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Hey Lennie, Maybe we are part of a cult …

Comment posted on Happy Hour Appearance by pedanticKarl

Hey Lennie,
Maybe we are part of a cult with the emphasis on culture

I think HotForWords must investigate and tell us, does [cult] and [culture] have a common root and are they related? I would think so, but I’ve heard differently, or does it depend on the context of the sentence? HotForWords, must investigate.

pedanticKarl also commented

CK, wow, that is exactly what I was thinking, but I forgot to elaborate on that the other day.

Specifically, if you remember, the current “REPLY Button” (CSS text based) used to be a standard “REPLY text link”, and if I remember correctly, that Reply Link did not show up until one was logged in. So, one solution is to make the Reply Button invisible when one is logged out.
Uh, errr, ummm, don’t look now,
but Friday the 13th is upon us in
a little more than a day.
Find out why I am following TheUnderwire here.
http://twitter.com/theunderwire
Time to review HotForWords video on
penny and dime. I’ll get back to mrmyk in
a few hours. On the freeway in a little bit.
Wow, Did you see today’s quote.

“Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it’s looks, most women know otherwise.” – Kathleen Turner (1986)

Marina knows the answer which is the
tag line, Intelligence Is Sexy as well
as attitude. Marina has the right
sexy and intelligent attitude. Love it!!!

Recent comments by pedanticKarl

Sexual Words in the Dictionary
Damiana,
I answered Rijk over here regarding the question of spam.

I only list a few known items that can cause your comment to be flagged as spam. I can tell you from personal experience that when I post a comment on my own blog as a non-logged in user, all of my comments are flagged as spam and I can only guess that it is either related to my domain or it is related to the username being on a list (black list) from other postings elsewhere. I would have to research the spam filter’s rules to see what’s going on.

In your case, if you created another username such as Damiana1 for example, and if your comments were still being flagged, it would indicate a blacklisting of your domain or cookies. Clear your cookies and see what happens. Of course you will lose your personalizations and you would have to key your username and passwords back in again.

As background information, here is the Wordpress information on the spam filter called Akismet.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam
Tissue + Sneeze
Hi CK,
My reference to accessibility refers more to the idea of usability in terms of browser standards and ability to present a consistent user experience across all platforms and browsers. Handicapped accessibility certainly is one of those elements and comes under a variety of guidelines such as WAI, UAAG, ATAG, ADA and others.

Hearing impaired Closed Captioning is usually done by people with the skillset and technology to create accurate captioning. It is not a trivial task unless a TA has that skillset or the time. Of course you don’t have to be a TA to volunteer to do this kind of work. Anyone with the time and skill set can do it.

All one needs is to get permission from Marina to replicate the video and then to insert the captioning which can be either hard captioned (visible at all times) or Closed Captioned using YouTube’s player technology.

A two minute video would take me about 20 min to an hour or more to transcribe and add the captioning. The reason for the time is that some words require to be looked up, insert corrections as needed and verify the proper transcription. Someone with a transcribing skillset would be able to do it much more quickly than I could. There are tools that can help, such as speech to text converters. I have not tried it on these videos yet.

Many of the hearing impaired institutes hire people to do these kinds of tasks, and I think many of them are very busy. There is always the question of demand and how many hearing impaired users would this help.

I would think that anyone aligned with the hearing impaired community would take the lead in this endeavor in order to create and implement a plan for captioning.
Tissue + Sneeze
Hi Jan,
I added a summary of Marina’s 9th visit to the O’Reilly Factor show in the Forum. You can also see my previous summaries of all of Marina’s visits to O’Reilly.
COP15
Hello Rijk,
I don’t think you meant, “… my super-girl got spammed…”
I think you meant to say that a comment posting by my super-girl was flagged as spam?

I don’t think the number of comments per thread would cause a comment to be flagged.

There are a few things that I am aware of that can cause a comment to be flagged as spam. Some of them are:
1. Repeated editing when trying to apply an illegal HTML code.
For example, lets say that I want to add some HTML code and it didn’t turn out right. Then, I edit the comment again and tweak the code to try to get it right. After a certain number of attempts, that will cause a comment to be flagged.

2. Adding too many links can cause a comment to be flagged as spam.

I’m sure there are others, and I don’t know all of the violations that can cause a comment to be spammed. Another factor could be the domain that she is logged in from. Sometimes the spam filter can falsely flag a user as a spammer due to association with other known spammers in that domain. (ref black lists for example)

All of the above have happened to me on this site and also on my own blog.
Interview for Associated Content
Wonderful article Jan. I enjoyed reading your second article on Marina. I remember reading your article last year which was published in July ‘08. There have been many changes along the way for Marina in almost a year and a half and your new article reflects those changes very nicely.
The first article that you wrote in July 03, 2008 is located on this site here.