I'm getting a lot of complaints about the GRE site this morning. They just did a total site redesign under the theory that if it's not broke, fix that. I wish I could say I can't believe how badly they've screwed everything up, but experience tells me to expect that from them.
I've written them a long and blistering trouble ticket noting all the new complications that fix has produced. Please understand I can't do anything about it. I hope this doesn't totally screw up my subscriber base, because I was just told the email notice is sending people to a dead link.
Patience?
Ja. Patience und a little sponge cake.
ReplyDeletePatience with David... you bet. With the Examiner, not so much.
ReplyDeleteWrite to them! Tell them what you think.
It took some digging, but I found this email address for the Examiner. contactus AT examiner.com
I told them I'd hated every "improvement" they'd made to Examiner so far, and they were batting 1000 because I hated this new one just as much. And I gave some detailed examples.
Get creative. :) But no "profanity" please. They have "filters" for that.
I tried to leave a comment at David's latest column.
This is what I entered:
And, if those at the ballot box are happy to accept their chains, what
then for those of us who do not? Does the will of a "majority"
rightfully impose slavery on the minority?
By what authority does a majority impose its will on everyone? If
dissent and disassociation is not possible, then slavery is the only
outcome. The right of association, or disassociation is part and parcel
of the right to life and self defense.
THIS is the error message:
Error!
Your submission has triggered the profanity filter and will not be
accepted until the inappropriate language is removed.
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So... it seems one can comment without a log in... but they have some
weird ideas about what constitutes profanity.
What word would you choose as triggering the "profanity" filter?
Curiouser and curiouser..
Mama Liberty - I just tried to narrow it down for you. I put in "And, if those at the ballot box are happy to accept their chains, what
ReplyDeletethen for those of us who do not? Does the will of a "majority"
rightfully impose slavery on the minority?" and it returned the same error you got.
So I tried the second sentence and it went through. Then I tried the first sentence and it went through.
I think the error message is just one of the new features -- random censorship.
Part II of my opinion posted and refused by Examiner's profanity filter:
ReplyDeletePeople were for the most part responsible for their own safety, accepted that fact, and did not expect government to wipe their collective noses for them. Wicked people who prey upon the defenseless existed in the 1700’s just as they do today and assistance was not immediately available, just as it isn’t today.
Providing food for oneself and family? To some extent – In the 1700’s, depending upon a person’s financial status as well as upon that person’s locale, the use of firearms and/or traps determined whether that person and his family were to survive. The same holds true today in a more limited aspect. Today the over whelming majority of hunters are sports hunters, however there are still those who depend upon hunting for their very sustenance.
Actually, very little has changed. There is still a need for the right to keep and bear arms and to be left alone by government and others who would denigrate that right.
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My last post to Examiner was "I give up" that was also rejected as profanity.
Note: Google also said that my post was too long to accept.