COMM #5967, she is vaguely spoilery.
Xander: Look who's got a bad case of Dark Prince envy. Dracula: Leave us. Xander: No, we're not going to "Leabbb you." And where'd you get that accent, Sesame Street? "One, Two, Three - three victims! Maw ha ha!"
'Lessons'
Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
RobertH - Apr 17, 2004 11:53:53 am PDT #150 of 10001
Disaffected college student
Topic!Cindy - Apr 18, 2004 3:43:28 am PDT #151 of 10001
What is even happening?
back to the off-topic topic for a moment...
It is. The antisemitic site, jewwatch dot com, has been the highest rank for about 3 years. Someone finally made this known publicly about a month ago, and they are now trying to push the Wikipedia page for Jew higher by putting a link to it under the word Jew on as many web pages as possible.
The wiki page is number one, right now. That 'watch' page is now down to number 2, now.
Yesterday, at the top of the page, above the results, there were news hits, about the popularity of that 'watch' site. Today, above the results, Google has a link with the following text:
Offensive Search Results www.google.com/explanation We're disturbed about these results as well. Please read our note here.
It's good to see them publically acknowledge the phenom, and explain what they can. Google notes that people looking for information on things Jewish tend to use search terms such as Judaism, Jewish, etc., where more racist motivated searches tend to use the word Jew. They link two informative sites on Jewish people/Judaism, and also the ADL, JewishInternetAssociation.org, and Google's results for a search on anti-semitism.
t /off-topic topic
Laura - Apr 18, 2004 4:34:36 am PDT #152 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
It may be off topic for our Bureaucracy, but Google rocks!
Jon B. - Apr 18, 2004 6:19:25 am PDT #153 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
That "explanation" link has been up above the results for some time, but yeah, they rock.
Wolfram - Apr 18, 2004 6:38:55 am PDT #154 of 10001
Visilurking
The wiki page is number one, right now.
Woohoo!
Topic!Cindy - Apr 18, 2004 9:08:07 am PDT #155 of 10001
What is even happening?
That "explanation" link has been up above the results for some time, but yeah, they rock.
Yesterday, I didn't see it at the top of the search results page (it may have been there, I just didn't see it). They had the usual news-y type links above the main hits.
Woohoo!
Yepper. I wish I had an important web page to link it.
Nilly - Apr 18, 2004 9:11:17 am PDT #156 of 10001
Swouncing
Woohoo!
Totally Natter, but tomorrow is the official "Holocaust Memorial Day" in Israel. It starts pretty much now, since in Judaism the day always starts on the sun-down of the previous evening, and I find it fitting, in a way t /Natter
Jon B. - Apr 18, 2004 1:00:39 pm PDT #157 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Can we all agree that a "Hi. I'm new. Here I am introducing myself." post in Press should be deleted? Good, because I already deleted it.
t /ruthless
If the person posts in one of the nattery theads asking why, please explain. I'm behind in those threads and will probably miss it.
DXMachina - Apr 18, 2004 1:11:01 pm PDT #158 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Huh. I guess.
I added natter deletion warning to the slugs for Beep Me and Press. Too many newcomers, and the only previous warnings in those threads were in the descriptions which people won't see after the first time they look in the thread.
Liese S. - Apr 18, 2004 1:53:26 pm PDT #159 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Ya, I prolly wouldn't have deleted it, but mighta told the person. Well, clearly, I didn't delete it, but neither did I do the latter.
It's good to add the natter warning, but I don't want it to be too unfriendly. People are welcome to post in those threads, they are there for us as a community. It's just that judgment has to be used, and if you're new, it's tough to figure out what goes where. Other places do have 'just say hi' threads, so it's not too far a stretch.