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Vox improvements

Email notification of replies to comments on other people's blogs, not just one's own.

The feedback list needs a "Design" category. The theme I use, Minimalist Grey, is fixed-width and annoying cuz I have a wide screen. Vox needs to let people use their own themes that aren't limited to a fixed width. (Do you know why I didn't use a compound word that time?)

Composition preview option--just save? C'mon, Vox, get into the 21st century already...

And what's up with the screwed up fonts? I edit this post and the font's changed style, color, and size--what the fuck? I hate bugs... OK, so "copy-pasted text from elsewhere retains font formatting" and there's no way to reset the font to the default black-on-white in-edit style (which is automagically transformed to your theme's colors--unless it's explicitly different in this text-entry pane. Uh...yea...great design, Vox! Back to graphics design (and coding) 101 with you!

Wikipedia ban changed to 24-hour block

Well, another admin reviewed my unblock request and changed the ban to a 1-day block (well, 1.5-day including the ~12 hours from the initial block). I may bring an admin review against the admin who did a hasty indefinite ban against me without going through normal arbitration procedures. The previous admin who blocked me for a week also evaded discussion directly related to edit reversions (which is what I was partially blocked over). Damned if I do, damned if I don't, it seems... I hate politics and bureaocracy!

Indefinite Wikipedia ban

Well, that didn't take long. Despite playing Wikipedia's consensorship games, and contributing GREATLY to it, I still get the boot based on Wikipedia's far-too-anal "civility" policy (more like be a good little lemming and do not dare dissent from the "appeal to majority" fallacy). Typical--online oppression is dispensed FAR too easily.

Wikipedia block: third time's a charm

Welp, now I'm blocked for a week because I tried to improve Wikipedia's craptacular disambiguation navigation system, which is inconsistent, contradictory, and hypocritical. Typical.

The problem with Wikipedia is it's too easily controlled by bias (what it dubs "consensus"). A group of people may not agree with one thing one week, but the next week (month, or year), consensus may change. It's like democracy on crack (which itself is just the "appeal to majority" fallacy)--and even worse when combined with capitalism where it then also becomes an "appeal to money" fallacy (which is just another kind of majority). Ridiculous.

I really don't know why I even bother trying to improve things--no one seems to want improvement. Everything I've come across I try to improve, but end up meeting heavy resistance. What's the point?

Steamshovel Press #1 cover

This is a scan of Steamshovel Press #1, 1988, from Philip Gounis, sent to me to resolve a dispute over the Steamshovel Press Wikipedia article. I have only cropped/rotated it.

Steamshovel Press #1 cover