The PigPen's Resplendent Kaffeeklatsch

[Magpie]

I was counting the amount of new members we have today that have yet to activate their account, I got to 57 in the past 7 hours and then gave up counting. Nothing suspicious there in the slightest. hmmm

[wasellajam]

I was counting the amount of new members we have today that have yet to activate their account, I got to 57 in the past 7 hours and then gave up counting. Nothing suspicious there in the slightest. hmmm

We had a few days of it a month or two ago, male first name with what could be part of a last name after it. We laughed recently about how fussy the activation form is but it seems to be working well against this bot that gets to that point.

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The member's list looks like we were given out as a boy's school assignment. Who's been doing what? 

Girls don’t like poetry. 

It’s all boy’s names lol, only one of a dozen activated so far

[milo]

I was counting the amount of new members we have today that have yet to activate their account, I got to 57 in the past 7 hours and then gave up counting. Nothing suspicious there in the slightest. hmmm

They are bots. If you look back in this thread I wrote about little light verse about it

[Magpie]

I was counting the amount of new members we have today that have yet to activate their account, I got to 57 in the past 7 hours and then gave up counting. Nothing suspicious there in the slightest. hmmm

We had a few days of it a month or two ago, male first name with what could be part of a last name after it. We laughed recently about how fussy the activation form is but it seems to be working well against this bot that gets to that point.

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Girls don’t like poetry. 

It’s all boy’s names lol, only one of a dozen activated so far

Ah right, I remember that post by you now. Is that what that was all about... 

I thought you were having a go at us 

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They are bots. If you look back in this thread I wrote about little light verse about it

I'll check it out

[Tiger the Lion]

Yes. They are bots. They are usually distinguished by a proper first name followed by a few more letters. (Paulhhyus). I purged a handful of them this morning but it's a bit of a tedious process because I need to confirm they're bots first. Currently showing 99 accounts awaiting activation. LOL.

[wasellajam]

Yes. They are bots. They are usually distinguished by a proper first name followed by a few more letters. (Paulhhyus). I purged a handful of them this morning but it's a bit of a tedious process because I need to confirm they're bots first. Currently showing 99 accounts awaiting activation. LOL.

Wasn't there at some point a time limit to activate and after that they just go ppffftt? Do you have to manually delete?

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we are a workshop so that's why the feedback's as it is. we could be one of a million vanity sites and have gazillions of posts with gushing feedback on how good everything is.

when someone joins they get an activation email. most sites including poetry sites have it. it's a way of checking an email exists. i usually try and delete account not activated after 24 hrs. the one that's up now joined at 1 26 am my time. 24 hours is way long enough to activate.

So seems he was manually deleting them. Is it less tedious to delete rather than ban? Then if they were just slow they could rejoin. Not that any of these will, just saying.

[milo]

I think the Birthday Poems segment is the best new idea we have had in a long time.

Kudos to ella!

[wasellajam]

I think the Birthday Poems segment is the best new idea we have had in a long time.

Kudos to ella!

Ha, I scroll down there for new members and who's online and those birthdays were staring me in the face. It's proven interesting for me and being in the arse it shouldn't bother anyone. Worthwhile for the random beauts, and the most recent thread was a doozy, enough good egging for us all to have omelets for brunch.

[wasellajam]

Good morning, afternoon or evening.

Just a thank you to everyone posting new poems for me to chew on, everyone posting critiques with points I never would have thought of on my own and to everyone who continues to post throughout the site even when close quarters raises the heat a bit.

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Have a good one, y'all.

[wasellajam]

Good morning! Does anyone know how to make to "Remove Formatting" button work? Seems I had a go around but now can't consistently find it. Last crit I did I just cut and pasted the whole poem, anyone have a fool (me) proof method?

Have a good one

[dukealien]

Good morning! Does anyone know how to make to "Remove Formatting" button work? Seems I had a go around but now can't consistently find it. Last crit I did I just cut and pasted the whole poem, anyone have a fool (me) proof method?

Have a good one

It's conditional.  You have to highlight a passage, and only then will the "A(sub)minus" button become active.  Click it and formatting is removed from what you've highlighted.

[wasellajam]

Good morning! Does anyone know how to make to "Remove Formatting" button work? Seems I had a go around but now can't consistently find it. Last crit I did I just cut and pasted the whole poem, anyone have a fool (me) proof method?

Have a good one

It's conditional.  You have to highlight a passage, and only then will the "A(sub)minus" button become active.  Click it and formatting is removed from what you've highlighted.

lol, I tried that, maybe it’s device dependent? Thanks, I guess it’s me

[dukealien]

Good morning! Does anyone know how to make to "Remove Formatting" button work? Seems I had a go around but now can't consistently find it. Last crit I did I just cut and pasted the whole poem, anyone have a fool (me) proof method?

Have a good one

It's conditional.  You have to highlight a passage, and only then will the "A(sub)minus" button become active.  Click it and formatting is removed from what you've highlighted.

lol, I tried that, maybe it’s device dependent? Thanks, I guess it’s me 

It might also be browser-dependent.  Let me try it in a couple besides Edge...

Update:  works in Firefox and Chrome.  In K-meleon (an old open-source browser) the edit features bar doesn't show.  This is on Windows 10 - are you by any chance using an Apple product, Linux, or a phone?

[wasellajam]

It's conditional.  You have to highlight a passage, and only then will the "A(sub)minus" button become active.  Click it and formatting is removed from what you've highlighted.

lol, I tried that, maybe it’s device dependent? Thanks, I guess it’s me 

It might also be browser-dependent.  Let me try it in a couple besides Edge...

Update:  works in Firefox and Chrome.  In K-meleon (an old open-source browser) the edit features bar doesn't show.  This is on Windows 10 - are you by any chance using an Apple product, Linux, or a phone?

That's interesting I have all apple but I was reading recently about browsers that don't use AI, was thinking of trying one. Good to know it can work, though I always find a way. Thanks for figuring that out.

[wasellajam]

So what are people growing/eating? My faves so far this year: gorgeous baby turnips, quartered, a light sauté with their chopped greens, like biting into little water canteens. And made a yummy strawberry rhubarb topping. And roasted fennel.

The beavers have taken their babies and moved on, they didn't like the removal of the deck boards that were their roof. We walked around the gaping hole for a while, then mostly closed it up with a radio hanging in it. Fingers crossed.

Hope anyone in the central US is ducking the tornadoes.

Have a good one today.

[milo]

So what are people growing/eating? My faves so far this year: gorgeous baby turnips, quartered, a light sauté with their chopped greens, like biting into little water canteens. And made a yummy strawberry rhubarb topping. And roasted fennel.

The beavers have taken their babies and moved on, they didn't like the removal of the deck boards that were their roof. We walked around the gaping hole for a while, then mostly closed it up with a radio hanging in it. Fingers crossed.

Hope anyone in the central US is ducking the tornadoes.

Have a good one today.

The garden is coming along well enough though some deer snuck in and devoured all the plums from the surrounding trees like unwelcome roommates trapped in a WCW poem.

So far I have been getting an abundance of peas, beans and zucchini and the tomatoes are coming but still green.  I am reminded of that poem TekTak wrote about his garden that one time . . . and tomatoes

[busker]

So what are people growing/eating? My faves so far this year: gorgeous baby turnips, quartered, a light sauté with their chopped greens, like biting into little water canteens. And made a yummy strawberry rhubarb topping. And roasted fennel.

The beavers have taken their babies and moved on, they didn't like the removal of the deck boards that were their roof. We walked around the gaping hole for a while, then mostly closed it up with a radio hanging in it. Fingers crossed.

Hope anyone in the central US is ducking the tornadoes.

Have a good one today.

The garden is coming along well enough though some deer snuck in and devoured all the plums from the surrounding trees like unwelcome roommates trapped in a WCW poem.

So far I have been getting an abundance of peas, beans and zucchini and the tomatoes are coming but still green.  I am reminded of that poem TekTak wrote about his garden that one time . . . and tomatoes

Too much white bread suburbia in all this
Give me a rock on Mars, a bottle of oxygen, and a good book
Nature is overrated

[wasellajam]

Too much white bread suburbia in all this
Give me a rock on Mars, a bottle of oxygen, and a good book
Nature is overrated

Gotta eat and it's nice to know it's not coated with poison. And it tastes really good, nothing wrong with pleasure. You'll miss the green earth someday.

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So reading for the birthday poems I found myself in the very early days of the pen. A member posted 30 poems in the 4 months they were here, many in Intensive with comments only on their own threads as far as I could see, no edits. Billy and Addy were doing some pretty hefty lifting, both commenting on almost every thread, obviously a labor of love. It becomes clear where the must critique, must give back rules came from, I don't know how they did it. It's also clear how the group participation allowed the workshops to grow into what they are with an expectation of high efforts from the OP and critic alike.
Kudos.

[milo]

Too much white bread suburbia in all this
Give me a rock on Mars, a bottle of oxygen, and a good book
Nature is overrated

Gotta eat and it's nice to know it's not coated with poison. And it tastes really good, nothing wrong with pleasure. You'll miss the green earth someday.

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So reading for the birthday poems I found myself in the very early days of the pen. A member posted 30 poems in the 4 months they were here, many in Intensive with comments only on their own threads as far as I could see, no edits. Billy and Addy were doing some pretty hefty lifting, both commenting on almost every thread, obviously a labor of love. It becomes clear where the must critique, must give back rules came from, I don't know how they did it. It's also clear how the group participation allowed the workshops to grow into what they are with an expectation of high efforts from the OP and critic alike.
Kudos.

man - you weren't fooling - 30 poems in a span of 2 months without a single comment on anything outside their own thread.  It takes a particular type of narcissism to believe that is the way it should work.

[wasellajam]

So reading for the birthday poems I found myself in the very early days of the pen. A member posted 30 poems in the 4 months they were here, many in Intensive with comments only on their own threads as far as I could see, no edits. Billy and Addy were doing some pretty hefty lifting, both commenting on almost every thread, obviously a labor of love. It becomes clear where the must critique, must give back rules came from, I don't know how they did it. It's also clear how the group participation allowed the workshops to grow into what they are with an expectation of high efforts from the OP and critic alike.
Kudos.

man - you weren't fooling - 30 poems in a span of 2 months without a single comment on anything outside their own thread.  It takes a particular type of narcissism to believe that is the way it should work.

But never a change in tone from Billy and Addy, they read and commented the same from first to last. They seem to be waiting for the site to become strong enough to implement the vision we know and love, a give and take or get lost.