Dear Disqus

You are dumped. That is all.

P.S. If you use a Disqus commenting system and suddenly have dropped some followers, I think you may want to think about why. Oh, and yes, I am one of the lost ones.

Just like the Ad.

You know the one.

Male voice over: “Suddenly”

Dad with young baby: “You’re here”

Mother with baby: “Here”

Mother feeding toddler: “Here”

Mother running with child on grass: “Here”

Dad with child and dog on beach: “Here”

Children in water park: “Here”

Young teenagers lying on grass: “Here”

Group of teenagers at formal: “We’re here!”

Male voice over: “Then suddenly, you’re not here”

Part of the Queensland "Here for Life" campaign. (Really powerful, go look)

Maybe my lack of comments on the blogs I regularly visit has not been missed. Maybe I am just full of my own self-importance but have not been noticed as gone. But if some of you did here's why.

I did not chuck a YAAB tanty, I did not decide certain posts were not worthy...

DISQUS chewed me up and spat me out AGAIN! This time it was nearly two months of not being able to comment AT ALL on these blogs. I was at the point of deleting a lot of them from my blog list and then:

*POOF*

the fat pink DISQUS fairy Godmother decided to be magnanimous and allow me commenting priviledges once more. Why? God only knows, because I sure as hell don't.

I'm telling ya -  this is one annoying fairy to piss off!

Spoke too soon - Caitlyn, cannot comment on your blog! ARRGGGGGGGGGH! Knew I shouldn't a posted her photo, that friggin' fairy is so damn easy to piss off!

 

Here we go again... *sigh*.

Disqus, Envy and a Little Procrastination...

Sitting here just a little envious this morning. The amazing Mrs Woog of Woogsworld fame (or is that infamy?) is off to lunch with Google! Yes, you read it right  - GOOGLE! You really know you've reached the pinacle of all blogicleness when Google want to wine and dine your arse! So I told her I wanted to be her! Yes, a little stalkerish. Okay, a lot stalkerish, but hey, wouldn't it be worse if I sat and let my jealousy fester unvoiced behind a false smiling facade? And that leads me to my next point. Disqus. No false smiling facade on MY comments in Disqus. No facade at all - I am faceless. Must admit the envy was creeping insidiously in about this one too. I would sit, muttering madly under my breath "She got a photo. Why does she get one and not me. Who does she think she is? How did she get on the inner? What have I ever done to Disqus to make it treat me with such obvious disdain? Why aren't I in the cool group? *Sob*" every time I commented and had to enter e-mail, enter username, enter first born son's right testicle...

But then I noticed something. A little thing that soothed my jaded spirit. I was not alone. The uber-cool Allison from Life in a Pink Fibro was sitting a couple of comments away SANS photo! So maybe I am in the cool group. and the other is the uncool group! Well, that's my premise and I'm sticking to it.

And now we come to the procrastination bit... As you may have read in my other post, I won Challenge 67 on Blog This. Which meant I had to come up with a topic for Challenge 69 (I know, I know, okay?). After no help from you lot I came up with a topic:

What would you do if you won the big one. Not one million, or even two million, but a division one prize of 52 million dollars? Would you go public, remain anonymous, use it for good of others, or on family only? If all your financial issues were swept away, what would you do with the rest?

Yeah, not brilliant but all I had at that moment (being put on the spot kinda thing ya know). Now I am avoiding as only someone as consummate a procrastinator such as moi can. You'd a thunk if I was the one coming up with the challenge that I'd have some ideas about it, huh?

Lucky I'm a fly by the seat of my pants sorta gal. Because that's what I'll be doing. For this challenge entry and for Muse Wars I would say. Cest la vie.

Oh, and drop over and check out Challege 68 - Valentine's Past. Vote for your favourite - and I'll let you know I was lucky, for this one I had already written an apt post way back last year.

Okay, no more stuffing around. I'll get stuck into it, I promise. Right after I just go and...

FYBF - Shameless Hussy & Disqus Discontent

Yeah, here I am on a Flog Yo Blog Friday shamelessly hawking for votes. What for, the thousands of new readers, may ask? "Well,' I humbly reply, "for this:

Blog This Challenge 67 "

Yes, voting has opened. So follow the link in above post and look at ALL the entries and then vote. Preferably for me. I did mention shameless, didn't I? Well I am. And competitive. Bahahahahahahahahaha...

I also wish to lodge a formal complaint to the many of you whom I follow who have chosen to jump into Disqus. Yes, the commenting system. I HATE IT! It won't let me sign in under my login (yes, I do have a Disqus log in, but it has some personal issue with me and won't let me use it most days). EVERYTIME I want to comment I have to go through the blah, blah, blah... enter e-mail, enter username, enter website crap. And it won't put my lovely picture in either, just leaves me as a mere shadow of my vibrant self. NOT HAPPY JAN!

Why do so many of you like this system? What am I doing wrong? It is like being the geeky one in plaits and glasses hanging around the edge of the huddle, trying desperately to break through to see what the cool kids are giggling, chatting and circling about.

Come on guys - LET ME IN!

Or else I'm sending the shark after you. Hey If I'd do it to my kid, I'd do it to you!

Now, as linky seems to have changed its rules, I don't know if FYBF is on. But this is mine anyway, linky list or no linky list. After all, I'm quite pracised at tanties now. Just sayin'.