I'm assuming new favors are checked for quality before being lined up in the queue, right?
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Online communities are sources of passion, emotion, argument, conflict. There's a big difference between that and knowing basically nothing about a person other than that they're in a hospital and having a birthday.
Some people are really, really nasty. For no real reason. Unfortunately you only need an extremely small minority to fuck up a nice act.
I think the husband is smart enough to filter the cards.
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#103This is, quite simply, lovely.
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#104Whats the deal with these .io domains? How is that supposed to be talked out "ask eye ooh", "ask input output", "ask eye yo"?
You should pronounce it as: "ask dot British Indian Ocean Territory"
(...don't forget the dot!)
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think tokenadult's nickname is a reference to tokenism[1]. It's a tongue-in-cheek insinuation that he's the acting adult amongst a group of children. Just a joke. If that is correct, then tokenwoman would be the one woman in a group of men. It's a joke within a joke, though unfortunately one with echoes of truth, statistically speaking. Cool your jets, man. It wasn't meant to be offensive. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.…
> Cool your jets, man. It wasn't meant to be offensive. Please do not tell me to 'cool my jets'; this isn't 4chan. Now that the parent has explained what she meant, it's clear that it had nothing to do with conflating Woman and Adult. That said, if it had meant what I thought it meant then it would have been worth calling out, whether offense was intended or not.
Excuse me, but... did you say "parent"? So you think you're a child?
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I am pretty sure I might put up something up there someday This sounds like a nice way of saying you'll completely forget about this website in several hours and will never put anything on it ever. Or at least I'm pretty sure that's what it might mean :)
I choose to not sound cocky here. But, I have bookmarked it and I tend to bookmark stuff which I do go back to :)
Well, good! :)
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
And are you sure all cards will be nice and fluffy? Or, I'm sure an Atheist would receive a lot of "I'm praying for Jesus to make it better" cards (or any other way around really, this is just an example)
> an Atheist would receive a lot of "I'm praying for Jesus to make it better" cards I'm an atheist. I've had believer friends ask if they could pray over me during a time when I was navigating difficulties. Do you know what I said? "I would be honored". Do you understand why? Because, while I don't share their belief system I recognize their request comes from only one place: love and caring. It would take a pedantic…
> Because, while I don't share their belief system I recognize their request comes from only one place: love and caring
This is true for some religious people, but not for others. Some religious people use their religion to tell you that you are in the wrong, and are going to pay for it if you don't come over to their views. For such people, their good wishes are a thinly disguised religious attack. And it can be annoying being their target.
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#108People are getting hung up on the card favor. A couple unsolicited suggestions: - Show more than one idea on the homepage and allow people to up vote what they think is best - Idea with most votes gets sent out to folks every X Advantage is this let's the community pick what is relevant, makes your life easier (less editorial), enables you to grow to more than 1 idea per week as there might be runner ups, likely to i…
Totally agree with this comment. The whole Slow Web thing is a nice philosophy, but you have to outweigh that principle with the principle of making this website maximise its functionality, the function that rationalises its existence in the first place.
Now, I can understand that it's not great for Mike to have to filter through all these requests, which is why your solution offers the best hope: let other users do the filtering by upvoting/downvoting from the list. In fact, you could just create a pile and let the top request be somewhat bigger than the others.
If you play this out properly, it could be done much better than impossible.com
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#109Random cards could be comforting, but the sad thing is that you would hope you would get cards from friends and family. Those seem to be a thing of the past (except from grandparents). Even thank you cards have gotten pretty rare. This is the age of the wall post... :(
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#110Side thought: nice domain. Registered since 2007, but you were keeping it in case you had a nice idea to use with?
Ugh I bought Ask.io for one of my own projects. Domai.nr said it was available, I paid, and after about a month they informed it it didn't go through for some reason I don't remember (thankfully refunding me). I was pretty pissed... I had already made shirts.
ha, sorry man. Do you still have the shirts? I may be interested.