English grammar...
... is not particularly irregular. It may well once have been, though as with all living languages it has evolved in such a way as to remain useful.
Hey Commentards! [This title is optional]
Yesterday, we added three new features for Reg commentards. The most obvious - and many of you spotted this already - is that commenters no longer have to write a title to accompany their post. We like headlines but many of you don't, so this is our gift to you. We have introduced a new sorting option - now can you arrange …
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Friday 9th September 2011 13:15 GMT MarcusArt
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Also, since I am an anally pedantic foreign grammar nazi, the following options:
A) Click here to report spelling fails
B ) Hide illiterate posters' posts because they can't be taken seriously
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You mean: 'Click here to report problems with spellings'. In fact it's frowned upon to use 'click here' in terms of usability. So you should probably say 'Report spelling mistakes.' Make sure it's underlined.
Oh and nazi should be written Nazi.
And you simply need to say pedantic - technically.
A dog just crapped by the bench I was sitting on so I'm grumpy and mean today. Sorry.
B. Yep. So I should not have seen this beauty.
Rant on folks. Happy days.
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Friday 9th September 2011 09:02 GMT Svantevid
*Optional*, thanks Grud
"now can you arrange by time of posting"
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This will definitely come in handy, for reason Mr. Orlowski - praised be his name, he allowed comments on his article - already knows... looking for new posts in long threads will become much easier.
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"Lastly, if you post anonymously you don't get to pick an icon. All Anon posts get a V for Vendetta mask instead."
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Can we get reasons for it? Just out of curiosity, I have no problems at all with that decision. :-)
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Friday 9th September 2011 10:52 GMT Peter Gathercole
Anonymous comments (I don't mind titles!)
Can we have two names registered against a mail address?
I am open enough to post many of my comments under my real name (unlike many of you), but I frequently use the anonymous option, normally if I am posting things that may upset my employer, wife, children, the police etc (OK maybe not the wife, she is a technophobe, and does not read the Register, and the police could get a court order if what I have said was against the law).
But I appreciate being able to use an icon with my anonymous posts.
What I may have to do is register a second account with an unrelated name to my real one. If I were allowed to have an alternative "alias" for my account, and be able to select it like I do Anonymous Coward as an alternative, I think that would be really useful.
Now, what has not been used yet, but would be suitably humorous?
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Friday 9th September 2011 09:19 GMT Anonymous Coward
Sir,
You're lack of posting a threaded comment indicates you don't understand the comments forum, there fore I'd suggest we ignore your comment.
Regards
Anon
There are already too many good (and bad) open forums out there. Keep El Reg to commenting on the published stories, although perhaps there should be a "suggest a story" option so the moderators can be notified of potential articles.
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Friday 9th September 2011 10:36 GMT Arctic fox
RE ".........a "suggest a story" option ........"
That I have to say is a good idea. Opens up for more reader-input without (at the outset) risking the "baby out with the bathwater" risk implicit in reader generated threads - although not excluding that option at a later date if it was thought desirable. Suggestions could perhaps be divided between a "specific news items board" and a "suggested topics board". The latter being suggestions concerning what posters here would like El Reg's reporters to take a look at even if the topic concerned is not necessarily a hot current news item.
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Friday 9th September 2011 09:03 GMT Anonymous Coward
Shame you didn't fix the site logon problems with Opera password manager. This seems to be the only site on the entire internet that's broken with it.
I'm guessing it's because you have multiple logons on the same page on different domains (theregister, reghardware, channelregister etc etc etc).
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Friday 9th September 2011 09:03 GMT Jon Double Nice
How about a points system
For commenting "First!!!" (with any combination of caps and punctuation)
For posting 'First' and getting the first post, 1 point
For posting 'First' and not getting the first post, -the position of your post (i.e. 2nd post = -2 points)
At the end of the year, we check all the totals, and then everybody who has partaken in this game gets a kick in the nads.
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