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TypePad Beta Yahoo Group

Ray Angel has 'rocked on with his bad self' and has a Yahoo Group set-up for all of us TypePad beta people.

It's something we've spoke about for a while now and could be really useful, especially in my situation where most of my issues with TP have been entirely user (read: My own dumb-ass) related.

I feel guilty having to send a help-ticket every two minutes about some CSS or other that I've messed up, and if anyone else has been in the same boat, we now have the opportunity to annoy each other, rather than the busy (and I would imagine VERY tired - don't you guys ever sleep?) TypePad crew.

I look forward to seeing you all there! And well done Ray!

@TypePad: TypePad Beta Yahoo Group

He shoots, he... Oh.

Maybe it was my 'tone of type'. Perhaps if i'd made greater use of italics, 'quote' marks or just finished the whole piece off with a :-p. Maybe then people would have read it all in the nature it was intended.

But Brian, you? You were so close. Really you were. But then you went and contradicted the nature of your whole post and took *yourself* too seriously.

So for those who didn't 'get'-it. May I offer the following caveat:

It was just a bit of fun, people!

There, do you see it? The 'f' word? Good. Now i'd like to caveat that caveat with (well... Um... another caveat).

It *was* meant as fun, but not as irony or sarcasm. It was intended as a flag, a badge (not a medal or reward) or, if you prefer, a lapel-pin from your football teams' last championship winning year. It was the digital equivalent of a rock groups' tour t-shirt. Sure it'll be faded and increasingly pointless over the years, but people would see it and know that 'you were there'.

I mean, it wasn't a swastika or a confederate flag or anything. It was a symbol of my feeling of unity for our little band of people. And most people I recieved mails from took it as such.

So it's a shame then, that certain people mis-construed it as 'so' much more. But i'm tired of apologising to you, because my post was (intended as) a fun, positive post.

Those of you who have posted otherwise, may I suggest that you look at the negativity in your posts, and think if you've had a positive effect with the words that you typed?

Oh, i'm sorry. Did that sound too serious? Here...

:-p

(Please take it in the nature it was intended).

Oops!

Well, er... What can I say other than sorry. I didn't mean to cause offense, if anything, it was meant to offset the growing (and misplaced - in my opinion) snobbery among Typepad users, to cement the sense of unity developing among us, and to identify that unity within ourselves and to the outside world as a whole. It was a statement of pride - nothing more. I whole-heartily apologise for 'upsetting the balance' and if my context was mis-construed.

I must say though that the level of comment has astounded me. If nothing else, we are an opinionated and passionate group. I guess that's why we were invited here to begin with.

Mena's elegant solution, (of a 'Typad user since... ) label is a perfect idea in my mind, and I look forward to my 'day-dot'/ 'initial run' badge of honour. In the meantime I'll adopt Authgeek's ammended button (with thanks).

UPDATE:
Eclecticism has another elegant stab at the problem here.
The result is the tpbeta button you see on my left sidebar.

I'm still extremely proud to be one of the 'chosen few' though, and will continue to be for the duration and beyond.

Now, what about that Beta testers maling list?