"We don't like you. You are a weak, oblong programmer. We only like amazing, bad ass programmers. You, dude, are not bad ass. Just try to implode our faces, and show us your bad-assness. Oblong. Let us see if you are a programmer worthy of existence."
- AJ Batac
from Bookmarklet
HAHAHAHAHAHAAA!! Thank goodness I'm not a programmer!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
I don't think I've ever seen a more obvious way to say "we'll be out of business in two years tops."
- Andrew C
I once confronted some colleagues who posted their DBA requiremetns (none were DBAs) on Criagslist. They had put all of this macho stuff in there, like "available 24x7" and stuff- and, surprise!- nobody was applying. We ended up having to hire a contractor that the owner knew personally, ha.
- anna sauce
I suppose the one benefit of job postings like this is improved morale in the office. (At least, among the non-cynical. If I saw my workplace posting something like this, I'd know the lunatics had taken over.)
- Andrew C
I'm ashamed to say that I have never been up there, in all my years of living in Chicago....that'll change very soon.
- Joel Robert Perez
I don't know if I'll be able to go out on that glass bottomed platform that hangs out. I'm not afraid of heights, but that things still looks terrifying.
- Bill Kinney
The CN Tower in Toronto has the same thing. But not glass walls. Wow, those kids have major stones.
- Joel Robert Perez
Geoff, no matter, you didn't. Still love that little one. I also love dogs. Have you seen the dogs I post daily? I LUV my special animal choices. :)
- Myrna
"Plain silliness! Before you leave any hurtful comments on the weight of this boy, please read very carefully what I have to say. Baobao is a Scottish Fold. These cats are stockily-built. Although not a longhair, he has a thick coat of fur, which makes him look fluffier than he actually is. In fact, when he is wet while bathing, he looks like a scrawny rat. Sitting in such a position does not help in dispelling the "obese" perception."
- Jauder Ho Auto
from Bookmarklet
"There is an edited version of this photo floating around on the Internet. It has bad grammar - "I made you a cookie but I eated it" and I do not appreciate the person who did it. However, if it made you smile, I will forgive that person and I think I probably need to forgive him many times over. :)"
- Jauder Ho Auto
from Bookmarklet
You can now disable comments on your FriendFeed entries using the "Edit" menu. When you disable comments, all existing comments will remain, but no new comments will be allowed.
You can use the feature to stop conversations that are getting out of hand, or to post entries for which you don't want any discussion. Likes will continue to be allowed when comments are disabled.
- Bret Taylor
Chris: yeah, like when you're trying to use the first few comments for your own commentary. It looks like you can. Eeeeeeeeee!
- Mark Trapp
I think it helps those people who feel they are being made fun of in their posts.
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Mark: yep, re-enabling involves just clicking a link
- Bret Taylor
+1 Gunny. It seems like an interesting and somewhat useful idea on it's own, but I can see many applications for it that aren't exactly in the interests of everyone, or even specific people, for what it's worth...
- Tyson Key
Sweet, thanks Bret. One bug I'm noticing is that if I disable comments on my own feed (that is, from http://friendfeed.com/itafroma), my picture shows up next to the entry and doesn't go away until I refresh.
- Mark Trapp
Bret, it looks like right now it doesn't show that comments are disabled until a user tries to comment, then it errors and says that comments are disabled. Not sure if that is widespread or if I just had a weird interaction.
- joey
Of course, the existing moderation options were already a double-edged sword. "Sticky" posts in rooms seems like a good extension to this, on the flip-side, though.
- Tyson Key
I can see the use for this, but that doesn't mean I like it.
- Shawn Kirsch
Actually, it may be displaying properly for me now. EDIT: I see, it just isn't updated in realtime ;)
- joey
While I welcome this addition to the many useful features on FF, I do feel that you should see all comments on a subject, as this enriches our experience.
- Kevin J Hatton
Scoble got thousands of people to join Friendfeed! How about a little love for the big guy!
- Mark
I see the main use for such a feature as being a way to post 'announcement' or 'stick post' entries but we'd really need the comment box back with the share box and the option to disable comments from there, i.e. before it's posted.
- Kol Tregaskes
You know you have influence when a company will modify their product to get you to use it again ;)
- Mark
Bret: the error message you get if you try to comment on a comment blocked post takes you to the generic FAQ page - perhaps it should go to something specific explaining the blocked comments feature.
- Mike Bracco
feature request: i want FF to flow in a <marquee> format instead of a stream! (kidding)
- sean percival
Is this an attempt to make FriendFeed more like a blogging platform? It sort of feels that way to me.
- Mitch
But you know on twitter or fb you can unblock. Someone that I didn't know came on a great discussion about kabbalah and said F**k kabbalah so I blocked him.
- Myrna
Jannnifer: I TOTALLY disagree with you. Blocking on FriendFeed is a very important thing to do to keep your view clear of jerks, spammers, and other people you just don't want interacting with your content. I don't let jerks into my living room and the block feature is how I keep my online living room clean, too.
- Robert Scoble
LOOOOL you better watch out if FF grows too fast, we're gonna be using the block button a LOT
- Myrna
Robert, did you see why I blocked this character. Jerimiah probably would have blocked him from using FF.
- Myrna
@Kol - Looks like FFBlockr is broken/down at the moment...
- Tyson Key
I guess I can see the need for this in some respects, but doubt I'd ever use it. The same way I feel about Blocking......someone would have to be really destructive to get me to do that. I just hope we don't end up with more and more "tools" that stop the natural flow and interaction on FF.
- Bonnie Foster
So Bonnie, would you block a FF stranger who came onto a discussion and said F**k the subject or your discussion?
- Myrna
Bret: I think this feature should let the entry owner to be able to comment without having to re-enable comments (and shutting them down again after that)
- alieb
Myrna....not unless he/she was such a pest that they did this kind of thing all the time.....kept making negative comments, or tried to continually start something. If it was someone who just happened to pop in and make their comment I would chalk it up to them being a jerk, having a bad day, I don't know, maybe just hating that subject. People just aren't going to always agree with everything you say. :)
- Bonnie Foster
Scoble and Krynsky are right, options to turn off comments after 30 days, and a dislike option are needed. Dislikes should be capped at 5 a day though.
- Shawn Kirsch
from BuddyFeed
Bonnie, you mean if I came on one of your threads and just dumped a FU, you would just brush it off? It's negative energy. I don't know about you but I try to keep things positive. Btw, you can disagree and stay positive.
- Myrna
Myrna..not disagreeing that it isn't negative energy, and yes, you can disagree with someone and stay positive. Would I do it, of course not....but everyone is different, and some people are jerks. One FU however, would not crush me, or for that matter, destroy my thread if everyone else was commenting with a positive attitude.
- Bonnie Foster
Just been reading about this over on Techcrunch. Sounds a reasonable idea, although it will be interesting to see how it works out in practice
- George Hall (Australia)
Ok I understand the need to stopping comment when the Mob starts forming, you know the tar and feather, pitchfork and everything, that makes some sense. What I don't understand is why you would post an entry if you didn't want any discussion. If you don't want it discussed then don't post it.
- Kim Landwehr
I am a group admin, I post the room guidelines in a thread and close the comments so that I can stick the thread url in the group description and new users will be able to read a short and to the point list instead of a 150+ comments thread. Sounds good, Kim?
- alieb
Ok, alieb that makes sense I was thinking more of a regular post, wasn't thinking of a room guideline situation.
- Kim Landwehr
You're welcom Myrna, i remembered a thread from a while ago with that link in it and just did a few searches until i found it - i can't find anywhere on the help/faq the friendfeed.com/settings/modifications (for your history of subscriptions and blocks as well) also i can't find the imaginary friends feature linked anywhere in the help/faq either (/settings/imaginary) -- private groups...
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- Chris Heath
Kim, also - if we had this feature back in march scoble wouldn't have had to butcher his post to stop people from trying to enter a contest that was long over http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... - also this helps with spam as a popular post can be preserved without having to be attended to to fight of spammers who would try to latch to a popular search result
- Chris Heath
Bret, I like the timed idea some, but having the owner always able to comment seems right.
- Chris Heath
Robert, I don't see 'blocking' to be important but then I don't have jerks even trying to get into my living room so have no need. ;-) Been here well over a year and yet to block anyone. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Tyson, darn. Sorry I didn't check it before posting.
- Kol Tregaskes
Keep it comin' Bret. Someone ... PLEASE write a Friendfeed guide before I have to ?! (Although ... I'm still lost in the halls looking for what used to be rooms ?! :)
- Charlie Anzman
I believe they call those Groups now, unless they're renamed in a future iteration.
- Tyson Key
Can we get a feature added to the hide interface to 'Hide all entire with comments disabled'? If you don't want me on your thread, I may not want you in my stream. This is a place of discussion, not a bull horn :)
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
This is a great idea Johnny and it adds a balance to the whole situation. People who just want to use FF to promote themselves with no discussion could be easily hidden from view this way.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
well then you might as well block them, right?
- Chris Heath
@Johnny Worthington, I am totally right there with ya on that one. Why bother reading something on FF that I can't respond to? Isn't FF for conversation?
- (dot)lizard kelly
But Chris, they may still comment here and may comment on my stuff. Because they don't want interaction on their posts doesn't mean I should rule out the possibility of having interactions with them all together. It's about the scalple, not the sword :)
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
I fail to see how this new feature is cause for Techcrunch to now reinstate their FF account? How does this prevent Arrington from once again pissing off a bunch of people and prevent a mob from forming on a separate post.
- Kevin Whalen
from email
Arrington won't have to see it on his account everytime he logs in now
- Mark
Kevin & Mark: If a "mob" forms in a forest and Arrington can't see it, is it still a "mob?" If Arrington is worried that FF "mobs" can result in real world, physical threats and action, why does it matter that he can't see it?
- Christopher A Carr
Because he secretly loves getting attention. Not many people know this about him.
- Mitch
I like this ability, but agree with Johnny W on what he says on not wanting to read what he cannot respond to.
- Rick Cogley
I get your point Johnny, i was kind of joking, but also kinda serious.
- Chris Heath
Robert Scoble: Oh No! I was was being sarcastic and kidding with Myrna about blocking being an unforgivable sin!! I agree 100% with what you said above -----> "Blocking on FriendFeed is a very important thing to do to keep your view clear of jerks, spammers, and other people you just don't want interacting with your content. I don't let jerks into my living room and the block feature is...
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- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Thanks. I can't imagine ever using it, but thanks all the same.
- Steven Perez
Gosh, I hope Robert Scoble will be able to see my last comment since this thread is so long!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Interesting, but what about a 'Generate Comments' option for those us that are, shall we say, boring and get little to no activity and want to seem like they are interesting people too. ;->
- Grant Bierman
I fear that this addition will pave the way for more one way transmission. Friendfeed is about sharing and interaction. I might actually have to start using the block funtionality if I start seeing rant or mlm posts.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
If you want to hide comment disabled posts preemptively and user scripts are an option for you, take a look at this script update I released tonight: (only affects you, and only in effect while running the script) http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Micah Wittman
thanks - to "enable" comments, there is a direct link - to disable... it is necessary to click Edit and select the option... Why? a different design?
- Kishore Balakrishnan
Kishore, having 'enable' as a direct link serves as a visual reminder that you've disabled comments on that item. Plus you wouldn't want 'disable' to be a direct link, as you might click it by accident.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Does this feature fossilize a thread? Or can people come in and delete/edit their already living posts in the thread?
- Matthew DeVries
@Matthew - You can disable it, if you're the owner of the post, and at present, it's possible for users to edit their comments after comment freezing, as it's implemented now.
- Tyson Key
A surprisingly controversial move. Good addition, but I can't find myself ever using it.
- Pete Delucchi
from iPhone
this feature seems in accordance with existing moderation options available to post owners
- Mike Chelen
Totally agree with Chrome. Look at Chrome's CPU footprint at the bottom.
- AJ Batac
i still use it because of the addons. but sometimes i fire up chrome.
- Bill Kinney
same experience, too bad I can't live w/o the addons.
- Jerome Coloma
Try it on Linux - I've seen it spike up to 450MB once with 5 tabs open, with copious amounts of JavaScript in each, and Flash content in one tab. Eventually, it actually locks the X11 server up so that applications don't accept mouse clicks, so you have to enter a full-screen console, wait forever until you're able to log in and kill it off... :(
- Tyson Key
@Tyson I don't have that problem on jaunty/karmic 32bit
- mjc
DO NOT BLAME Firefox... yes it has shear amount of own problems, but CPU use you have is reflection of crap loaded into pages by designers, especially Flash and AJAX, not Firefox problem. I have about 50-60 tabs open all time, and sometimes do trimming - otherwise memory traffic & js+flash crap eat up everything, memory and CPU for sure.
- A.T.
Mind you, I have noscript by default and very limited allowance for allowed js/flash
- A.T.
@mjc and A.T. - I'm using 3.0.11 here, have 1GB of RAM and a 2GHz Celeron 575 CPU, for what it's worth. As far as extensions go, I've got Google Gears 0.5.21.0, MoonLight 1.0.1, TwitterFox 1.8.2, AdBlock Plus 1.0.2, the Diigo Toolbar 3.1.6.16, Google NoteBook 1.0.0.22, GreaseMonkey 0.8.2009123.1, User-Agent Switcher 0.7.2 and ClipMarks 4.0.0 enabled. 10 tabs are open at the moment...
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- Tyson Key
Apologies for that being insanely long comment. I'm sure that disabling some Extensions should trim it's RAM utilisation a little, though.
- Tyson Key
I recall the Firefox developers saying that they've reduced the footprint of the core browser itself a lot as of late, although that's little condolence when attaching a boat anchor and a bag of concrete blocks to it in the form of Extensions, Netscape plug-ins, Flash content and numerous pieces of JavaScript content...
- Tyson Key