culling the win from the fail

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

This was too much win not to share, for those of you who missed the (extremely brief) party:

After a clueless teenager^NSFW named velvetetiquette bumbled in here to ask "how do I get the ads out of my LJ, and how do I center stuff, lol", several far-too-mild-mannered responses were given, and the fail seemed inescapable.

Until, that is, our own two_pi_r gave her some sage advice that was just too good not to share:

Sure. Try using the following CSS:

<style type="text/css">body,a,p,div,span,ul,ol,li {display:none;}</style>

In closing, a final note to velvetetiquette:



(and Merry Christmas, kiddo.)

Comments

[vampireborg.livejournal.com]

Why do I always miss the fun?

[the-reda.livejournal.com]

I have been thinking that too.

[donnaidh-sidhe.livejournal.com]

I can't code, and am now really afraid to try!

[two-pi-r.livejournal.com]

There's a slightly extraneous </a> in there, but thanks for the props!

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

Wups, that was my bad - remnants of misclosing a tag from the earlier link. Fixed. =)

[the-reda.livejournal.com]

OMG lol

My fav. break page sadly does not work on LJ i.e. embedding all following comments in the original one.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Hah, niiiice.

[digitalraven]

Hrm. I expected to see far more solutions like that.

We need a new rule. If you're too nice, you cop a week ban.

This is not a place to be nice. Being nice just encourages fuckups to come here demanding us to do what we're paid for when we're not being paid. This is a place to be systematically evil in the name of venting, and damn the lusers.

[awarrenfells.livejournal.com]

THIS! ^_^

[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

That's part of why I mod computerhelp. Lets me be nice to people who can play by the rules, and gives them less excuse to come over here. Which makes roasting them here all the more satisfying.

[jecook]

I'll discuss it with the other mods.

As far as not being a mean, nasty pain in the anus, well, I was playing WoW most of yesterday, and worked off most of the excess rage via leveling large chunks of New Hearthglen, and pushing bonivus through the wrathgate chain. (Which is awesome horde side, I might add.) Which is not to say that I didn't have loads of fun with the rest of that crew... *snicker*

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

I second the idea, btw. I'm not so much a fan of pointless angry flailing, but evil with style should be encouraged.

[shifuimam.livejournal.com]

You guys shouldn't delete these posts. Make them FO or something...I missed out on the wank. :(

[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

We don't. They do when they realize they can't handle it.

[jecook]

Correct- I was in the middle of an amusing chain when the OP baleted the post.

Alas.

Indeed.

[antipallidan.livejournal.com]

I didn't even get the change to raise you back as a ghoul.

*is sad*

[shifuimam.livejournal.com]

Now that's just WEAK.

[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

Weak and stupid, no doubt. Illiteracy is such a problem. It's not that people can't read, it's that they won't.

[omg-teh-funnay.livejournal.com]

I saw the post, but I missed the wank. DAMMIT

[jenaiabird.livejournal.com]

ahem...

a brief heads-up that content on the "clueless teeanager" link is NSFW should be mentioned. glad i'm alone in the office this early

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

Quite right; sorry! Didn't occur to me that anybody in here wouldn't know what Encyclopedia Dramatica was. =)

[jecook]

A trio of Dillon mini-guns? O.O

I think I'd prefer to have a trigun from the Hammer's Slammers universe.

Ionized copper plasma FTW!

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

Man, I <3 me some Slammers.

but you misspelled "tribarrel".

[jecook]

Yes, I did. My only defense was that I was splitting my time between typing out that reply on my trusty Sidekick and monitoring the office 2007 install on the C-level exec's laptop...

[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

"C-level exec" -- those are the guys that turn on the water and hand you towels in the executive washrooms, right?

[jecook]

Not exactly. :)

[jrho.livejournal.com]

I love the Hammer's Slammers stories and most of Drake's other writing as well.

[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

I need to dig out those books again.

[berkeleyfarm.livejournal.com]

Macro win!

[docskurlock.livejournal.com]

Were you calling my response mild mannered?

[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

Now you've got me curious. I'll have to code it into a page and see what it does sometime soon.