Then they wrote about Honey Boo Boo…

The melancholy tear, forming as you smile ruefully and say a final goodbye, forever, to Boing Boing; its glistening path, drawn from an eye now clear with understanding at the threshold of our adolescence and your maturity; its gentle fall, echoing the cosmic and irreversible finality of your decision …  leads only into my delicious Martini.

“Oh, and you were trying so hard, too!”
“Perhaps you should vote us out of Boing Boing office.”
“If you don’t know how to exercise your free speech, I will personally set you up with a tumblr account where you can complain your heart out! Don’t forget to link in.”

 ”[S]anctimonious, passive-aggressive lording” indeed. Good day.

Whatever will we do!

But this recap—and Jamie’s writing style & topics—really stick out like a sore thumb here. The topics are not unique, the angle is cookie-cutter & in general it’s not the same level of the other posts here. SNL recaps are done much better elsewhere.

For example, I am really not that into comics (or comix) anymore, so those pieces don’t appeal to me the way they used to. But the stuff BoingBoing posts on comics really draws me in because it’s always from a unique angle & perspective that set’s it apart from other blogs that do the same.

…and all over a bubblegum article, too. You must be so proud.
A simple, “We’re sorry. We’ll do better,” would have sufficed.

“The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.”

Full recaps of SNL episodes on Boing Boing??  Is there any demand for this?

Why don’t you just skip the posts in which you have no interest? Complaining that someone wrote about subject matter that you don’t care about is a bit churlish.

http://boingboing.net/2012/06/21/game-of-thrones-valar-morghul.html

“How do you think BB attained its prominent place in the ‘sphere–with whose participation, whose linking, whose reading, whose responsiveness, etc. etc.?  If it is indeed yours, why accept comment at all?”

For almost all of its history, Boing Boing hasn’t had comments at all. 

Oh, and you were trying so hard, too!

3,2,1…

Things like the deletion of even mildly critical comments wouldn’t be so irksome in another publication, perhaps, but in BB, which seems to portray itself as a home to openness, reason, skepticism, and inquiry, it’s quite outrageous.

But, “it is ours,” goes the rule. The implication is, “we are answerable to, responsible to, no one.” Only the appearance of a community; are we really just audience?

This is really just an invitation to be reminded whose blog it is: ours. It’s never impressed anyone here, this idea that we’re obligated to publish comments — or that failing to do so has anything to do with free speech.

If you don’t know how to exercise your free speech, I will personally set you up with a tumblr account where you can complain your heart out! Don’t forget to link in.

I’m actually a bit puzzled by the fact that it’s SNL Jamie has picked for this, as it’s one of the less-mentioned shows of those that get much notice on this site.