Socio Sexual Hierarchy in the Hundred Acre Woods

Vox Day's male social hierarchy

  Alpha:

"natural self-confidence and strength of character"

Christopher Robin. He is on top of the world, not threatened by toys and woodland creatures, though if there were other boys in the stories, we would see him in competition. Tigger is an Alpha of the carefree variety.

  Beta:

"the lieutenants, the petty aristocracy"

Rabbit from the books. Rabbit knows how to get things done. He takes very good care of his friends-and-relations. He understands the hierarchy and his place in it.

  Delta:

"the great majority of men"

Winnie the Pooh. Owl, perhaps, though he has some Gamma tendencies.

  Gamma:

"the obsequious ones, the posterior puckerers, the nice guys who attempt to score through white-knighting, faux-chivalry, flattery, and omnipresence"

Piglet

"Gammas who find themselves in charge almost invariably behave like petty, micromanaging dictators; Gamma male behavior is very similar to normal female behavior in a lot of ways."

Rabbit from the Disney abominations. When he thinks he's in power, he's a petty tyrant.

  Omega:

"the losers.... That which doesn't kill them can make them stronger, but most never surmount the desperate need to belong caused by their social rejection. ... [T]he pain of their constant rejection renders the suffering of others completely meaningless in their eyes."

Eeyore from the books.

  Sigma:

"the lone wolves"

Heffalumps. Possibly also Woozles.

Another attempt at a better reply quoting system

Here's something I hope will be much better than the unreliable @88 method for backreferencing a comment.

The numbers for the comments are still here.  Try clicking on the number for a comment you want to reply to.  It should change colors and expand with a cute little message.  Then copy text from that comment's body.

When you paste into the New Comment box (or anywhere, actually), the text you copied will have been magically wrapped with some HTML that attributes and backlinks the text.  Then add your brilliant commentary below that.

Please tell me what browser you're using, whether the feature works or does not.

Image width

Testing what happens with large images, and with changing the zoom level.

About the Numbered Comments at Vox Popoli

If you nuke-delete a comment, so it completely goes away, doesn't that mess with the comment numbers? So that further comments that reference comments after the deleted one (but made before the deletion occurs) end up pointing to the wrong comment? I've seen on other blogger blogs that it's possible to delete a comment and still leave a "tombstone". That might be better, or else get rid of comment-numbers entirely and encourage folks to reference comments by timestamp or by linking to the comment number.

Yeah, the linking to comment numbers system is uncorrectably busted. I still want the comment numbers, because they help me track where I am in a page, especially upon refresh. But we need a better system for linking to specific replies. For those who know HTML, it's simple, if tedious. The timestamp on each comment is a link. Make an A tag with that link URL as the href. You can't use BLOCKQUOTE tags in Blogger, because Blogger is retarded. So I recommend wrapping quoted text in B for bold. Italics is not the best choice for quotes, because sometimes there will be italics in the quote, a book title for instance. The Technical Directors of the ELOE have been working on a solution that will do all this annoying work for you, but there are problems to be solved with the user interface.

Girls Gone Wild

Work it out here.

Off Topic Comment Collector

Feel free to crap all over this comment thread with whatever you want.  I want as many comments as possible, for use in testing improvements.

Faking a comment-reply system.

Instructions

Copy some portion of a comment, then paste into the comment field.  What you paste should be wrapped in some HTML tags.  Add your commentary below.

Explanation

I'm trying to devise a way to make it easy to attribute and link back to a comment you're responding to.

The current approach hijacks the Copy action when you have a section of a comment body selected.  It prepends an attribution like "Matthew said:", then wraps the selected text in some HTML tags.  This becomes apparent when you paste.

I've also altered the CSS to display the tag-wrapped body in a way that makes it apparent that we're simulating a block quote.

Amusing technical note.  As Blogger forbids the BLOCKQUOTE tag, I'm using a double STRONG tag instead.  Then the formatting uses a very specific CSS selector:

.comment-body > p > strong > strong