A Note to Our Commenters
Hey there, commenters! You're looking particularly lovely today -- is that shirt new? Now that we've reached the end of our redesign week, I'm going to crack open a Diet Coke and give you a few tidbits and tips about what's to come...
So usually at the end of the week, we select five commenters whose wit or intellect we found particularly stimulating, and we enshrine them as our Commenters of the Week. It's a tough job to narrow it down to five -- you guys all do such a good job, and we love to read your feedback -- so with the new redesign, one of our first priorities was to come up with a more significant, frequent way to reward commenters.
And so, the "Comment of the Moment" was born! You may have seen it on the homepage or read about it in Stu's redesign FAQ, but the Comment of the Moment is a prime place of homepage real estate where he can feature several of the best comments every day. More readers get rewarded, and the reward is much better. The lucky chosen will also get a gold box around their comment in the post itself, which is very "ooh ahh."
What else does a commenter need to know in this day and age? How about how to sign in and get a nifty little avatar next to your name?
If you're new to the site, or if you've just never bothered to register, your commenting screen at the bottom of each post should look like this:
Sure, you can comment from there without registering, but where's the fun? You want to upload a hand-picked Nomi Malone avatar to run next to all your comments, don't you? I know you do, so choose to sign in and register yourself. On your profile page, you'll get to add a userpic:
And then you can log in and see this sort of screen when commenting, which means your avatar ought to show up:
If you've been signed in all this time but don't have an avatar, just check out that third screenshot, click on your underlined username, and then you'll be taken to your profile, where you can upload one.
No, seriously. Where'd you get that shirt? H&M?
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Look, everyone: I'm a naughty picture of Vanity, the famous Prince protege. Check me out in The Last Dragon with my buddy Taimak.
I think I'm having fun already.
But what am i supposed to do on Friday nights? All I do now is have 2 bottles of wine and wait for COTW to come out.
If I win, Champaigne!
If I lose, 2 more bottles of wine, 3 aderralls, and a line of coke to get me through the night.
I have an awful lot of really crappy Saturday mornings.
Well, well! James Cameron isn't the only one with a successful "Avatar"...
Look on the bright side> Now you can do 2 bottles of wine, 3 aderralls, and a line of coke every couple of minutes of every day that you don't win Commenter of the Moment.
True story: I once saw Taimak in "Road House: The Stage Fight-sical", where he portrayed Dalton Ross with a blond mullet, and every time it felt like a song would happen, a fight broke out.
You gottdamn socialists.
I would recommend that you purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka, but that was Apollonia, not Vanity. I think you know me well enough by now to know that I would never make such an obvious faux pas. See ya all in "the moment"!
I finally registered after doing the anonymous commenting thing since...the beginning of Movieline. I liked my _Dogtooth_ avatar at first, but it's sort of difficult to see so I'll probably have to choose something different. The Nomi Malone comment truly made me lol.
I knew it would be unpleasant news if you buried the lede after the jump, and be honest, you hate my shirt. Sigh. I'm off to find a teensy weensy picture that somehow captures the many flavors of Sweetbiscuit....
p.s. Stoli I'll trade you 2 klonopin for an adderall.
Still tryin to get the picture up, but I think it's because I sign in with Typepad, not movable type.
Whatever, it's your loss to not see a wisecracking double down sandwich.
I hope this won't drive off the random, hysterical religious zealots.
Want: avatar pics are 32x32 blocks, pretty tiny. Is there any way to crank them up to at least 50?
I'll see what I can do.
Oh wow, my pleas have found a champion.
I bet you can't change it though; commenting machinery tends to be airtight, with a big scary sign that says DON'T GO HERE over all the fun settings.
Avatar in 3...2...1...
That's better
And, I actually got a commenter of the moment. It made me feel momentarily happy.
Oh, so that's what a turdblossom looks like.
Bingo on the typepad theory.
If you sign in with movable type you can have your user name link directly to your blog or twitter or collection of vintage erotica.
So, is nudity in or out?
Comment of the moment, eh? That's a lot o' pressure.
just checking (I know, comment of the moment, huh?)
But how do I rig my comments to post always in allcaps?
But how do I rig my comments to show up with shiny gold COTM boxes around them?
Late but avatar'd up.