That was easy enough.

OK, I had some problems at first, but it appears those of us who registered previously just need to sign-in under our names, right?

I figured the length of my name was protecting me, but cool beans.

denelian—I now feel bad about not reporting the theft when I first saw it, but I figured people with brains would know it wasn’t you.  Plus, I knew you weren’t calling me names.

MAJeff has a strength of ignoring trolls I wish I could tap into.

Yes, Biscuit God.  And if you use the same machine, you tend to stay signed in.

Only slightly confusing. I thought that activating the account would also do an auto-login. No biggie. Definitely worth it to keep one type of troll activity to a minimum.

I can’t figure out how to register! Oh wait…

I think this step was necessary. Even the almost-unmoderated sadlyno.com is starting to have serious issues with annoyingly persistent trolls (mostly, one in particular) who just won’t go away. At least the process is quite easy.

Easy-peasy, and a good idea.

You might want to make the login link at the left a little more prominent.

Ok, there!  Secret handshake complete.

You need to have the login/register buttons underneath the text-entry comments box.

Troll psychology I just don’t understand.  Part of it is that conservatism is a negative political stance—-mostly about hating this group or that, and hating liberals is their “argument”.  Which means that many think actually using their presence to shut down liberal discussion forums is a legitimate form of expression.  I just don’t see it going much the other way, though part of that is few conservative blogs have comments.

How long you figure before Amanda, Jesse, or Pam gets an email saying “you have no right to ban me for <strike>speaking the truth</strike> making incredibly bigoted statements with no grounding in reality! I REGISTERED!1\!!1”

For some reason, it wouldn’t allow me to register under my usual screen name - probably because I had registered before - but it also wouldn’t permit me to sign in as TDA because there’s no such name in the database. So now I’m TDA v 1.1 - same as the original, but with fewer bugs.

You need to have the login/register buttons underneath the text-entry comments box.

Also, this is now the third time I’ve tried to make this comment. First time, got turned back because it was 15 seconds since the last time; second time, got turned back for no explained reason; third time’s the charm, eh?

To some of my anarchist comrades: this is why consensus works (sometimes) in affinity groups but is not a realistic way to make decisions in the real world. You just need one jackass…

Done.

“MAJeff has a strength of ignoring trolls I wish I could tap into. “

R-amen!  He should bottle and sell this amazing ability.

R-amen!  He should bottle and sell this amazing ability

I can soup in jars instead.

Since this thread isn’t about a specific topic that can be “derailed,” I’m a use it to test the signature function.

At which apparently I /fail.

hmmmm, ok.  Methinks someone is going to build themselves a nice little email list.

Not that you shouldn’t mind you…

I hate registering…

I wonder if I should finally register over at the Great Orange Satan and Feministing…

Which means that many think actually using their presence to shut down liberal discussion forums is a legitimate form of expression.  I just don’t see it going much the other way, though part of that is few conservative blogs have comments.

Given how most of the trolls tend to degenerate into misogyny, racism, and homophobia and how personal their attacks get it strikes me that they think that hurting liberals is legitimate expression, in the way that the pro-lifer who drove their car into a women’s health clinic this week thought that was legitimate expression.

Easy enough. Poor psychopath trolls, though—what will DodgeRamMeUpTheArse (come on, it’s so obvious he’s a closet case) do to get attention from now on?

I haven’t been able to register at Feministing—and they don’t respond to emails. :(

ice weasel—Amanda et al have had my email address for a few years now from non-registered posting and there isn’t any reason to believe they’re “building an email list.”

However, Pandagon overlords, it might be a good idea to whip up a quick “privacy policy” for the site stating that personal information will not be bought/sold/traded when people register. All the cool sites are doing it.

In the abortion/misogyny thread below, the troll stole my name and told someone to get in the kitchen and bake cookies.  Anyone who knows me knows that I would bake my own cookies.  However, in the spirit of killing DogShit, I’m gonna give y’all my favorite cookie recipe.  This one’s from my great aunt.  I dunno where she got it, but my family has been using it—from a cookbook published by their church—for decades. (I usually make them for my students during finals week)

Enjoy!

1 cup shortening
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 cup flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
3 cups oatmeal
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (I add more to replace the walnuts)
1 tsp vanilla extract (go for Penzey’s double-strength…AMAZING STUFF)

Preheat oven to 350
Cream together the shortening, sugars, and eggs.
In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, soda, powder, and salt.
Mix the bowls together with the remaining ingredients.
Place slightly flattened 1-TBSP-sized cookies on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet. (you’ll want to wet your hands first—sticky dough)
Bake for 10-15 minutes (12 usually works for me)

This isn’t fair. How am I supposed to call the writers of this blog gay and imply that I’m having sex with their mothers now? Trolls have rights too, you know. What happened to you, man? You used to be cool.

I am all set.

This is only a test.

Testing….

Test. Penzeys has good cocoa too. I love that store.

Alright, alright, I’ll register.  Grumble.

Well, that was relatively painless…

Ah-HA!  I was already registered and couldn’t frickin’ figure out how to log in.

It’s way up on the left-hand side under “Members,” for anyone else who’s confused.

Well, whataya know?  My junior Senator did a good thing and voted Yea for the Ledbetter Act. 

Burris just started his 2 years as a seat warmer in a good way.

Penzeys has good cocoa too. I love that store.

They also make a killer Vindaloo spice mix.  It makes a great rub on pork or chicken. Do that up with a little chutney, and rice or dhal and you’ve got an amazing meal.

Wow, what great news, Cris. Thanks for passing it on! My day just got much better.

Also, self, logging in works better if you don’t reflexively block cookies. Duh.

I am a registered pandagonian now.  Uh oh.  Now the black helicopters know where to find me.

That’s a great little cookie recipe there, Majeff. My wife makes similar cookies (freely and of her own volition, without coercion). Mmmmm cookies….

“Uh oh.  Now the black helicopters know where to find me.”

...now do you see why computers should have the same 2nd Amendment-style protection as guns?

When computers are outlawed, only outlaws will have computers…

(BTW, Amanda and Pam have had my email address for years, and no problems on my end.  ‘Course there is a black Ford sedan that parks by my house sometimes, and stays there for hours with nobody getting in or out.  I’m sure it’s just a coincidence…)

MAJeff is a horrible, horrible, soup-obsessed, cokoie-baking monster in human form.

Ha!  Id roaming free, knowing that the new registration system will block me the first time I try to post.  These things always do.

Uh oh.

(Dammit Dammmit DAMMIT!!!!!!)

Now all I can think about is @#!! cookies.

‘Course there is a black Ford sedan that parks by my house sometimes, and stays there for hours with nobody getting in or out.

Simply because you look so damned cute coming out to get the paper in your dressing gown, dear.  We got the pictures posted up back at Central.

Now all I can think about is @#!! cookies.

Get to cooking then

I’ve got a loaf of bread rising right now.

seeker6079, what is this cokoie of which you speak?  Is it tasty?

The Ledbetter Act is law! The bill passes 61-36, with 55 Democrats and 5 Republicans (Snowe, Collins, Murkowski, Hutchison, and Specter).

I’m good.

http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/one_thing_the_senate_probably_wont_screw_up/site/comments#81071

Hm.  Test cat is testing.

Easy enough. Poor psychopath trolls, though—what will DodgeRamMeUpTheArse (come on, it’s so obvious he’s a closet case) do to get attention from now on?

Start fights in supermarkets? Piss in the penny pond at the musem? Rate a million You Tube videos with one-star?

More to the point, who cares?

Oh, you’d like it MAJeff.  It’s like a cookie, but for people like me who’ve been smacked one too many times in the head.  Yummy!

Test.  Meow.

hmmmm, ok.  Methinks someone is going to build themselves a nice little email list.

Not that you shouldn’t mind you…

So set up a gmail account and register that.  That’s what I did when I realised I was likely to be elected Prime Mi- I mean, to seperate my personal life from online activity.

Well, whataya know?  My junior Senator did a good thing and voted Yea for the Ledbetter Act. 

Burris just started his 2 years as a seat warmer in a good way.

It is a good thing, though to be truthful he would have been a royal asshole not too, and I don’t think it would have made him many friends among his Democratic colleagues - the Senate Dems voted unanimously in favor.

The 5 Republicans who crossed over?

Every female GOP Senator (Markowski, Hutchison, Snowe, Collins) + Arlen Specter.

Props to Specter for doing the right (albeit probably expedient) thing, but can there be no doubt as to why the GOP is generally viewed as a bunch of misogynistic good ol’ boys when 31 out of 32 male GOP Senators voted to support gender-based discrimination?

I’ve got a loaf of bread rising right now.

Ooooh, MAJeff!  Your kitchen smells so good right now.

My grandfather used to make sourdough bread.  It was the coolest thing to come home from school and have warm bread waiting for me.  He also made sourdough pancakes (that were so thin and light the closest thing I’ve ever found are Swedish pancakes) for breakfast everyday.  He was the one who began creating the pancakes in the first place.

Mmmmm.  Miss him lots.  Mine are good, or so I’m told, but it’s just not the same.

Those cookies look pretty good, MAJeff.  Too bad I have to make banana bread today (bananas won’t last much longer) and I can’t have too many sweets laying around the house tempting me.  Can I substitute butter for the shortening?  Because I just like butter better.

Nifty!

And I bet those cookies are good. There’s a pretty similar recipe in the Joy of Cooking that uses butter instead of shortening and goes lighter on the oatmeal and walnuts. Mmm, oatmeal and walnuts…

>>Rate a million You Tube videos with one-star?

Write a million YouTube comments, that even if this is the stalker troll we’re talking about, will still end up being less moronic than the average YouTube comment?

Can I substitute butter for the shortening?  Because I just like butter better.

I dunno.  I haven’t played around with substituting fats, but Crisco does make a butter-flavored shortening, though. The only reason I even have shortening in the house is for the few times a year when I bake the cookies.

I’ve have substituted and used mint chocolate chips during the christmas season, and now I tend to use combos of white chocolate chips with semi-sweet.

I thought he stole it after I logged in - I’ve been registered since before that idiot showed up.  However, I may be wrong.  Either way, yeah, the computer leaves me logged in until it shuts down, which is fine, except when my boyfriend comments on here.

Mint chocolate is an abomination unto the Lord. 
“You got your chocolate in my toothpaste!”  “You got your toothpaste in my chocolate!”

Mint chocolate is an abomination unto the Lord. 

Since there’s no Lord, there is no abomination.

Since there’s no Lord, there is no abomination.

Oh fine.  Picky.

You must be right, though, because if there were, there would certainly be no such thing as <strike>toothpaste</strike> mint chocolate.

Thou shalt not mix the beans of the cocoa with the leaves of the mint; this is abomination.

Since there’s no Lord, there is no abomination.

There’s Screaming Lord Sutch. He’s a Lord. Or was, at any rate.

Caren wrote:

Yes, Biscuit God.  And if you use the same machine, you tend to stay signed in.

Even easier than that; I stay logged in to the same screen name on two separate computers.  The site’s pretty forgiving, actually.

Amanda wrote:

I just don’t see it going much the other way, though part of that is few conservative blogs have comments.

Kind of a surprise to me!  Patterico, Hot Air, Power Line, Red State, Little Green Footballs, pretty much every conservative site I visit, have comments enabled. Of the conservative blogs in the top ten of The Truth Laid Bear rating system, only Instapundit doesn’t have a commenting feature, and Instapundit is more of a drive-by blog link site.

To which conservative blogs did you refer?

“Even easier than that; I stay logged in to the same screen name on two separate computers.”

...I actually stay logged in on 5 or 6 different machines: a couple at work, and a couple desktops and a couple laptops at home…one of the desktops is running Linux too…

IP MASKER: KILLSCRIPT

Hah!  Had to try it out ...

Wow Jeff - I’ve got a giant bag of mint chocolate chips ... If the weather, schedules, and getting sick and all of that make it possible for me to meet you for lunch, remind me to bring a ziploc for ya, ‘kay?

okey doke

Alright, I don’t comment often, but I’ll register anyway just so some troll doesn’t borrow and register my name.

I’m registered here, and at Jessica’s, and I registered with Disqus to comment at Shakesville, and I made a second Wordpress account so I could use my nom de guerre on WP blogs and my real name on my own.

I’m innocent, and so have nothing to hide.

I don’t comment often either, but want to register anyway.

the troll infestation has been particularly bad lately. I’m glad Amanda and Jesse are making them at least crawl out from under the bridge.

Global gag rule rescinded by the President today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The thing about required registration is that it tends to reduce comment traffic given the barrier to entry created. However, I like how registration is quick, easy, and fairly persistent. So far pandagon still has plenty of comment traffic, so it seems ok.

Testing my new registered self.

OH MAJEFF!  You just made me shout out loud.

I’d just been over at Think Progress,where apparently the Minority Whip is running around telling boldfaced lies—i.e., claiming that more money will be spent on (lawn) grass at the National Mall than on small businesses and doesn’t even mention the cuts in taxes to small businesses.

Then we have the Steve King claiming that a liberal judge might throw out Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s case on a technicality—like not being read his Miranda rights (which the SCOTUS already threw out)—and then another judge might decide he should get political asylum then POW 9/11 MasterMind is on the path to US citizenship!

Then we have Senate Minority Leader flipping out on Employee Free Choice Act.

I’m all bummed at the outrageous lies and obstruction we will have for the next 2-4 years, and that the fight for the truth and for journalists to do even the most basic of follow up hasn’t ended at all, but then I see the gag rule is gone!

At last! Thank God Almighty free at last!

Global gag rule rescinded by the President today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like how he did it the day after the Roe anniversary so the forced birthers couldn’t use it in yesterday’s protests.  Plus now no one really cares what the forced birthers have to say about it—their big protest was yesterday.  What are they going to do, try and get the whole gang back together tomorrow and re-do the protest?

Tyro, I think a lot of people had registered anyway b/c the Pandagonian captcha system was notoriously ugly and hard.

What are they going to do, try and get the whole gang back together tomorrow and re-do the protest?

My President haz brainz.

Hershele Ostropoler wrote:

I made a second Wordpress account so I could use my nom de guerre on WP blogs and my real name on my own.

Not sure what purpose is served by this.  On a WordPress blog, you can either comment without registration, in which case you can use any nom de guerre you wish, or if the blog requires registration to comment—some do—you can still choose whatever name you wish.

I never had to do a captcha on here.  Did they have those?  I’m confused.

Write a million YouTube comments, that even if this is the stalker troll we’re talking about, will still end up being less moronic than the average YouTube comment?

BlackBloc

Probably not.

One good thing about YouTube comments… they are a good place to pick up particularly funny bits of stupidity. Around Oct. & Nov. 2008, I hung around YouTube and talked with people and got exposed to some particularly stupid forms of crazy. Not exactly educational, but amusing on some very low level.

I never had to do a captcha on here.  Did they have those?  I’m confused.

Me either. And I used to make parody comments from time to time. Don’t know why we were spared.

I’m glad, because I hate those fuckers with a white hot passion.

I wish to register my registration complaint.  As my name lacked the required four characters, I was forced to be extra redundant.  And if there’s anything I don’t like, it’s extra redundancy, which in my opinion is deplorable and also saying the same thing over again with emphasis.

Testing new identity…

Testing HTML

<s>Does strikethrough work?</s>  No. Dammit. But preview does!

Testing links. Very happy-making vid if anyone’s curious.

<strike>Strikethrough?</strike>

Abra, just spell out ‘strike’ in the tag instead of using ‘s’.

Done.

Jesurgislac, I can see your comments fine, two or three of them. Is it working on your end now?

YAY end of global gag rule! And yes, the man haz political skillz. Love watching that.

Registered, and testing.

On a WordPress blog, you can either comment without registration, in which case you can use any nom de guerre you wish,

No, no, no, Dana - here we use nom de plumes.  If we posted at your site we’d use nom de guerre… 8-)

I couldn’t figure out if I was already registered at this site, so I re-registered with a new login name but the same screen name.  I couldn’t remember my damn password anyway.  If you (the admins) check, the email address is the same one I always use.

We had captcha, like, two servers ago, I think.  I think it was only here for about 6 months.  I never had any problems with it, but everyone else seemed to.

Testing, testing…1, 2, 3….here’s hoping!

WF

Schroedinger’s Commenter is alive.

I think this is a good thing, the trolls were really making a mess.
And I use a nom du net.

Oh, and no artificial butter flavor shortenings in my cookies, please.
Artificial butter flavor is a chemical that damages the lungs of the workers in the food factories over time.  I wouldn’t want it on my conscience.

But real butter works fine in cookies; there is a difference in textures, but not everyone prefers the same texture, anyway.

I’ve registered under my name, sans food-aristocrat sobriquet, on accounta so few people still use theirs.  I’ve seen another “Josh” entering discussions here every now and then, and indeed engaging the conversation more substantially than I do:  I hope he’s okay with having to add to his name.

Phoenician: ‘twas Hershele Ostropoler who referred to his pseudonym as a “non de guerre,” rather than a “nom de plume.”

So many nyms I’ve lost track of them all. (Truly. Sometimes I go to “show passwords” on firefox just so I can figure out who the hell I am.)

It’s going to be interesting to see how the ground game goes on the stimulus bill—“Talk to your neghbors about the following local services that your representative wants to shut down…”

I’ve been tied up with work for the last four days, but want to applaud this, as it will also eliminate the duplicate “James” poster who seems to be a troll.

I am not a troll.

“Nom de guerre” being the correct term, per Fowler.

Ahem. the WordPress account that shows up as Hershele is an admin on my blog, so I can stay signed in for everything but actually posting and still kvetch at people on Feminism101.

Done.