Earlier this week, my mom wrote me an email with the subject "Starstruck," asking where the star ratings at the bottom of my columns went. Indeed, they were missing. Sometimes, they'd do that, then come back in a few hours.
Turns out, the company that provided the ratings widget (Outbrain) just decided that they weren't going to support it anymore, so all the star ratings that ever got posted to this site over the past few years just got deleted at the beginning of the month. I'm annoyed.
I sent their customer support an email with the subject "My ratings are gone, along with my fondness for your company," (snap!), but I can't imagine that's going to do any good.
Anyway, I may look around for another easy way to drop some feedback on the columns here without having to write an entire comment with actual words in it. In the meantime, my buddy Chunks (a.k.a. Jered Four-Star) is going to have to find someone else whose averages he can bring down.
Update: Blogger offers a ratings widget now, which might explain why Outbrain stopped making theirs. In any event, I've added Blogger's ratings widget to the site now, so Chunks, four-star me to your heart's content!
Addition to the update: Also, I need to get a life.
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