Comments on: Neatorama Update – June 2009

By: Xinavera

Xinavera — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:54:38 +0000

Ads on Neatorama? What a curious notion. (Firefox+AdBlockPlus)

By: AmyG

AmyG — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:39:07 +0000

Bless you, bless you, BLESS YOU for banning the yellow teeth ads! They are disgusting and drive me crazy. Keep up the good work Neatorama, love your blog!

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:31:15 +0000

@OddNumber – it’s the Pareto Principle in action.

If you look at the Upcoming Queue, many casual submitters never take the time to format their submissions correctly – some just cut and paste their description (which is frowned upon) and others just write a one-sentence intro. This is a big difference between the UQ and digg or reddit: UQ subs are blog posts.

Sometimes, editors will rescue such posts (and re-write them), but this is time-consuming for us.

The top submitters of the UQ, like Marilyn Terrell, for instance, takes the time not only to submit properly formatted materials, but also to submit a lot of ‘em. This takes time and a lot of effort, so if the same people show up in the top 5 over and over again, that’s fine with me …

By: OddNumber

OddNumber — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:25:26 +0000

I find the stats on the upcoming queue to be rather interesting. I wonder what percentage of the total posts to the upcoming queue came from the top four and if most people who post only get 1/3 of their posts promoted.

By: Noelegy

Noelegy — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:45:04 +0000

My husband wants to know where CP got that shirt. For, you see, boobies make him smile, too.

By: Tim Giachetti

Tim Giachetti — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:29:45 +0000

Boobies make everyone smile. Be it a pair, or one singularly challenged individual.

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:16:05 +0000

You are complaining about getting squirrel underpants? I paid good money for my pair of squirrel underpants, and feel they’re worth every penny.

By: CreamKreator

CreamKreator — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:12:59 +0000

Yeah. I got a stinkin squirrel underpants and an issue of mentalfloss and i know you got it free. yippee. i knew that participating overseas get you nothing and i blew 16 euros on which is like 23 dollars.. Not worth it.. Just to show that overseas your going to get ripped. Period. Exclamation mark!

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:01:03 +0000

Hehehehe. Oh, CP. Your smile and your shirt makes a winning combination.

By: Ajan

Ajan — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:41:11 +0000

My pleasure!!

Oh! Never knew that there was a Facebook page..

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:22:06 +0000

You nor Adam were the first to use Neil/Neal before Zod, sorry wendell

By: wendell

wendell — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:13:25 +0000

I was also fairly delighted with what I got from the Mystery Sale until I saw that Neatorama’s Favorite Artist may have plagiarized a bad pun from ME. It’s explained poorly on my blog at http://www.wendell.me/me-before-cats with a silly digression about The Who (and let me assure everyone that you did not send out 40-year-old Who albums, but I wouldn’t have minded if you did).

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:49:42 +0000

I LOVE that picture of CP!

By: seekshelter

seekshelter — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:31:35 +0000

…self starting audio ads are fine by me…

By: Edward

Edward — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:06:31 +0000

The Widget is wonderful, but Safari 4 monitoring 16 websites, it might be superfluous.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:05:38 +0000

@Frau – yes, I agree with you. Self-starting audio ads are horrible!

By: Frau

Frau — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:09:08 +0000

OH SNAP!

I love that image of CP. WHEEEEEE!

I think the most frustrating ads were the audio ones.

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:35:51 +0000

Alex – AdBlocker, innit. Never see ‘em.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:59:47 +0000

@jdogg13: you can't please everyone.

By: jdogg13

jdogg13 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:55:07 +0000

Maybe he’ll trade me for my lame book about cats

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:00:27 +0000

Count yourself lucky if you don’t know, Skipweasel!

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:52:51 +0000

What’s a “yellow teeth advert”?