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I'm pretty far along in my ultra-compatible, ultra-accessible web forum. When I was just starting out, I was naive and innocent: I imagined that if I just write clean, basic HTML, there won't be much to do in terms of tweaks. I underestimated how every browser has quirks, requires testing, tweaking, and re-testing. I also underestimated just how long the long tail is outside Chrome monoculture.

I moved the goalposts a little bit, now going for JavaScript support for even the oldest browsers, like Netscape 2.0 and Internet Explorer 3.0.

Well, it's taken a couple years, but I can now claim support for basically every browser out there! A couple of features, like the modular UI, and client-side PGP-based message signing cut off around 2008 and 2012, respectively, but all the base features—reading, writing, commenting, voting, and optional user profiles—are working in everything from Mosaic to Lynx to IE3 to Netscape3 to Opera3. Yay!

Virginia HB1627:

If any person, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass any person, shall use a computer or computer network to communicate obscene, vulgar, profane, lewd, lascivious, or indecent language, or make any suggestion or proposal of an obscene nature, or threaten any illegal or immoral act, he shall be is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. A violation of this section may be prosecuted in the jurisdiction in which the communication was made or received or in the City of Richmond if the person subjected to the act is one of the following officials or employees of the Commonwealth: the Governor, Governor-elect, Lieutenant Governor, Lieutenant Governor-elect, Attorney General, or Attorney General-elect, a member or employee of the General Assembly, a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, or a judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

You'd think they'd at least get the 2A out of the way before they go balls out after the 1A. Remember this shit next time you get butthurt because someone tells you the Democrats are authoritarian shitstains.

[Update]: Deathmonkey was kind enough to point out that this was in fact a Republican-passed bill from 2K that is being reaffirmed/reenacted by the Democrats, as well as adding the ability for the state to prosecute in Richmond no matter where the crime was committed if it's against state-owned property or a politician. Let's hear it for bipartisan fuckwadery! This would have been updated sooner but this is the first time I've looked at it since Thursday around lunchtime. Sorry, you're just not as interesting as The Roomie's kids who arrived a couple hours later.

(What, you thought I'd support it if Republicans had a hand in it? You must be new here.)

Tens of thousands of armed citizens came to protest in VA, said what they had to say, and harmed nobody at all. Then they left. But not before cleaning up after themselves. Talk about pissing the ones trying to sell the progtard narrative off. I did laugh.

If you think you're doing it right, I invite you to consider that this thirteen year old girl has bigger balls than you.

Shit exactly like this.

JMH requested some site data and I haven't done one of these up in a while, so here goes.

Top 20 viewed stories of 2019 as of NOW()

+---------------------------------------------------------+------------------+-------+
| Story                                                   | Submitter        | Hits  |
+---------------------------------------------------------+------------------+-------+
| https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/06/24/1233205 | martyb           | 36429 |
| https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/08/23/0136213 | Anonymous Coward | 14008 |
| https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/03/26/0356205 | Anonymous Coward | 13165 |
| https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/01/25/0435205 | martyb           | 12502 |
| https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/04/11/1029234 | Anonymous Coward | 12021 |
| https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/04/15/2012241 | Freeman          | 10861 |
| https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/01/20/192257  | aristarchus      |  9113 |
| https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/03/21/0256218 | martyb           |  9083 |
| https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/01/03/1431210 | aristarchus      |  8672 |
| https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/01/27/1941254 | martyb           |  8612 |
| https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/04/18/1615204 | martyb           |  8555 |
| https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/05/01/1713236 | AnonTechie       |  8528 |
| https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/04/17/0824259 | aristarchus      |  7718 |
| https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/01/13/1816246 | takyon           |  7396 |
| https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/02/22/0241259 | aristarchus      |  7272 |
| https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/03/17/1114248 | Anonymous Coward |  7226 |
| https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/02/15/0416210 | martyb           |  7190 |
| https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/11/01/1146203 | Anonymous Coward |  7135 |
| https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/02/12/2347255 | takyon           |  6730 |
| https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/03/11/0256224 | RandomFactor     |  6525 |
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Most mods for ... in 2019 (in order of the db id of the reason)

Offtopic

+----------------------+------+
| Nick                 | Mods |
+----------------------+------+
| Anonymous Coward     | 1007 |
| realDonaldTrump      |  221 |
| Runaway1956          |  186 |
| aristarchus          |  138 |
| khallow              |   51 |
| Ethanol-fueled       |   47 |
| Azuma Hazuki         |   28 |
| jmichaelhudsondotnet |   28 |
| fustakrakich         |   26 |
| c0lo                 |   25 |
+----------------------+------+

Flamebait

+--------------------+------+
| Nick               | Mods |
+--------------------+------+
| Anonymous Coward   | 1817 |
| Runaway1956        |  194 |
| aristarchus        |  155 |
| Ethanol-fueled     |  139 |
| Azuma Hazuki       |  121 |
| realDonaldTrump    |   86 |
| khallow            |   83 |
| The Mighty Buzzard |   76 |
| ikanreed           |   63 |
| Bot                |   40 |
+--------------------+------+

Troll

+--------------------+------+
| Nick               | Mods |
+--------------------+------+
| Anonymous Coward   | 4490 |
| Runaway1956        |  470 |
| realDonaldTrump    |  431 |
| Ethanol-fueled     |  307 |
| khallow            |  278 |
| aristarchus        |  242 |
| The Mighty Buzzard |  178 |
| Azuma Hazuki       |  177 |
| jmorris            |  117 |
| VLM                |  101 |
+--------------------+------+

Redundant

+--------------------+------+
| Nick               | Mods |
+--------------------+------+
| Anonymous Coward   |  466 |
| aristarchus        |   54 |
| khallow            |   50 |
| realDonaldTrump    |   46 |
| Runaway1956        |   45 |
| The Mighty Buzzard |   26 |
| fustakrakich       |   19 |
| DeathMonkey        |   19 |
| c0lo               |   15 |
| Bot                |   11 |
+--------------------+------+

Insightful

+--------------------+-------+
| Nick               | Mods  |
+--------------------+-------+
| Anonymous Coward   | 11091 |
| Runaway1956        |   900 |
| The Mighty Buzzard |   650 |
| Azuma Hazuki       |   612 |
| JoeMerchant        |   512 |
| DannyB             |   468 |
| Thexalon           |   465 |
| c0lo               |   441 |
| DeathMonkey        |   410 |
| ikanreed           |   405 |
+--------------------+-------+

Interesting

+--------------------+------+
| Nick               | Mods |
+--------------------+------+
| Anonymous Coward   | 6465 |
| JoeMerchant        |  536 |
| takyon             |  516 |
| Runaway1956        |  495 |
| DannyB             |  307 |
| The Mighty Buzzard |  279 |
| bzipitidoo         |  265 |
| c0lo               |  257 |
| Azuma Hazuki       |  256 |
| Thexalon           |  232 |
+--------------------+------+

Informative

+--------------------+------+
| Nick               | Mods |
+--------------------+------+
| Anonymous Coward   | 6776 |
| takyon             |  589 |
| DeathMonkey        |  531 |
| c0lo               |  420 |
| Azuma Hazuki       |  366 |
| Runaway1956        |  354 |
| The Mighty Buzzard |  337 |
| NotSanguine        |  227 |
| JoeMerchant        |  219 |
| ikanreed           |  217 |
+--------------------+------+

Funny

+--------------------+------+
| Nick               | Mods |
+--------------------+------+
| Anonymous Coward   | 5100 |
| DannyB             |  422 |
| The Mighty Buzzard |  319 |
| Runaway1956        |  276 |
| c0lo               |  245 |
| Bot                |  242 |
| takyon             |  235 |
| aristarchus        |  234 |
| realDonaldTrump    |  214 |
| Gaaark             |  199 |
+--------------------+------+

Overrated

+--------------------+------+
| Nick               | Mods |
+--------------------+------+
| Anonymous Coward   |  497 |
| Runaway1956        |   63 |
| Azuma Hazuki       |   51 |
| DeathMonkey        |   27 |
| ikanreed           |   27 |
| aristarchus        |   26 |
| The Mighty Buzzard |   25 |
| c0lo               |   24 |
| realDonaldTrump    |   22 |
| The Shire          |   19 |
+--------------------+------+

Underrated

+--------------------+------+
| Nick               | Mods |
+--------------------+------+
| Anonymous Coward   |  610 |
| Runaway1956        |   73 |
| realDonaldTrump    |   36 |
| Ethanol-fueled     |   34 |
| The Mighty Buzzard |   26 |
| Azuma Hazuki       |   22 |
| khallow            |   20 |
| VLM                |   18 |
| Arik               |   16 |
| aristarchus        |   16 |
+--------------------+------+

Spam (including moderations that were reversed)

+--------------------+------+
| Nick               | Mods |
+--------------------+------+
| Anonymous Coward   |  321 |
| DeathMonkey        |    8 |
| The Mighty Buzzard |    5 |
| aristarchus        |    4 |
| NPC-131072         |    2 |
| mars90             |    2 |
| mrpg               |    1 |
| edIII              |    1 |
| sigterm            |    1 |
| stretch611         |    1 |
+--------------------+------+

Disagree

+--------------------+------+
| Nick               | Mods |
+--------------------+------+
| Anonymous Coward   |  677 |
| The Mighty Buzzard |   93 |
| Runaway1956        |   75 |
| khallow            |   54 |
| fustakrakich       |   34 |
| Azuma Hazuki       |   30 |
| Arik               |   24 |
| janrinok           |   21 |
| c0lo               |   20 |
| The Shire          |   19 |
+--------------------+------+

Touché

+--------------------+------+
| Nick               | Mods |
+--------------------+------+
| Anonymous Coward   | 2758 |
| DeathMonkey        |  234 |
| The Mighty Buzzard |  192 |
| Runaway1956        |  161 |
| c0lo               |  157 |
| takyon             |  138 |
| Azuma Hazuki       |  131 |
| DannyB             |  128 |
| khallow            |   96 |
| fustakrakich       |   95 |
+--------------------+------+

HA! The only moderation list I didn't make was Offtopic!

You're all getting ten extra mod points courtesy of the goofy staff here at SN. Let us know if they don't fit and we can exchange them.

Party 1: Yay, impeachment!
Party 2: Boo, impeachment!
Me: Mmmm, peach cobbler...

I just spent all day running AC duct in the New Debar Fellowship Hall (what I've decided the remodeled church shall unofficially be named) with another day of it to look forward to tomorrow. That's what I did shortly before I got on at a computer repair shop/ISP back in the late 90s. I now completely remember why I enjoy sitting on my ass and poking at a keyboard.

It will never be a literal thing, only a useful fiction, sorry. You want proof? Tide doesn't make laundry soap that smells like bacon or WD-40.