In fact I have removed various accounts from google services including youtube and I am looking for a good alternative for mail and search. I’m also actively convincing people to do, more or less, the same.

Google still is king in search, but I see that changing in the future.

You can not change 30 years of online culture to suit you avarice.

+If you don’t use your real name, how will they monetize you?  Seriously, data mining a pseudonym might not be nearly a lucrative as data mining a legal name.+

Anyone wanna try?… cus facebook has been way lucrative with this idea in-line, why can’t google?.

1) tech people that wanted to see how it looked and how it worked, got hyped by the slick (although cumbersome) interface boosting their nerdy/geeky factor with zoom, drop shadows and drag and drop… this people will eventually use an aggregator/posting platform like Hoot and abandon direct use of G+ as soon as possible…

2) people that do pictures. Because I must admit that G+ photo gallery look really neat

3) In my opinion the vast majority, marketing guys, social marketing guys, viral marketing guys. They work in different areas but being in the “communication” industry they received early invitation and dispensed to other people in their work area. I’m talking people whose work is to be on twitter/facebook/G+/foursquare/whatever and “communicate” (alias SPAM) with potential customers/fans of their brand. They are a breed of their own and they are on G+ because they HAVE.

Why isn’t the social site just dying on the vine like so many before it?

The problem with old farts like me I suppose, is that we got too accustomed to banging out each bit by hand, so sometimes this new fangled automagical stuff can trip us up quite nicely. 

In any event Ctrl-Shift-V is also the “Paste Special” function in LibreOffice and a few other editors, so in this case, the problem was really between the seat and keyboard.

Now I could claim in my defense that Discus is a steaming pile of crap that I have had issues with in the past, and thus it was perfectly natural to blame it, except that I have had even more experience with various text editors, and it should have been obvious from the start.

In any event, the lesson is clear, if your basic premise is skewed, you are going to be off the mark whatever direction you take.

After all these years of using a handle online Google tells us that we were wrong.

It’s a shame that LibreOffice / OpenOffice seems to exhibit a similar type of behavior!

Well this version of Chrome is outdated (Ver 12) So I am going to update it to Ver 13 right now.I do not think this is the issue though. A thought just struck me. Back in a few. I am going to upgrade and see if I can re-create the issue.

OK… I believe I have re-created the issue. see below. So what is happening is if I cut and paste from a web site to OfficeLibre it helpfully inserts CSS code which it does not display. I then cut and past from OfficeLibre and it helpfully includes the CSS which I was unaware of. Now that I have figured it out it should not happen again.

Edit: Should be LibreOffice actually. Engrish! you MF… Do you speak it? Oh and BTW… thanks for bringing this to my attention

Update 01:
I tried editing some of my posts and the only additional HTML I found, was I assume added by the blogging software that you control.
It looks like Paged Media for CSS to me. See
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/page.html

The only HTML I enter is blockquote see
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_blockquote.asp

Seems to render fine in Opera and Chrome (which I use for this site). I am going to see how this page renders with a couple of different OS/Browser combos. Back in a few.
OK back. This page renders fine on:
- Mac OS X 10.5.8/Firefox 6 and Safari 5.0.6
- Windows Vista / IE9
- Ubuntu 11.04 / Chrome 12 and Opera 11.5
Give me an example of the “bizarre” HTML you are seeing please. Is it an actual tag?

Update 02:
I checked the Disqus documentation and the only HTML tags allowed in comments are here:
http://docs.disqus.com/help/19/
So what should happen is everything else should fail to render. That also implies that the CSS I saw (and which I most certainly did not manually add to the comment) should not affect it. For example this is what I found in a couple of posts:

@page { margin: 2cm }
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm }
A:link { so-language: zxx }

This should, I assume be ignored. I am also assuming that this is a bug with Disqus.

Update 03:
You could try disabling the offending HTML by adding the offending HTML tags to your Restricted Words list. I would be a little bit afraid to add CSS to the restricted words though See:

How do I moderate HTML in comments?
http://docs.disqus.com/help/45/

Please stop putting bizarre html in your comments.