Posts tagged as Commenters
Your Donations Made A Difference
From commenter fenkalevobocek in Your Donations Are Off to Madison: READ MORE
The Gawker Commenter Day of Rage
You know, with the redesign of any web property comes reader outrage, anger, threats of leaving and even some actual leaving. That's normal! Sometimes it's effective in shifting an audience, or getting a new one. Sometimes it's good for the community to have its say, and work it out on its own. But the comments on this Gawker post are not, I don't think, par for the course for a website after a redesign.
Web Commenters Get Fancy New Title
@mikkipedia We have ombudsmen. They are called commenters.
Nick Denton
nicknotned
You know what, you guys? I consider you all my obudsmen too. And my ombudsladies; I love me some ombudsladies. Anyway, you're all buds! Congratulations on the promotion.
Tonight! You're Invited! Boston Awl Readers to Drink, Possibly Mate
Drinks are on you tonight in Boston, the town where the drinks are always on you! The Boston Bawl v.2.0—a casual holiday party thrown by Awl readers for Awl readers—is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. tonight, at the Green Street Grill (in their downstairs bar), which is located, unsurprisingly, at 280 Green Street, Cambridge, Mass. Questions? Talk to your cohosts, Garge and BoyOfDestiny.
Drinks Are On Us* Tonight!
Many of your fellow Awl readers would be delighted to drink with you this evening at the Ella Lounge, at 9 Avenue A, from 6 to 10 p.m. You look like you need a drink! READ MORE
Keith Richards Calms Everyone Down
We've seen that the least vigorous discussions tend to be about ageing rock stars." READ MORE
This Friday: Awl Readers Drink Themselves Silly in NYC (New Venue!)
Alert! Code red! This coming Friday's Awl reader's party, a party thrown by readers for readers, also known as the Awl Hawliday Bawl, has a change of venue! We hope you will join us there. (Yes, you!) So the new venue for Friday, December 10, is the Ella Lounge, at 9 Avenue A, which is located, unsurprisingly, between 1st & 2nd streets. Why? Let us tell you! READ MORE
The Boston Bawl 2.0: Save the Date of December 16
While you are already perhaps saving the date of December 10 in New York City (6 to 10 p.m., at the Gallery Bar, 120 Orchard Street) for a reader-sponsored Hawliday Bawl, perhaps you live in the greater Boston area! If so, our apologies, but here: Boston-area Awl readers are throwing a party for Boston-area Awl readers. READ MORE
Under the Bridge: The Side Benefits of Troll Culture
The problem with making the Internet safe is that it would necessarily make the Internet the same. That's the reason Facebook creeps people out: it tries to impose a uniform user interface on the existing heterogeneous online experience to make it appear homogenous, and in so doing actually transform the culture into one where everything is the same. In an op-ed in today's Times, Julie Zhuo, a product design manager at Facebook, goes further, proposing that non-Facebook content providers standardize their approach to anonymous commenting to rid the Internet of trolls. (Or hey, maybe they could just use the Facebook commenting system!) But what would the Internet be without trolls? Hell, what would New York City be without trolls? Denying the ability of different online communities to respond to disruptive or contrary commenters in a way that reflects the values of that community ultimately denies the wonderful cornucopia of microcultures that is the fantastic, awful Internet we all know and (mostly) love. READ MORE
Los Angeles Awl Bawlers Will Be Awl Bawling At Tomorrow's Awl Bawl Tomorrow In Los Angeles
A reminder to Angelenos and those who happen to be in the environs: Tomorrow night marks the Official Awl Los Angeles Commenting People's Good Times Jamboree Get-Together, hosted by DeepOmega and Natasha Vargas-Cooper (credit the multi-talented Ms. Vargas-Cooper for the astounding graphic that accompanies this post). In any event, it's called for 7 at the Dresden, which some say is in Hollywood but others will argue in that typical LA way that makes New Yorkers seem laid back is in a TOTALLY DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOOD ALTOGETHER. See you there! (I mean, I won't see you there, obviously. LA makes me itchy. But those of you who are there will see each other there, and won't that just be great? I hear there will be a surprise!)
