Category Archives: Site and Admin Stuff

How To Fix “ShareThis” so it no longer adds “See more at…” message to text that you copy and paste

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Ampersand

Without warning users, the folks at “ShareThis” added a new function to their social buttons plugin. Now, anytime someone copies text from a blog with “ShareThis” installed, when the text is pasted, a new message saying “See more at [insert … Continue reading →

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A few random thoughts regarding civility and blog moderation

Posted on September 22, 2012 by Ampersand

Over at Family Scholars Blog, the powers-that-be are planning to modify their moderation policy, and they’ve asked bloggers there to throw in some thoughts about civility over the next month. So this is a post I wrote for FSB, in … Continue reading →

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Alas, A Moderation Policy

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Ampersand

Our Approach To Moderation 1. We don’t have hard-and-fast rules that people aren’t allowed to violate; we just have a goal for the discussions we’d like to have, and we’d like people to move us towards that goal rather than … Continue reading →

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Server Upgrade Complete!

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Ampersand

There’s still some work to be done restoring “Alas,” but all the posts and functionality seem to have been restored. Hopefully “Alas” is no longer incredibly slow-loading! Let me know if you spot any bugs.

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Alas is back!

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Ampersand

Damn, that totally sucked! So what happened? There was a catastrophic hostile attack on our host, Reality Check Network. And it took this long for the data to be recovered and restored to our new host’s servers. Apologies for the … Continue reading →

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Upgrading "Alas"

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Ampersand

I’ve decided to upgrade “Alas” to the current version of WordPress. (Much more secure that way). Unfortunately, doing so has inevitably broken lots of stuff and it’ll take me a while to fix said stuff. Like, er, the recent comments … Continue reading →

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"Alas Debate Annex" now open for business

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Ampersand

The “Alas Debate Annex” is now open for business. This will be a parallel blog, for the moment moderated by me, which will have looser rules on who can comment, and what comments are allowed, than the main “Alas” blog. … Continue reading →

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Linkspam: Unpacking the invisible knapsack Straight privilege edition

Posted on June 4, 2010 by unusualmusic

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So apparently this month is LGBT Pride Month. I therefore snagged this from ontd political which gives the info that it was first put together by students of Earlham College and the poster added the links. Do I have to mention the part where ‘phobic assholes of any kind will be summarily deleted and banned? [...]

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EARTH DAY!!!

Posted on April 22, 2010 by unusualmusic

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Earth Day at the Climate Justice Frontier
There are no shortage of ideas today for how global capitalism can be marshaled to slow down global warming. Never mind that we’re in this mess in the first place largely due to the take-no-prisoners industrialization that today’s wealthier nations built their fortunes upon. And many of the world’s [...]

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Sometimes the world does not suck: Part Two

Posted on April 16, 2010 by unusualmusic

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Before we get to the good parts however: A Signal Fire via jonquil: Do not trust Clitoraid, the charity being promoted by Betty Dobson that offers surgery to FGM victims
see also RESPECT Find out what it means to me!
I WOULD NOT OBJECT TO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN [...]

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