On I Have Thoughts About Commenting Systems!
@katalist It actually never occurred to me that "Disqus" was a pun on "discuss."
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On I Have Thoughts About Commenting Systems!
Nesting! That's exciting. I like commenter #s, but I think nesting is a greater good.
As far as legibility goes, I'm not sure the sample comments on Splitsider are a huge improvement. The font size of the comment-text itself doesn't look much larger to me, but now each comment takes up much more space. I don't think of myself as someone easily overwhelmed by text-length, but I was only able to read a couple of comments per scroll, which made me scroll a lot, which made me less interested in reading the comments. And I like to read comments. Maybe you could make "Like" and "Reply" smaller? That'd help with vertical compression.
Please don't make FB identities mandatory. And I second dinosaur_senior's request for a mobile site.
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On Understanding What Ladies May Not Wear to Prom
@dado Maybe it's regional? I grew up saying "prom" with no article, and I graduated from highschool in the '90s.
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On Survey Says! The Complete Online Dating Advice Guide for Men
@omitofo Look, just because you are a member of X and do Z doesn't mean that every member of group X does Z. Even if you have *personally observed* some other member of group X do Z, it's not logical to assume that most members of group X do Z.
Bottom line: gender stereotyping won't help your love life.
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On Survey Says! The Complete Online Dating Advice Guide for Men
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On James Frey Explains Himself
FWIW, I spent about 30 minutes with him once, in a publishing-related context, and he was a lot more straightforward, chill, and normal than many authors with much less strident public personas. I hated a Million Little Pieces, and am not a fan of all the goofy stuff he says in interviews, but I liked the James Frey I met just fine. In fact, the person and the persona are so different it almost makes me wonder if this isn't all some weird performance art thing.
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On Pictures of Joan Didion
@aliceinthecities I'm going to go ahead and ask a really stupid question. Do people like this exchange because she just really burns him with the Oh, wow? Are we to understand that she is cleverly mocking him in the manner of a character in a Woody Allen movie, for being vapid and jejune like the characters in a Woody Allen movie?
Also, do I get meta points for "jejune"?
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On Man Believes Momentary Neurological Event Somehow Reflects The Way We Think Now
@NotAndersonCooper Actually, it's an almost textbook description of a temporal lobe epileptic seizure. Seriously, google it. Unfortunately, the drugs they prescribe for TLE can be worse than the actual seizures.
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On A Very Beautiful Visualization of Cancer Survival
@brent_cox To make it even sadder: The author's finacee has breast cancer.
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On Science Is Going To Ruin Drinking
I've got a vodka ad on this page. Targeted? Or just generally a good bet for a Balk post?