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[torkell]

It's amusing watching how people react to changes in their enviroment.

Okay, the entrance to Pevensey 2 consists of a revolving door (that you have to push), and a couple of smaller side doors. Now it's very windy outside here today, and so those doors have been locked because of the winds (otherwise whenever someone opens them it blows a right gale through here. Because of various regulations and the fact that there is 24-hour access to areas in this building, those doors can be opened when locked from the inside by turning a knob (a bit like a front-door lock that locks behind you). Normally, however, they are unlocked and can be opened by pushing.

Quite a few people have gone and walked into those doors, expecting them to open. Never mind the piece of paper stuck to the door at eye level saying that they're locked. After some rattling of the door they eventually find the knob and open it.

A small handful have walked to the door, but read the notice and instead used the revolving door.

The majority either read the notice from a distance or were going to use the revolving door anyway.

Makes you wonder about how we percieve things, doesn't it?

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[torkell]

pleaseremove (I shall not stoop so low as to remove your anonymity, as people on livejournal quite often have good reasons for staying anonymous), might I ask what is wrong with me ending my post with "my bad"? Oh yes, it's because I suggested that as a possible reply earlier on in this thread of rants. And let me see... it was because I then had the audacity to go and use it myself when I spotted a genuine mistake I made and corrected it, because, apparently "people jump down your throat [if you don't include it]".

Strange. I've not come across that one myself - I just consider it to be a polite thing to do. I could have quite easily typed "oops" or "my mistake" or anything else. So now I am faced with a dilema: do I always put "my bad" when I make a mistake (to avoid the hordes of people that will of course jump down my throat for me not conforming to the unwritten rules of the internet), or do I avoid using that for fear that it might incite the wrath of the pleaseremove?

Well here is my decision. I shall post what I like, and should in posting something I end up including "my bad", then it is my decision, and not that of pleaseremove's. Of course, should this be in his journal, then it's all different (for one, it's him who can delete the replies). But this is my journal, and as I have said, I will not be ordered round in it (admins excluded).

Now on to the next part of the misguided rant: the deletion of comments. I myself do know what happens when a root comment is deleted (having both seen it happen elsewhere and carry it out myself (spam comments make for good target practice)), and that is a "(deleted comment)" is left behind for each and every comment that is deleted. If you read any of the high-reply journals (like news, for example), you quickly notice this sort of thing.

Regarding the use of FAQs, you did indeed have a question - you asked me (in the IM conversation) if HTML comments are possible. You could have quite easily looked in the FAQs instead for the answer to that, but I shall also give an answer here and that is HTML is enabled in comments, but not the full HTML. The main tags that are missing are script, embed and object. So a question did indeed crop up, and you could have with a minimum of research got a better answer than I was able to give you given the question you asked me. You asked "html is on for your comments isnt it?", and I replied "you cant turn it off", implying that it is on. I may be wrong - there may be a way to turn it off, but to the best of my knowledge there is no per-user setting for that.