I’d like to thank everyone for the warm welcome! Still checking out some a few bugs, an issue with password changes not functioning properly, and have modified the way we count comment ratings. Thanks to mudball and Ira for the tips. I know Ira didn’t mean any wrong, he was just testing it out like I asked everyone to do. However, I had to modify a policy I hoped to keep. Unfortunately, for those that knew how, it was possible to vote more than once per comment if you performed certain wizardry. I had to configure it that way so that non logged in users could vote. However, since within 24 hours of launching the site someone exploited it, I have changed so you must log in to like a comment.
A point has been made that now the blog is owned by a company it will censor. I’d like to point out the blog was owned by a company before, Home in Henderson, Inc. Ok, a little different. I guess time will prove itself to what will have to be censored. The question is what do YOU want censored? Nothing? You want every comment checked before publishing? You can’t have both. My sincere hope is that I never have to censor anything. That’s why I put the tools in your hands to hide what you don’t like. Should I put filters in place to block certain words? Famous 4 letter words? Famous 3 letter acronyms? Racial slurs? I’d much prefer not to filter anything. I only intend to filter words and content that would make this an R rated site and not the intended PG to PG-13 rated site. I think that is acceptable to all. Ideas? Discuss.
I’ll give it until the end of the week or so and then remove the news about the website change from the first view of our site. The Open Lines will be shown instead at the top left box on the website, unless there’s ever important website news to announce otherwise.
Here’s your open line…
our great president obama has reduced the budget by more than any other time. under his great leadership this nation shall become great once again. he is truly the greatest president of all times
I do not think so !!! Who should it be?
yeah im not as dumb as you think cookies can be deleted
Ira, is this why you will be gone soon?
Breaking news – I’ll be on town talk today please tune in and wish me luck!
Good Luck Babe!
I’m hearing you now, Phil…
sounding good. and good information.
Thanks ziggy! I’ll try to get a recording up when it becomes available, and once i can have some time to listen to what I said will make another post for clarifications or additional notes I didn’t think to say on air.
If you can bare the poor audio quality of the recording of today’s Town Talk link on http://www.wizs.com/town-talk/ you can listen to Mr. Hart’s interview. I could take only five minutes of the wavering sound before letting it go.
About censorship, is there a filter that will detect any of the seven forbidden words and delete or modifying their spelling. Here let me try the Seven Forbidden Words -, -, -, -, -, -, -.
Yep there it is, all seven words reduced to a dash each. If you do not know the seven words search the net for seven dirty words, or seven filthy words, or George Carlin seven words, or FCC seven dirty words.
Censorship is a very dangerous two edged sword.
let’s play fill in the blank
censorship ****ing sucks ass
Really?
As anonymous said censorship can be a two-edged sword. But, when folks can’t share thoughts without using offensive words things can get out of hand. I agree Phil that a site such as this should be PG13 or better. We can all have intelligent discourse on ideas and local happening without resorting to profanity. There are more than enough words in the English language to convey your thoughts without being crass, rude or nasty.
If the commenters can police their comments to avoid unnecessary profanity and abuse, censorship shouldn’t be an issue. A rule of thumb, if you wouldn’t say it in front of your grandmother or your preacher, don’t type it in a comment.
I haven’t seen any of the promises made by Obama put into action. His so-called budget cuts nearly shut down the government last week, and it will likely shut down when the temporary budget runs out. For me personally, the economy is worse today than it has been ever. Obama promised to get our troops out of the Middle East, yet we recently bombed Libya. Obama promised to shut down Gitmo, only to flip flop on that. Over the course of the last 20 years we have had the weakest leadership in Washington and things are getting better.
I agree Marvin..