Story of Your Inconsequence

unchecked draught - what exactly does the 'Publish' command achieve?

Sitting uncomfortably?
Penitence?
A quirk of inconvenience
so I'll begin
to pass the time
imagine splash of waterfall
a nymph in thrall to nature's call
that turned your nectared words to whine.
A miracle? It goes to waste,
impression's mellowed hues refract
the misty gleam of cataract
relieves me of your aftertaste
and sublimates my jaundiced view.
first flush of spring lustrates illusion -
absolution in ablution
Conceit, I wash my hands of you.

Aphasic -
...so like (especially for Anstey's gratification) what are the implications of invoking the 'Publish' directive?

Anstey -

if it is not published it doesn't show up in places like 'categories' (which we aren't really using much right now) or the 'latest articles page' (it'll only show up on the latest comments page if commented upon)

Publish allows it to show up on the front pages of certain areas if it is supposed to, and basically promotes it site-wide as we enable certain pages. It isn't a security feature at all, merely an indication that you want everyone to know it's supposed to be read.

At some point in the future, if the coders give me my wish, unpublished will probably be less visible to the membership as a whole. But as of right now, it is merely an indication that it is actually intended to be available for reading.

Aphasic -

ok - so is it possible to apply an attribute to a folder which will designate everything posted therein to be automatically published, leaving the author the option of not publishing when posting stuff? I'm sure that information's in here somewhere, but I can't face the prospect of wading through all kinds of shit to find it

Is it also possible to set a personal default preference for fontFamily/fontSize/colour & stuff? Is that a feature of the additional option stuff available when creating a folder? Should I be asking these questions in a forum? How many light bulbs does it take to change a poet?

Leanne -

Yes, it's possible.

How do you do it? I don't know, it mostly works by accident for me.

Anstey -
I love the language of this Laura. It is so refreshing. The rhyme just folds right into it neatly, almost unnoticably.

Aphasic -
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I can't be more specific Leanne - one of life's little miseries I guess...

Aphasic -
Stephan - are you taking the piss?

Aphasic -
I've just realized that I don't understand what anyone is saying. Consequently my responses are manifesting themselves as - how does one express it here? - huge, steaming piles of monkey turd. As basic functions are proving to be more pudding than previously bifocal, goodnight and whatever comes next...

Rene' -

I tried to count the light bulbs in a poet once and kept getting lost. As far as this poem though, it is quite refreshing. I love the language useage incorported into it and Stephan is right about the rhyme, it blends in so nicely that you have to actually look for it!

----- LIFE: I messed up, can I have a 'do over'?

I am orbiting, I don't know where, but I am orbiting something!

Aphasic -

Thanks René...I am kind of sneaky that way :>
I had similar problems with energy-saving poets and long-life bulbs - I thought I'd just wait around until they exploded [the bulbs, that is] and save myself the effort, but they just seemed to go on and on [the poets]

Mosquitobyte -

Light? Light bulbs?

*Howls at the moon and wonders what all the fuss is about.*

Mos.