On I Have Thoughts About Commenting Systems!
@Choire Sicha@facebook - I like seeing all the comments on one screen, without any clicking to expand replies or see more than the first 20 comments. I like the little avatar images. And I like the color-coded dividers for a comment and replies to it.
I do like the NYT version of comments, which can be edited by selecting either "Reader Picks" or "NYT Picks" (both of which are interesting for their respective perspectives).
As for commenter numbers, I have a pretty low one because I faithfully followed Balk to Radar and you to your tmblr and then to here. Why would you repay that kindness with disdain?
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On I Have Thoughts About Commenting Systems!
@Murgatroid - If it ain't broke don't fix it. that's what I say!
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On The Latest Sad Fate of an Aggregation Serf
I'd like to thank you for introducing me to the word "dubiety".
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On Levon Helm, 1940-2012
@SuperMargie - i read last night that he was annoyed by Neil Diamond's presence at the concert, which i was as well. WTF does Neil freaking Diamond have to do with The Band and their breed of folk rock? Confirmed my faith in Levon.
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On Today Only: The Awl Is Auditioning New Commenters!
@Comic Sins - I remember losing my star. The pain seared into my memory. I suggested that when a certain gay Rutgers student threw himself off the GW Bridge, his roommate (a certain webcam afficionado) would not face any legal liability (based on my understanding of the applicable law, which turned out not to be correct).
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On Today Only: The Awl Is Auditioning New Commenters!
Is this the snarkist posting ever on The Awl? Choire - seems a little catty / beneath you. What next? Emily posts something about "The Worst Person on the Internet"?
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On Today Only: The Awl Is Auditioning New Commenters!
@brent_cox - GOD I HOPE NOT
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On Man Still Typing
Yes, but doesn't it matter to you that he is right? Our infrastructure is in fact inferior and it makes our economy less competitive.
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On The Rent Is Too Damn Hilarious
Choire, don't you live in Miami?
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On President Endorses States' Rights
@ontologicalpuppy - See, I agree with this. The President has just driven a HUGE FUCKING WEDGE between Mitt Romney and all those soccer moms and "swing voters" who will decide this presidential election in Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Colorado and Virginia/NC. At the same time, he increases his fundraising and excitement level of his base by approximately 100000%.
Mitt Romney now has to articulate an extreme, right-wing absolutist position about marriage equality (which has become as American as apple pie and just as boring) that will go along with his extreme, right-wing absolutist position on abortion and illegal immigration.
So Barack will have the youngs, the gays, the blacks and the Hispanics, plus most of the women. And Mitt will have the angry white guys. GUESS WHO WINS???