It being at the last minute on Super Sunday, and me just home from a concert and no diarist scheduled, I'm doing something quick 'n' dirty that I think I can handle that I hope proves useful. Instead of me trying to predict what Frequently Asked Questions might be, I'm going to let you determine tonight's questions without regard to frequency.
New question, old question, red question, blue question, just as long as it's about DK4 and/or the changes that will be made to Daily Kos starting on Saturday. When you log in Saturday evening, the site will look different, things will have been moved around, and there will be changes, big and small, to what you're used to.
As kos noted yesterday, Daily Kos will be going down to Friday, February 11, at 11pm Pacific time, which translates to 2am Eastern. The site will be down during the day on Saturday, but it should launch with the new software "that evening."
I'll start out with a few of the pointers that have graced my recent FAQ Forum diaries:
The DK4 FAQ on the dKosopedia has information on how DK4 works, though it remains very much a work in progress, with some significant sections yet to be written. Latest addition is the DK4 launch information noted above.
The DK4 beta site has been undergoing some major stress tests over the several days, and remains a bit...stressed. This is a beta test: not everything is working as it will by the end of next week, and many improvements will be rolled out before then. We're also expecting new (and long-promised) features such as Search Diaries and Search Comments (which appear to be there, but are skeletons of their future working selves), Search Groups (a new addition), and New Replies (a feature on the DK3 Hotlist that elfling has promised to roll out before launch).
My usual reminders, posted in all my DK4 diaries:
- Your username, user id, account password, diaries, diary drafts (newly confirmed), comments, recs, HRs, hotlist, blogroll, subscriptions, and profile information including bio and sig file will all be transferred over as they are when the current site shuts down on Friday, February 11.
- Whatever your sig is when the transition begins, that sig will be permanently entered on all your DK3 comments. We've been used to sigs that automatically change on all our old comments when we change our sigs. No more. The sig you have at the end of the day next Friday gets glued to your existing comments, and from then on, whatever your sig is when you post a comment is placed permanently on that comment. Starting Saturday, you can change your sig as often as you want, but it only affects the comments you write going forward.
You can, if you wish, peruse my recent DK4 FAQ Forum diaries for additional questions and questionable humor. They were published on February 4, January 31, and January 28.
While I'm at it, if there's some part of the DK4 FAQ that isn't clear, do let me know. Feel free to ask questions about that document, too.
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A number of people didn't question the need for submitted comments, and a full quartet of comment nominations appeared in the Top Comments mailbox in time for the 9:30pm Eastern Time deadline. The address of our mailbox for top comments submissions remains:
TopComments AT gmail DOT com
(change " AT " to "@" and " DOT " to ".")
Anyone can send great comments to our address. Be sure to include the direct link to a comment—the URL—which is available from that comment's date/time; we need that to find your choice. Please always include your Daily Kos user name in the body of your message, so we can credit you properly. If you send a writeup with the link, we are able to include that, too, though we reserve the right to edit.
A just-past-the-deadline Saturday night submission from blue armadillo:
This comment in the WYFP diary tonight is too hilarious and has to be shared with the greater DKOS community: must be seen to be believed! LOL!
From MsGrin (writeup by sardonyx):
In bobswern's diary The Wall Street Bailout Memes Are Alive And Well, opinionated gives us an explanation using a well-known figure of less than ideal probity for an example.
From Cedwyn:
This is more of a top thread, I suppose, starting with JaxDem's comment—full of win, whatever you decide to call it.
From Ed Tracey:
In the diary by Eclectablog about today's Fox interview of President Obama, snapples began with "Millions just saw O'Reilly embarass himself", and went on from there...
From sardonyx (your Super Sunday diarist):
A couple of comments from today's Screw Reagan diary by Clarknt67: blue in NC's reply to the tip jar, and the diarist's own comment elsewhere.
cuphalffull write about lessons learned from being the victim of adult bullying.
In that Eclectablog diary referenced above, citizenx asks a question, and Penman has an awesome alliterative answer.
Please add your own comment finds below!
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Finally, we have today's top mojo using my revision of the cskendrick-devised mojo-to-Excel process.
First, Top Mojo excluding Cheers and Jeers, miscellaneous cute animals, search-identifiable tip jars, and first diary comments:
1) Grammar Crackers...Not Cracked Eggs by JaxDem — 153
2) Reminds me of Palin's "Debate Flow Chart" by dmhlt 66 — 112
3) I believe she prefers faultines. by Crashing Vor — 112
4) No. by Colorado is the Shiznit — 104
5) I thought you just cracked the eggs, by Julie Waters — 93
6) Please please please by david mizner — 89
7) What happens when Likud is your ally by FishOutofWater — 88
8) psssst by kestrel9000 — 88
9) Parsing the diary title by geomoo — 87
10) For me, the real legacy of the Reagan by rontun — 83
11) Me too noweasels by rebel ga — 83
12) It's the neocon policies we hate by FishOutofWater — 82
13) The diarist is a by joanneleon — 82
14) Here's Bill-O's problem: by zenbassoon — 79
15) Pretty damn disturbing... Haaretz article by FishOutofWater — 77
16) Jon Stewart is going to be fun tomorrow! (nt) by Eileen B — 76
17) No reason to give up hope by david mizner — 75
18) Mornin', Vor. by Land of Enchantment — 72
19) Well, let's be honest. When it's 3 a.m. in by rontun — 71
20) the real question by Laurence Lewis — 71
21) It boggles my mind by Mehitabel9 — 69
22) Or maybe the Egyptians by corvo — 68
23) Reagan was a bad, cruel joke inflicted on by Patric Juillet — 68
24) WTF Are You Talking About? by mattman — 68
25) It's some sort of Klingon code, Jim. by irate — 66
26) Use a scramble? by nsfbr — 66
27) Less than a month before the Kent State... by ratmach — 66
28) You know, if it was JUST those diaries... by APA Guy — 65
29) "This is the best President ever and by shpilk — 63
30) Reagan was horrible on many levels, but by daliscar — 62
31) Faultines Would Go Nicely With by mattman — 62
Top Mojo with No Exclusions:
1) I was so much older then by noweasels — 431
2) When the phone rings at 3 a.m., by Crashing Vor — 404
3) Tip Jar by Clarknt67 — 378
4) Tip Jar by Eclectablog — 327
5) Tip Jar by Ptah the Great — 271
6) Tip Jar by APA Guy — 224
7) Tip Jar by The Plainsman — 216
8) Tip Jar by david mizner — 203
9) Grammar Crackers...Not Cracked Eggs by JaxDem — 153
10) Tip Jar by betson08 — 147
11) Tip Jar by LaFeminista — 133
12) Reminds me of Palin's "Debate Flow Chart" by dmhlt 66 — 112
13) I believe she prefers faultines. by Crashing Vor — 112
14) No. by Colorado is the Shiznit — 104
15) Tip Jar by Richard Lyon — 100
16) Tip Jar by BFSkinner — 97
17) I thought you just cracked the eggs, by Julie Waters — 93
18) Please please please by david mizner — 89
19) What happens when Likud is your ally by FishOutofWater — 88
20) psssst by kestrel9000 — 88
21) Parsing the diary title by geomoo — 87
22) Me too noweasels by rebel ga — 83
23) For me, the real legacy of the Reagan by rontun — 83
24) It's the neocon policies we hate by FishOutofWater — 82
25) The diarist is a by joanneleon — 82
26) Tip Jar by jnhobbs — 80
27) Here's Bill-O's problem: by zenbassoon — 80
28) Jon Stewart is going to be fun tomorrow! (nt) by Eileen B — 78
29) Pretty damn disturbing... Haaretz article by FishOutofWater — 77
30) Tip Jar by Philly Boy — 77
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