Real Goddamned Mail With Leslie K.
- I think it would be smart if you gave an award, or posted a little graphic that notes which posts get the most comments. I'm attaching something that maybe you could modify, or if you want, you can just make your own graphic. This would really help ramp up the quality of posts, which are sometimes pretty lame.
- You have to put a lid on Xxxxxxx. He is ruining any good will your website earns with otherwise interesting ideas.
- I want to tell you that I'm not going to visit the site anymore. I thought it was sort of clever when I first started reading it, but it's clear now that you're engaged in a futile enterprise. Good luck getting out of the sinkhole.
- I posted a comment on the Xxxxxxx post yesterday and Xxxxxxxx took a really cheap shot at me. I know she's one of your "favorites," but I really wish you'd enforce the rules more fairly.
- My post got buried yesterday under some useless fluff and so I went in and changed the time of mine so it appeared at the top of the page. Then someone (I'm thinking it must have been you) moved it back to when I originally posted. I don't think that's fair. I'm actually trying to get some conversation going, and you can tell by the number of comments I get that I usually do that. Could you allow me to repost the same item tomorrow so people get a chance to read it?
- I want to tell Xxxxxxx that he's a real douchebag, but don't want the comment to come from me. Can you post this - verbatim - under the name Rick from Racine? Thank you. "You, sire, are a douchebag. Suck it, suck it, suck it."
- Can't you get some new writers. Jesus, this is the same juco complaining that this page always suffers under. Some of the examples in the stories are too ridiculous and tired. I'd think that you could contact some people at different colleges, 4 year colleges, and get their voices on here. Otherwise this page is going to continue dying.
- This may sound petty, but when I put a post up a couple of days ago I used Trebuchet font. Then someone changed it to boring Arial. I think this might have happened before. I choose my fonts based on the tenor of my post and I want that to be reflected in what readers actually see, not what you think the page should look like. I understand you're the mods and all, but if you want to really build your foundation and get some real creativity, you won't hamstring us at every turn. I sent this same email last year to whoever was running the page and I didn't even get an answer. How is that right?
Looks like you'll cross 5 million today, Leslie...
ReplyDeleteThanks for another great episode of "Real Goddamned Mail."
And leave my fucking fonts alone!!!!
"Looks like you'll cross 5 million today, Leslie..."
DeleteAnd when it does, two things will happen:
a. someone will whinge that the site is dying, and;
b. someone will mail to complain that even though they tried so hard, they missed seeing the counter roll over, so could it be reset for them to try again.
Jesus H Tapdancing Christ. I don't know how you do this day in, day out.
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the work you do keeping this place afloat.
A veritable snowstorm. Maybe flakiness (like colds and flu) is contagious. (If I could find out who gave me MY cold I'd gladly request pointers from Strenikov on the best way to pay them back.
ReplyDeleteI have at times sent Fab and Leslie emails about things, but not like this.
ReplyDeleteStill, I think it's okay if people make use of what Strelly calls "the back channel" to be involved in the health of the page.
Oh God, let the slaying begin.
Oh, back-channel. Don't fall for that jargon. If I want to email Leslie or Fab or anyone who runs the page, I'm not committing espionage. I've had great and rollicking emails back and forth with the mods and I consider that part of my CM experience, too.
ReplyDeleteI have to say that there are about 20 people I've "met" through back channel emails who I'm still in contact with. Kimmie may be the most prolific. (She's among the funniest and best email writers in the known world!)
DeleteI'm grateful so many folks took the time to talk to me about the page. Of course it's no fun when people bitch about the fonts and graphics, but a lot of it is cool.
Oh, and I do love this feature. Not as much as the occasional vidshizzle, but RGM from Leslie is great fun.
ReplyDeleteAm I one of those Xxxxxxx people? I can take it if anonymous people think I'm a douchebag.
ReplyDeletePlease, Les, let me answer this:
Delete1) No, Strelly. Who'd complain about you?
or
2) Yes, all the complaints are about Strelly.
Tell you what, Strel: I'll hold down the person complaining, and you can pummel this person.
DeleteNo I'd rather send them to....
DeleteLA-BOR CAMP!
(bang, bang*)
Labor camp
(bang, bang)
Stick em in a fuckin'
Labor camp
(bang, bang)
_____________
* Sound of fists hitting a table rhythmically.
Oh, my. You are a brave woman, Leslie. I hope you're making ample use of the spam filter.
ReplyDeleteAnd I see the idiot who thinks "juco" is an insult is still at it. Somebody needs (1) an update to his (I'm pretty sure it's his) language, and (2) an update on the general state of the profession (and student aid, and a few other things). Much as I support tenure and deplore the various end runs that governors and legislatures and such have been taking around it, I hope his program gets abolished, and he find himself looking for a job, any job.
Leslie K for president in 2016.
ReplyDeleteI have a question--do any of these people, once they see their own idiocy exposed, quit being idiots? I mean, is there any hope for us?
ReplyDeleteI've had people email me to ask if the WORD FOR WORD text I put up was theirs!
ReplyDeleteSome do write and apologize. Most do not. Most ramp up the rhetoric because my mean-spirited mockery drives them to it. They just want the page to better, they often cry.
My favorite is the one from the fop that chooses fonts "based on the tenor of my post" and gets upset because you changed it. Who ARE these people?
DeleteAlso, the poster who actually has the balls to change the time of their post so that they can hog the spotlight, because they deem the other posts "fluff".
Get your own goddamn blog and all your posts will appear at the top, in Trebuchet or Wingdings or whatever shit you like.
Morons.
I love that the font butthurt is over a switch from Trebuchet to Arial.
DeleteIs it the little tick on the end of the letter l, or perhaps the increased squiggliness of the g, that better projects the tenor, I wonder?
Can we assign grades to these comments?
ReplyDeleteOh, and the idea that you go about actively recruiting writers on campuses makes me giggle. I can just see you during RUSH week on the Compound setting up a booth for College Misery.
ReplyDeleteAre those who complain about the posts contributors? If not, why don't they contribute or stop reading? I don't get that level of illogic.
How about Comic Sans?
ReplyDeleteYou had to go there, didn't you? At least it's not Helvetica.
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