Posts by Drewc
880 posts • joined Thursday 26th November 2009 08:24 GMT
Posted in Help-desk hell
Re: Help-desk hell
A nod to our 2009 article - Helpdesk Heroes or unappreciated geeks?, which attracted more than 100 tales of woe from the helldesk.
Those posts are here.
Posted in Nexus 7 - Price Gouging
What the market will bear
Google cannot mandate what Tesco charges - and nor will it try. If Tesco gets its calculations wrong - people won't buy and you can look forward to a stock clearance sale.
Posted in Ye Bug List
Re: Possible issue with the "edit" time window
You can edit it for 5 minutes after posting, but starting to edit doesn't extend that currently. The simplest thing would be to up limit to 10 minutes.
Added to the list.
Posted in Badges for Commentards
This post was edited by me post publication
Let's find out...OK I pressed save. A few seconds later - my post appeared on screen with edit button.
Posted in Ye Bug List
Re: Thoughts about ignoring "anonymous"
We have thought about ignoring anonymous posters - and we're still thinking.
Posted in Badges for Commentards
Re: Move the badges
The ignore button is intrusive - but only to the 10 gold badge holders (we'll roll this out to other badge holders in due course). We are replacing with a "Block" text link.
Posted in Badges for Commentards
Re: Hey I send in a lot (well several) corrections using the corrections link...
We don't require people to be signed in to file a correction. And that means hand-tooling whatever we do.
Our production guys are the ones with handle on who the regulars are - if we have names, we can cross-match against handles. Not perfect, I know.
Posted in Badges for Commentards
Re: New HTML...?
Were you actually logged in when you saw that. There is a list - in house rules, but you have to scroll down. We'll figure out something more approachable.
Posted in Badges for Commentards
Thanks for bug report
I have gotten your 5 public post message too - sent to devs to investigate.
Posted in Badges for Commentards
Re: Badges etc.
all voters are anonymous - except to us. We will not change that.
Posted in Full RSS / Offline Reading
We do have a Reg iOS app - it's free.
Offline reading is enabled too here
Also, we will introduce offline reading to the mobile web version of our site next year.
We don't have any plans to enable full stories for RSS feeds - but are you sure that all other sites do this?
PS - this escaped my notice until now - apologies for tardiness in replying.
Posted in Badges for Commentards
Re: What? None for me?
So Jamie - a corrections badge? That would be very cool for The Reg.
However, for this to work you and anyone else would need to send corrections in via "send corrections" and not as a post.
That would give us just one place to look at, when considering nominees.
Posted in Badges for Commentards
Top 10 badge?
That was a very good comment.
So we could combine your wish with the call for list of Top 10 upvotes - into a badge. Of course, retention would rely on others not subsequently stealing your thunder ...
Posted in Badges for Commentards
AmanfromMars badge - I like
And maybe it would stop newbies reporting him.
Posted in Badges for Commentards
Think of bronze as a long-ish service medal
Spamming is not a problem in this forum. If people start posting stupid things to get badges - then other readers will report them. And we will have a gentle word.
If behaviour changes massively then we will have a rethink.
Posted in Badges for Commentards
Re: Jumpers for Goalposts
Most commentard posts riff off articles - produced by 25 full-time journalists - and many freelancers. Much as we would like to put our feet up, I don't see that happening anytime soon. Or at all.
Posted in Badges for Commentards
Re: Great - a Bore's Charter
So bronze and silver badges reward activity / with a dash of upvotes for quality - and gold badges reward quality.
We can of course change the criteria for selection - but we have to start somewhere. And somewhere is here.
We will add other voting options to help determine "quality" - but any more badges we do introduce will be awarded on an automated basis.
And we welcome all suggestions for more badges - I see we have a call for purple! OK, but what is a purple badge in recognition of?
Posted in Badges for Commentards
Re: Didn't I make 100 posts in a year?
How did you know what hardware we are running on? Uncanny.
Posted in Badges for Commentards
Re: Awarded to user handle instead of account?
Not weird - some people post under multiple handles, and some post mostly but not all as anonymous cowards. If we grant privileges across all variants, we risk giving others the tools to associates these posts to one person.
It makes more sense to impose one handle+ anonymous option restriction per account.
Posted in Badges for Commentards
Re: Badges for Commentards
Patience, dear.
The badges are rolling out over the next few hours.
I will demote myself tomorrow - but I just wanted to show what the badge looked like.
Posted in Badges for Commentards
Badges for Commentards
Today we introduce badges for commentards. This feature will be rolling out over the next few hours. Check out our story here.
Posted in Jokes of no more than 2 lines
Doctor Doctor
Doctor: Bad news, you have terminal cancer and Alzheimer's.
Patient: At least I don't have cancer.
Posted in Who Won the Fondleslabs?
Re: Who Won the Fondleslabs?
Belated reply - story published here.
My posts / posting in context - your wish is granted
in My Posts / post / Click on the "posted" timestamp link when in my posts to see in action.
Posted in Ye Bug List
My posts / posting in context - your wish is granted.
In my posts Click on the "posted" timestamp link to see in action.
My posts / .posting in context - your wish is granted.
Not just for reply tos anymore. Click on the "posted" timestamp link when in my posts to see in action.
Posted in What happened to Odds & Sods?
Re: A gentl plea to the Reg Vultures
BOFH has not gone away and has never gone away - read the other posts in this thread - including this one.
Re: Re: Fake enthusiasm
Bob, I rejected your previous comment - why the sideswipe about people with special needs? And I have rejected this comment too
As for censorship. This is our house, our rules. No-one is stopping you from making your points elsewhere.
Re: Fake enthusiasm
At time of writing, all the commenters - except two - are long-standing regulars. It is possible to like WinPhone 8 and not be a Microsoft shill, surely?
Re: Looks like the courts agreed with us about Apple's mealy-mouthed "apology"
Our story is here.
Apple must have known that it was breaching the order. Most peculiar.
Re: Re: Not offensive
We have an offline reader in the works for our mobile version.
Re: Re: you have an app?
There is a mobile version link on the home page subnav bar - called "mobile". Admittedly, this is not prominent.
To date, we have chosen not to automatically redirect to the mobile version, but we may change. Currently, more than 15 per cent of our traffic is via mobiles, tablets - and this is growing quickly all the time. We have had few (none?) complaints about showing the full-fat version as default.
Re: Google Currents
Google Currents is not exactly on our radar. Anyone else use this?
Re: Cookie Monster
We are refining our mobile web version. And we think that this is where the future lies.
However, enough readers want the apps experience for us to take notice.
French itunes?
Weird. Isn't there supposed to be only the one itunes app store?
Re: Comments ?
Have another look. Comments are at the bottom of each article.
The new iOS app does support comments...
Where did "apparently" come from?
Posted in Can My ISP Delete my Incoming Mails?
Re: Can My ISP Delete my Incoming Mails?
interesting question. Do you think it is newsworthy?
Re: Re: MSDN people not using keys
We don't do commenter to commenter messages - we have had hardly any requests for this facility.
Re: Re: I believe Apple is getting burned
Edit post? We're listening and might even do something about it.
Man, that is an old version of Firefox
OK, that is an unusual combination - a tiny fraction of one per cent of our readership. So I am not going to OK a bug hunt, sorry.
But I see you have an old version of FF there. Any chance of updating and see if that makes a difference?
Update: On second thoughts - it is now at bottom of front page for me too, so don't go changing on our account! We'll see how we get on here for a few weeks before we go changing anything.
Re: Re: Most read/ commented
It is above spotlight - on front page only
Re: Re: on second thoughts...
Things do change, you know!
