Please do not put community topics in the Broadcast Jail. It's just mean.

Shrdlu posted a pic said Tue, Dec 26th 2017 at 11:47pm ET

When you’ve put the topic about voting for January’s Goat in there, it makes me think that you’re trying somehow to take all the joy out of life, and make the day into eternal night, and remove chocolate from all the candy bars, and turn all the cute kittens into lizards, and the puppies into mushrooms…

You are just breaking my heart, dammit.
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shawn said Tue, Dec 26th 2017 at 11:52pm ET:
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- @shawn It keeps anyone from seeing that there are new comments, or even noticing that there’s activity. It artificially reduces the participation, and may even have an effect on who is goat next month. Surely you wouldn’t want that on your conscience, now, would you?
  
  Shrdlu said Tue, Dec 26th 2017 at 11:54pm ET
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- @shawn Is this just another attempt to skew the election results?
  
  therealjrn said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 12:12am ET
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- @shawn As always, @Shrdlu is right.
  
  narfcake said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 12:12am ET
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- @narfcake
  
  /roll 4d23
  You rolled a total of 54
  
  mflassy said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 12:15am ET
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- @Shrdlu perhaps whomever put it there should be the first ever staff goat. I dont want to goat.
  
  CaptAmehrican said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 4:20am ET
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- @CaptAmehrican Not sure anyone wants to goat…
  
  Kidsandliz said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 4:32pm ET
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f00l said Tue, Dec 26th 2017 at 11:58pm ET:

I like lizards and kittens and mushrooms and puppies.

But I don’t like a mashup of them.

@shawn: She’s right.

The topic just disappears.

If it would go bold for new comments …

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mfladd said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 12:01am ET:

Kittens and lizards living together - Total Anarchy!!!

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- @mfladd
  
  In an alternate universe, the experiment failed.
  
  mflassy said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 12:03am ET
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- @mflassy “Meow?” (Translated: “He followed me home, can we keep him?”)
  
  sjk3 said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 1:58am ET
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medz said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 12:03am ET:

I know, right? Why not show it as a broadcast AND allow it to display below as it normally would? It might be a little redundant to see it listed twice, but at least I could tell if it had new comments.
/giphy forum fail

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Shrdlu said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 12:28am ET:

Now I have to go over and watch Wine dot Woot, in case there’s something that shows up at 10Pm Pacific (Midnight in TX, of course) that I cannot live without. Here’s hoping that when I returned, they’ll have returned to their senses, and fixed things.

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- Sadly, there was nothing wonderful on wine dot woot tonight.
  
  I hope that the broadcast issue is solved by tomorrow morning. It seems like they did this last month, too (put the voting thing in the broadcast). I blame the breakfast octopus, myself.
  
  Shrdlu said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 2:12am ET
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- @Shrdlu now I know why I had a fitful sleep.
  
  I agree with the broadcast function shortcomings. I’ll add a nuance that it probably highlights great for new site visitors but disappears for power users.
  
  That said, I don’t have optimism on where a better UI falls into line with dozens of other priorities the dev team has (Remember the Alamo! … Search on MorningSave!). It’s certainly more efficient if we wait and deal with it amongst a larger scope of home page improvements.
  
  snapster said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 6:47am ET
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- now I know why I had a fitful sleep.
  
  @snapster You were also thinking of catshirts.
  
  narfcake said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 6:53am ET
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- @Shrdlu
  
  Damn.
  
  Solved by morning.
  
  You got some MOJO, or wut, Fixer?
  
  /giphy wut
  
  f00l said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 11:06am ET
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- @snapster Thank you very much. XXOO
  
  Shrdlu said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 11:40am ET
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- @Shrdlu
  @Shawn
  
  Solved by morning, improved upon by midday.
  
  /giphy "beautiful morning"
  
  f00l said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 1:44pm ET
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mflassy said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 12:29am ET:

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- @mflassy
  
  mfladd said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 12:40am ET
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- @mfladd
  
  Ironic coming from you.
  
  https://meh.com/forum/topics/occupy-meh
  
  mflassy said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 12:47am ET
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- @mflassy You misinterpreted the subtle nature of my gif (violent protests).
  
  mfladd said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 1:46am ET
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- @mfladd
  
  You? Violent?
  
  Pffft. Don’t make me laugh.
  
  mflassy said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 1:53am ET
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thismyusername said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 4:41am ET:

just let it float around in the forum based on updates like a normal post but with the cool border around it.

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- @thismyusername
  
  One of two things I’d like to see with it:
  
  1: Keep it at the top, with the border. All other formatting should be of a regular post (Last comment link, unbold when read etc).
  
  2: Have it how it is now, but once it has been read once, convert it completely to a regular post for that user.
  
  lichme said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 9:00am ET
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RiotDemon said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 9:34am ET:

It worked. No more jail time.

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- lichme said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 9:39am ET
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shawn said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 11:03am ET:

Gonna try some things…

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- @shawn I don’t understand what this means besides that you’re doing stuff. Cool.
  
  RiotDemon said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 11:09am ET
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- @shawn @RiotDemon
  
  mflassy said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 11:11am ET
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shawn said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 12:43pm ET:

Broadcasts now show username of the original poster, flavor text, last activity summary, comment count, like count, and read/unread status.

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- @shawn
  
  lichme said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 1:00pm ET
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- @shawn
  
  And they Go Bold sometimeys.
  
  <Semi-translation, assistance for :
  “We, The Peons”.>
  
  Much thx!!!
  
  f00l said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 1:42pm ET
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- @shawn I raise a toast in thanks:
  
  (Yeah, it was in my computer room, but it seemed perfect for the occasion.)
  
  Shrdlu said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 5:34pm ET
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- @shawn
  
  therealjrn said Wed, Dec 27th 2017 at 5:39pm ET
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- @shawn I’m super confused by your lack of dark theme usage. Your poor eyes! Also, thank you!
  
  PurplePawprints said Thu, Dec 28th 2017 at 12:56pm ET
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- @PurplePawprints I blame @therealjrn that you have not been hanging around here enough!
  
  mfladd said Thu, Dec 28th 2017 at 4:31pm ET
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- @mfladd Yeah, sorry. I still check the site daily but haven’t been in the forums much (except the last couple days). It’s been a weird year.
  
  PurplePawprints said Thu, Dec 28th 2017 at 4:51pm ET
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- @PurplePawprints I miss you, too.
  
  Barney said Thu, Dec 28th 2017 at 4:54pm ET
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- @PurplePawprints I hear ya, it has. But foresee 2018 looking up for us!
  
  mfladd said Thu, Dec 28th 2017 at 4:54pm ET
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- @Barney
  
  @mfladd I sure hope so! I don’t think we can go much lower without hitting the bottom.
  
  PurplePawprints said Thu, Dec 28th 2017 at 4:57pm ET
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