How do I get rid of Grovelbots Big Board?

It is only there until the 23rd of August. It is a fund drive for the website.

Tell me more and I'll try to get it to do it for me and work out a solution.

If I minimize the screen, the grovelbot stickies simply go away and just leaves a link.

Disabling ad blockers had no effect.

Not sure why you are having trouble, have you got the latest version of Firefox? 79.0?

If I reduce the font then the sticky bit is clear of the normal headings but the font is too small for comfort.

Wish there was more I could do.

Annoying as hell. I use safari.

way down. Otherwise the formatting causes all kinds of problems. I have trouble reading it clearly at that small a font, but at least the headings are back to normal.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/

You can override a website's stylesheet with your own modifications. For example, to hide GrovelBot's Big Board:



(The same thing can be done with a userContent.css file placed in your FireFox profile folder, but it takes a few more steps - the add-on is comparatively more user friendly.)

This issue seems to stem from text size zooming messing up the html element placement (as far as I can tell). I think if the admins add an overflow: hidden rule to that div element, it would stop the contents from spilling over the rest of the page if people have the text zoomed in on their browsers.

seeing now. Thanks.

... then in its popup window, mouse over the Write style for link(s) to show domain("democraticunderground.com") in the mouse-over text that appears, then left-click the link you are on. That should open a new tab to let you edit your own CSS for the site. Copy...


... or...


... into the code editing area (where the cursor should by default appear), then click on the Save button on the left side of the window. At the bottom of the window where it says Applies to, the dropdown should read URLs on the domain and the adjacent text box should have democraticunderground.com in it.

That first rule will hide the GrovelBot Stickies banner, the second should prevent its contents from obscuring other parts of the page (hopefully) while still allowing you to see the contents even when zooming text in or out. Just use one or the other - not both. (I'm not 100% sure the second one will work as I intend.)

You should be able see the results right away by selecting and viewing the DU tab that was open. If it looks okay, you can close the Stylus editing tab. If not, go back to the tab and double-check and/or change things and hit Save again. View the DU tab to see if it worked.

Or maybe EarlG did it!

Thanks EarlG.