Inb4*shot*

I have to agree with you on the hiding comments thing. Long overdue feature.

Now if only we could edit comments, it'd be grand!

Agreed.

I have a lot of ideas for my Rossweisse comic, and I've come to realize that at the pace I draw, I probably won't have time to draw them all before I die. Oh well, just have to make the most of the time you have.

That's wise, I think. I'm definitely trying to take the more "fugeddaboudit" approach, but I thought I'd put it to everyone.

Unfortunately, that just permanently changes the still-static object in question. Does every frame need to be an object?

Man, I wouldn't even care if this wasn't all to make it easy on the programmer.

... It's weird, I keep trying it every different way, but no matter what, it always just ends up completely uneditable.

I've got half a mind to just draw all the frames, organize them and let the programmer group them up. I'm separating by layers, so meh.

Did you try converting the object into a Graphic?

I've tried turning it into a graphic, a movie clip, putting frames in a new movieclip, converting frames to a movieclip, same for graphic, same for trying to turn those frames into a tween.

What about converting into a keyframe?

Or animating in Photoshop?

Huh... I think that's natural with a lot of forms of artistic endeavor... t's just another way of trying to ensure an enduring legacy in a way...

Hiding comments is sort of a double edged sword, though. While obvious trolling will get hidden, so will criticism that some artists will -see- as trolling.

If they were that closeminded to begin with, it wasn't going to end up positively anyway.

Yeah. Pretty much every complaint I've seen about the Hide Comment feature boils down to "Waah, now it'll be harder for me to troll people!"

The hide comment thing I got, the last two I find hard to grasp exactly what you mean, I understand but not to the fullest extent of your meaning. Though.. Besides the fact I love your art, and what it's of, the day you stop doing it, is going to be one of my saddest days. :/ I enjoy your art for not only it's style a big butts, but of what it's of, unsual and comical situations, with a nice dash of sexuality. I'm a big fan. :3 Despite not bringing to much influence or comfort, or anything for that matter. Just an onlooker with dreams and hopes despite them being greedy and selfish. x3

Hiding comments is the best thing ever. I should really go through my submissions and hide the less than pleasant bullshit that has graced my page.

Flash, I have no experience with. Flashing however...

And as for taking Ask Dr. Gwen with you... Well I suppose that's natural. You enjoy doing it, and it's your little thing, but I don't know if I'd call it a "project." Most people with huge projects, want said projects carried out to some form of completion. I don't think Ask Dr. Gwen has a sort of "completion" to it that a project might have.

*Gives you a great, big, hug.*

Hiding Comments - I have no opinion on it. it'll have an upside and a downside. Honestly I think the good outweighs the bad.

Flash - Yikes. :x

Ask Dr. Gwen - I can understand how you feel about that. But you're 23 (going by your profile page) - you aren't going to kick the bucket anytime soon. ANd if you want Ask Dr. Gwen to keep going, someone else might be able to take up the mantle.

Everyone has that vague itch for a sense of continuance/immortality at some point, I suspect.

Dagon? Moloch's warmer.

If you can draw frame by frame, draw frame by frame and animate it in Photoshop?

I'm kinda confused X3 Part of what you were saying about Ask Gwen sounds like you feel weird about it ending when you do, and part kinda says you like that idea. As for the former, I don't really know much about X3 But for the latter, knowing that something is unique to only you is kinda satisfying ^^ Like, Ask Gwen is based on a personality that, as its creator, is a reflection of you. Having someone else take your place would completely alter that personality and lose much of the appeal that makes people come to ask Gwen stuff ^^ So, without you there is no Gwen, which means you are actually needed to keep her alive and that is very fulfilling, I think =3

An absolutely adorable little girl needs you Nori! Don't neglect her~! <3 X3

Freedom of expression is a value a hold in a very high regard, and I think that this is an idea that should be shared by everyone, not just the US. I'd much rather deal with less than pleasant comments than to set a precedent of silencing them because I do not like what they have to say.

Then there's also the issue of how it is very much an anathema to what FA is supposed to be ; an art community. All this does is encourage further the hugbox mentality that has plagued this site since its creation, and it's not like comment hiding is really effective in squashing trolls. Come on, you've been on DA, you know how it is.

Suffice to say, this, along with the block user feature, is not something I would ever see myself using unless the personal safety of myself and those around me is compromised.

Nope, not really effective at all. *Grins* Not even the trolls can use it to save themselves.

In fact, I think DA had more drama going on ever since they implemented comment hiding. I suspect that this will be reflected in here too.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/...../#cid:15134912

After thought: I DEMAND CODY REMATCH!

Real thought: Can't argue with you there. but you gotta admit you did put in A LOT of effort into the backstories.

The solution is simple. Gwen-Bot. o.o

Well, I think the reason you want "Ask Dr. Gwen" to continue even after you're gone is because of the fact that you genuinely helped people with your idea. To me, you seem like the kind of person that genuinely enjoys helping others; even when you have nothing to gain from it. And the very idea that you wouldn't be able to help people in that capacity anymore, whether you actually pass on or just quit the fandom, is frightening to you.

Furthermore, everyone wants to be immortalized in some way or another. Remembered by future generations, as a testament to one's own accomplishments. Sort of like a "Hey, I was here" kind of mentality.

Those are my two cents anyway, though that's what I genuinely think about it. ^_^;

I do agree for the hide comments thing,that oughta be in place.

I can understand the difficulties with Flash I use to work with it,but I stopped some time ago.

as for your project,though I may not know precisly waht you're getting at,if this is a project you plan on finishing up,I say go forward with it =)

i wonder how long it took Dear Abbie to be handled by several people instead of the original abby herself. i think i shall wiki this.

and have you checked out some of the tutorials for flash on youtube. those are pretty cool.

and finally i have something to say about editing an removing comments *the rest of this sentence has been removed by an administrator*....... bout time huh

The internet isn't America? But didn't we invent it? D: ... Well, we invented all the nice computers people use to access it, right?

As for Gwen... I suppose once you die get tired of her, you could find a very trusted, like-minded friend to become her. Or pass on the mantle to an entirely different psychology-minded character, sort of a Dr. Phil to your Oprah.

well there is always the possibility you could have a child that would be interested in continuing your projects or failing that you could mentor a younger artist someday and have your protegee continue your work after you.

I try to keep the notion of freedom of speech online open on principle. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. I've only ever had to block one disruptive person on my page, and I gave him many warnings before I had to do it. AFAIK, nothing else like that's happened, but yeah. FA's a community site, so when people create a walled garden within it, they are kinda trying to have their cake and eat it too, I would think.

IAWTC

See, but that's the distinction. You and I and others think that freedom of speech is the better way, but that's because we've learned to appreciate why it's important. Having it as a God Given Right™ has given way too many people an entitlement complex. Everybody just assumes that the fact that they have an opinion is supremely valuable, and they don't work on it.

Just like the ability to hide comments can be construed as a type of censorship, the inability to hide comments can be construed as a misplaced sense of entitlement on the other end. I see so many late-teen-to-early-twenties on here just expecting that their hate-filled/rude/unrestrained diatribes should be taken without complaint; a hilariously naïve notion. The fact is, if you want to criticize someone, you have to learn how to criticize them, or you might as well have never said a thing- because they'll never consider what you had to say. And let's be real, far too often the criticism is just an emotional release for the person doing it. If you want someone to listen, you have to learn people skills- you don't just get to tell everyone how things are because you're older or think you're mature or something.

This is the thing that gets lost on so many here, and this is why we hear the word 'hugbox' thrown around so much. Ultimately, if someone is just too stubborn to listen, there's nothing you'll be able to do about it until they have life kick them in the ass and wake up. If someone kicks you out of their discussion, you start your own in your space- which everyone still has.

How then would one learn if they are taught not to try until they are damned sure they can do it perfectly? Successes in life are always preceded by a string of failures. It is also not naive to expect to be taken seriously when speaking in a less then lighthearted tone, saying that they expect their words to be taken without complaint is a straw man I see all too often here, most of the time they speak up knowing that it will upset a few people, because they feel in a very honest way that what they had to say needed to be said. It is rare that I see any criticism towards any person or their body of work that is bereft of any validity, however faint that is. Is it not then up to the person's strength of character to take the valid underlying criticism with grace instead of essentially disregarding what they have to say altogether? As much of an unlikeable dick your critics and detractors could be, they could very well be right.

You may not think so, but the opinion of everyone is valuable in some way, some greater then others, but valuable all the same. It gives you a piece of insight as to where you stand in certain areas according to others, and when it comes to appraising the quality of the body of your work, it acts as a good safeguard against complacency. Would it not be an act of extreme hubris and arrogance to assume with complete certainty that their "hate-filled/rude/unrestrained diatribes" could not possibly a case of gross misunderstanding? A person's point of view isn't perfect after all.

For the record, some of the closest friends I have now are those whom I have clashed the most fiercely with in the past, and yes, we were about as headstrong as nuclear blast shields at the time. That should give you an idea as to why I patently disagree with what you have to say in the last paragraph.

You've completely missed the point. I'm paranoid- I take everyone's opinion in more consideration than any healthy person ever would. There is not a single word somebody says that doesn't echo through my brain a hundred times in a tunnel of thought, doubt and processing. But I'm not everyone else, and being able to approach me is child's play- it's much harder to talk to people who haven't either had the time or the inclination to reach these conclusions.

What you're talking about is pure idealism. Of course everybody should listen to everyone even if they're rude, but the point is that not everyone does- are they not entitled to the lesson just because they don't want to have someone be a dick about it? They're not wrong to be more sensitive than other people- they're just more sensitive. As it turns out, there's more than one path in life. On the same token, is it really such a terrible sacrifice to be diplomatic? If you only take on people when it's easy for you, you're guilty of exactly the same thing.

I wouldn't call it paranoia. Analyzing what people said to them is what humans do all the time. Hell, I do it all the time. If I had paid attention to people based purely on the tone of their voice, I wouldn't have gotten anywhere. Often what's best for us turns out to be the most bitter pill to swallow. You are forgetting one thing too ; there is a psychological effect of having it in place that does not need it to actually be used in order for it to apply. You may think that it might cause those damn pesky trolls to think twice about sending you a rude message, but let's be honest here how often does that really happen? What happens more often is that people will be even more discouraged from being honest towards their peers due to the overinflated sense of fear that they could be pushed away on a whim if it doesn't please them. People who normally would have a bigger tolerance for unsavoury comments will be a lot more comfortable to silence on a whim if what the messenger says doesn't please them. Is that the price you really want to impose on the community for the sake of personal comfort?

Of course, I am not calling for the complete abolishment of diplomacy, that was never a part of my argument. There is no reason I can't have both.

Also for the record, I take on pretty much everyone even if it's hard for me. What are you trying to insinuate here?

I think I've mentioned this before in a previous journal of mine. People are entitled to their opinion, but they're not entitled (nor should be expected to have any entitlement to) the ability to stave off others'. The latter is a privilege, and one which the FA admins apparently saw fit to grant to everyone. Regardless of the circumstances which led to it, you should understand that the two things are in no way *equal*. You can say whatever the fuck you want in a forum which allows for it, by the rights granted to you by the people who set the rules of that particular forum.

FA is the community which sets the rules of this particular forum; each person's page is a part of that community, not so much its own walled garden. Everyone plays by FA's rules, and everyone's page uses FA's template. FA granted users the privilege to block out people's comments on their page without regards to FA's own rules. That's a perk for the users, not an entitlement. It's still an entitlement for the user to be able to say pretty much whatever they want on another user's page as long as it doesn't violate the TOS. And, if it weren't against the TOS, the user would rightfully be called out on their opinion if it was harrassing or disrespectful. That doesn't change their right to say it, under the rules of the community, despite how you might feel about it. It was always your right to call them out on their rude or disrespectful behavior.

Both of the aforementioned actions, by the way, are actions granted to you by either your natural rights (in the case of real life) which are enforced by whichever governing authority you happen to live under, or ones granted to you with nearly no limitations on the terms online by the moderators of the particular venue which you choose to express yourself. I see FA as a large forum, since for nearly all intents and purposes, you still defer to the admins and moderators of FA when you have trouble on "your page" on FA. It is still FA's venue, and therefore your ability to hide comments and block people from your page is merely a privilege the FA admins grant the users. It is not something they are equally entitled to, as a user is entitled to participate in this community, as it could easily be taken away at any time, and it is more limited in its scope than the (somewhat limited) right to free expression in the FA community as a whole.

If you know programming, you can probably appreciate the analogy making the semantic distinction between a right (in terms of an internet venue) and a privilege. Many online venues choose to allow you no rights, but FA's approach attempts to make a point of allowing free expression with only limited terms of service to narrow the otherwise global scope. The local scope of the privileges granted to a user on their page is not a completely separate prototype of the larger FA community, nor is FA simply an abstract base from which the user's pages derive. They both operate on the larger community as a whole, and that is why there is a semantic distinction between what you're allowed to do with your page, and what OTHER users on FA visiting your page are allowed to do.

oh, I forgot to mention in the beginning of the 3rd paragraph that both of those types of rights (the right for someone to have a disagreeable opinion, and the right for you to call them out on it) are "contributory" in their nature. As far as I'm aware, there aren't very many circumstances where you can call something limiting in nature vs. contributory to be an exclusive right or entitlement. Those are almost always privileges. The only people who typically have limiting rights are the authorities which protect the rights of the individual for the sake of the community as a whole. In the case of private venues such as the internet, natural rights don't really apply, so limiting rights are essentially what define an internet venue's moderators. The venue in which the scope of our "rights" exists where we are talking right now is FA. Its moderators are the ones that have the final say on what stays and goes online on this site. Therefore, your ability (for example) to block me from your page or to hide this comment is at their pleasure.

I think we're discussing two different things. It may be FA's intent to make it seem as if we ultimately have a right to say what we wish within their rules, but my point is rather that this ability is taken for granted all too often, to everyone's detriment. In my opinion, the comment hiding feature is something that at least has the potential to cause others to consider what they have to say before saying it.

So basically, I'm not saying that we shouldn't have the entitlement, but rather that we should appreciate its presence a little more.

Ah, I see. Well, I don't know. I think the people who don't think before they say things will not thing twice about saying them, as typically the effect of an inconsiderate remark is already fully appreciated by the time it gets hidden. And as for everyone else, I can't speak for them, but at least with me, I can tell you that I always consider what I say before posting it, and I think to anyone who really intends what they say when they hit that "Post" button, the potential of their comment getting hidden will only play a role in their posting if they think there is a potential loss in the inability for the public to view the comment; which typically isn't the case if there would be any legitimate reason for some person to consider hiding it (such as ad-hominem attacks, libelous text, etc)

Oh, those silly people.

Maybe we're all just the victim of the fact that mainly young people visit this site, and everybody's growing up around us.

If I'm even allowed to say this then I'd like to express my prompt disregard for the entire message when you started fitting people into boxes, saying "late teens to early twenties." Disturbing ignorance on a subject you write books about, it makes you scary as you exude certainty that you're not full of shit when you are and it reaffirms just how much a human can be sure about their near sightedness. It's profoundly worrying.

This is the last place you'll ever hear a shred of intelligent criticism as is, and I've seen it to be rare as furries by nature love cowering from reality. If you played Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, that game's a second opinion on what happens when your faith in other people and unwillingness to confront adversity goes awry. The last people qualified to decide what negative reinforcement they need are furries, considering they avoid it with determination they really need to apply to STDs instead.

Every furry I've met practices this passive aggression. I've encountered but one who succeeded at university and he had fewer social skills than there are working 360s, and bore spite for nearly everyone he couldn't understand. Meanwhile I'm rockin' a decent education and have several tens of good friends, a good deal (Thank god) not furry. All this feature really does is erase an occurrence with a needed purpose that's never tapped into. And is still rare even if abused to troll. They'll hide insight far more regularly, purely because they inhibit the same sense of inflated entitlement you say the trolls have.

I provoke the notion that you're slow in the head and recommend sexual intercourse with a switchblade. I'm not giving you the liberty of hiding a separate post that says you eat dicks so I'll say it here and lmao as you have the ultimatum of disregarding the whole message because of an insult. Any other furfag would. Rock on.

Look, people are not connected physically. A bond is not known by word, intent transcends the hollow pride most weak people hide behind. A real person judges insight as a greater observer and not as a person on the receiving end. What does it add to the discussion? Is an argument valid? Does it seem like they're honest or trolling? The people who know me know I speak a lot with silence. It can work with people who know you.

If you see an insult, ignore it! Goddesses, you have eyes don't you? Plastic ones that assign to every bit of art you do and they sure are wide, so use them.

I am not my hard drive. I am not my computer. I am not my modem. I should be able to say what the fuck I want, sticks and stones.

If a parent takes your vidya away because you're a ten year old boy refusing to sleep at night before school because of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2, it's because they love you. How the fuck does trolling equate evil? Trolling always existed, but the word might as well be new to most people. If people can miss out on a needed definition for something regular, is it so blasphemous to assume they can overlook how trolling's a godsend for growth?

Boxes? Are you even aware of the irony with which you say that, having held that big fat reply in your hand, ready to go at the slightest provocation, talking about how "furries are this" and "furries are that?" Your only complaint is that I wrangled one group in instead of another.

Also, your assertion about furries is about as cliché as it is old and tired. Trolls are the heroes, furries are the crying boo-hoo babies, yeah, we get it, fun stuff. Except that it's a line that's been fed to everyone and it's just as bullshit as the brainless feelgood messages that those on the other side like to propagate.

Strategy without intellect is worthless.
Intellect without strategy is pointless.
You need both to get ahead.

You'd be very surprised at how much antipathy both groups exude. You should take a second look at free speech, and it seems you definitely can if you have the ability to reply to that eloquently as you did. Didn't hide it or anything. So what's the point? Furries aren't crybabies though, they just seem to be exceptionally cruel and introverted most of the time. Trolls are cruel and loud.

Anyway, you cannot confuse something as broad as an age group with the admitted subjectivity of my personal experiences - with a culture. A culture is often far more specific than a tenth of the entire human race. Roughly that many are late teens to early twenties.

You missed the entire point of my post too. The idea is that the worst judge of if a child should be punished for setting a cat on fire is the child. The problem with this whole bullshit is that drama queens have a reason to ignore criticism.

Oh yeah, and don't tell me that they have a human right to moderate information and switch another dude's decision to say something out with their own. Verbal abuse should never hurt unless the person is close to you, and many of the situations in which you should heed words occur exclusively in real life. Or relate to it. And trolling here in a vulgar, tasteless fashion gets you banned. Damn fast if furi.net is to be believed.

Describing myself fucking your mom will never incite it to happen no matter how much she wants it. My penis will not leap out of the screen. I am not my modem or hard drive. A person should learn to face the music and get past words on a screen that do nothing to them, it will help them learn when someone's opinion is to be discounted and otherwise learn to face critique. What part of 'people can regularly be immature and make bad moderators' don't you get for crying out loud?

At the least make hiding or fuck it deletion apply entirely to the person doing it, but not erase the post for others. Maybe even have guests able to store a hide cookie. That'd rock. That way, if it's an opinion everyone disagrees with they'll hide it themselves! Yumyum.

Yo attempt to save me time imma let you finish but me being able to choose what posts I wanna see was the best possibility of all time. Of all time.

I'm pretty sure I said "late-teen-to-early-twenties on here", thus qualifying people on Furaffinity- which would make my group of generalization smaller than your own. I'm sorry if that came off as implying something different, but it's not what I said and definitely not what I meant.

I saw your point before you made it, and long ago cast it as irrelevant in this regard- not lightly, either. The problem with this entire thought is that ultimately, those people wouldn't listen to you if you were right in front of them on the subway, cornered and miced through the PA. They, and all others like them, will either hide in obscurity, or eventually get their metaphorical ass kicked, and have to realize things on their own terms. This is not something we can control regardless of any kind of expression we can personally take- and I say that from the perspective of somebody actually trying to help people.

Anything else is a delusion of grandeur, or a justification for personal self-indulgence of misanthropy.

Nm I'm a bit drunk tired, hard to really articulate my thoughts. I'll just say if a comment wouldn't get you banned and others could want to see it, it shouldn't be deleted because one person thinks so. What about if someone doesn't want to see a comment but aren't part of the journal, for example? Oh whatever, you're quite clearly fixated on this idea being perfect.

If you really think that, then you haven't paid attention at all.

Also, rebellion is not misanthropy. Some people are born without the natural empathetic capability you exhibit, with a shitload of crap on their plate and in a world full of people who attempt to make their life hell at every turn.

Plenty of people you try to help won't ever grow with conventional therapy because they neurologically are incapable of it. Autism, psychopathy, schizophrenia. Pick even one and therapy is rendered helpless. There are others who have problems only their own will can solve. And some still need the type of negative reinforcement to grow that you cannot provide them. You must recognize we are all calculated meatbags, but as calculated meatbags we can be born talentless, unremarkable, at the mercy of our genes.

I'm not one of these people - half way perhaps. To rebel against it all isn't to be a misanthrope, it's to escape a pre ordination you want to get the hell away from.

It's just as useless to be kind as it is to be nasty in that sense, both really affect people in superficial ways. But they contribute bit by bit to self reflection and growth. Even so this is a dumb idea - since you're in the same place you started no matter what you say, what about that option to see any hidden comment. Huh. What about THAT.

You could ask someone else to keep Gwen going :)

I certainly like her a lot ^^

I've been thinking about the whole "My characters die with me" thing too. It seems only natural that Luni, as an extension of me should part with me, but others I'm not sure of...I like the idea of them living on well past me, to continue into the future and have that lasting impact. In a way, they would give you a sort of immortality.

It's a funny, bothersome thought that I've been trying to think of a solution to.

What version of Flash are you using? Like, an older version or the absolute newest version?

Everything else I agree with 100%.

Odd, I click on "hide comment" and it's still there when I scroll back down.
Obviously it doesn't work for me.
If I click on one of MY responses - it WILL disappear.
*scratches head*.

I've been fairly against comment hiding from the beginning, as it opens up the door to having those special snowflake types silence any and all criticisms and detractors, even the guys who were just trying to help. I'd be fine with it if the commentor in question could apply for a veto of a specific comment they posted that was hidden, to be approved by a moderator, but then again, this is FA, so it would take an age to get a comment re-approved.

And who are you to decide who's a "special snowflake", undeserving of any measure of control over what marks other people make on his little portion of space on this site?

Y'know, FA has had a feature where you can delete other people's shouts from your userpage. They've had it forever, but I can't remember anyone ever complaining about that.

I'm surprised you've never run into one. They're incredibly obvious when you see them. Often, a critic will only reply to them once before being blocked, while the snowflake in question dares their now blocked detractor for a rebuttal with some inane comment. That's the kind of person who shouldn't have this kind of power.

As for comment deletion on people's front pages, no one complains about it, because people who want to be heard don't comment on the front page. And it doesn't make sense for criticisms of a specific submission to be put on someone's front page anyway.

Not saying I've never run into one, just saying that the potential minus of "people who can't handle criticism will be able to delete it" is, IMO, far outweighed by the plus of "now we can delete nasty troll comments".

You think these people shouldn't have the power to delete comments from their submissions and journals? First of all, who are you, their daddy? Their art teacher? Second, on any other blog/forum site worth its salt, they already have that power, and have for years. Yet nobody sees this as a problem.

OK, now you're just being snappy. (inb4 I see what you did there)

I thought that the hiding comments idea was actually pretty dumb until I read this. You make a good point!

I've never understood the whole "First post, in before, this" posts people make. I mean, I'm fine with a bunch of people replying "I like this, this looks sexy, etc" because that at least gives me some input on what watchers and random passers-by enjoy, but that other internet tard speech doesn't do anything and gives no feedback but maybe pats the posters own back with such comments.

Ahh, Death. Nothing makes men ponder their existence more.

If it wasn't for the art style, you could no doubt hand it over to someone you trust. Maybe make a stable of reaction shots and just have them fill in the rest.

As far as the hiding comments thing goes, it sounds like a good idea to me. Sure there will be those that don't want to hear anything negative about them and their work but that's their own choice to make and their loss.

As far as flash goes, I found some tutorials but I'm half expecting you've checked these already. The onion skinning sounds interesting.

http://www.awdsf.com/courseware/fla.....e_by_frame.htm
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/l.....on/part04.html

And with the Gwen thing, a diary/sketchbook thing or other such "bible" might be good as a reference if someone were to continue drawing her. If nothing else it could just be a place to draw/write every little thing down when it comes to you, that way there's something down even if it isn't a full comic or idea...

Another point about hiding comments:

On other forums and blogs, such as LiveJournal, people have had the ability to hide and delete comments for years now, and as far as I can tell, those places haven't gone up in smoke or turned into nothing but "hugboxes" or whatever some people seem to think this place will do.

I'm quite pleased about hiding comments personally. While it probably won't be useful on this account, my other account it might be used about 3 to 6 times a year to deal with inappropriate comments :)

My only complaint with hiding comments is sometimes they've been placed int he middle of conversations, which lead me to being kinda annoyed as I'm curious about what was said. but yeah, I see the point to it.

As for Dr. Gwen... Well, she's more than just your average creation- witnessing the fact the fact you created an account exclusively for her. People respond, often on a very deep and personal level to her, she helps them, and she's taken a life of her own- she borders on being her own person.

Except she's not, really- but she's so close that it makes it tragic that she has to end with you.

Working on flash again..........WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DID YOU DO TO THE REAL NORI?!

"This application was written by followers of Dagon, because after twenty minutes, I want to throw myself into the sea." That line was pure gold!

As far as Gwen is concerned, you just need someone to adopt her before she outlives you.

mv $(find / -name "anything other than my opinion" -print) > /dev/null; mkdir "epeen";