Comments on: Yet Another in a Series of Posts in Which We Anguish Over Comments and Their Utility

By: bill

bill — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:16:43 +0000

b00bies.

By: Phil Harvey

Phil Harvey — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:05:54 +0000

The comments were left off. But did the author’s work represent the beginning of a conversation or the end of it?

By: Neal

Neal — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:52:36 +0000

When you guys delete a comment, maybe you should replace the comment text with “Comment deleted by administrator for violation of terms of use” or something like that. Leave the commenter’s name and time/date stamp in place. It’s more “honest” than just removing the comment as if it had never existed and is less confusing to regular readers who might have seen (and perhaps responded to) the offending comment.

By: Bethany

Bethany — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:28:21 +0000

JJ: I was being sarcastic. I happen to know who commented.

By: J.J.

J.J. — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:27:20 +0000

The problem with deleted comments is you no longer know what was really said. Something that was true no longer is.

Someone on another thread wanted to suggest they might have been vile comments. Maybe they were, or maybe the commenter just disagreed. Deleting comments tends to make the naive readers believe the comments were vile, because why else would they be deleted? It also makes the cynical readers believe the comments must have made too strong a point that struck too much of a nerve with an insecure author and so had to be cut, because why else would they be deleted? Readers in the middle may be left wondering both. Either way it makes what the author has to say look like it needs extra protection that other posts by other authors don’t require.

By: IttyBittyWussy

IttyBittyWussy — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:20:21 +0000

Comments drive traffic, which in turn drives ad rates. That’s good for the bottom line and the investors, which is exactly the way our gold-old-American free market economy is supposed to work.

So if you turn off the comments, you are a rotten communist.

By: LakeWWWooder

LakeWWWooder — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:14:16 +0000

“DISD is giving us what we need. I’ve been very impressed with them” – words of one of my fellow alums who returned to teach at the shrine. This was a couple of weeks ago and I agree with Amy S. that despite the accounting debacle, the money has gone to good use.

When Merrill Lynch is crumbling, the $64 million boo-boo at DISD doesn’t look so bad. That doesn’t mean we should accept such sloppiness. But my faith is still with Dr. Hinojosa, even if he has the purple past of being a Sunset grad.

By: SB

SB — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:35:02 +0000

I bet he’s out sculpting his guns.

By: Josh Pearson

Josh Pearson — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:28:51 +0000

@ SB and Jay
Knowing you both as I do, it makes me chuckle to see your comments back and forth (since neither of you knows the other). I just chuckled out loud and it made my newly enlarged belly bounce of my belt buckle. Felt weird. Where’s Eric when you need him?

By: wes mantooth

wes mantooth — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:54:37 +0000

Despite the occasional flame war (or, perhaps in part, because of them), I find FrontBurner to be about 10x more interesting than when it was a closed playing field. IJS.