will this comment be considered good or bad? When I want to read the Human Events website…I go there. When I read RedState I come here. Would like that HE column to disappear from RedState and something relating to RS to fill that space. The community that so many of us spoke of before and after August 25th is GONE. It is hard to believe Erick that this is the RedState you wanted. One thing that has been stressed over and over is how hard the bright white background is on many eyes. Could the designers at least pay attention to that one stressful change before even more followers give up. And no, it isn’t because we can’t handle change…why should we tolerate change that isn’t what RedState was and should continue to be! Regarding that bright white, I last about 15 minutes before have to leave site. Come on, color html isn’t that hard to experiment with.

Bah! I just did something with Gravatar/Disqus and all my posting history went BOOM. [[Ignore this TEST.]]

Comrade, in the spirit of the diary’s picture, suck it up. Please be selfless. We are one RED STATE NATION.

Have to say I agree with emptybucket. I was fairly new to posting on RS shortly before the change. But i really enjoyed the comment strings and the back and forth among commenters. That seems to have totally disappeared. Now it seems like any other newspaper or magazine site.
Can’t believe that this is what Erick and the other RS managers were trying to achieve. As a conservative I believe in achievement, not in intention or effort.
I have been spending much more time at Ace lately.
Whatever the plan that Erick mentioned at launch as being the way he really wanted to go, he probably should have done that.

It is a situation where we made the decision to port all comments and diaries, 8 years worth, into the new version. Plus there are some exciting opportunities in store for RS in the next year that required us to be able to quickly enlarge our comment base.

On a positive note, one of the things i really liked (for a few days) about the redesign was when you went to a member’s diary and the box on the right of the diary contained all of the diaries written by that author. That was an awesome new feature and now it is gone. I realize that things will be in flux for a while and so I am hesitant to be too critical until all the bugs have been worked out but I hope that feature will be restored.

The other thing that I think is hindering the cohesiveness that we used to feel is the lack of the ability to publicly reco a diary. For those of us who write a lot, it is really fun and interesting to see who likes your stuff. And I also enjoyed the competitive aspect — based on how many recos you received — of seeing your diary rise to the top or stay at the bottom (or completely flop and never arrive at all) on the reco’d list.

I want to wait until the redesign is finished before I say much more.

I don’t understand the question. As you can see my response to you is nested in a thread just exactly the same way as it was before. On the left side of the page, both in front page and diary view, the comments scroll and the new diaries scroll.

carolina, that is still there. To the right of the front page article and the right of the diaries (for instance here http://www.redstate.com/2012/09/08/dave-weigel-conservative-journalism-trolling/) there is a box titled RedState Community. You can see as many comments and diaries here as you could under the old format.

I clicked on a different diary, and went back to comments – which had updated. Thanks streiff. I think I’m getting the hang of this new Redstate.

EmptyBucket – there’s a drop down at the top of the comments that says “discussion”. click that and change the default to “oldest” – that will put the order of comments back the way you’re used to on RS.

@redstate-a637a347eb889d776074037e3ae43fb5:disqus Not sure this is kosher to post. Link instead perhaps.

Ever link to a comment eh? No? I didn’t think so.

I actually like the white – but maybe I need to put on my bifocals!

Thanks, streiff. Just got back from dinner and found the discussion tab and changed my order from best to oldest.
I guess what is probably happening that makes it look to me like less interaction is that everyone is not up to speed yet.
The look is more like a magazine so I guess that is the look for which you were going.
We will continue to have patience with you guys. Obama, not so much. But you guys, yea.

The url would link to the story and not the specific comment. The comment didn’t have it’s own url. Wasn’t in disqus format. I am sure there is a better way.

Thanks, Streiff. My motto continues to be conservative in the primary, Republican in the general.

So Larry Flynt is offering $1M for Romney’s tax returns. Wouldn’t it be funny if Romney where the one to take him up on that offer?

How much money is he willing to pay for one year’s worth of tax returns? Because if Romney pulled it off right, he might be able to get enough money out of Flynt to make releasing the returns worthwhile.

I am in VA as well. I have gotten several calls from Romney associations and many from Obama folks. I was at a George Allen meet and greet before the primary and two local TV stations were there. Both said they had millions in ad money lined up by both guys. Most of the ads until now have been O ads. I hope Romney was just waiting until after primary.
I have seen people saying that VA is not really a toss up, that it will go blue again. I don’t feel it. Mitt and Paul should be here as we are in play.

Thats my fear is it isn’t a toss-up. It’s still hard for me to believe that VA is lost to the blue locusts that transplanted here.

To me, the more important question is what we’ll do if Obama loses. The damage that’s been done to constitutional limits on federal power won’t be healed simply by electing a different administration, regardless of the letter following the President’s name.

At the very least, we need to strip Washington of its newly-discovered power to “tax” individual citizens for politically incorrect actions or inactions. After that, we need to establish significant limits on the executive branch power to selectively enforce the law, and on the creation of back-channel legislation through agency regulation.

These HAVE to be systemic changes, carved in stone, so that the next time get a President who places his agenda above the rights of the governed, he will find his hands well and truly tied.

If I’m going to do my best to get Romney elected, I need to know that he’s going to do his best to make sure that we’re never going to return to the kind of presidency we’ve seen unfold over the past 3 years.

We asked the tech guys for that option on our call yesterday. We’ll see if that is possible. I hope so.

@redstate-39a6a1cb74520a37864b27772ba8712b:disqus One more request. Is there any way we can make the Comments stationary instead of reverting to Diary when you refresh or open a new tab?

What you need to do is to focus on the House and Senate. Until “We the People” elect other than idiots and craven cowards to the Congress, we are getting what we deserve.
Congress is supposed to be the check against a rogue President, but you saw that Boehner’s balls are in Hillary’s lockbox (or at least not on his body), and he allowed this to happen. He should have shut down Harry, and told him that there was NOTHING being done until the Senate hammered out a budget. NO LEGISLATION, NO FUNDING, NOTHING. He was too scared of the “shutting down the Government” meme, which actually worked pretty good under Clinton if you look at the House.

There have been a couple of lawsuits, which are stupid (you shut off his funding and he will pay attention), but only Holder has been gone after with any force. The House and Senate will be the guardians (along with we the people). I have heard calls for Constitutional amendments, conventions, etc, but our Constitution will do the job as it is (except for repeal of the 17th amendment) if it is enforced.

Don’t worry! You have winter. Texas has summer. Oct thru early May is rather pleasant. For summer, you are never far from air conditioning!

Excellent post.You are right.This election will be the most important of our time.
Will the country vote for free phones, food stamps,obamcare,rulers that buy our own debt, loot car companies in favor of unions, more solyndra, more and more socialism leading to communism or will the inspiration of Clint Eastwood/Dirty Harry rule the day.
It all begins or ends in November. Lets hope the founders of our Republic will not be rolling over in their graves after Nov. 6.

WPat, I noticed by accident that if I follow up on one of your comments that the page that comes up shows all of them. I agree that not being able to recommend in the same way doesn’t seem possible. That up and down thing has me a bit concerned. I have a couple of questions. Do you know you have to “followers”. If that is what I think it is, that could be beneficial. We should check that out.
For those of us that ended up either on the front page, or in the top ten through the recommended diaries that was a desirable reward. Part competitive part ideological. You have to have a good idea, and be able to present it well.

But perhaps there are somethings to like. I still find it hard to do what I want with disqus but part of it is trying to make it do what I could do before. Maybe as we learn the new features somethings will be beneficial. Just getting recommended was not the same thing as seeing people who you know and respect recommend you. Or debate you.

Like you I am waiting. I have some concerns, and suspect that the change will move the comments and members diaries to a fringe area turning us into a captured polling group rather than contributor. But the follow button might mean it will be easier for people who want to exchange ideas to do so with people that the choose to engage. And of course that should make it easier for the editors to follow those of us who stay on point and occasionally have something worth repeating.

Lets hope it works out.

yes, diaries, comments, and the top rated diaries are all in the RedState Community feature.

I think this should be like Twitter of Facebook. I should have the ability to limit who is able to follow me. Having people follow me in Disqus who I don’t know, and sometimes don’t like, is creepy.

Do you have anything substantive to say about the comment? Several facts were outlined by the comment. You have posted three times and said nothing towards the substance. I will take that you are in 100% agreement with the substance.

Here’s a link to discussion about the interview:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/vp/48960475#48960475

I’m looking for one on the interview.

I just heard a bit of it were he said that there were parts of the law he liked – from what I can see NBC still hasn’t put the interview up yet just the pundit response to it -.

I’m not obligated to read, nor express my agreement/disagreement with your comment. Probably wouldn’t anyway, since I have no idea where it came from, who wrote it or why.

I was simply trying to let you know that IMHO, such practices are frowned upon here. If you’ll notice, a mod commented as well and basically said he let “this time slide”.

I’m a 6-7 year veteran of this site who was simply concerned. If you are not, then by all means have a pleasant day and I won’t offer any more warnings. The mods can do so at their pleasure.

I forgive you. But Obama is a 3 1/2 year veteran

way1, campaign items are starting to be delivered. I ordered Romney/Ryan bumper stickers and pins a few weeks ago. Just got them this week. Also, our local GOP got a limited load of yard signs in this week. I think part of the delay was in just now getting to spend $, part was focusing on the convention and part was deciding where best to send orders. Here in Alabama, we anticipated delays in getting campaign material, and we’re not likely to get near as much as a swing state. The money and materials are better used elsewhere. Plus, there were more orders than anticipated when Ryan was named. They’re just playing a little catch up.

GOTV is organized and working if you want to help the campaign. Go to http://www.mittromney.com/forms/get-out-vote-shift-sign

way’, ultimately, GC is not worried, because despite McCarthy’s column saying that we have lost 1/3 of America to the Left’s academia/Press machine over the last 30+ years, the economy is SO bad, that I would be shocked if Obama is re-elected even if we get zero signs printed; BUT we do need to work at every level…more later…

To Melody and way1: After incredible amounts of dithering , continual resets of timelines, and out and out extortion By Michigan Victory Centers, My Sis-In-Law was told on the Seventh that no lawn signs are forthcoming until September 17th for my area. {Wayne/Oakland counties}
Curiously, this was one day after R/R was noted to have purportedly pulled out of major expenditures/media buys in all but 8 swing states, and Michigan is not ‘swingy’ enough, apparently.
You can go on R/R ‘s site and *buy one* for $15 dollars.But seeing ‘way1′s’ post, now I’m glad I saved the dough.
We’re seeing all this splash about money coming in. I myself, know of innumerable printing companies slobbering for the work.
Yet to even hint at logistics and ‘pipeline troubles’ when Mitt has been ‘planning’ for 4 fricken years just is not adding up.
On the other hand, Obie/Biden signs are scarce as well. The Rainbow Flagged couple down the street had the only one I’ve seen and it was twice vandalized to shreds. Could-a been a 2008 leftover, but I did not get close enought to see if it was dated.
Plastics Shortages? No enthusiasm?

streiff, just a sort-of-related note: I saw your diary on the failure of disqus as a comment tool, and was going to concur, but the comments never loaded and I was unable to add to it. (How appropriate: don’t load comments from a diary on the failure of the disqus comment system.) I consider disqus an abject failure and a major impediment to constructive commenting on every site that I see it on. From what I have seen, once disqus takes over the comments on a site, the commentary rapidly devolves into drivel and irrelevance, and any previous sense of community is lost. If you have any pull at RedState, please push for jettisoning disqus!

No … what would be funny is if a Romney millionaire backer were to offer $2 million for a copy of Obama’s college transcripts.

Any hint of outrage on the part of the Presstitutes would be shoved back in their faces.

Yes, WmCraig, I know I have followers and there is no way to identify who they are — friends or foes or creepy strangers. That’s the problem. Not sure where they came from or how RS plans on dealing with them. We’ll see how things develop. I liked RS for the members only aspect and now I feel we are even more vulnerable to unwanted invaders than before thanks to disqus.