by Mike Firesmith
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August 22, 2007

I LOVE The New Gather! This is so cool!

April 11, 2008 07:20 PM EDT
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Well, bitching didn't help. Maybe reverse psychology will.

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Comments: 28

Chris E. Apr 11, 2008, 7:22pm EDT
LOL I doubt it though.
Patty H. Apr 11, 2008, 7:23pm EDT
We can always hope. lol
Beaker (just Beaker) Apr 11, 2008, 7:29pm EDT
I knew you weren't serious, but I feared that you might have assumed the mantle of a villainous gather goon trying to lure us into mindless complacency with spun-sugar fantasies of rainbows, lollipops and ping-ping-pings.

You know they'll be dropping by soon to remind you that they really, really care.
Mike Firesmith Apr 11, 2008, 7:29pm EDT
It can't hurt!
Chris E. Apr 11, 2008, 7:31pm EDT
Wow it is so neat that I can see when you comment on your own article and that everyone can see everything I do on the site. Also that I get to see when Jane pings John and Sue connects with Jim.( Is this the reverse psychology you were talking about?)
Mike Firesmith Apr 11, 2008, 7:34pm EDT
You know they'll be dropping by soon to remind you that they really, really care.

I am breathless with anticipation.
Mike Firesmith Apr 11, 2008, 7:35pm EDT
Chris,

I thkink everyone ough to ping everyone else at 9;00PM tonight and see if it makes a pinging sound.
Chris E. Apr 11, 2008, 7:37pm EDT
Ohh good idea Mike maybe we will break it and then we wont have to worry about it anymore.
Fran S. Apr 11, 2008, 7:42pm EDT
my motto in life is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" so why did they try to "fix it"
Mike Firesmith Apr 11, 2008, 7:51pm EDT
Okay, Kate, I'm in!
Danielle P. Apr 11, 2008, 8:03pm EDT
Maybe voting will...
I've gotten used to the new controls. They're poorly designed. It's a half baked implementation of a reasonable approach. I think there was a deadline and somebody decided to meet it regardless of the quality of the software as long as it didn't make smoke come out of people's keyboards or spew random insults across the screen.
Mike Firesmith Apr 11, 2008, 8:16pm EDT
as long as it didn't make smoke come out of people's keyboards or spew random insults across the screen.

That would have been so cool.
Dannielle S. Apr 11, 2008, 8:26pm EDT
If you need a lab coat, Mike, you can find one at Goodwill.
**AngelEyez** a. Apr 11, 2008, 8:27pm EDT
right?
Mike Firesmith Apr 11, 2008, 8:33pm EDT
let's just all get drunk and ping each other!!!!

Is that what they're calling it these days?
Mike Firesmith Apr 11, 2008, 8:33pm EDT
Dani,

When you say Lab coat I think dog hair.
Faith H. Apr 11, 2008, 8:46pm EDT
I don't know how I stumbled in here without a drink but here I am! Pingaway!
Mike Firesmith Apr 11, 2008, 9:01pm EDT
"Strangers in the niggght, exchanging pings..."


Nope doesn't work.
penni d. Apr 11, 2008, 9:27pm EDT
think thank thunk
i ping
you ping
we all get drunk
Aniko   Apr 12, 2008, 12:58am EDT
It must be. We're all giving them more clicks than ever....
hogwalloping!
Susan N. Apr 12, 2008, 11:48pm EDT
Nope, reverse psychology doesn't work either, I STILL don't like it!
Eric (Don't Tread On Me) Spindler Apr 13, 2008, 1:01pm EDT
PIECE OF SH__

Totally ridiculous, has all the features I avoided AOL for since 1998...need I say more?
Grownups don't need all this petty crap.

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