Welcome to the new-look Poll Bludger, brought to you as part of a broader incursion into the blogosphere by wealthy benefactors/gentleman admirers at Crikey. Note parallel developments from Possum Comitatus. The site has a new address in the Crikey domain: the old site will redirect here. The interior decoration is incomplete, so don’t despair for apparently missing features quite yet. To pre-empt the complaint which is now no doubt forming in many minds: no, you do not need to be a Crikey subscriber, trial or otherwise, to comment on this blog. However, you do have to register, which means providing a real email address which you will need to verify – I do not think anyone can rightly complain about this. To pre-empt another complaint: this site is run by WordPress just like my old site was and will run in very much the same way, without the limitations you might be familiar with from the old Crikey blogging platform. Beyond that, it will be business more-or-less as usual. There will be a slight difference in my moderation policy, which is to say that I will have one. More on that shortly.
As you can see, all the posts and comments from Wednesday are present and correct, so please carry on as before. Please keep this thread for requests/feedback/bug reports/complaints about the new order, and direct political discussion where appropriate.
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They must be communists. There’s no other explanation for it.
William, I’ll sort out a filter for the []-style quoting.
Hello Poll Bludger regulars – Dario, Generic Person.
Another request: can we have user names in a bold typeface like they were on old pollbludger?
Ah, new home new look, took ages to get this gravatar thingy going (ghod I’m so old school sometimes). Could agree with a number of other suggestions but its just nice to be back (BTW the live people side of Sell Out – but I always kinda liked the dead side…).
No 101
Yes, much! Command and control never works!
No 103
Evening evan.
hey evan
whoo hoooo……looks good
Nice work picking up the ] quotes so quickly Jeff!
Done! (modulo the likely bug exposed by this very comment…)
Hello, new setup. Let’s give it a whirl…
final text
Oh nice, they both work. Now to get myself one of those gravatars…
Took me a bit of effort to get into the registration system, but I guess it’s worth it
Make sure you’re all using either IE7Pro or Firefox 3 with Adblock Plus to delete the annoying flash advertisments
As GP said at 104, names should be in bold
There’s a few names I just scroll past when reading, the way it is now forces me to pay more attention to them then they deserve
GP @ 115
Thats mean, how is Crikey! going to pay the bills?
(William’s not on scale ya know, no workchoices at Crikey! mate) 
Well it seems to work…
Names are bold now.
How do you use those quote thingies?
William,
Can we pleasse have links open in new tabs ?
How do I change my icon pic?
test
No 119
Thanks Jeff. Sorry to be a pain again, but can we also have the names in say, size 10 rather than microscopic? Cheers.
No 117
I have no problems with non-intrusive advertisements, like Google ads. Flash ads are obscene and bandwidth hogging. Note to Crikey: don’t use flash adverts.
I can finally read the usernames now. Cheers Jeff/William.
Can’t get the damn gravatar to work
have i got it now?
Nope
Winston, check which email address you used on this website in the profile page (click “Site Admin” up the top), and set up a Gravatar for that email.
Done that. Maybe working now?
yes
Shame for keeping left.
Jeff, could you please take a look at my latest post on NSW council elections – seem to be having an issue with link tags. Thanks.
WB, i did predict that PB and Poss will be taken over by Crikey. Did i get a prize?
I have to make a comment to see if my avatar shows up.
G’day all!
I hope the regulars from PB make it over to the new home!
William (or Jeff, the fixit man?)
I don’t know if this is fixable or not but I thought I’d ask. As you all know, and hopefully I don’t sound like too much of a tool explaining this, posts in threads here are currently separated by various colour backgrounds – ie one post has a white background, the next has a light grey background, then the next one has a white one… etc etc. That part’s fine and easy to identify.
My question is then, is there anyway to possible make the ‘blockquotes’ a different colour entirely so that they are properly differentiated? Reading over a thread a while ago I found a few instances in which a user made multiple use of the blockquote feature in the one post, and it became bloody difficult to differentiate who was saying what, not to mention determining where one post began and another ended.
Just a thought, nothing urging or ultimately deterring, but I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks it a bit confusing. Otherwise this all looks very spiffy, v. impressed!
Yeah, I just whacked the blockquote support up a couple of hours ago… I’ll take a stab at some better colours soon.
You do not sound like a tool, and I am really enjoying the feedback and suggestions — all of which are making the site better for everyone.
Thanks!
once you have created your gravatar (picture)
you must then click on the picture( shown below your email address info)to activate your gravatar.
(it took me a few goes btw)
Looks great. Once I work out how to use my screen name, I will of course attempt to post something divisive and scurrilous but for now, love youse all and thanks William
Good stuff. Just testing to see if I can post OK.
Shanahan thinks that Turnbull will challenge in the middle of next month:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24338630-601,00.html
Well Shanners has gotten everything else right… not
Shanners’ Weekend Australian article from 4 weeks ago was titled something like “Count on Costello”, implying that he was going to go for the leadership after his book launch.
I want a Gravatar too.
Can’t see the option, but i’ll post first and gravitate to an avatar after?
Try here, Disasterboy.
Just testing
I’ve fixed up the links at the top now, so they should be clearer for everyone. It now says “Profile” instead of “Site Admin”, and I changed “Register” to “Sign Up” (people tend to recognise “Sign Up” more than “Register” these days).
Thanks to everyone for all the feedback (and compliments)!
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