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Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:03:17 -0000

... though I guess there's another possibility. Whenever some folks are corrected, they throw a hissy fit and mark down every post made by the person who pointed out their errors. The more posts you've made, the further they can "mark you down". Since many of mine have been on the topic of the software, I may have drawn the wrong conclusion. I have lost 17 points in the last hour, whilst there has been almost no one posting here. How could that have happened, I wonder?

What a petty, bitchy place these "points" have made it here.

I don't think I'll be back.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:38:33 -0000

Erm, no. The post you're replying to contains no such link.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:31:45 -0000

It's now clear what is going on with the "points". Someone is going through and marking down anything that is critical of the Disqus software, or even making suggestions on how to work around it's current weaknesses and/or unfamiliarity.

Whoever this is: grow up.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:26:47 -0000

Hi Soozie,

Welcome to this side. My first advice is to make sure you're at this version: http://truecrimeweblog.disqus.com/open_thread_t...

Then, click on my icon (at top left of this post), and read the various things nutted out yesterday on using this thing effectively - or, once at the non-paginated version, select your view and sort preferences and scroll though yesterday's posts.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:01:50 -0000

For God's sake! How many times does it need to be said? That CCTV is from a journalistic reconstruction. It's not of AK. It's not from the night of MK's murder. It's from a TV show called 'Studio Aperto 1'. It was taken in daylight. The figure is a journalist (or helper). See http://truecrimeweblog.disqus.com/open_thread_t... and the posts linked from there.

You can view the relevant bit of Studio Aperto 1 at http://news.centrodiascolto.it/video/id=211206/...

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:34:05 -0000

This poll was canceled almost as soon as it was started. See http://truecrimeweblog.disqus.com/open_thread_t...

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:21:36 -0000

Could everyone currently creating a new thread each time they reply please start using the 'reply' link below a post when replying to it? See my post from yesterday for the reasons why: http://truecrimeweblog.disqus.com/open_thread_t...

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:58:53 -0000

Xin, as was established on the earlier thread, that image is from a journalistic reconstruction. It is not one of the CCTV images that the ILE have referred to. See http://www.haloscan.com/comments/truecrimeweblo... (where there is a link to the video it comes from) and http://www.haloscan.com/comments/truecrimeweblo...

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:07:50 -0000

Xin, are you still on the wrong page? You need to be at http://truecrimeweblog.disqus.com/open_thread_t...

At that page, saving the forum works just fine, as it is not paginated. I just tested it.

Also, as has been pointed out several times, the absolute timestamps appear once a post is about an hour old. Scroll to older posts, and you will see them (so long as you have set your preferences accordingly). Shorter timestamps remain relative. I think that's a dumb choice, but that's how it is at present.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:57:40 -0000

Loz: "it works if you right click> copy shortcut (or whatever)> and don't delete the bit between last / and #.".

Yes, the link 'works', but it screws up the viewing preferences off anyone who clicks on it, since it gives them your settings. Your link includes 's=newest&v=flat', which means that it will change the preferences of anyone who clicks on it to Sort = newest and View = Flat. You won't notice a problem if you click on it, as they are already your settings. Others, however, will have a problem.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:52:43 -0000

Hmmm. Not convinced. There are plenty of on-topic posts also rated zero. I suspect a software update error.

Anyway, for what it's worth, I'm currently with Pinecone on this case. All the truly believable evidence that has so far emerged points at Rudy G., and no one else. I am not persuaded by this magical clean-up where AK and RS manage miraculously to remove their DNA and prints but leave Rudy's. How?

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:35:42 -0000

I reckon it's a word :) Feel free to copy anything across, particularly if you think they're watching. On the other hand, there seem to have been a few changes here in the last few hours that suggest we're being watched. If you hover over Permalink in the poster-icon menu, does the URL you see in your status bar (bottom of the browser window) still show your view preferences? Mine doesn't...

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:03:52 -0000

@ Disqus developerers: Yet Another Fault: When in the threaded view, if there are multiple responses to a post at the same 'level', they should be sorted oldest to newest. At present you seem to be doing the opposite. This means that, if someone has given a clarification, it can often be missed by others who see the post and the most recent follow-ups.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:51:57 -0000

Couldn't agree more.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:41:50 -0000

But no link. The logic of this new site is all about links.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:39:10 -0000

As has been pointed out earlier, times remain relative when they are within the last hour (in fact, it seems to be based on the actual change of hour, rather than an elapsed 60 minutes). Scroll down, and you will see that older posts have absolute times.

PS. The 60 minutes thing seems to have changed, as does the embedding of sort and view preferences in the Permalink URL. I think we are being watched :)

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:35:12 -0000

Essentially agreed. Though I've seen the point (rating) system used effectively at other sites (e.g. YouTube), where you eventually simply don't see posts that the majority have deemed "bad", unless you choose to. Probably not needed here though. No proper sentences there :)

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:10:58 -0000

Hmmm. Something has happened to all the "points" in the last hour or so...

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:05:06 -0000

Thanks, RobertM, but why wasn't this a reply to your post http://truecrimeweblog.disqus.com/open_thread_t...

That would be the appropriate way to position it (especially since "just below" presupposes that your reader is using the same sort and view preferences as you).

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:03:36 -0000

Sorry for the tone. It's late here in Oz, and the red wine is kicking in.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 15:54:23 -0000

That should be "whoever". It's the subject of the sentence. There is far too much grandstanding here - people using big words in an attempt to sound impressive. I nearly commented earlier, and will do now, on a reference to the "Italian Jurisprudence System". Pretentious nonsense! "Jurisprudence" is the theory and philosophy of law. What was meant is the "Italian Legal System". A "Jurisprudence System", should it exist, would be run by universities.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 15:45:27 -0000

NO! I never suggested or agreed with this. It is entirely unnecessary!

You don't need to quote a timestamp when responding to a link. Use the 'reply' link below the article you are replying to. If you want to create a permanent link to the post you are referring to, follow my instructions at http://truecrimeweblog.disqus.com/open_thread_t...

It would be madness to try to get everyone to change their profiles to a foreign time zone. For a start, any new arrivals would be completely lost. Use links. That's what the whole brilliance of the hypertext idea was about. Use the 'reply' link - that automatically creates very important links for you.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 15:27:48 -0000

RobertM: "Good Sunday AM"

It's already Monday where I am :)

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:51:31 -0000

Hey! Only DUMB geeks would do this. I've been coding since I entered machine code in hex 25 years ago. I supervise student software engineering projects every year. This sort of insane non-visibility (cf. Donald Norman, 'The Design of Everyday Things' (http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Do...)) is the kind of thing I would come down on like a tonne of bricks.

Re: Open Thread: The Murder of Meredith Kercher

Squiggle — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:01:29 -0000

cw: "I just hover [what a nice word :-( ]"

I'd love to take credit, but it's actually the term used in both CSS and Javascript to describe this behaviour.