Archive for the ‘Site Maintenance’ Category
Site Rebuild
Just so you understand, I am not immune to criticism about the site performance. The thing is, I can’t immediately deal with every single complaint every single time one of you has it- sometimes, performance issues simply are not on our end, but rather, they are yours. Basically, I have to look at things in [...]
February 10, 2012
· 
John Cole · 
94 Comments
Posted in: Site Maintenance
Site Issues
DougJ and Mistermix have assaulted me with a nonstop campaign of constant harassment about site performance issues. Frankly, I thought the site was performing relatively well and was pretty stable, with a few hitches during high-traffic periods (debates, SOTU, etc.). I don’t know how much of our issue may be that we are simply nearing [...]
February 7, 2012
· John Cole · 85 Comments
Posted in: Site Maintenance
Open Thread
Yes, I am aware the site is loading slower than molasses. I am working on it. Other than general slowness, are there any other problems?
January 31, 2012
· John Cole · 85 Comments
Posted in: Site Maintenance
Fat Man in a Bathtub
I figure I have run this blog for ten years, you should have a chance to look at the fat bastard that runs it. I’ve avoided it, because I don’t like the way I look- I used to be a skinny little kid- now I am some middle aged fat shit with grey in his [...]
January 25, 2012
· John Cole · 455 Comments
Posted in: Site Maintenance
Site Maintenance
I am aware the site has been slow, and we are working on it, but I will once again remind you that there is simply no point spamming the refresh button if your load time is long. It does nothing but slow down the site even more by sending repeated requests.
January 24, 2012
· John Cole · 133 Comments
Posted in: Site Maintenance
Back To High School
This is my last say on this ridiculous matter. I have no idea why ABL has decided that this was all about her, because I have repeatedly stated that what Glenn said was dickish. I don’t think anyone actually thinks she would defend President Obama raping a nun. This is when several idiots will then [...]
January 3, 2012
· John Cole · 1,068 Comments
Posted in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Site Maintenance
Listen, Assholes
There was so much offensive shit in that last open thread I took the unprecedented step of just deleting the whole god damned thing turning off the comments. I am really sick of some of you people. And I don’t just mean the trolls, I mean the people who simply can not control themselves and [...]
December 30, 2011
· John Cole · 135 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Site Maintenance
Open Thread
I just saw a preview of the Pets of Balloon Juice 2012 calendar, and I think you all are going to love it!
December 13, 2011
· John Cole · 24 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Site Maintenance
Commenters Behaving Badly
I don’t know why anyone should ever have to mention this or deal with it, but I just deleted a couple of comments in ABL’s Naomi Wolfe thread. Two different commenter names, two different email addresses, both pushing the same theme, the same IP address for both. If you can’t make your point without resorting [...]
November 26, 2011
· Soonergrunt · Comments Closed
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Fucked-up-edness, I Hate All of You, Site Maintenance, This is not where you come to do your madness!, WTF?
Site Problems
A lot of you have pointed out the change.org thing was messing up the screen, so I removed it. Are there any other minor problems that need to be addressed?
November 19, 2011
· John Cole · 77 Comments
Posted in: Site Maintenance
Open Thread: Rogue FYWP Alert
I just looked at the top layer of the spam filter, and half a dozen regular commentors had been “sin binned” for perfectly unobjectionable comments about gardening, pet nutrition, Star Trek nostalgia, and which team deserved to win. Apparently FYWP is in one of its random mucker phases. I’ll keep checking for How-the-Hell-could-that-get-called-Spam, but if [...]
September 18, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 82 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Site Maintenance
I’m Begging Now
Front pagers- stop making new categories for every whim. Use tags to be clever. We now have fifty categories with two posts or less in them. Some of the categories don’t even begin to make sense. We have a category titled ‘eh.’ WTF does that mean? What the hell does “Balloon Jobs” mean? Why? Tire [...]
September 9, 2011
· John Cole · 171 Comments
Tags: EVERYONE CAN SEE HOW CLEVER I AM WITH MY PITHY TAGS, Look how fun it is tomake tags, Look I am doing it again, OMG SO MUCH FUN · Posted in: Get off my grass you damned kids, Site Maintenance, This is not where you come to do your madness!
Balloon Juice on Facebook
Someone requested I make a page, but I am clueless. What of the six choices should I choose?
August 4, 2011
· John Cole · 171 Comments
Posted in: Site Maintenance
Lighten Up, Francis (An Illustrated Guide to the Balloon Juice Comment Policy)
I’ve thought about it a bit, and here is the comments policy we will be rocking from now on: 1.) No racist, sexist, or homophobic remarks. Violation equals comment deletion and a warning, second offense is comment deletion and a week vacation, third offense, don’t let the door hit you in the ass. 2.) No [...]
March 18, 2011
· John Cole · 259 Comments
Posted in: Site Maintenance
Something Has To Give
I can not spend the rest of my life fielding emails and policing bullshit behaviors in the comments section or reading emails from people who are offended by such and such. I can’t, and I won’t. Something has to give. I don’t know what has gotten into everyone, or what has happened, but between the [...]
March 18, 2011
· John Cole · 407 Comments
Tags: I will pull this god damned car over and no one will go on vacation · Posted in: Assholes, Site Maintenance
