Because We Love You So Much…

February 14th, 2014 by Zachary Shahan

I feel really lucky with the readers we have. You are amazing, and you make our jobs possible (well, you and the people who find us on Google and then clicks on some ads). Honestly, I’m sure we wouldn’t be anywhere close to where we are today if you didn’t provide so many thoughtful and useful comments, and if you didn’t do such a wonderful job of sharing our content!

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About the Author

Zachary Shahan is tryin' to help society help itself (and other species) with the power of the typed word. He spends most of his time here on CleanTechnica as its director and chief editor, but he's also the president of Important Media and the director/founder of EV Obsession, Solar Love, and Bikocity. Zach is recognized globally as a solar energy, electric car, and energy storage expert. Zach has long-term investments in TSLA, FSLR, SPWR, SEDG, & ABB — after years of covering solar and EVs, he simply has a lot of faith in these particular companies and feels like they are good cleantech companies to invest in.

A Real Libertarian

I’d like links to be more clear.

For instance here:
http://cleantechnica.com/2014/02/15/awea-report-finds-wind-turbines-save-money/

There’s “A new white paper report finds that wind energy is keeping electric bills low for American homes and businesses”.

The “new white paper report” part is a link, but it’s really hard to see unless someone hovers the cursor over it.
- Zachary Shahan
  
  Hmm, that’s something that our theme sometimes does to links. Is very annoying. Mostly happens in bullet lists (which is why I bold & underline the text in those cases) and block quotes. However, can also happen if there is special formatting on the text for some reason. I didn’t notice that on this one, but just corrected it. Is annoying, I fully agree. Drives me crazy.
driveby

I would be happy if there wasn’t so much cross scripting going on on CT.. and I don’t know if it’s just me, but right-clicking a selected/marked piece of text in an article for copying it for commenting on it get’s me no-where.
- Zachary Shahan
  
  Hmm, that’s a new one to me. I just tried it and it worked for me.
  
  I also got a comment about ads popping up when people hover over text. I don’t think we’ve had anything like that for years, so am a bit confused by that one as well.
  
  Completely unexpected answers… ??
  - A Real Libertarian
    
    If you select a section of text, a “Share the Story” menu pops up.
    
    If you then copy and paste the text into Disqus it screws up the comment.
    
    You have to paste the text somewhere else and remove the “Read more at [url]” part for it to work.
    - Zachary Shahan
      
      Ah, yes, I know what you are referring to. That is connected to the sharing buttons we use (which are my favorite I’ve seen as far as design). Hmm… will have to consider those…