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Alison replied on August 20, 2009 22:34 to the idea "Sorting suggestions by popularity" in Skribit:

would like: a flag/ checkbox to indicate that a topic shouldn't be displayed on the widget.

Alison started following the idea "Sorting suggestions by popularity" in Skribit.

Alison replied on August 16, 2009 05:04 to the problem "users complaining about 100 char limit" in Skribit:

perhaps issues like this will happen more as users of non-tech blogs with readers who aren't familiar with tech and tech products.

Alison replied on August 15, 2009 23:24 to the problem "users complaining about 100 char limit" in Skribit:

Maybe you need to do a poll of bloggers- what do their readers think? I guess you've got 2 kinds of users- those who sign up with Skribit, (either with their own blog or not) and those who use the widget on the web page and perhaps don't go further.

Perhaps: You keep the 100char limit for display purposes, but let the suggester type in more than that, and bump out the overflow to a comment... (a 'more' at the end) and after that happens, perhaps they will learn to be more succinct and elaborate in comments. Will also encourage people over to the Skribit website.

I think you can find a balance between these two important things:

Happy display length for the widget + comprehensive suggestions (maybe long!)

Alison replied on August 15, 2009 11:46 to the problem "Blogged suggestions with ane empty blog URL" in Skribit:

A related gripe: when bloggers have a really interesting suggestion that I really want to read more about marked as "blogged" and I find that, they've linked to it as the genericURL.com rather than genericURL.com/specificArticle.html

Granted, this is more a pebkac than a tech issue, but perhaps some good Skribit tutorials might be a good idea?

(Problem exists between user and chair = pebkac)

Alison marked one of Calvin's replies in Skribit as useful. Calvin replied to the question "more flexibility, please".

Alison reported a problem in Skribit on August 15, 2009 11:41:

users complaining about 100 char limit

noticed this suggestion on a blog when browsing around skribit (it's my favourite way to surf- I can see what sort of stuff is blogged on a blog before I get there!) and thought I'd give you guys a head's up.

http://skribit.com/suggestions/whats-...

Alison marked one of Calvin's replies in Skribit as useful. Calvin replied to the question "Filter profanities".

Alison marked one of Paul Stamatiou's replies in Skribit as useful. Paul Stamatiou replied to the question "What are the green bar things?".

Alison asked a question in Skribit on August 03, 2009 03:41:

What are the green bar things?

So, it looks like it's replaced the how many people have voted. Still confusing. A FAQ entry might be good?

what is "posted"?

ok, and "my network"... twitter inspired?

Would be great if you guys wrote and released the docs at the same time as the code... :P (unlike the ruby function, Paul, that was doc'd but not released...)

Alison marked one of Paul Stamatiou's replies in Skribit as useful. Paul Stamatiou replied to the question "Filter profanities".

Alison replied on July 28, 2009 07:30 to the question "Filter profanities" in Skribit:

unsafe word filtering should be priority IMHO, because that will catch anonymous users.

Thanks for the quick response! (Bored teens on summer holidays wreaking havock on the web?)

Alison asked a question in Skribit on July 28, 2009 05:37:

Filter profanities

So, I just removed "anonymous suggestions" due to an abusive anonymous comment/suggestion. Sigh. too casual for suggestion moderation, would be nice if us common free-loaders could choose to filter profanities, etc.

Alison marked one of Calvin's replies in Skribit as useful. Calvin replied to the problem "click once, cool. type. click again. ARGH!".

Alison replied on June 15, 2009 12:15 to the problem "click once, cool. type. click again. ARGH!" in Skribit:

wordpress 2.8 by the way.

Alison reported a problem in Skribit on June 15, 2009 11:41:

click once, cool. type. click again. ARGH!

So, have an idea for something I want to see @stammy blog about. Mosey over to his site and click in the text box. I has focus! I start typing my suggestion, and I see a red underline for spell check. So, I click on the text. ARGH! the box resets itself to blankness.

No biggy, I can rephrase the question (it's not like I was typing a long forum response or blog comment) but yeah.

Also happens on my site's skribit, so I think it is universal.

Bug. please fix. :)

Alison reported a problem in Skribit on April 13, 2009 00:48:

skribit blog is missing.

The skribit blog is 404ing- maybe it got left behind in the transfer to new servers. Would love to be reading about the new changes!

Alison marked one of Paul Stamatiou's replies in Skribit as useful. Paul Stamatiou replied to the idea "Readers submitting comments rather than suggestions...".

Alison replied on March 24, 2009 07:06 to the idea "attack of the & quot ! (should be ")" in Skribit:

if you enter (from your keyboard, one key) " it shows up as "

Sorry it that wasn't clear, it's hard to do when satisfaction converts the "s over to "

*I assume. Someone could be trying to be smart and put in the & code, but judging by the blog I saw the suggestion of, I don't think they would try anything beyond hitting the " key.

Alison shared an idea in Skribit on March 21, 2009 04:32:

attack of the & quot ! (should be ")

& quot ; not showing up as " on the suggestion. This is what I saw:

Making meat appetizing to a & quot;vegetarian& quot; child.

(that's & quot ; if getsatisfaction fixes it)

Minor bug to knock off and feel productive. :)