I made some changes to the site this morning to highlight the great comments that the StokeReport community have been making. I added:

"oh, that's magnificent! :)"

"Dolphin. Just kidding, wrong game. :D But a very nice addition indeed. Thanks for doing this!"

"sweet release!"

We've had a lot of discussion lately on good vs bad rants. I thought it might be interesting to share some data.

"What about metrics comparing swell rating vs: Rant/Report ratio # of Rants # of Reports # of Comments # of votes ...etc that might offer s ..."

"Agreed Hasbro- Show us the inverse relationship between the wave quality score and the number of rants. or boobs/butts. "

"i'll get right on that ;)"

It's official. The first annual StokeReport Beach BBQ is on. Please join us at 3pm at the northernmost firepit at OB (right up at #####'# ####, Pretty much right on the beach opposite WISE)

""The majesty of the gods is revealed! And their peaceful abode neither the winds shake nor clouds soak with showers... and an ever cloudless sky vaul ..."

"Does this mean David will bring a vaulting cloudless sky? haha! 2 1/2 hour drive for us. On a Sunday 3:30? I think We will have to send the video say ..."

"I can bring some veggies to grill/roast, for folks who eat that sort of thing. "

UPDATE2: We're back online. Thanks to the CDIP folks for getting it back up so quickly.

UPDATE: Here's what the man from CDIP says: "The buoy was hit on Saturday and wandered offsite. We have retrieved it and will re-deploy within the next couple of weeks weather permitting."

"Hi John. Just FYI: when I link straight to http://stokereport.com/content/bay-area-detailed-surf-forecast, it does seem to work as well as it always ..."

If you are wondering where the home page prediction graphs have gone. The algos have gone a bit wonky so I've pulled them off the site for now. Hopefully I'll get them back up in the next few days. Sorry.

"They must be in collusion with the ob-kc.com cam. I mean, Mercury's not even in retrograde!"

"Hey now, cam is back up...for the time being. Not that it mattered until about 10 minutes ago when the soup melted. Is 'wonky' an industry term?"

"Yes, as is cattywompus. Wonky algos can make your predictions cattywompus. "

Guys, Thanks for all your input. I've posted a new set of community guidelines. These are now always available from the "don't" menu at the top of the page for logged-in users.

I've also trimmed down the location list to a set that there seems to be very broad agreement on.

"John, good work on paring down the list. everyone else... respect that shit. I've met a lot of you, and you're all rad people. I know most of ..."

Folks, i'd like to define a set of community standard for StokeReport.com ASAP. Perpaps we can have a discussion around the standards for the rest of the weekend and then start enforcing them next week i.e. ban anyone that doesn't follow them.

Here's my proposal

"how about leaving off grey whale. the rest of the manifesto sounds fine to me."

"My honest opinion based on 20+ years of surfing in the Bay Area: Stoke Report will continue to anger long-time local surfers as long as reports ar ..."

"I agree with ApocalypseNow and Ted315. Larger spots that can handle people are fine. Could be asking for trouble drawing attention to particular spots ..."

I've noticed that people post quite a lot of video links in comments. I've added a new feature which automagically embeds the video directly in the comment when you do this. It supports about 150 different sites, including all the major ones. Please give it a try by commenting on this rant, and let me know what you think.

"Totally pitted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJdF8DJ70Dc"

"My weekend: Before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM3zFNy44wk&feature=player_embedded After: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgrDD8tnvPs&featu ..."