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I hope you will help Gail get as many readers for this as you can. Thanks.
I'm glad that this reminder is of lower profile than in the past, but do we really need these at all? Do we see any benefit from them? Other than frowning in slight annoyance at the repeated badgering, I completely ignore them and would rather they just disappear.
Opinion noted.
It is a kind reminder. That's all.
Look, the goal is to get these folks as many readers as possible and grow the site.
If you do not wish to take 15 seconds of your day to click a button and help in that endeavor that's fine.
I thought it was quite sympathetic, actually. It never stopped me from ignoring the button - nor makes its absence me ignoring them.
I don't ignore the button, just the message. And it's only the fact that it's on nearly ever post that I find a little...wasteful. Heck, if the reminder was just done every so often, I'd be happy as a lark.
In no way am I saying that the site doesn't deserve promoting. But I am curious if the reminder's presence correlates to increased views.
Maybe do the reminder every couple of weeks; that should do.
Antoinetta III
It worked for me. I completely ignored the reddit and digg buttons (they are at the top of the story, before I read it).
This reminded me of them and I judged the article worthy of a digg.
There are a lot of crap posts around. That reminder is not one of them.
You bring up a good point. It would be handy to have the reddit and digg buttons follow the article. By all rights, they should only follow the article, because you should really have read the article before promoting it, but pragmatism might trump righteousnous here.
This article is a mishmash of assumptions... coulds and shoulds. Where's the kitchen sink? I'm a geologist who must live on another planet as I've never been privy to many of the statistics and facts that 'geologists say'.
One comment: (would write more but difficult to concentrate with a seal staring at me. We used to eat seal flipper pie where I grew up in Newfondland and that photo makes me hungry). The USA is not the world and the USA will be 'a' player in future in the energy debate and related issues such as global warming. Articles that start of with the USA... the USA... the USA... and then extrapololate some world conclusions are myopic. It's almost irrelevent how the USA approaches coal use (which, despite the article will expand significantly.) What's relevent is how China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan,etc. use coal.
My Icelandic friends have a dislike for anything that eats Icelandic fish (except humans that pay Icelanders for Icelandic fish :-)
I have eaten Minke whale (not endangered, but competes by eating fish). The fewer seals, the more fish for us !
Icelanders do wear fur without shame.
And seal flipper pie sounds good !
Alan
Ah! It's jellyologist! You are the fellow that insists there is PLENTY of oil, aren't you? And you are the fellow who Stuart reminded that world discoveries peaked in the early 1960s. You geologists must surely be off your game if world discoveries have gone down, down, down for 40+ years! Why, I'd say that must be sheer incompetence, especially since there must be SO MUCH OIL out there!
You should haul your butt back to work, jellyologist. You and your wife have a lot of oil to find in the next few years. Or maybe you are not a competent geologist at all, eh? Well, whatever you are, you are NOT finding much oil lately, are you? And neither are your geologist friends.
*end sarcasm, for the sarcasm impaired*
Ghawar Is Dying
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. - Dr. Albert Bartlett
I'm getting the feeling that since this fellow (and/or his "geologist" wife) seem to want to spout opinions without either facts or data to back them up, and have used the "appeal to authority" dodge in their posts, what we have here is just another troll. Again, TODers, kindly just ignore them and they will go away.