Archive for September, 2010
ARTISTS NEEDED: Help storyboard a Ground Zero Victory Mosque commercial for Carl Paladino
Here’s the idea we have for a commercial for Carl Paladino, who is running for Governor in New York and is a strong and vocal opponent of Islam’s plan to build a Victory Mosque at Ground Zero.
Republicans, particularly the Cocktail Party GOP establishment, have traditionally been skittish about taking on the Left over something like this Ground Zero Victory Mosque. That’s because Republicans have been operating under the delusion that if they will only be as meek and wimpy as possible, that the media will then love them and shower them with praise.
The mental illness the media has drilled into Republicans is this: the only way you win is by being Democrat-lite, and by keeping your mouth shut, and by never doing anything that will give the Left license to call you names…but they’ll just call you names anyway, so really, what you do doesn’t matter.
Here’s where things are in New York, based on everything we are hearing from people on the ground throughout the state:
(1) New Yorkers are angry about this Ground Zero Victory Mosque and don’t want it built
(2) New Yorkers are angry with Democrats for backing this Ground Zero Victory Mosque
(3) Republicans are afraid of speaking out against the Ground Zero Victory Mosque because Cocktail Party GOP advisors and pollsters keep telling Republican candidates they need to be as meek and cucumbers-and-mayonnaise covered as possible. ”We can’t have any spicy sandwiches in this cocktail party. It gives our tummies uh-ohs”.
(4) New Yorkers WANT someone to take to the airwaves and denounce Democrats for supporting the Ground Zero Victory Mosque. They are waiting to express their anger at Democrats for being behind this. If Republicans don’t tap into this, they are missing a golden opportunity to turn New York red this fall.
Please read our treatment for a Carl Paladino commercial on this Ground Zero Victory Mosque.
The next thing we need is to storyboard this out.
Does anyone have any experience doing this?
Let’s use this not only as an opportunity to help Carl Paladino in New York, but also to learn how to put together a political commercial. After it’s storyboarded out, we can send the script and images to Paladino’s campaign and urge him to make something similar to unleash upon Democrats in this closing month before the election.
If we work together as a team on this, and it’s successful, maybe we’ve found a new way to affect other races like this coast to coast.
How about it?
About that video of Obama with the burly, big Chicago investment banking man
We actually never know what’s going to end up being a big story in a given week.
Sometimes, something we comment on gets picked up on in all sorts of things, and it might have been a throwaway comment on our part, or something we just assume the rest of the world knew and was already well-versed in.
This is what’s happened in the last few days regarding the above video, as posted by MOTUS over at www.Michellesmirror.com.
The man in the video is Gregory Dingens, who is a partner at the investment banking firm Monroe Securities. He played football at Notre Dame before going on to Harvard Law School, where apparently he knew one or both of the Obamas while he was there.
There are a lot of things that are so very strange about this video, to anyone who has spent any amount of time at a political event…or here in Boystown.
First off, Obama gets that look on his face when he sees Greggors (as MOTUS calls him) that we’ve only seen on Obama a few times: when he was around Kal Penn (before they broke up and Penn was forced to leave his job at the White House), whenever he played basketball with Reggie Love (which, after the ugly breakup with Penn, the press doesn’t seem interested in covering anymore…though if you watch closely, Love is in the video above…he’s Obama’s “body man” and shows up to either give something or take something from Greggors at one point), or whenever he’s recently been around or talking about Justin Beiber. There is a genuine, real, happiness in his face that’s a contrast to the sour petulance and disdain he normally wears.
We have no idea what sort of relationship Obama had with Greggors in school, but it’s bizarre to us that we’ve never seen or heard of this man until the MOTUS video, because Obama is quite enamored with him. Where was this guy during the campaign, when Obama had absolutely no friends (either from his adult life, or when he was in school) speaking up for him? Working for the Hillary Clinton campaign here in Chicago, Hillary’s friends dating back to grade school were regularly at events, working as surrogate speakers for her, hosting fundraisers and other events, etc.
Obama never had any personal friends stand up for him, speak out for him, or do any sort of press that we were ever aware of. He certainly never had any former girlfriends come forward, either at events, or in the press in general. It’s like he never dated anyone until Michelle. Any women, anyway.
It was so strange, in fact, that people constantly commented on it at all of our Hillary events whenever her friends from all the way back to kindergarten worked the room at a Debate Watch party, a phone bank, or a Primary Results celebration. ”Why doesn’t Obama have any of his friends at anything?” was a very common question. The answer seemed to be that the guy doesn’t have very many friends. “Where are his old girlfriends from high school and college, before Michelle?”. Crickets chirping in the night.
It seemed to anyone paying attention that Obama didn’t seem to much like people — at least not the ones who’d be politically advantageous to have showing their faces in public.
This was something that was confirmed by those who knew him as a state senator down in Springfield from 1996-2004.
Have you ever watched the TV show Dexter? Michael C. Hall plays a sociopath whose father recognized his problems very early in life and taught him how to wear a mask and go through the motions of being human. Dexter, on TV, doesn’t like going to parties, doesn’t like bowling, doesn’t want to have a beer with the guys after work, but he does the bare minimum of these socially-required activities so that people don’t suspect he’s really a monster inside.
That’s exactly how Obama was always described in Springfield.
Legislators had regular poker games, and Obama would show up and play a few hands. He’d also do the required “guy talk” and complain about what a “ball-buster” (his words) his wife Michelle was, because the other guys complained about their wives. He’d smoke like a chimney but would nurse a single beer because he’s evidently not much of a drinker…but he still felt the need to have that bottle in front of him so he would fit in and gain the acceptance of those at the game. It didn’t seem like really had any fun or enjoyed himself, but this is something he did because he wanted to get ahead…much like Dexter does what Dexter needs to do so that no one figures out who he really is inside.
The Greggors video MOTUS posted is of a completely different person than what we’re used to seeing from Obama. He is really and truly enjoying putting his hand on Greggors shoulder, very affectionately, and loves every second of being in his company. It’s almost like he NEEDED this encounter and was relishing being near this man.
It’s really strange when you think about how many very attractive and burly men Obama is constantly surrounded by. His Secret Service detail has some very attractive guys in it. Normally, the presidential detail includes the very best, most physically-fit, and usually the very best looking agents the SS has. Obama gets to ride around in a limousine with these guys all day, flies around on a plane with them, and has them no more than five feet away from him at all times for the entirety of the day.
So, it’s strange for him to be so excited touching Greggors. He looks like he’s been on a ship for years and this is finally his shore leave…like Fleet Week in Chelsea.
Why is that?
And why is he spending so much time with this man in a rope line, when there are many people who clearly want to meet him and have their pictures taken with him?
We’ve seen many politicians very close up at events, and we spent a good stretch in 2008 seeing Hillary Clinton at events every day, sometimes two or three times a day, working the crowd. Hillary, as we said above, always had numerous friends at her events, and when she’d see them in the rope line she’d give them a big hug, greet them warmly, exchange a few words, but then return to working the room to get through all the people who wanted to see her. Every politician and celebrity we’ve ever seen in a crowd like this, even at a private event like the one the video was filmed at, behaves the way Hillary Clinton always did. We have never, EVER, seen one of these people become so fixated on one man the way Obama was with Greggors.
It really was a sort of “The Way We Were” moment, like the two of them were standing alone together, in front of the Plaza Hotel, with yellow cabs passing by just out of frame, the whole world boiled down to the two of them together, reunited unexpectedly, at least one of them lost in memories of what they once shared.
You can’t see Greggors’ face, but from his stocky body language and the flush of blood to the back of his neck, he’s smiling big, lost in the moment as well…but it too seems strange compared to the people around him. The others in the crowd are excited to meet the president too. There’s a very New York-looking woman with dark hair who gets a picture in with Obama, and she’s smiling broadly, and having the time of her life, so excited (bless her heart), but even she’s not walking around in a cotton candy cloud the way Greggors is.
Honestly, this is how two guys behave when they meet at a bar in Boystown and the chemistry clicks between them. That’s the only time we’ve ever seen two men stand there like this, for over four minutes, just sort of lost in each other’s auras.
At around the two minute mark, it’s actually uncomfortable to keep watching because the way the two are behaving makes us feel like voyeurs catching a very private moment, in public, between these two men. They touch each other lovingly. Obama looks directly in Greggors’ eyes, and he looks in his, and they trade quick, nervous smiles, with Obama several times licking and almost biting his lip. Greggors blushes, gets sweaty and nervous himself, and there’s a part of our brains that wants to shout JUST KISS ALREADY.
We have no idea what this was about.
Sure is interesting though.
And truly bizarre because Michelle Antoinette looked GORGEOUS that night in her red dress, with her makeup done professionally, one of her nicest wigs styled beautifully…so if there was any night for this particular happily married man to be doing to his own wife what he was doing to Greggors, it would have been THAT NIGHT. Yet, there she was, just a few feet away, but the woman might as well have been in Siberia.
While her husband was just a boy, standing in front of another boy, ripping off the bookstore scene from Notting Hill.
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UPDATE: We should have thought of this right off the bat, but someone in comments mentioned Obama probably knowing Greggors from a health club.
That makes a lot of sense.
Obama was a regular at the East Bank Club, which is a very expensive, very restricted (have to be sponsored to join), health club in downtown Chicago where very rich, very politically-connected people are members.
Remember when we tried to get candidate Obama to march in the Chicago Gay Pride Parade on June 29th, 2008 — and he refused? Instead, on that Sunday, he got a haircut on the Southside and then headed to the East Bank Club “to play basketball with some guys”. After that, he had a long steam and shower in the locker room…with guys who look and seem very much like Greggors in that video.
We bet there’s a 90% possibility that Greggors is, in fact, one of Obama’s locker room buddies from the East Bank Club. That fits so perfectly with why he’d get such a warm, affectionate reaction from Obama in Washington, DC. It was a little bit of his favorite part of Chicago turning up as a surprise now that he’s in Washington.
As president, we bet he really misses the ability to hang out naked like that with all those guys, no bodyguards, hell, not even a towel if he didn’t want one. He will never again be able to get up to whatever he used to do at the East Bank Club that was so important he couldn’t pull himself away to march in the Gay Pride Parade.
That’s pretty tragic…for someone who seemed to love those hijinks more than anything…so that really does explain a lot of the weird joy and affection Obama has for Greggors.
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UPDATE: Here’s a great video showing Obama touching all sorts of men inappropriately. He’s like something out of a Tyler Perry movie (written by Tyler Perry, directed by Tyler Perry, produced by Tyler Perry, and featuring Tyler Perry in the role of Michelle):
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UPDATE: The Bad Touch
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UPDATE: We found Gregory Dingens’ (Greggors) Notre Dame yearbook photo. We don’t know the man, but he’s got gayface at least as bad as, if not worse than, Lindsey Graham and Mark Kirk, that’s for sure.
How good are you at spotting gayface?
Here are some classic examples of “gayface”:
Greggors and Lindsey Graham look kind of related, actually. They have the same eyebrows and smile.
Mayor Daley still obsessed with Olympics failure that wasted $72 million
In the Tribune yesterday, Mayor Daley warned his successor not to bid for the 2020 Olympics games because the IOC seems intent on giving the Games to a country in Africa or the Middle East…or giving them to India. Aside from South Africa or Botswana, we don’t know of an African nation that could successfully host the Games, or one whose government could be trusted with all that Olympics money (remember, that was one of the deciding factors against Chicago — the immense potential for graft and corruption in this town involving all that Olympics construction).
The Middle East and India seem to be way too hot in the summer to have all those people running around doing all the various Olympics sports…but more than that, both locales would be a boon for terrorists to disrupt the Games and murder thousands of people. India’s never seemed particularly able to stop Muslims from mass-murdering there, and having the Games in the Middle East itself is like holding the next Pillsbury Bake-off in the general vicinity of Harpo Studios…why tempt Oprah like that, when you just know what’s going to happen?
BROWWWWWWWWWNIESSSSSSSSSS!
What a joy it will soon be to no longer have the Charybdis of Lake Michigan living in this city. You have no idea.
Daley’s owning up to wasting $72 million on the Olympics bid, but claims it was all privately funded.
Here’s what he DOESN’T say: many local non-profits had their toughest fundraising years in 2009 and 2010. Some of these organizations were just breaking even before the Olympics, and many had to cut their staff and services during Chicago’s Daley-insisted push for the Games. The Daley administration has blamed the current Obamaconomy and national Depression on the hurt that’s hit the non-profit world, but that’s not what happened.
Think about it.
$72 million was privately raised for the Chicago Olympics bid. Through fundraising.
Simultaneously, non-profits in Chicago experienced massive fundraising shortfalls.
At EXACTLY the same time Chicago pushed wealthy donors to give their money to Daley’s doomed vanity project.
What you need to understand is the long-term damage that Daley really did to the non-profit community in Chicago…because you need to appreciate that non-profits get most of their money from steady, regular donors who acquire the habit of giving to specific groups at certain times of year. For instance, they always go to the Chicago Takes Off event to support TPAN. Or they never miss the Looking Glass Ball to benefit Chicago House. Or they make it a family tradition for everyone to be a part of The World of Chocolate to benefit various AIDS organizations.
Well, many people skipped these events the last two years because they gave to the Olympics bid instead. In doing so, that tradition of “always going” to the events was broken. This year, it’s been harder for non-profits to sell tickets to their annual fundraisers and the reason’s not just the Depression…but the fact that Daley broke a lot of traditions and habit in his push for the Olympics, and organizations are having to re-court people who had always been firm and reliable RSVP-yeses for many years in a row.
The 2016 Olympics bid did a lot more damage here in Chicago than Mayor Daley will ever own up to.
If we had a best-guess on who will get the Games, if they mount a serious effort, it would be South Africa. No American city should waste its money this time around, not in this Obamaconomy. When a bid is made for the 2024 Games, cities like Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Detroit and others that could use the massive infusion of Olympics cash to rebuild themselves should be top priorities for a bid.
That would be 18 years since the United States had a Summer Olympics, longer than the drought between Los Angeles and the Atlanta Games, so we’d be due. Cleveland 2024 has a great ring to it.
We can picture President West presiding over them, with hopefully a committed effort to make sure no money is wasted and the entire enterprise is designed to leave Cleveland a world better off at the end of the Games than it was before a bid was even proposed.
Sunday Open Thread: September 26th, 2010
What’s on your mind this Sunday?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
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Our friend Jocelyn is a member of some sort of money-saving website that lets her buy these coupons for Chicago restaurants that are buy-one-get-one-free for dinner, or for $3 she gets $25 off the check, something like that. We never can remember to ask her what this site is, but she uses it all the time, and ends up eating in very nice places for about $8, total, when she goes out with someone, when all is said and done.
Apparently, this site helps restaurants to stay busy in this economy because a busy restaurant attracts walk-in customers, but an empty one isn’t a place where people walking by want to stop and eat, because they think it’s not going to be good. And a struggling restaurant needs to keep its staff, so even if the coupons give people $25 off the check, they’re still going to tip their waiters on what the full check would have been (if they have any manners or sense to them). So, this coupon-site helps people all around.
Do you know of any good money-savers like this that you use in your daily life?
Are you members of any websites that are great at giving deals and discounts?
What creative things have you been doing to save money, but still give yourself and your family some fun, in this Obamaconomy?
One of our favorite things to do are surveys and focus groups. We’re all registered with all the survey groups here in Chicago, and about once a week we get an email from them asking us demographic questions to see if we’d fit into one of the categories they need for a focus group. You can sometimes make $75-100 bucks by doing one of these, if they pick you, and ask you to sit through a presentation, a taste test, or some other marketing research. Usually, they give you dinner too. But the real fun of it is taking part in the focus group itself, getting to try a new product, or having a preview of some ad campaign before it’s ever launched.
This ends up being a night of what we like to call entertainment, plus a little extra unexpected money, whenever we get called in to do a focus group like this. So, if you aren’t signed up for research and survey groups in your areas, you really should be. Parents with young children can make a lot of money doing this, from what we are told, because so few of them are on the mailing lists…and manufacturers and ad companies are always trying to get the kids’ opinions for various products. Our friend Althea seems like she’s always taking her son and daughter to something focus group related, and the kids have a lot of fun while also building their speaking and social skills…as they’ve gotten quite good at expressing themselves in professional settings and giving their opinions on a great many things.
Just something for you to think about…and hopefully take part in wherever you live if you can.
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HillBuzz on the Radio: The Megan Fox Show, 11pm EST/10pm CST tonight!
We’re going to guest on The Megan Fox Show tonight, at 11pm EST/10pm CST.
The topic will be “Operation Samantha Stevens” and what the Left has been doing to Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell, joining forces oddly enough with the Cocktail Party GOP establishment to keep this Tea Party-backed woman from being elected Senator.
If there’s time we might even get to talk about Brian Austin Green a little as well (kind of had a crush on him in high school).
Join Megan’s chat and be sure to listen to the show!
LeNa JaBrowski engaged in full-court aggressive publicity press for her write-in campaign
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Ophelia Goodies, famed Boystown drag queen, has taken on the role of LeNa JaBrowski’s press secretary in her doomed write-in campaign for the Senate in Alaska. ”Hey, it’s a job, and those are hard to come by these days. Besides, you can’t do drag for over thirty years and not be accustomed to dealing with delusional princesses and queens who just won’t get off the stage no matter how sad and sorry they are, how loud people are booing them, or even when the music’s stopped and people are packing up to go home. So, if Miss LeNa’s going to make a damn fool of herself, who am I to stop her?”
Ophelia’s been keeping us plugged into the latest absurdities emanating from JaBrowski Campaign Headquarters (the rear seating area of the Arby’s on Muldoon Road in Anchorage, where the curly fries are always crisp and the Jamocha shakes are “to die for”).
Today she sent us a new blast of the most recent publicity shots LeNa JaBrowski has taken, in her door-to-door push to convince Alaskans to write her name on their ballots on November 2nd.
“Not your bottoms, dummies, your BALLOTS. Write my name on your BALLOTS, and make sure to spell it right. L-E-N-A-J-A-B-R-W-S-K-I. Spell it right!”
Whatever Ophelia sends us, we’ll dutifully pass on to you!
Michelle Antoinette Gives UN Dignitaries Things She Didn't Want From Her Potemkin Garden
Where did all these vegetables come from...and why are they all the things we imagine Michelle doesn't like or want?
Here’s the gift baskets that Michelle Antoinette gave to dignitaries at the UN on her recent visit to New York, accompanying Dr. Utopia to a meeting there.
First off, we need to acknowledge that Michelle gave people something…which is an improvement on her usual behavior.
Giving people a picnic basket when the summer is over is strange, but it’s a quality basket, and someone on the staff of each dignitary will most likely have this re-gifted to them so someone will use it as a hamper or wastebasket, we’re sure. It won’t, like the iPod (full of Obama talking) Michelle gave Queen Elizabeth II and the DVDs the Obamas gave Gordon Brown (who is blind, and can’t watch TV, especially because the videos were the wrong region-coding to play in England), go to complete waste.
But the choice of contents for the baskets is strange: it sure sounds like things Michelle Antoinette doesn’t like and wants to get rid of.
Sort of like when someone comes over and mentions today is his birthday, when you had no idea and weren’t prepared. Unless you are someone who keeps gender-neutral, non-perishable “emergency presents” in the closet for just such an occasion (or, for when you yourself get sad and need cheering up…since after a while you forget what’s in each of the wrapped boxes and can enjoy a surprise too), you race through the upstairs looking for something you don’t especially like that you can give to your guest as a “reasonable” gift.
It’s the thought that counts, right?
Inside the basket, Michelle Antoinette (not personally) put tomatoes, some bell peppers, pickled okra, carrots, cucumbers, and herbs…all supposedly from her “organic miracle garden” at the White House.
When we were in DC for the Restoring Honor rally, we went to the White House specifically to see if we could have a look at this “garden”.
What we found was a tiny plot of land that looked like no one had particularly been there in a while…and the White House lawn looked DREADFUL.
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If the White House grounds team can't manage to keep the grass alive, we have a hard time believing they are capable of generating massive produce yield from Michelle's "organic garden"
We just have a hard time believing the same grounds crew that can’t seem to keep the White House lawn looking good is able to turn that “organic garden” of Michelle’s into a magic cornucopia of reliable gift-basket generating proportions.
The whole thing is so strange to us, but like we said at the top, at least Michelle Antoinette gave those people in New York SOMETHING.
She most likely received all manner of personally selected, meaningful and historic, one-of-a-kind original presents from everyone she met at the UN…while she had Reggie Love or whomever hand people these baskets of pickled okra they didn’t want, claiming “I grew that”.
Sure you did.
Whatever you say, lady.
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UPDATE: We have to show you the Longaberger Headquarters in Ohio…which is, in our opinion, the coolest building in all of Ohio.
Longaberger is the company that made the baskets that Michelle Antoinette gave away at the UN.
We’re curious now if the company was forced to donate the baskets, or if the Obamas paid for them.
Is Longaberger getting product placement in the White House gift shop for this…or was it a call that went something like “we need baskets, and you don’t need an audit”.
It reminds us of the times the White House makes pizza parlor owners in Missouri or wherever fly down to Washington and make their pies for Obama, because even though he has Cristeta Comerford working for him as his personal chef, with her entire staff, he needs to spend taxpayer money flying in random people to serve him.
Does anyone out there work for Longaberger who could find out if they did indeed donate the baskets…and if the baskets are for sale in DC now…and if there’s a special write-up about all of this in the Longaberger newsletter…because we want to know if the canned produce came from Longaberger too, as that looks like their jars, and they do sell canned vegetables matching the description of those “organic” Michelle Antoinette-grown wares.
Jon Stewart is a sad, sad clown
h/t shortermer
Here’s a fun graphic a reader sent in, inspired by Jon Stewart’s appearance on O’Reilly last night. Laura Ingraham called him a “sad clown”, because Dr. Utopia is failing so badly in the White House, his presidency is crumbling, and he’s leading Democrats to a midterm election that will be the biggest political disaster for a party since 1896.
Yesterday, his cohort in shenanigans, Stephen Coldbear, made an absolute ass of himself at a Congressional hearing and humiliated the Democrats who invited him to testify (as a migrant worker, no less). Stewart and Coldbear will join together the day before Halloween to make further asses of themselves at the Lincoln Memorial, where they will attempt to make fun of the Restoring Honor rally we went to last month.
These guys are ridiculous, but not in the way Comedy Central wants or needs.
BUMPED: Big Bird tells it like it is on Sesame Street — you really need to watch this, because it's very funny
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Someday, our most sincere wish is to have the skills to create things like this.
Hopefully, before 2012, because we need conservatives nationwide to get crash courses in manipulating video and making little bits like the above that take viewers by surprise and deliver the message in the most thought provoking and original way possible.
It is how we will defeat the Left, by using their best skills and tricks against them.
Just imagine how great the Tea Party could be if the Resistance acquired the tech, graphics, editing, and humor skills to surpass the Left in all things hip, savvy, and fun.
INPUT NEEDED: Help us tweak this "How to use Gravatar" graphic and instructions so that it's fool-proof
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At least once a day, someone tells us they don’t know how to use Gravatar to get a free avatar for commenting on posts.
We had Chrissy-the-Hyphenated make the graphic above, and she even created a thread talking about the step-by-step instructions for getting avatars.
But, people keep saying “it’s too complicated”, “I don’t understand”, and “I need better directions”.
Some people have excellent skills at writing training materials and teaching others how to do things.
We’d like some of you to step forward here and write up easy to follow, step by step, instructions for getting an avatar at Gravatar.
Those of you who had trouble understanding how to do this, please chime in and write down what you were doing wrong, or what was hard for you to understand. That insight and feedback could be the key to making a set of instructions for this that everyone can follow…so we don’t hear “it’s too complicated” anymore.
The reason we keep bringing this up is that you have no idea how much easier avatars make handling the comments for this site. They literally saved us hours a day when sorting out the spam that comes in. We want to keep moving towards the day when we no longer have to read what’s in the spam filters, but just start visually scanning it and deleting everything that doesn’t have an avatar attached to it automatically. Then, all we need to do is a quick double-checked of the avatar comments left to make sure no spam bots have snuck through with avatars, and we’re done with comment moderation.
THAT will then eliminate the other major point of frustration around here, which are the comments some of you leave complaining about something not posting immediately, or “gremlins eating things”. Being able to sort through the comments visually means we can sort them almost instantly…which means anything caught in spam would be freed much faster if everyone commenting had an avatar. People would then not be frustrated because their comments would get through faster, and we’d be so much happier since we’d never have to again see those complaints about “something not getting posted” or “something being eaten”.
Please get an avatar.
And please help us help others get one by using this thread to write up YOUR best instructions for how to do this, so we can tweak the above graphic so that it’s impossible for someone to not understand.
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Here’s a great Gravatar tutorial from Val Taylor…trust us…she’s a great teacher and has a terrific, cheerful voice that walks you through this with ease:
