Welcome to the Wed, 02/18/2009 edition of Off Topic! You are looking at the next step in the evolution of VCN, the Off-Topic page. Have you ever been frustrated because you had a burning desire to call someone a sandbagger and could only hope to be timely by posting your comment to a photo gallery page or on a page describing a charity ride?
Well, your prayers have been answered! You can post your comment from the home page and it magically comes to rest here with the other orphans from the land of Misfit Comments. The page gets refreshed every day, but not to worry! Each day’s page will be archived and treasured, so you can look back on past pages with pride, shame or disgust-depending on how the day’s conversation went. So post away! We’ve got an internet to fill up.
How do you view old off topic comments? I said some unkind & unfair snarky nonsense about some strong (& by all accounts friendly & stand up) riders the other day, and I want to be able to go back and gloat in my anonymous awesomeness.
you can search for them
Well that’s no good — why would I spew my petty hate here when it’s going to, for all practical purposes, vanish into the ether? If you want to draw off-topic garbage away from the stories on the site, you’re going to have to let us access older OT threads naturally.
how would you like to access it? By date? Got anything useful to suggest? Anyway, you can be sure your every last word…
It’s all archived here and on google.
yo bye
Yeah, by date would make sense — just some sort of UI so that you could go to different ot threads. Next/previous day buttons on the thread page itself? A dropdown containing a buncha dates, which’d take you to the one you chose? Just something that lets you get there w/o typing.
from now forth, schmalz has to write a summary of every day’s off-topic box
That’s easy – some guy beat me so he’s a sandbagger. Followed by “your an idiot”. And finishing with “shut up and ride”. Repeat
excuse me, it’s shup up and ride. for chrissakes, learn the damn site!
newest comments and top comments should come from the off-topic box as well, no?
top comments, yes. just vote for them. newest comments, no–that’s what the off-topic box is for on the home page.
freak you, motherflocker!