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Remove comments from your web experience with shutup.css
I have a love/hate with blog comments... I love to hate them. (ba-dum tssss -- I'm here all week, folks. Don't forget to tip your waitress (Seb)) No, but seriously, there are times when the comment area of an otherwise useful blog post gets filled up with bluster and vitriol instead of helpful supportive comments. While I don't mind healthy debate, sometimes things get out of control, like they did recently at Engadget.
Depending on the sites you frequent, comments can be useful, benign, or downright negative. If you don't find that you get a lot of value out of comments, why not turn them off? I don't mean turn them off for your own site, though you could do that too, I mean turn them off web-wide.
That must have been the thought process Steven Frank went through when he put together shutup.css, a style sheet that will suppress comments from most sites. It works by hiding blocks with IDs like "comments", which you should be aware could affect some sites in ways you might not expect. But if you'd like to have a comment-less experience while browsing Engadget even now that they've turned comments back on, shutup.css might just be the ticket.
The file can be applied as a custom stylesheet in Safari, and the post links to solutions for both Firefox and Chrome.
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Subscribe to commentsNotRocketboyFeb 5th 2010 10:24AM
Oh no, don't mention what happened at Engadget. That was a ticking time bomb to begin with, and we all know what pushed it over the edge.
That being said, I never liked the no-see-um answer. It always seemed rather childish. It's up to me as a "human" to decide what to do with the information I've been given. If I don't care, I'll move on. If I do, I'll do something about it (comment in this case).
jemestomApr 7th 2010 11:50PM
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