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Meghan Walker

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Started 5 months ago by lifeisamazing
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lifeisamazing

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Hi Meghan, I do appreciate the info on happenings around the hood (I know you can hear the "but") but is there anyway to get them earlier?

I would have loved to go to the writers event but by the time I read about it it was too late.

It seems like many things you talk about the evening before so if a person is not online till the next evening it's over with.

Thanks!

Posted 5 months ago #
racerX

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LIA, I've noticed that there is an RSS feed icon on home page.

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lifeisamazing

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Thank you racer..... one thing I love about this forum is when I have a question there is always someone who knows and is willing to answer.

So... uh... What is an RSS feed? I get that a feed makes new posts from the page you click it on come to your email but I don't know if an RSS feed is different than that and will it make it get to my email sooner than it hits the homepage of myballard?

Posted 5 months ago #
onederfullone

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...as soon, not sooner. fwiw.

Posted 5 months ago #
racerX

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It's "push" instead of "pull" technology. In otherwords, you'd be notified whenever a new story is posted, instead of having to log on to the front page.

Posted 5 months ago #
SunsetHillMarauder

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And it doesn't have to go to your email. I have all my RSS feeds right on my browser as auto-updating drop down menus. Quite useful.

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lifeisamazing

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Thank you guys. the thing is i think I did mean sooner, or more soon :)
If a feed sends stuff to my email when it's posted, then it wouldn't help because I don't have a smart phone so I would still only get it when I am on my computer.
I was hoping she would find out about and report stuff sooner. I mean some stuff is actually the day of. I do like to occasionally make plans a bit ahead of time.
Thank you for all the info on feeds.
This forum is such a wealth of info

Posted 5 months ago #
SmartsyArtsy

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So just email her. Why post a thread about it?

Posted 5 months ago #
mc7

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I've always assumed that it's up to event organizers to contact the website for a notice about their event and that those last minute heads up are because it was just recently brought to Meghan's attention. There are so many community happenings that I can't imagine one person spending a bunch of time trying to stay on top of them so I say give her a break.

Posted 5 months ago #
Ernie

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Or read the Ballard News Tribune, they are a "real" newspaper, and have an events calendar.

They had an article about the writer's event a week before it happened.

It is weird that the people running this site don't ever post on the forum.

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that is weird Ernie.

for awhile, I thought they might concoct characters to ask quasi-legitimate neighborhood questions just to get the engine churning.

I'd guess they read it, or at least did at one time (since many of the stories originate from this source).

I will say that Meghan Walker is a good journalist name. I can envision her signing off from some war-torn nation.

Posted 5 months ago #
Ernie

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"This is Meghan Walker reporting live from Ballard Commons where they are loading a honey bucket on the back of a truck.... Back to you in the studio GI". LOL.

Posted 5 months ago #
Mondoman

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mc, speaking as someone who has emailed info about a number of upcoming events to the MyBallard tips email address, in my cases at least it wasn't last-minute emailing that resulted in the late or non-existent announcements on the MyBallard site.

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lifeisamazing

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SA -Didn't think about it. I guess the multitudes of threads asking the swedes questions put me in mind to use the same venue to ask a question of Meghan.

7 -You're right. I would have to know how she gets the information. I was inquiring if it was possible.

Posted 5 months ago #
BuffaloHawk

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LIA.. She basically copies, pastes & changes sentences from BNT

http://www.ballardnewstribune.com/

Posted 5 months ago #
lifeisamazing

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Thanks hawk, great source. Don't know why I didn't think of it.

Posted 5 months ago #
jj

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The Ballard News Tribune would be a lot better if they got their website in order. They even have a forum that you may (or may not) be able to find. It's there... somewhere.

Posted 5 months ago #
Mondoman

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Yep, they need a bit of help redecorating for the 21st century.

Posted 5 months ago #
whitman

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In addition to the BNT, I have also found Komo's ballard page to be a much better source for local news than Myballard.

http://ballard.komonews.com/?utm_source=www.komonews.com&utm_medium=homepagewidget&utm_campaign=widget&utm_content=communityname

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"This is Meghan Walker reporting live from Ballard Commons where they are loading a honey bucket on the back of a truck.... Back to you in the studio GI".

from the home page, it appears you were right on, Ernie!

oh to be a reporter in sleepy Ballard..

Posted 5 months ago #
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Well, I scoffed when Komo announced their neighborhood forums because this one was so active and kinda had the market cornered. But I certainly don't see the article about Ballard Station's sign on the home page here, or on BNT's site. One could argue these two sources don't want to cast Ballard in a bad light, but that's not really honest reporting. You can argue whether it's good or bad reporting, but it is interesting that it is not being discussed here in Ballard.

Having other good sources for information while this one starts to falter bodes ill for continued success of MyBallard. I could be wrong, but I suspect Ballard may be propping up some of the other neighborhood forums by sheer number of people who are signed up. Eventually when most of those become inactive users, they won't be able to charge as much for ads or sell ads at all, though it depends if the advertisers are savvy enough to ask how many of the users are active (logged on in the last couple of months).

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phoo - I had no idea what you where talking about so I went to the KOMO Ballard article. That is beyond Facebooking unacceptable and I hope karma shuts that place down.I wonder if MyBallard & BNT are staying away from it because they are a potential advertiser.

http://ballard.komonews.com/news/restaurants/804312-ballard-station-public-houses-sign-mocks-mentally-disabled-children

The Ballard Station Public House on Market Street offended a number of people over the weekend when the bar set out a sandwich board reading, "We have more specials than a retarded playground."

On Sunday, a Ballard Station employee responded, "Yeah, what about it?" when asked if they or another employee were responsible for the sign.

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onederfullone

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"The Ballard Station Public House on Market Street offended a number of people over the weekend when the bar set out a sandwich board reading, "We have more specials than a retarded playground."

On Sunday, a Ballard Station employee responded, "Yeah, what about it?" when asked if they or another employee were responsible for the sign."

Seriously, makes me feel ill to read.

Further more, these are all handpicked liberals at the station, which was painfully obvious over two years ago, when I was last there. I'm not saying it's special anywhere in Seattle, but ffs, you are supposed to serve everyone equally in business.

I can't wait for their tent to fold. It's a location deserving some respect.

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Their owner did go to facebook (from Nevada) that night angry about the sign change. "I just found out what happened today on our A board. I am very offended and feel sorry for the person that would write such a thing." I would hope that when the owner comes back the bartender will be fired. If not I wont be going there again. Not to say what the owner said on fb was any kind of apology, he may not have known at that point that it was a bartender. I would like to think something more will be said about it.

Posted 5 months ago #
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was it a bartender?
that story on KOMO says it was a 'regular' customer who has since been banned.

I can see the staff walking around oblivious to what they were projecting.

(not that I'd go there anyway if that's the sort of regular they attract).

Posted 5 months ago #
Edog

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I won't comment on the sign because anyone could have written it. I will say I went there once, did not like the clientele, so I got hammered so I would not have to suffer them.

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BuffaloHawk

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Ballard Station employee responded, "Yeah, what about it?"

Really !!!! The employee acknowledged and brushed off the question as if there was nothing wrong about it. They should have been appalled and removed the sign immediately. It sounds as if the clientele and employees both have issues.

Posted 5 months ago #
Edog

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Look Hawk, if you had ever been to this bar you would know how hard life is for their dimwit bartenders and not be shocked at this. I think you should go there have a few beers, and they have more than a few on tap, and get a sense of how challenged they are.

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maybe I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, but this:
"On Sunday, a Ballard Station employee responded, "Yeah, what about it?" when asked if they or another employee were responsible for the sign."

could easily be attributed to cluelessness. if someone asked him who wrote the sign but he didn't know what was written on it, that would be a likely response.

typical media taking things out of context to get people riled up!

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BuffaloHawk

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E- I think I will take a pass on that suggestion. There are way to many options in the hood that I would rather support.

Posted 5 months ago #
SEdholm

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People on their facebook are saying they talked to the bartender who did it and he said "I like to find humor in life." If true, the guy needs to be fired asap. That being said, the owner is out of town. Funnily enough though the owner did delete their facebook post from earlier today about celebrating the countdown til 502 and 74 being legal.

The bartenders I feel think they are great there, but service can be bad. Ballard Ave Pub had way better service. Also the people that tend to frequent are not my kind of people. Last time I was in there this guy went on trying to pick a fight with me for stepping in to have him stop hitting on my fiance. They have good beer on tap and soccer on tv, but outside that, there is nothing special or really worth going for.

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Spoke too soon. From their Facebook:

We have taken the time to thoroughly investigate the incident that happened Sunday. We are very saddened to say that it has been determined that an employee did write on the sign. We took action immediately and suspended the employee while the investigation occurred. When it was determined he was responsible for the sign he was fired. We apologize to the community of Ballard and everyone who was effected. This sign does not represent the beliefs or culture of the Ballard Station Public House. Thank you for your patience while we took the time to investigate.

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BuffaloHawk

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Sounds like the perfect place for the rude & crude banished trolls to spew there views.

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I would believe it was the bartender.

the hand-writing is very "floofy" and looks like it was done by someone whose job it is.

Posted 5 months ago #
phoo

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I find it sad that this came to light from a non-neighborhood source.

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Edog

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I'm not. Its a freaking street sign for a bar. It looks like it was written in crayon. It only came to light becuase we live in a time when nothing is anonomous anymore. Its hardly some Woodward and Bernstein style scoop.

Posted 5 months ago #
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edog, this is ballard where inappropriate bar sandwich-signs and misplaced honey-buckets are big news.

Posted 5 months ago #
Mondoman

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Edog -- like Nixon, sounds like the person's bigger transgression was not the crime, but the cover-up.

Posted 5 months ago #
onederfullone

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"I can see the staff walking around oblivious to what they were projecting."

Maybe your 'staff' is clueless, I don't accept your crap anymore.

Owner in Nevada? Maybe I'm missing a local connection to a local issue.
I'm glad a firing occurred, but seriously, how many of GI's 'staff' looked on and did nothing?

I'm not pleased, won't return. Period.

A facebooking apology means facebook to me.

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The owner was in Nevada when this happened. The owner is back in Ballard, thus why we heard all this today.

As for not coming to the small private community to apologize vs going to the more general masses with facebook? This is today's world, communication comes from facebook

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onederfullone

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"communication comes from facebook "

ty for illustrating idiocracy for me.

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SEdholm

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I wasn't responding to you. Maybe I mis-read phoo in regards to the original story vs apology, but it wasn't to you.

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onederfullone

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I was simply responding to idiocracy, not you fwiw

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BuffaloHawk

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How many times do people or companies use something along these line to try and save face?

http://www.ballardnewstribune.com/2012/12/04/news/ballard-station-employee-fired-over-offensive-sig

We apologize to the community of Ballard and everyone who was effected. This sign does not represent the beliefs or culture of the Ballard Station Public House. Thank you for your patience while we took the time to investigate."

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onederfullone

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"may have noticed an ill-conceived joke"

lmfao, you are the joke. Clearly, you hired a joke as well.

'nuff said.

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BuffaloHawk

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Wow .. I guess Edog was right about some of the patrons if this person in the comment section is a regular. A Mistake

jj • 2 hours ago

Yes, send the message to your employees that if they make a mistake they'll just be fired.

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I see, but, a 'mistake' is over cooking my fries.

Placing a sandwhich board in front of your establishment isn't.

Maybe your employees see it as a joke, maybe your employees see their job as a joke.

Don't bother figuring it out, I've got a bulldozer, kiss it all goodbye.

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"Yes, send the message to your employees that if they make a mistake they'll just be fired."

what else can a business owner do? beat him up? press charges?

Posted 5 months ago #
onederfullone

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Lookee here, GI gives a crap about a business owner.

Sorry, it's just a forum, I got excited.

Posted 5 months ago #
Mondoman

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bh - there are mistakes and then there are mistakes. I'm thinking the *firing* offense was lying to the owner, not putting the board out in the first place.

Posted 5 months ago #
BuffaloHawk

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Being an obese person with a 5lb pound of cheese in a park is a choice.Coming into this cesspool without an uncontrollable challenge from the get go isn't.Seriously beat him up? Maybe raise the age limit for applications on stupids. I can't believe this is debatable.

Posted 5 months ago #
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There are some who would say being obese with a 5 lb block of cheese isn't a choice. Am not so sure about the park bit, that might not be a choice either. Was there an outhouse lurking in the background?!

I am actually pretty dismayed at how social media affects business and business actions. I actually would have loved for the business owner to say they talked to the party in question, they understand and this type of thing won't happen again, and life goes on. Peoples businesses are being run by public outcry and I'm not so sure that's a good thing.

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Was anyone else struck by the "there will be autism students just 10 blocks away?" This sort of equates them with the retarded, which they are not. Some may also be retarded, but you can have a high IQ and still be locked away in your brain. I'm not so sure about grouping all mentally disabled children into the same group. It doesn't seem quite right to me.

Posted 5 months ago #
BuffaloHawk

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Unemployment rises and the secure (For Now) provide a crappier service for example the USPS, but we all make excuses and play the victims.

Posted 5 months ago #
Ernie

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I'm sure glad my name isn't the title of this thread...

Posted 5 months ago #
Edog

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With his recent departure let me channel my inner Pokerguy and say this thread is retarded.

Posted 5 months ago #
SmartsyArtsy

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"...I'm glad a firing occurred, but seriously, how many of GI's 'staff' looked on and did nothing?"

Exactly, 1der. one person wrote it but the "hate" is carried by everyone who worked there that day and did nothing.

Posted 5 months ago #
phoo

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I think the mistake was made that funny = always acceptable. Is it kind of amusing? Sure, but some racist jokes are funny on the surface too. What's not funny is the sentiment underneath it.

Posted 5 months ago #
Edog

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Did you know white people smell like baloney when they get wet?

Posted 5 months ago #
SmartsyArtsy

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my dog smells like popcorn when she gets wet

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