Comments on: 2012 Election Year Comment Guidelines

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:24:00 +0000

This is six moths old. We re-ran it because Mittens started popping up in unrelated threads.

By: wysinwyg

wysinwyg — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:51:00 +0000

Muphry’s law strikes agian.

By: Gyrofrog

Gyrofrog — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:06:00 +0000

Why now? The POTUS campaign’s already been rolling for, what, 18 months?

Or is this for the 2016 election?

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:25:00 +0000

Why don’t you Ask DickCheney about his breakfast habits?

By: druidbros

druidbros — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:33:00 +0000

And how do we report violations of said rules?

By: Ipo

Ipo — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:18:00 +0000

That already happens.
Disqus seems to have a wobble in its time/space continuum.
One reply I got I was informed of daily, for several weeks.

By: BongBong

BongBong — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 05:27:00 +0000

That picture sums up the problem nicely. Thanks.

By: chaopoiesis

chaopoiesis — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 03:54:00 +0000

Nothing more than snark-hunting season, opening day.

By: awjt

awjt — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 01:04:00 +0000

Sounds like someone needs a little vacation!!!

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:51:00 +0000

I didn’t realize that Disqus would allow commenters to edit their comments. When I found out, I thought that it would be a great idea because commenters could fix their own errors. But it turns out that hardly anybody bothers to check their own links to see if they work.

I fix dozens of borked links every day, mostly because the kids have decided that it’s cool to put links inside parentheses. Because the fact the link is a different color is apparently insufficient to make it visible.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:34:00 +0000

I’m not particularly thrilled with it myself. When we switched, it worked much better than what we were using, but they keep “upgrading” it into unusability. And it keeps breaking.

By: edkedz

edkedz — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 22:40:00 +0000

That’s what you get for choosing disqus.

(Edit: I love this site, and would always get real enjoyment from turds getting disemvowelled, but I hate Disqus so much, and am so unhappy when sites I love succumb to it, that I can’t help but feel a little schadenfreude at one of said sites getting one of its beloved traditions hobbled as a result of the decision to adopt Disqus for their comments.)

By: marilove

marilove — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:30:00 +0000

Mittens.

By: marilove

marilove — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:29:00 +0000

But… but… but… Mittens is is the greatest nickname for a presidential candidate ever!

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:03:00 +0000

What’s the point of dv’ing a comment when the commenter can just edit it right back?

By: Daemonworks

Daemonworks — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:21:00 +0000

But most radioactive scorpians really are members of the GOP. They’re a surprisingly conservative bunch, and are very supportive of the ‘small government’ platform.
There is, admitadly, a decent contingent of democrats who are mostly interested in shrinking the military.

By: Genre Slur

Genre Slur — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:48:00 +0000

So there is an american election for the senate and congress coming up, when?

By: Jos Reyn

Jos Reyn — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:43:00 +0000

OMG! Rules that make sense – how the heck did that happen!!! I love you guys!

By: Just_Ok

Just_Ok — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 13:54:00 +0000

It wouldn’t be a random target if you give in.

By: Just_Ok

Just_Ok — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 13:50:00 +0000

…when she sits on a committee, she sits ON a committee.

By: Just_Ok

Just_Ok — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 13:48:00 +0000

Maybe Obama was actually born as a female.

By: Just_Ok

Just_Ok — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 13:46:00 +0000

And Dame Edna. And the cast from Monty Python.

By: Robert Baruch

Robert Baruch — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 13:40:00 +0000

Personally, I find these folks to be the biggest doody-heads in America:

http://www.doody.com/corp/default.aspx

By: Shane Simmons

Shane Simmons — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 13:21:00 +0000

True, but he goes by Mitt.

You know, there are so many jokes that could be made about that.

By: Shane Simmons

Shane Simmons — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 13:19:00 +0000

This has bothered me over the last 8 years or so. Maybe someone smarter than me can chime in on this (shouldn’t be hard to find someone smarter than me on BoingBoing) but wouldn’t names like Shrubbie, O’Bummer, and R-Money be a form of dehumanizing the enemy? At the very least, it’s incredibly childish.

By: The Life Of Bryan

The Life Of Bryan — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:08:00 +0000

I haven’t seen any disemvowelling in quite some time (seems like a couple years). I figured they’d stopped doing that, which saddens me.

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:01:00 +0000

Antinous pulled a neat trick here by changing the date on this post – which is originally from six months ago, with all the original comments intact. So all of the original comments which undoubtedly would have been repeated (and even more similar comments as well since we’re closer to the election) are already here, so he doesn’t have to do as much work moderating this comment thread!

A lot of people upthread will be getting confusing e-mails about replies to their comments that they forgot they made six months ago :)

By: The Life Of Bryan

The Life Of Bryan — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:00:00 +0000

Is that Val Kilmer’s mom?

By: Scratcheee

Scratcheee — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 10:04:00 +0000

I approve this message.

By: mikey p

mikey p — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 07:49:00 +0000

Yup. Also, US citizens are totally free not to treat everything on the internet like it’s actually all about their domestic politics.