Can we make the Links page non-searchable since that seems to be a big hit?

I don't think it harms us for people to hit it, and they may very well find what they're looking for. If you run the numbers, it has under 20 hits from those searches, which is .02% of the hits in that table.

I know this is a silly question, but why do people *search* for www.buffistas.org? Why not just type it into the location bar?!

I've done it a few times at school so that the address doesn't stay in the address bar of the browser. Even though the computers are supposed to totally reset everytime you log out, they never truly do.

They may not want a record of it typed directly into the address bar. Depending on whose computer you're using, what it's set to remember, how AutoComplete is set up, blah blah blah...

I know this is a silly question, but why do people *search* for www.buffistas.org? Why not just type it into the location bar?!

The address bar thing, plus there's this whole freaky phenomenon where tons of people act as if google or yahoo or whatever *is* the internet, and type in whatever they want there whether they know the URL or not.

I realise it's become so second-nature for me to edit people's posts to close tags that I don't mention it anymore. It transitioned from suggesting the poster do it, to doing it and telling the poster, to just doing it.

I'd hate for an edited by ita tag to be misunderstood -- are other stompies doing this? Should I stop? Should we note somewhere, if it's normal behaviour that it is normal?

ita, I do it all the time. The first time I do it for a new poster, I usually post to explain.

eta: I agree that it might be worth a note in the FAQ about what stompies do.

I'm doing it.

If I remember, I leave a note in small text at the bottom explaining I fixed a tag, so that it's clear to the poster what happened and he or she doesn't freak.

We should add a note.

I do it, and try to remember to leave a note saying that I did (i.e., a post saying "Yo, so-and-so, I edited your post to close an errant tag). But I think I sometimes forget to leave the note.

I don't have a problem with doing it, but I think we should make a note of it, along the lines of "The stompies may edit your posts if a formatting error is causing problems with other posts in the thread. Don't be alarmed -- we won't do anything more invasive than that unless there's a spoiler violation or you're nattering in Press or Beep Me."

I'd hate for an edited by ita tag to be misunderstood

If there were any transgressions larger to that, I assumer there would be a note. Turning the board 15 degrees to the right cause I forgot a slash to close an italic tag, NSM.

Um, long way to say, the current way works for me.