Open Thread – Thursday 12 August 2021

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  1. calli says:

    Zippy’s site is very polite and decorous

    That’s no good.

    I’m just here for the swearing.


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  2. FlyingPigs says:

    Terry Pedersen says:
    August 12, 2021 at 3:19 pm

    what a sick ignorant rocking horse piece of shit.


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  3. Terry Pedersen says:

    He didn’t address the question of fully vaccinated carry the virus as well.
    Strange.

    “He” has addressed that question many times. At least twice on 5th August Open Forum on this new blog, and many more times on the now dead and gone catallaxyfiles.com. You are as dense as you were on that old blog. Not at all strange.


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  4. candy says:

    I reckon a 90 year old could easily die just from the fact of having a vaccine at that age and the stress of the whole thing being told otherwise they will die horribly from COVID.
    Let alone the vaccine properties could upset their system and that’s that.

    At 90 there may be only a short time left. Surely they are better to be warm and nourished and be with family to the end of their days so not scared. It really could be weeks. Hassling a very old person with needles is cruel.


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  5. Knuckle Dragger says:

    ‘That’s one third of the Gang of Four.’

    Hang on.

    Four people are one third, so eight are two thirds….

    Right. The Gang of Four is twelve people.

    Got it.


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  6. Boambee John says:

    “He” has addressed that question many times. At least twice on 5th August Open Forum on this new blog, and many more times on the now dead and gone catallaxyfiles.com. You are as dense as you were on that old blog. Not at all strange.

    Yet Perry the Very Tedious One didn’t mention that minor detail while trying to demonstrate his fake “concern” about aged parents being infected. Typical heartless, incompetent, health bureaucrat.


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  7. twostix says:

    This is how bad covidian lunatics are now by the way.

    With the full backing of the entire state, media and tech apparatus they’ll happily tell you the vaccines don’t work at all, but you’re still killing everyone by not getting one.

    Because the vaccine, masks, masks on children, mass tracking, entire upside down forever cultural change itself, is the end. Covid statistics? CFR? Protect the old and vulnerable and let it rip so the rest of us can gain immunity and get on with life again as we always have since day zero, what?


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  8. Makka says:

    At 90 there may be only a short time left.

    The worst of it is the poor bugger quite likely passed away alone at the end of a long life.


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  9. twostix says:

    Most 90 year olds – the five left, are prisoners in aged care homes being beaten and malnourished by the kids of african warlords while their boomer children drive around in 4wd’s and caravans on the proceeds of the reverse mortgage they took out on their house under power of attorney.


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  10. Professor Higgins says:

    Knuckle Dragger says:

    August 12, 2021 at 4:01 pm

    ‘That’s one third of the Gang of Four.’

    Hang on.

    Four people are one third, so eight are two thirds….

    Right. The Gang of Four is twelve people.

    Got it.

    Unless the implication is that all those named are one person.
    Which means that, if that person comprises one-third of the Gang of Four, then the gang’s membership must be three.
    #faultymaths


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  11. Professor Higgins says:

    Oooh.
    A “Report Comment” button.
    I predict some button pushing RSI coming up.


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  12. woolfe says:

    Report Comment?


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  13. FlyingPigs says:

    candy says:
    August 12, 2021 at 4:01 pm

    candy

    my humble apologies but I clicked the report this content button to see what happens.

    I agree and support your post.


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  14. VI Lenin says:

    We hear plenty about the effects of the Fauci/Wuhan virus here ,in NZ theUK and USA ,but very little about our nearest large neighbour Indonesia . Our leftist media are obsessed with the corrupt Paedo biden gang of usurpers in Third World America and ignore our heavily populated nearest neighbours ,when have you heard one of our politicians express solidarity and sympathy for the carnage the Fauci/Wuhan virus is wreaking there . Do they actually teach our children in school where and what Indonesia is ?


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  15. Rabz says:

    Sydneystan Schlockdown until November.

    No f*cking way, you insane treasonous knobheads. There’ll be nothing recognisable left.

    Insanity on stilts.


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  16. Professor Higgins says:

    I have a feeling, Mr Dragger, that the whole Gang of Four thing might be out of steam, since the subpoenaed witness for the prosecution spectacularly overturned the DPP’s table in court, forcing him to seek an urgent adjournment.


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  17. cohenite says:

    Each comment now has a very terse Report comment option underneath it. I wondered what it was about and clicked on one; I received a thank you with a promise to look into it; to that person who’s comment I inadvertently clicked on I apologise because my curiosity may have forever tarnished your reputation at this blog.


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  18. Rae says:

    Report Comment

    That’s new. I foresee a busy time for the site owner or moderator.


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  19. calli says:

    *gestures mysteriously*

    These are not the buttons we seek.


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  20. Makka says:

    Most 90 year olds – the five left, are prisoners in aged care homes being beaten and malnourished by the kids of african warlords while their boomer children drive around in 4wd’s and caravans on the proceeds of the reverse mortgage they took out on their house under power of attorney.

    Lol. Stix, few boomers have that level of luxury. They are busy bailing out their NAFI genX offspring and baby sitting their rugrats.


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  21. calli says:

    Nah, nah, na nah, nah!

    I’m going to report youse.


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  22. Armadillo says:

    A “dibber dobber” button probably isn’t a priority.


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  23. candy says:

    FlyingPigs says:
    August 12, 2021 at 4:12 pm

    I agree and support your post.
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    Thank you for that.


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  24. Professor Higgins says:

    Serious for a moment.
    I see we have a “Report Comment” button.
    I think we have seen from some previous scrubbed comments where AdamD’s boundaries might be.
    I suggest it is used sparingly and only for the bat-shit crazy racist and anti-Semitic stuff, and doxxing threats we have seen here.
    Otherwise AdamD’s inbox will be clogged with frivolous tit-for-tat rubbish and effective moderation will become even harder.


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  25. Armadillo says:

    A “bird attack” button perhaps might be useful.


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  26. calli says:

    I’ve only ever dobbed once in my life. Third class, to the principal, when a big bully threatened my little brother with an after-school beating.

    When the principal told said bully that if such a threat was ever made again, he’d contact the bully’s father. The blanched face told me all I needed to know. He was a generational bully, poor boy.

    Didn’t name it that then though. But I knew his father must have beaten him. Poor boy.


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  27. Mark A says:

    Armadillo says:
    August 12, 2021 at 4:21 pm

    A “dibber dobber” button probably isn’t a priority.

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    I bet most of us trying to find out what it does.
    Wrong place for it, needs just one button in the menu somewhere, with field to fill in the name and time of posting.


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  28. calli says:

    Can we report comments for poor syntax and spelling?


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  29. Gab says:

    Oh Arky – that was fabulous!

    Do I have your permission to tweet your news conference? And to place it on a public facechook page?
    Let me know, please.


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  30. Gab says:

    Ooops – I reported my own comment 🙁


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  31. FlyingPigs says:

    calli says:
    August 12, 2021 at 4:29 pm

    Can we report comments for poor syntax and spelling?
    —————
    i bin to skool

    i repord u


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  32. Gilas says:

    Terry Pedersen says:
    August 12, 2021 at 3:19 pm

    (the Delta/Delta+ variant is up to 1,000 times more virulent that the original COVID-19)
    ==================================

    What an untrammelled load of crap, Pederast!
    Do something useful with your time, maybe learn some virology, or even assessing medical data, before demonstrating such utter stupidity.
    Moron!


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  33. Top Ender says:

    Could we have a “Haircut” button?

    Obvious really.

    Also, a “I really like this Commentator and would like to take them Dinner Button”?


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  34. Mark A says:

    calli says:
    August 12, 2021 at 4:29 pm

    Can we report comments for poor syntax and spelling?
    =====================
    Nooooooooo!
    My comments would never see the light of day.
    (appear on page even)


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  35. Gab says:

    ”Top Ender says:
    August 12, 2021 at 4:39 pm
    Could we have a “Haircut” button?

    Obvious really.

    Also, a “I really like this Commentator and would like to take them Dinner Button”?”

    That’s known as the ”Ask my wife” button “D


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  36. rickw says:

    Sydneystan Schlockdown until November.

    No f*cking way, you insane treasonous knobheads. There’ll be nothing recognisable left.

    Insanity on stilts.

    To quote the movie that brought us “Red Pill”:

    “We need guns, lots of guns!”


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  37. rickw says:

    I reckon a 90 year old could easily die just from the fact of having a vaccine at that age and the stress of the whole thing being told otherwise they will die horribly from COVID.
    Let alone the vaccine properties could upset their system and that’s that.

    A 90 year old could suddenly die from realising that they’re living in “Australia”. WTF happened to my country?!


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  38. Mater says:

    If the report comment button is the plug-in I’ve previously mentioned, I’d suggest that there’s a threshold number of reports, above which, the comment will disappear (until reviewed)

    I think it’s not a bad compromise. You can only report it once, and if enough cats think said comment is bad enough to report, it probably should disappear.

    No colluding people! LL, check your email.

    On a serious note, even if not reported enough to disappear, it will raise it to Adam’s attention in a timely manner.

    I think we’ll get used to it, and it’s probably the lesser of two evils.


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  39. Knuckle Dragger says:

    So if you report your own comment you get a message from Adam D describing your imbecility.

    What if it’s a cry for help?

    Thank heavens there’s not a free text section asking you to describe why you reported it. That’d fire the hamsters up no end.


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  40. Professor Higgins says:

    calli says:
    August 12, 2021 at 4:29 pm

    Can we report comments for poor syntax and spelling?

    Bespoke says on … nooo … mo … no.
    😀


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  41. rosie says:

    Lol Graeme is going to report lots of comments.


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  42. C.L. says:

    Top story at The Australian: vaccine “hesitancy” not falling.

    Vaccine hesitancy is no longer falling despite the ongoing severity and spread of the NSW outbreak and lockdowns imposed on millions of Australians.

    New survey data recorded last week shows vaccine hesitancy across the nation now sits at 21.8 per cent of the population, slightly up on 21.5 per cent in late July.

    And in NSW, which on Thursday reported another 345 confirmed cases of the virus and placed more regions into hard lockdown, the proportion of vaccine hesitant people rose from 14.6 per cent on July 23 to 17.3 per cent.

    The Melbourne Institute’s fortnightly Vaccine Hesitancy Report, which tracks how many Australian adults are either unwilling to be vaccinated or are unsure about it, reveals that while hesitancy has been falling nationwide since peaking mid-May at 35 per cent, it appears to have plateaued in the last month…

    Despite Australia hitting the halfway point (14.4 million vaccinations) in terms of jabs needed to reach the government’s first target of 70 per cent vaccination coverage, the stubborn level of continuing vaccine hesitancy puts a serious question mark on whether it can get there, and beyond to the second target of 80 per cent…

    Melbourne Institute Professor Anthony Scott, the report’s author, said it was problematic that the level of vaccine hesitancy in Australia remained stuck above 20 per cent.

    “It is worrying that we might be starting to see a plateau in these numbers,” Professor Scott said.


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  43. Report comment says:

    Would you bastards stop annoying me?


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  44. Professor Higgins says:

    Mater.
    If that is the functionality and the threshold is set high enough, that should work.
    As a counter to “check your email” collusion, maybe vexatious complainants might earn a spell on the sidelines.


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  45. calli says:

    You mean “the Tribe has Spoken”, Mater?

    Yikes! Groupthink.

    *pauses and reflects*

    Hi, everybody! Anyone thirsty? My shout. 🍷🥂🍺


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  46. cohenite says:

    I’d like to see a positive comment button like: outstanding comment cohenite, it captures the Zeitgeist of the times and presents a framework for the apotheosis of humanity

    That sort of thing.


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  47. Professor Higgins says:

    From Zipster’s Discord site.
    A pretty good thumbnail sketch of what is a reportable offence, I think.

    A ragtag group of catallaxians fleeing the destruction of their home blog
    rules

    #no personal harassment
    #no doxxing
    #no unmasking
    #no spam
    #no libel
    #no anti-semitism


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  48. Ruprecht says:

    Having a comment deleted won’t worry some in the least but will upset others,


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  49. calli says:

    Report comment says:
    August 12, 2021 at 4:51 pm
    Would you bastards stop annoying me?
    __________________

    🤣

    No.


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  50. incoherent rambler says:

    WTF happened to my country?!

    Dunno. But it is rooted.
    Must have happened while we were down at the pub.


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  51. https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/white-house-calls-on-oil-cartel-opec-to-boost-production-as-gas-prices-soar_3943831.html?utm_source=News&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2021-08-11-2&mktids=1bb666df6f91ac4050db3cbf44754d10&est=Etd%2F2pTmvj3z%2BK8yH2FhgGYsmpKTI4f%2B1O3Jn%2F%2BfkTr%2BdBuqhvH24PwmuLZ99KtZ
    Biden stopped the majority of the oil projects and supports the Russian and Middle Eastern shitholes by getting them to increase their output while putting up prices in the US.
    Under Trump, the US was a net oil exporter.
    Under the O’Biden/Harris administration, it’s a net importer.
    This is deliberate sabotage.


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  52. Ruprecht says:

    “ Appeal live: Giants claim ‘error of law’, point to High Court cases to free banned Toby Greene”

    There is something both funny and ironic where Toby Greene can point to the HC in defence but the Left and their favourite Sri Lankans’ can’t.


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  53. Professor Higgins says:

    Ruprecht says:

    August 12, 2021 at 4:55 pm

    Having a comment deleted won’t worry some in the least but will upset others,

    I’ll probably wake up some Sunday mornings and report myself.


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  54. Report comment says:

    calli says:
    August 12, 2021 at 4:56 pm

    Report comment says:
    August 12, 2021 at 4:51 pm
    Would you bastards stop annoying me?
    __________________

    🤣

    No.
    ——————
    oh!


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  55. Professor Higgins says:

    Reported!
    Footy talk!


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  56. C.L. says:

    This is Australia:

    Politicians scramble to flee Parliament House as Canberra goes into lockdown

    Australia’s politicians are scrambling to flee Parliament House ahead of Canberra’s emergency lockdown.

    Labor MPs Jim Chalmers, Bill Shorten and Murray Watt all confirmed they had fled or plan to flee the capital on Thursday.

    Speaking at the Canberra airport, Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers defended his decision to return to Queensland.

    “The lockdown’s at 5pm – some of us have got kids to go home to,” he said.


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  57. incoherent rambler says:

    cohenite says: August 12, 2021 at 4:53 pm

    outstanding comment cohenite, it captures the Zeitgeist of the times and presents a framework for the apotheosis of humanity

    Report commenter


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  58. caveman says:

    Reprot cmmonets should be in another colour.


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  59. rickw says:

    Politicians scramble to flee Parliament House as Canberra goes into lockdown

    Oh so this is the shit the rest of the country has been living through for 18 months?!


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  60. twostix says:

    New survey data recorded last week shows vaccine hesitancy across the nation now sits at 21.8 per cent of the population, slightly up on 21.5 per cent in late July

    So after a week of a complete blitz of every state, cultural, institutional and media apparatus literally threatening and abusing everyone and calling you the most vile names and promising exile and ruin if you don’t want to get it 1 / 5 people are still willing to tell complete strangers “hell no not getting”.

    Real number: much, much higher.

    Good plan Morrison you utter DICKHEAD.


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  61. cohenite says:

    Further to my previous and typically insightful comment I would like to suggest a range of buttons: like, dislike, despise, would like to meet with a view to romance, I fart in your general direction; or variations of same.


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  62. FlyingPigs says:

    C.L. says:
    August 12, 2021 at 5:02 pm

    This is Australia:

    Politicians scramble to flee Parliament House as Canberra goes into lockdown
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    I dream of an Australia where we have Representative Government.


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  63. caveman says:

    Report comments the button of righteousness.


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  64. twostix says:

    Australia’s politicians are scrambling to flee Parliament House ahead of Canberra’s emergency lockdown.

    They’ve been in Canberra, surely the rules are that they must now self isolate for two weeks just like they are for the rest of us.


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  65. Mater says:

    You mean “the Tribe has Spoken”, Mater?

    Yikes! Groupthink.

    *pauses and reflects*

    That’s a fair point, Calli, but unless they announce it by way of a comment, no one will know what others are doing, therefore no group think.

    A collection of independent opinions.
    Using the button is very much like voting in Australia…completely anonymous, completely independent…and usually for a fuckwit.

    If people want to collaborate online to disappear a comment, they will need to do it openly, and they’ll be judged accordingly.

    As I said, I think it’s a reasonable compromise, to keep this blog alive.


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  66. mh says:

    I turn my back for a couple of hours and someone installs a new function.
    Does an alarm go off in the bat cave?
    Or Adam’s man cave.
    Or Paul Murray’s man cave.
    Phrasing.


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  67. Professor Higgins says:

    Mater, on reflection I don’t think it is a “tribe has spoken” button.
    Someone upthread (cohenite?) had a “I wonder what this button does?” moment and I think it turns the comment from “report comment” to “flagged” with no hyperlink.


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  68. rosie says:

    I’m hoping you have a sense of humour, your majesty.


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  69. Ruprecht says:

    If people want to collaborate online to disappear a comment, they will need to do it openly, and they’ll be judged accordingly.

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    Other than those who are in regular email contact……. (Not you Mater)


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  70. cohenite says:

    This is how I see the snitch button devolving:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFCgz959ARY


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  71. C.L. says:

    They’ve been in Canberra, surely the rules are that they must now self isolate for two weeks just like they are for the rest of us.
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    🤔

    Yep. That’s right.


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  72. Mark A says:

    It does this; “Thank you for your feedback. We will look into it.”


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  73. Mater says:

    Professor,
    I think it can be set with a threshold, but not compulsory.
    Adam may not (as yet) have enabled it for this functionality.


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  74. rosie says:

    Anyone can report a comment though, it doesn’t just have to be someone who posts.

    And if you had say a dozen email addresses you could wreak havoc.


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  75. calli says:

    Well, I can see an immediate problem from those who appear to be discrete commenters but are actually connected at the shoulders (just past the Tunnelbear function).

    Think of the Hydra and why the task was Herculean.


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  76. ikamatua says:

    “Gab says:
    August 12, 2021 at 4:32 pm
    Oh Arky – that was fabulous!”
    ..
    Always.
    Please share.


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  77. Professor Higgins says:

    Other than those who are in regular email contact……. (Not you Mater)

    Which means it will very quickly turn into a Furniture Store echo-chamber.
    And remember, you don’t need email contact.
    Those on Discord have a PM function.
    It was running hot when Don Quixote’s pony lost his shit the other night.


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  78. calli says:

    I see Rosie got there too.

    We must have Machiavellian minds.


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  79. Mater says:

    Other than those who are in regular email contact……. (Not you Mater)

    Sounds like a lot of bother to disappear a comment.
    It’s not smiting someone, just reporting a single comment.

    Adam will need to assess the abusers if a pattern emerges.

    Let’s see how it goes.


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  80. Tom says:

    Hahaha. NSW today wheeled out a public service clown who calls himself the state’s “chief psychiatrist” to advise people how to cope with the lockdown distress the state is inflicting on them.

    The fascist pig state is no longer even defending its tyranny: it’s rubbing the public’s face in it.


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  81. TailgunneR says:

    Why can’t we hit the Year2000 internet and have like/dislike counter?
    Can’t some Cat hackers get this done?


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  82. Zipster says:

    report comment is that some form of moderation?


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  83. Professor Higgins says:

    Yes, Mater.
    In all honesty I only have one lined up for a pre-emptive strike, because of form here and previously.
    The Frosty Californian Mushroom Nazi.
    Apart from him, I can’t think of anything I have seen here which would warrant a button push.


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  84. rosie says:

    Because this is a small private blog with a comparatively small number of commentors.

    We aren’t here to wound people.

    Which takes us to the same point, someone with an email stable can target someone.

    Iirc on major newspaper sites, likes and dislikes can be used to sort comments by popularity.


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  85. Ruprecht says:

    Professor, maybe the button in non avian circumstances should read ‘I would like to speak to the manager’

    To fumigate anti-semetic unhinged rants, press 1
    To simply get rid of Rosie, press 2
    To complain about references to cruising, candles, convoys, courage or cenotaphs, press three


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  86. Rabz says:

    It does this;

    “Thank you for your feedback. We will look into it. At the end of the day. In the fullness of time. After the lawn has been mown. Once the sock drawer is sorted. Once all long lost relatives have been contacted. Following the clipping of the toenails. After a vainglorious attempt has been made to imbibe 100 beers in less than 24 hours.”

    Yeah, yeah, Report this carbon based lifeform’s comment.


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  87. rosie says:

    You left out report all drongos button Ruprecht


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  88. ikamatua says:

    Arky Rant #2 for the day: on jokers, jesters and pranksters
    – The KLF burning a million pounds:
    https://rumble.com/vl1bug-klf-and-burning-a-million-pounds.html


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  89. C.L. says:

    Brad Hazzard has certainly put on some pork.

    Overweight and a chronic asthmatic.

    Bascically, he wants the entire population imprisoned to protect himself from getting the flu.


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  90. egg_ says:

    Professor Higgins says:
    August 12, 2021 at 4:54 pm
    From Zipster’s Discord site.
    A pretty good thumbnail sketch of what is a reportable offence, I think.

    A ragtag group of catallaxians fleeing the destruction of their home blog
    rules

    #no personal harassment

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    Fvcktard doesn’t do irony.


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  91. caveman says:

    2021 and It’s taking 28 days to get from Sydney to Adelaide via 2 x 14 day isolations for the Olympics people.
    As an interest here’s what travel looked like 100 years ago.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3339902/What-travel-looked-like-100-years-ago-Map-shows-DAYS-took-travel-abroad-1900s.html


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  92. TailgunneR says:

    until the right start doing what the left are doing and getting away with it – Extinction Rebellion, BLM, antifa etc
    100% correct.
    But the Gramsci March has made that difficult.
    Police now Stasi, everywhere. Military deployment opens a legit deputizing of more, aggressive, ADF forces.
    Overwhelming force.
    What Would The IRA Do?
    Hehe
    Go long balaclavas.


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  93. woolfe says:

    New South Gaols!


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  94. egg_ says:

    To simply get rid of Rosie, press 2

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  95. TailgunneR says:

    Oppo phone coding fail.


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