Muddying this lovely crystal pool

"We are nearely all former buzzers and many of us still lurk there and occasionally comment. Heh, yeah, kinda hard to miss, especially after I finally got around to plowing through the entire Snarkopolitan logs a few weeks back. My trepidation was simply that I wouldn't want to be muddying this lovely crystal pool when things are going so swimmingly. (Block that metaphor!) Moving on....

"...now we learn that we’re hard to find! Just get immensely popular (heh -- sorry Chrissy) and PoliNation will top the search pages... well, still not the first one that tries to correct the spelling, but the second one. :)

Chrissy, I sympathize with preferring a low profile. The more traffic, the more critics, flamers, and trolls, and the more moderation required. I used to think, back decades before the net was invented (but I knew it was coming) that the world network would be a great way to reach the tiny niche market that might enjoy my eclectic creations, but now I realize that to reach those few (divine beneficence aside), you almost have to be well-known, which means inviting tons of trouble. Anyway, I'm still safe as long as the site continues to deserve its secondary slogan, "the Internet's best-kept secret since 1996"℠!

Pardon a bit more technobabbling: I ran into a problem trying to link from a page on my site to the July 1 "Poli-tick admits he's a bottom feeder" page. I finally figured out, my site's software couldn't handle the angled-apostrophe (yes, there are different apostrophes) in the URL. I have to substitute -- get this -- %E2%80%99 for the apostrophe! Figured that out thanks to a utility on this page -- handy to know in case anybody else ever runs into such a problem. The software ought to be set to disallow such characters in URLs, but I expect that's a WordPress thing, outside of your control. End of tech lesson for the day; you will awaken feeling refreshed and alert.