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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
jeffyablonNov 23rd 2009 12:19PM
Sebastian: blasting your commenters for what they say may be funny on your personal page, but doing it here just makes your employer look bad. "He should get out more"? REALLY?
The anti-trust thing notwithstanding, if MS can pull this off it would be a real coup for them, and potentially a way to finally get somewhere in their war with Google.
And this story, which has been bouncing around for almost a day now, is not a story yet. Murdoch IS going to succeed more than we might think/like with this initiative ( http://answerguy.com/2009/11/18/rupert-murdoch-kindle-business-change-save-newspapers/ ), but the Microsoft angle is . . . not yet important.
Not YET.
(Unverified)Nov 23rd 2009 12:24PM
Hm, so he can be rude, but I can't? Hopefully he'll just rephrase his corrections in the future. Do you really think there's a special place in Heaven for grammar trolls...?
This was written yesterday, back when it was more pertinent -- but published this morning.
Of course it's a story! It's interesting to people. It's new(s). Are you the Big Story Decider in the sky now or something?
(Unverified)Nov 23rd 2009 12:47PM
Yes. And he's also the lead web patrol officer for the Society for the Prevention of Snarky Commenter Replies. The SPSCR doesn't take kindly to bloggers who choose to take comic jabs at the commenters who take anonymous jabs at them and their editing mistakes. They've recently teamed with Readers Who Constantly Re-evaluate Your Editorial Mission for Fun and Luls -- so it appears he's doing dual duty. Poor over-worked guy.
(Unverified)Nov 23rd 2009 12:57PM
But SOMEONE's gotta do it! Poor guy.
Standup PhilosopherNov 23rd 2009 2:07PM
Sebastian,
"Is grammar really get you that angry? You should get out more."
"[Y]ou must see errors in the Grammatical Matrix everywhere you look!"
"Hm, so he can be rude, but I can't?"
" Do you really think there's a special place in Heaven for grammar trolls...?"
"Are you the Big Story Decider in the sky now or something?"
And that's just on one comment page. You can be rude too, of course, but it doesn't mean that you have to. The "yeah, but he started it!" defence doesn't really work past 5th grade or so. There is a thing called professionalism, and your pettiness, name-calling and willingness to feed the so-called trolls has no place in it. That is, of course, unless you actually want the quality of the comments here to slowly devolve into that of Youtube, in which case -- GO TEAM! . (I can't wait to see what "title" I'll get in a sad attempt to deflect the issue).
(Unverified)Nov 23rd 2009 2:26PM
Like you DESERVE a title.
(Just kidding. Point taken!)