BlackBolt's Journal: I Was Always Paranoid, But This Is Paranoid Pro

Posting an inane and mindless poll comment a moment ago, (oh wait, 2 moments ago, bloody Slashdot lameness filters!), and going through my new posting ritual of hitting Preview, then back, then Preview again, etc. until I finally get to see a human-readable preview, a very paranoid thought hit me. Every one of those previews gave me a new ad banner.

Now that Slashdot is part of the "beleaguered" (TM of Apple Computers, Inc, since 1980; used without permission) VA Linux/Software/Anime-lovers Keiretsu, page hits and ad revenue is more important than ever. A few "bugs" here and there may more than triple ad revenue, as I've seen more individual ads in the last month than ever before due to the repetitive clicking I do in order to do a simple post.

Just a thought. Intentional or not, Slashdot is benefitting financially from these coding SNAFUs. What do you think? Since XFiles is over, and they killed the Lone Gunmen, I need to get my conspiracy fix somewhere, and here's as good a place as any.

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Re:There's banner ads on /.?

[BlackBolt]

I used to have them all turned off in Mozilla, but now I thought I'd help out the team by letting them run and completely ignoring them. ;-)

Why are you hitting the back button?

[turg]

Why are you hitting the back button? If you want to preview and change, doesn't it make more sense to hit the preview button on each page without going back?

Re:Why are you hitting the back button?

[BlackBolt]

Hey Turg!

When I hit the 'Preview', I often get this blank screen except for the headers and sidebar with the sections stuff and whatnot. I can't actually see what I typed because it's not there! So I have to hit 'Back' to try to 'Preview' it again. It's very weird. Maybe the other guys are right, maybe it's Mozilla... I hope not, I dig Moz. But I've noticed it's definitely worse during Slashdot's heavy load hours of the day, when we're all supposed to be working and are surfing Slashdot instead....

Back Arrow

[Sloppy]

One of the things that has annoyed me in the year-and-a-half since I switched from AWeb to Mozilla, is the behavior of the back arrow. IMHO (probably because I got used to this behavior over many years), back arrow should never under any circumstances, load a page. It should always come from local cache. Regardless of headers.

Re:Back Arrow

[insanecarbonbasedlif]

Seriously. I have nothing else to add, but you are totally right. This behavior has always bugged me too.