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Comments on internet
I just wanted you all to think about this for a minute. The last couple weeks have been full of all kinds of foofaraw about internet comments and blog posting editorial conduct and censorship. People are having career-ruining dialogs about shit. Other, more vicious, people are ruining the lives of those less fortunate than themselves by typing venom into a fillout form and clicking [POST].
What you should know about Satanosphere.com is this: if you make comments here, they are OURS. Plain and simple. This is OUR website, and we’ll do whatever the fuck we want. Including make you STFU. Probably the only thing we won’t do is fix your screwups, unless you’re one of us. Oh, and we won’t make you a bigger asshole than you already make yourself — which is to say we won’t rewrite your crap. If it sucks we delete it. Plain and simple.
From the story at Time.com: In theory, [internet commenting is] a great thing. We’re giving the people a voice! But the reality is that commenting either attracts loathsome people or somehow causes ordinary people to express themselves in a way that is loathsome.
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July 11th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Career-ruining? This is probably the best conceivable outcome for Ms. Alvarez-Bell! I fully expect her to sign for a million-dollar bonus with Randomhouse and become part of Oprah’s book club by the end of the year! Yeesh!
July 12th, 2008 at 9:48 am
So, career-ruining comments on the web. huh? So does this mean Jesse Jackson can start looking for a new job for saying he’d like to cut Obama’s nuts off, in real life, on national tv?
Where does the line of gheyness get drawn by those in power to govern a few, but not all, in sweeping terms of acceptability?
July 13th, 2008 at 12:06 am
You’re a Communist! Why I oughter tell everyone about your (insert personal affront spawned in the heat of the moment between two adults that should have remained personal but got Sea Monkeyed by the internet) and ruin your career! AHHH-HA-HA-HA!
(Wow, what a terribly immature first comment on the new site for me. Don’t let me christen your ship; you’ll all get scurvy.)