Many of you have emailed me to tell me that the Intense Debate commenting program has gone mad, posting old comments on new threads, deleting comments without warning, spilling your buttermilk, standing there grinning when you were down, etc.
I am aware of the problem, and apologize for not updating you about it sooner -- but Sunday I spoke at a Hindu conference in Texas, and the weekend before that at a Catholic conference in Ohio, and the Friday in between at the Young America's Foundation conference in Washington, DC. In between hours of hurtling through the air in a tin can, I've been finalizing proofs of my upcoming book The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran, which is coming September 22 from Regnery Publishing, and writing these three articles. So I haven't had much time to address this problem.
However, help is on its way. We are moving the whole Jihad Watch enterprise to a new thingumybob (apologies for my lack of technical expertise), and I am told that at that time, and it will be soon, we will bid Intense Debate and its tangle of incoherencies adieu forever. In the meantime, I ask for your patience, and thank you for it.
In the interests of giving new visitors some insight into this online community, I will restore the comments that were prompted by this most welcome announcement.
UNDHIMMI said - (quoting) "..we will bid Intense Debate and its tangle of incoherencies adieu forever..."
Alahu Akbar!
CIVILUS DEFENDUS - You have my patience, and my respect, gratitude, sympathy (for travel), my awe, and my best wishes.
DSINC said - This is good news. I will have a party when we switch off IntenseDebate forever. Battling jihad and IntenseDebate is just too much.
ABU LAHAB said - Great news! Thanks for all your hard work.
STEPHENA said - I've heard that those thingumybobs are old hat now; what you want is one of the new whatchamacallits.
GRAVENIMAGE said - Thank you, Robert! I'm actually going to miss a lot of the features of IntenseDebate--but in the last week or so it has become not just troublesome, but completely unusable. Sorry it has proven such a hassle for JW.
I'll be looking forward to your new book.
MRSJ said - Great news! Of course, on this thread it appears to be working just fine; a bit like my car does when I threaten it with the scrap yard.
In the meantime, Australia is planning to shut down hundreds of mobile leisure centres frequented by Muslim men: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=200...
:-)
-BASEBALLMAVEN said - I'm almost afraid to go read the article and find out what a "mobile leisure centre" is...sounds nasty...and the link doesn't work :-)
-MRSJ said - Good grief! It's been removed. I found the news story on another site - please read it: http://tinyurl.com/kmfebb
Update: story wasn't removed, it was ID doing its own thing, try this: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=200...
-BASEBALLMAVEN said - MrsJ, someone's playing with the urls...that link went to a story about killing the overabundance of camels in Australia :-)
-MRSJ said - Indeed it does, BM, indeed.
Think about it. :-))
-BASEBALLMAVEN said - ooooooh...ewwwwwww....I'm blushing
MAXILO said - The free world can never thank you enough for all the energy you put into this cause. How did it go at the Hindu conference? What was it like?
Hugh Fitzgerald said
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqsT4xnKZPg&fe...
MARISOL said - Spot of Intense Debate, Your Majesty?
http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/...
MARISOL said - I see the "ding-down" troll is having his fun while he still can. Sorry, dude...
ALARMED PIG FARMER said - (quoting) "we will bid Intense Debate and its tangle of incoherencies adieu..."
Mercy upon you my son, for like you I too have known bad software all to well.
Worse, I have been forced to witness such softwares at conception and birth, and after when the tests were negative and duly ignored and shipped.
*** Tabari I:360 ***
After such experiences I would rush from the software project back home to my hog ranch --- where the level of offal is so much emptier and shallower --- and hide under my bed until forced to return by 9am the next morning.
EPISTEMOLOGY said - I posted this comment earlier on this thread, but it got lost
Thanks a lot Robert, I knew you would have all these problems fixed. It always takes some time to get rid of troublemakers. But this is another proof for my thesis that modern technology should never be in the hands of Muslims, they only wreak havoc.
In the meantime, I urge all my coposters, please keep on persevering, don't let go. Unity is strength, they cannot demoralise us. As AlaskanInfidel puts it so well, "Islam is a lie and the truth will kill it." But we need to tell the truth.
Seems to be working now, but I can smell another troll who put some of you down.
DUMBLEDORESARMY said - Dear Mr Spencer - explanation accepted. I thought it must have been something like that. Take care of yourself and try not to stress out too much. The regulars here are tough, and we survived.
CHAMP said - "Looking forward to the new system!! ...Adios ID, it's been Real!"
{And that was the end of the IntenseDebate era, for our comments forum - dda}.