Roadskater.net RSN2.com Update

OK if I remember I will use this page for news about changes and experiments with the site. I've been quiet again lately because I've been putting in a lot of time in the background, updating the software for security and looking for ways to address some things I didn't like. Here are some things to try or note:

• News 
• I've moved the sidebar content so that news from feeds will be nearer to the articles we create.
• I spent hours (proving my limitations) trying to find solutions to:
• reduce the number of duplicate entries (some of this is impossible but it's much better)
• finally eliminate the & codes for quotation marks and other characters.
• Please remember that you can blog on a news item by clicking on the blue b graphic beside news items.
• There's a neat news summary at view/news articles or view/news articles/sources.
• If you like the news blended together, try view/news articles/categories, or go one more menu level to separate by general category.
• Popular and Quality (Five-Wheel) content
• Check view/recent popular content for a new tab called "quality content" showing articles sorted by average of votes given by roadskater.net users via the five-wheel tool; a vote five wheels equates to a 100% vote, while four stars equates to 80%, and so on. The quality content screen shows the average vote and the number of replies. I hope I can improve this, but due to limitations of the views code it may be awhile before I can make it how I want it to be. I want to add a "rate some articles" page that will show you content on which you have not voted. Now that I'm using the votes, I hope you guys will go do some voting if you like. It is entirely legal to vote for your own content!
• The popular and recent items may move in the menus when I work on menus again to streamline them.
• Color
• It is obvious I'm sure that I've been playing with color and style, especially in the tag cloud. I wanted to spark it a bit, and make it so that a hover would light it up and a visit would change a link's color. I set some tag power levels to italic in hopes of separating some of the items that run together. I will be working on other ways of separating using color or shading, but these are more complicated and I am still learning.
• Polls
• I've changed the way polls display in the sidebar so that you see a random poll instead of the latest one.
• I'd like ideas for polls, including answer sets, via email or site/feedback.
• I killed some old polls and may close others soon.
• Events
• Please add some events, especially rides you plan to skate and roller derby you plan to attend or skate or ref.
• For now I've moved events up a bit, included tags by category and recent cities on the lower left.