Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

Look Who’s Talking

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As most of you know, over the course of the past month, SlopeTalk has gone from a totally dead and abandoned project to a resurrected product that is a super-cool new way to communicate. I wanted to mention some of the things we’re working on behind the scenes (in between fixing new problems we have created):

  • Polls whose results automatically update in front of your eyes in real time;
  • Ability to paste graphics directly into comment entry;
  • Restoration of the Comments Search function;
  • Ability to right-click from list of users to get more features;
  • Ability to right-click from list of posts to learn more about them;
  • Be able to see who in the Users list is actively typing a message
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Jannifer-Be-Gone

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With all due respect to the 0.03% of Slopers who are female, let’s face it, almost all the women who visit Slope are fake spam-bots. I know how sick and tired we all are of these newcomers (although the equity bears among us might want to take a look at those $96 per hour opportunities from home), but hopefully you’re going to be seeing a LOT fewer visits from these lovely lasses in days to come.