Posts Tagged: Commenting
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A Few Basic Thoughts on Successful Internet Commenting

From time to time, even our spectacularly intelligent, thoughtful and hilarious commenting community runs into a spot of trouble. That's okay! It happens—pretty much every four months or so, something here provokes heated feelings and words. (And often that's a good thing, in the end. Sometimes, less so, sure.) But in general, things are so relatively well-oiled here (sorry, that sounds gross?) that when there's some conflict, it's surprising and even upsetting! Upsetting to the feeeeeeelings.

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How To Make Jokes and Puns

Today's Post reports that "An officer conducting an inspection at a Bronx narcotics unit last week found a soft-core porn movie playing on one of the TVs in the facility, police sources said. The skin flick was playing on a satellite-TV premium channel. That violates an NYPD policy banning such channels at work." Okay, so! The newspaper has done its job, by playing straight man. (Although this is a terrible headline.) Still, they have set up, by my back-of-the-envelope calculations, at least 450³ possible jokes. Heaven! And yet, the lone commenter on this story at the Post is doing it wrong. Let's explain!