You have chosen to make a public example of me,
I think you asked for it. I am actually considerably less upset about this than a
lot of others, judging by their comments in the CB. Maybe it was arrogant of me to take it upon myself to voice
theirour concerns, and I will take that into consideration in the future.
The fact that you could have made it worse than it already is is not relevant - I have always interpreted homenode buttons as some kind of crusade against JavaScript and IE users, maybe I'm wrong in your case. I find JavaScript very useful, and the only site that has casued me problems with it is PerlMonks.
I'm not sure what you mean by "duplicitous intent", but I did comment (if I recall correctly) that the fact that the code specifically avoids doing anything if it's you that is browsing with JavaScript turned on was an example double-standards. U:Maybe I used the wrong word.
Update:And if you don't think that the Chatterbox is worthwhile, then just turn it off.