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p.s. Also, there's that

artappraiser — Wed, 29 May 2019 22:45:07 +0000

In reply to Nothing different about your

p.s. Also, there's that people have to click through to the full "In the News" page in order to leave a comment on the post. Unless they are taken to a post from "Latest Comments". Either way, once there as a commenter, they see the full post.

Some misunderstanding - we

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 29 May 2019 22:19:40 +0000

In reply to I looked for a Drone on and

Some misunderstanding - we banned drones and large bore weapons for security reasons, but small bores are allowed free rein - 2nd amendment and all that.

Nothing different about your

artappraiser — Wed, 29 May 2019 22:13:31 +0000

In reply to How much to quote is a choice

Nothing different about your access, ocean-kat, the first few lines is all everybody sees looking at the pop-ups from running a cursor over the little box of links on the home page.

I've always gone on the presumption that people who want to see the full quote the poster made, rather than go directly to the link itself, will bother to access the full-page version of the "In the News" section at the "more" link

http://dagblog.com/in-the-news

And that some will, especially when a poster gives an excerpt from something behind a paywall/

Just like others probably go directly to the full Latest Comments page, because the little Latest Comments box on the home page doesn't give as full info.

Embedded tweets do usually and oddly seem to show in full on using the cursor pop-up on home page. I suspect that is just a quirk in the way Wolraich's set up accepts the code that goes into the pop-up field. If it's just plain text with links, it seems to count the urls equally to text, counting each character, so depending upon url, sometimes the text is very truncated because of a long url. There's similar discrepancies that happen with Latest Comments

I looked for a Drone on and

ocean-kat — Wed, 29 May 2019 21:56:16 +0000

In reply to That explains - I click on

I looked for a Drone on and on link since that's my usual method of discourse but couldn't find it. I just figured the system checked the names and when it saw mine it said, cut this bore short.

That explains - I click on

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 29 May 2019 21:27:22 +0000

In reply to How much to quote is a choice

That explains - I click on "give long-winded retort"

How much to quote is a choice

ocean-kat — Wed, 29 May 2019 20:51:16 +0000

In reply to Mea culpa on often not

How much to quote is a choice. There's no wrong or right. I'm just expressing how I stand on the subject and how I deal with it. I'm not sure why my quotes are always cut off after a couple of sentences. I only know of one way to submit news. I click on the submit news link.

Mea culpa on often not

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 29 May 2019 20:36:36 +0000

In reply to You know PP, you usually post

Mea culpa on often not quoting.

But on pop-ups I haven't noticed it cutting mine when I use them , is it that I quote less than you or you try to use the header function (which when I wrote actual diaries I think may have had limits to header/preview, but overall pretty long)

You know PP, you usually post

ocean-kat — Wed, 29 May 2019 17:06:25 +0000

In reply to Google's cunning but not so well paid linguists

You know PP, you usually post news items without any quote from the article. I simply don't have the time to read all these news article suggestions based on the headline alone. For me the main problem with the In The News section and the main reason I don't often submit news is because it truncates the quote I selected from the article. No matter now carefully I pick a few sentences to give a flavor of the article it's too long for the pop-up.