m a modern American & I demand what I want even if it’s your property.
Admin has an obligation to give us an ad free site just as a private restaurant has an obligation to give me a smoke free atmosphere even if I’m the only non smoker in the place.
To hell with private property!
Admin has to keep the doors open Muck, I hate it but it is like death and taxes. Nothing we can do, Admin has to have revenue to run this place.
You can be irritated by the ads or have a paid subscription service-I’ll take the ads.
Remember the old hippie saying,”Gas,grass or ass,nobody rides for free.”
These are what is commonly referred to as “First World Problems”. They can be overcome. Below is a helpful video. First, you need a bridge in order “to get over it”. Second, a straw to “suck it up”. And finally a cup with a lid. For this one, you just fill the cup and then put the lid over the full cup. By doing this, it will help those afflicted to “SHUT THE FULL CUP”.
More and more sites give me this kind of message —- “We see you have Ad Block. Please turn it off. Then we’ll let you read the article.”
Ms. Freud always knows when I get those by my warrior cry — “GO FUCK YOURSELVES!!” Then I leave, and make a mental note to never click on that site again.
I’m glad Admin doesn’t do that.
As to the question? The widgets thingy doesn’t really bother me. I got bigger fish to fry. Hemorrhoids bother me.
Stucky…..
I have WYPE – a new (free) adblock.. Only works with Safari and so far the sites can’t detect it. Marvelous Extension to safari. If you use something else, you’re on your own..
Link?
The adds are frustrating, and I’m neutral towards the thumbs up/down widget. The site could use some further optimization for mobile.
All of that being said, its his fucking website, and its on his dime. I don’t really have extra capital to throw around, so I’m going to keep my mouth shut and be thankful that Jim has managed to keep the lights on in a corner of the web that the tech moguls would rather go dark forever.
If I ever hit it big I’ll fund the place for a full 5 years with one fat check, but until that time?
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I enjoy the pictures in the ads. I have truly gone wild for yoga.
I like the widget!
Can be a bit annoying but like Admin says. It is what it is! Ads pay the bills.
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Speaking of ads there seem to be quite a few regarding cracked feet and other problems of old age. Might have something to do with clicks of folks on TBP.
I get lots like this as well. We need to focus people!
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More Porn and
Less Corns!
Cracked heels are hard to fix, I had some real bad ones. I picked up a foot fungus sophomore year of high school during football season, and it never went away. I get to my current position and it turns out pretty much all of us guys are fighting it. We’ve tried OTC and prescribed medicine, gold bond, and creams. Nothing fucking works.
One day my wife and I were out shopping and the sales person recommended a product that would help. I didn’t believe them. We bought a small bottle anyway, on the belief that their powder was probably same as gold bond, and didn’t cost that much more.
Holy shit guys. Within 3 days my feet were improving. Within a week my boots no longer had that “well worn” smell that I always got during the summer. Within a month all but the deepest of my heel cracks were gone.
Its a fru-fru girly product, so I didn’t tell the guys at work for 5 or 6 months. I took my sock off one day to pull a rock out and a buddy commented that my cracks were gone. I got him a bottle of the stuff, and it cured him as well, to the point where his wife buys it and gives it as gifts to the men in the family.
Other guys at work started using the damn stuff too, and giving it as gifts to the other steel-toe wearing blue collar members of the community.
I’ll go ahead and link it, I know you shit throwers will mock me, but some fuckin’ lurker out there will see this and give it a shot and thank me later. So here ya go:
Its called “T for Toes” by a company called “Lush.” I’m not one for fancy shit, but this works. It is not advertised as being for heel cracks. The reason we bought it is that the gal who sold it to us took one look at my boots and said “I bet you have foot problems. My husband had awful heel cracks for years until I started dusting his boots. Now they are gone.” Man was she ever right. I keep stocked up on it at all times. Wonderful stuff.
https://uk.lush.com/products/t-toes
That looks like an awesome product and I WILL be ordering it.
Thank you, thank you.
Man! You actually sound like an optimistic chemist.
Thank you so much for the link. I know a lot of people that could use this.
Admin,fix this thing so I can up vote Rins’ porn more than once.
I suppose I never noticed but now that I think about it I was stingy with my opinion thumbs because I knew the percentage box would pop up. Now that it’s history I’ll be voting more.
Side note: Please never take away the spell checker from the comments box or I will look like a retard. Thanks.