Larry

JUNE 7, 2012 11:03AM

What's with Open Salon?

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Open Salon is the talk of the office:



 

 

 

 

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Too fast paced for me.
Won't load.

Oh! Is that the point?
I think it has become an advertising circus and becoming more like facebook and twitter. I happen to run across your posting sandwiched in between wiwiijjjjddu jjdjdojsjwu post for live TV and Raoul sinbad amal post for live TV. Sara Simanx was next with her ad for an Indian soap opera. I imagine it will just fall apart and vanish one day. Or just get bought out by the same marketing firm that has already hacked your computers and stealing contributors personal information and then they will be sued by the 3 major networks for programming rights and they will go out of business. Mostly I think all the monkeys employed at OS now will have a hard time finding a job like they had here. Do you really have a plan to save it? If so there are more than enough good writers here that would jump at the chance to help. Maybe it might help also if someone who joins OS was an actual person and actually wrote things, it might be just a coincidence that all there posts are the same for the same company. Who knows these things and who is running the show? JUST LOOK AT WHAT OS HAS BECOME.....run away! Just a thought from around the palm tree sipping Heineken's......good day o/e
ps: did someone in your PR dept make your video or did you do it on your own?
Larry, you've put on a little weight.
IT is a mystery as to what went wrong. Wish we had more access to staff's ear.
R
Larry,the video does not ρlay!!But the question alone is worth thinking!!
Epic Fail.

Messed up Front Page for several days now -- well for something like 10 days now.

Spam Filter needs to be replaced. Ever heard of "Captcha?"

No apparent self correcting mechanisms, other than the determination and indefatigable attention of long time OS members.

This particular post and it's horribly high rating in just a few short minutes when other things are much more valuable in terms of their content.

My attitude, which is quickly losing it's sensk of huma (thanks, Popeye, I love the way you scats!)

The least you could have done was add to your tags:
Joke, Humor, Irony, Satire, just fucking with you guys

Or something like that. You know, just to soften the blow. Can I add those tags?

I, for one, am not amused. And I am pretty easy to amuse.
Is that why we have had "Dewey Defeats Truman" on the front page for the last several years?
jus chekin the cover.....thought screen savers were sposed to MOVE....
Well I enjoyed this! And I like the lost password and answer theory - those stupid, stupid back-up questions....
I don't know, but I'm feeling sad about it. I'd hate to see it go away. Is this the magazine's way of scaring us into monetizing the site?
assuming that the non-loading "Go!Animate" was intentional, you captured just how "effed" up this site has become. You would think that "big"Salon poobahs would check the analytics and metrics for OS occasionally--oh yeah, I bet they do and see how the number of posts continues to climb...but they fail to see the ability to get on "top rated last 4 hours" with 6 or 7 ratings as a measure of how many people are or are not reading, commenting and rating.
Nuff said.
Most of us are obviously not cool enough for "big Salon"
you need to change the mayo in the tuna fish
On the activity feed, between 12:46 and 12:54, surelan gomez16, surelan gomez17, surelan gomez18 and surelan gomez19 all joined OS. Must be a surelan gomez convention somewhere.

I noticed that you didn't mention which office Open Salon was the talk of. Big Ed's International House of Tripe's office over on 8th Avenue?
Was that supposed to be cute...maybe funny? Forgive me if I don't see the humor but I would think that a man of your supposed importance and position within the company would have more important things to do....like maybe solve some problems.
Thanks so much for reposting my Farrah hair. But Freaky needs a spot somewhere. Perhaps a retro showing of Joan and Freaky in their Aretha hats?

Or hey, a retro cover week.
Spam, spam -- beautiful spam! spam spam spam spam spam ...
You can take me and TR Jr. off of the front page now - D-Day is over.

sheesh@

(no r for this)
Watch my back, I'm going in to OS headquarters. There's got to be some kind of hostage taker in there with writer's block so he can't send out a list of demands.
At least THIS Link worked. It must feel great to be the King.


P.S. Shaggie "Don't call me Ed" I. Tor ate the last of the Scoobie Snacks. Just say'in.
My ADD kicked in. The video played and was fine.

I have Con Chapman's back. He does not know that the hostage taker is going to start quoting Hegel and Kant, which is why we get nothing done when White men are in charge.

Put me in charge of OS. I will shake this place up.
I'm so glad to see I'm not going crazy, there is a serious problem going on with OS. I joined in 2011, so I'm a bit of a latecomer, but I know the site and the emphasis on good writing seemed to be better back then.
Oh, my! That was funny.
I take everything back from before. This is a trick question right?
Gotcha covered Con---be careful in there! And for god's sake watch out for those tuna fish sandwiches Chuck mentioned!
They forgot the answers? Haven't they heard of paper and pen. The answer to the security questions is, "All Trudge. All the Time." The backup answer is, "Tink is Ed I. Tor." R
Wee....a load screen. GURF.
For the record: In my view, everything I have ever posted to OS is more read worthy than this. In fact, as far as that goes, everything anyone has posted that isn't pure Spam, even from those I don't like to read, is more worthy of space than this. Shame on you.
My suggestion for additional revenue. I think that you should help bloggers to compile their work into hard copies of books.

I also think that it is very hard to cancel the account. I opened and account for picture blogs originally and was unable to close it when I went to writing.
Oh, now I'm betting that isn't the juiciest gossip going on at the office! How about animating some of that?
Well... a different take on a...an over indulged subject. The comments, aren't they just cut and pasted from previous takes?
I am waiting on the edge of my seat for the next one.
I'm cool enough for Big Salon, I just refuse to go!!! Yea! Larry please tell your brother Kerry I want to call a truce and will meet him in Geneva!!!! With my pants on!! :D