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beige_alert) wrote2007-08-30 07:57 pm
beige_alert) wrote2007-08-30 07:57 pm
long spew of noise
This great post by Joel Spolsky on blog comments and the stupid things that anonymous commenters tend to say is just great. Best example:
Not to mention the part about “some kind of open source nuclear war” and “some person without an outbound filter who feels compelled to tell you about how he uses Opera, so he doesn’t have this problem.”
I do also love this other post, “Even the Office 2007 box has a learning curve.” “A box that many people can’t figure out how to open without a Google search is an unusually pathetic failure of design”
When a blog allows comments right below the writer’s post, what you get is a bunch of interesting ideas, carefully constructed, followed by a long spew of noise, filth, and anonymous rubbish that nobody ... nobody ... would say out loud if they had to take ownership of their words. Look at this innocent post on a real estate blog. By comment #6 you’re already seeing complete noise. By #13 you have someone cursing and saying “go kill yourself.” On a real estate blog.
Not to mention the part about “some kind of open source nuclear war” and “some person without an outbound filter who feels compelled to tell you about how he uses Opera, so he doesn’t have this problem.”
I do also love this other post, “Even the Office 2007 box has a learning curve.” “A box that many people can’t figure out how to open without a Google search is an unusually pathetic failure of design”