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Hello all of you Ghost viewers out there on the www,
I want this post to be a little informative to you all. I just want to explain something that my brother and I, and his blogging friends know only too well. Comments are the lifeblood of our industry! The only thing that makes it worth the time and effort to post (not to mention all the effort Bob puts into the construction and improvement of the site) is a little bit of feedback from our viewing audience. Without this our nearly 2,000 hits mean nothing to us. For all we know these could just be people who searched google for “nasty combacks (intentional misspell on my part)” or “real prada bags” or “skeleton Olympics” and merely glanced at our site before deciding we didn’t actually have what they were looking for and moved on. So I have decided to post a challenge to any of you out there who have actually taken the time to read some of our site, whether you enjoy it or not (although you must think SOMETHING of it if you are even reading this) to just leave us a little feedback. It is particularly inspiring when it comes from people we don’t know, but I’ll take what I can get. So just too clarify, if you look at the bottom of this post you will see a little link that says “comments” just click on that link and leave a little message it will take you 30 seconds and make my day. If you would like to see some changes on our site, or have recommendations, slanderous insults, political differences with us… whatever the case may be, just let us know. A few words might drastically impact the way our site is run. I will personally respond to every single comment that we get that, that is my pledge too you, and I will seriously consider any suggestions that you give us. There is a catch to my little bargain though, you will have to comment. I know you have it in you though, you are good people and you want to help out a little site run by such talented and inspiring people as Bob and I. So please don’t make me flat out beg, just give us a little something huh? I mean if we can’t even get say… 5 comments after such an overt attempt on my part I’m going to be wondering if anyone is even reading us at all. And as you’ve noticed the volume of my posts isn’t very high rights now, so you really don’t want to discourage me… unless you think I suck, in which case you should take advantage of the opportunity to thoroughly discourage me by… you guessed it… COMMENTING!
Interested in Bob’s idea of the perfect date? (You KNOW you are)
Wondering if I am as blindingly attractive as I sound in my posts? (I don’t want to spoil this one for you… but it’s pretty clear that I am)
You can find out these things and more through the wonders of commenting and having a personalized response by Bob and/or myself.
Want to take a cheap shot with a play on words on my foolish linguistic description of “blindingly” attractive? Now is your chance, make everyone laugh and gain the admiration and respect of your peers while at the same time bringing me down a peg.
So come on people, throw us a freakin bone!
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Since you are asking for comments, may I suggest that since he obviously is far greater than the average human, you should probably refer to Bob as UltraBob?
Also rather than spending your time asking people for comments, leaving comments about how great you both are, and generally leaving a bad taste in their mouth for people to take home with them, that you guys post higher quality material with greater frequency, that gives viewers a greater sense of community which will make them want to post on this piece of crap blog.
Then again, leaving a bad taste in everyone’s mouth is kind of what we’re all about isn’t it?!?
Ok, consider yourself commented upon!
Love ya,
MOM
>A few words might drastically impact
>the way our site is run.
I stumbled in via hunkabutta.com’s comments about the J-blogging party at Pink Cow in my old ‘hood Ebisu.
What does mean? Nothing I suppose, except that I hang out and interact with over at the gaijin whining post at .
Actually, I’m the adult supervision there, except there is no supervision/moderation that Forum which I treat like my own news blog, even though I haven’t any real interaction with it’s very absentee landlord, “Ultragaijin”.
Back to your site: I do NOT appreciate your nag slash screen, “Download a browser that complies with Web standards.” I am using perfectly valid version Mozilla 1.3b via a VPN with a tough firewall.
To be blunt, YOUR SITE does NOT pass HTML standards for the handicapped . Now, see how that feels when you nag a web viewer…
URL tested: http://dd.t4ac.com, March 3, 2003 9:07:52 PM EST
Watchfire Bobby Core v4.0.1, WAI Content Accessibility Guidelines
This site will look much better in a browser that supports web standards, but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device.
http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/bobbyServlet?URL=http://dd.t4ac.com&output=Submit&gl=wcag1-aaa&test;=
Sorry to be so darn negative---I’m not a cranky guy--- but hey, you started it with your invalid nag screen directed at me using Mozilla 1.3b. I will read your blog some more to get a fuller feeling for where you’re at.
Yours,
Taro (aka Erik_
John,
Thanks for the comment and I hope Bob takes into consideration the stuff you said, as for myself I’m more into the simple writing aspect of it and don’t understand most of what you said
But I hope whatever problems you are having are resolved and you can enjoy what we have to offer.
Taro,
Thanks for visiting our site, and I appreciate your comments. Thank you for the reminder, I’ve been meaning to make the nag message clearer (something along the lines, of if you see this message, you aren’t seeing this page as it was intended, please try downloading a standards compliant browser.). Hewever, I have no idea why you are seeing it at all. You see, I also use Mozilla 1.3b, and have absolutely no problems in that regard. With regard to the handicapped accessibility report. I never claimed or implied that we meet those requirements. I would like to, but I just don’t have the time right now to review our site, and make sure we comply there. Also, I am the only one of the two writers who knows much about design and standards, and I don’t want to spend my time cleaning up johnny’s code, which would be just fine except that it doesn’t meet those standards.
Back to the issue of why you don’t see our site as it is intended, do you have any problem seeing the styles of any other sites? Do you have an idea of what may be causing it? Have you changed any of the settings? What platform are you running on? If you could provide me some of this info, maybe we could get things worked out.
At any rate, I hope you read further into the blog, and got something out of it. Let me know good or bad. I appreciate criticism like yours, it helps me to make it better.
UltraBob
Ultra_bob wrote:
>I’ve been meaning to make the nag message
>clearer ...
>I have no idea why you are seeing it at all.
>You see, I also use Mozilla 1.3b, and have >absolutely no problems in that regard.
The Nag Screen and Egg on my face
I went back and did some browser testing and discovered that the Nag Screen has “issues” with strong firewalls. Without a firewall, my Mozilla 1.3b works fine with with the firewall your site cannot sniff my browser type and freaks out. Frankly, I don’t want to disclose my machine info, browser type, etc (rightfully so since it’s none of your #### business) and you as site owner wants as much feedback as possible.
Anyway, the egg is on my face for nagging you about the Nag.
Yours,
Taro
Interesting that your firewall should make a difference, I wonder why? I haven’t actually set up for any browser sniffing at all. I just tried to set up my call to the css file, so that non-standards compliant browsers wouldn’t understand the call, and wouldn’t fetch the css and cause a disaster.
Maybe what your firewall is doing is blocking .css files? If you find that that is the case, I would make the suggestion, that you may be missing out on more and more of the site designs coming out these days. As browsers are getting more and more standards compliant, more and more people are designing in css.
Of course, this may not be the problem at all. I’d really be interested to know what IS causing it though, to prevent bad experiences for other users. Perhaps I’ll add a screenshot to the nag message so that people can see what the site would look like if they were able to view it with full css styling.
Your comments are really helping, and I appreciate them. Please feel free to let us know of anything else that is annoying or out of place on the site, or of ways we could improve; or just tell me to stop posting because Johnny is much more interesting. At any rate, thanks for stopping by, and I hope the site is interesting enough that you keep reading.
UltraBob