A Change Is Gonna Come

Posted by Seth Kramer on Monday, May 21st 2007 at 2:42pm




My apologies to Sam Cooke for the blog title.

So you've probably noticed that we've made a few changes around the old SethKramer.com homestead. The web team has been working around the clock and we're finally ready to announce some of the new features, of which some of you have already availed yourselves.



Anyway here's what you'll wanna know:

Login
You may have noticed the login box on the left side of the page. This would be for logging in. Funny how that works, huh? Anyway you'll need a username and password. That's where the "new" link comes in. You click on that puppy and you'll be able to create a user account, the details of which are explained on that page. But here's the short and sweet. Once you've filled that out. You'll get an email telling you how to complete your account creation.

Once all that's done you can log in u=username, p=password, but you folks are bright I probably didn't need to tell you that. The store box identifies whether you want to keep your login information on your computer so you don't have to type your information every time you come here. That's probably not the smartest idea if you're on a computer that isn't yours, but otherwise knock yourself out.

Once you're logged in you'll see a link to "Manage your User". That'll let you change your screenname, email address, homepage, or password. In the future this area will have more information.

What if you forget your username, or password. Well that's what the forgot link is for. (Hint: You won't be able to see it if you're logged in). If you should forget your login information click that link and type in your email. If it matches an email address that is currently registered you'll get an email telling you how to reset your password. (Hint: You have 48 hours.)

Da Comments
Ain't them hot?! Comments have been retroactively coolified by the web team. So as to more easily tell who left what comment, and which content is not mine, and has thus not been though our extremely rigorous editing and fact-checking department here at SethKramer.com.

Ifin's you're logged in. All you need enter is your comment. Yay for that!

Ifin's you're not logged in. You'll need to enter your name, email address, comment, and if you feel so moved your website as well as answer a simple math problem. I know, I know, it's all just too difficult. But these are the sacrifices we make to be anonymous.

Worth noting, anonymous persons can only type text. ANY tags will be stripped from your comment like any dignity from Anna Nicole Smith's death. Folks who log in get the privileges of being able to use HTML (although limited to bold, italics, and links).

Why?
You know what I love to do with my afternoons and evenings? Watch Sox games, go to the gym, read, listen to the radio, watch movies, etc. You notice what wasn't on that list? Wade through comment spam. The last few months have been a mixed blessing to us here at SethKramer.com. Our traffic has increased more than 10-fold, and with it has come the flotsam and jetsam of the World Wide Web. So in order to deter or eliminate comment spam and maintain the roll-your-own quality of the site, I have instituted several checks. The first of which is the login. The second of which is tag stripping. The third of which is the Turing test. The fourth of which is the comment moderation.

What if I don't like it?
Give me a compelling argument for why to do it differently and, if possible, a means of doing so and I may just make the change.

Got another idea?
Keep it to yourself. I'm busy with some other stuff right now. Seriously, I've got about 10 more changes I want to make to the site, but feel free to send suggestions to me using the "E-mail Me" link, which will also be changing soon too.

I'm feeling a tummyache