What a refreshing and original opinion!
DANIEL’S COMMENT IS ABUSIVE AND HAS BEEN DELETED.
Well, this should at least be fun.
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Trey Garrison is an *****, but right, I mean correct, about this.
GOOFUS:
Trey is an idiot, Amanda is a bitch, and let’s make this thread about what a piece of **** George W. Bush truly was and is.
GALLANT:
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[GOOFUS: Gallant, you're an assclown!
"Shave and a Haircut"; CURTAIN.]
Daniel, my stories are “weak” and you are a lap-dog, got it? Proceed…
Thanks, Amanda, although I don’t exactly comprehend what your referent is. But at least I’m awake.
Amanda, I always loved this story. Like following some hilarious literary Moebius strip or your favorite treadmill routine, you just start it up, get into the groove, zone out, and release yourself into its delicious endlessness.
Trey, thanks…
Daniel, it was a deleted comment. See? See?
Trey Garrison @ January 21st, 2009 at 11:18 am
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Fixed it for you.
It’s true that I’m Amanda’s lapdog. I mindlessly parrot her every last opinion and shower her with obsequious praise. When she says jump, I attempt to do so before the syllable has even escaped her mouth.
It is in subjugating my own opinions (what there is of them) to please others that I find my greatest moments of joy and contentment.
as someone whose sometimes rude, crude and yankee-tinged comments have been deleted from this blog (and others), i’ve never had a problem with it and agree with trey on all counts and appreciate zac, tim and the rest of D for having the gumption to actually delete stuff
I don’t have a problem with a negative post being deleted. Never have. But when I simply day I wish the people excited about our current president (the ones who havr never cared about a preaident before), would have cared earlier, I don’t see how that is negative. When a comment saying I look down my nose at others by saying that remains, and I ask if that comment us not looking down at me……..and that is deleted……it doesn’t make sense.
It seems as though somebody feels one commentor/reader can say an exact phrase, but another cannot. Only commentors who agree with the overall opinion of the editors should be allowed to be negative.
Robb
You hit the nail on the head with that last comment.
Only commentors who agree with the overall opinion of the editors should be allowed to be negative.
A problem easily solved: Full names only, each name to be verified.
Bill –
I could have given my full name and social security number, that wasn’t the point. Someone said I look down my nose at people, her comment was allowed. I said she looked down her nose at me, my comment was not allowed. Names had nothing to do with it.
My point is, when folks have to put their name behind what they write, they tend to write more responsibility. The reason there’s so much assholery on blogs is that bloggers are allowed to slip by with under fake names. When I become military dictator, that comes to an end.
“General Marvel” sounds like Billy Batson finally got promoted.
Seriously though, I disagree Bill. Anonymity has an important place in public discourse. Off the top of my head, I’m thinking of the authors of the Anti-Federalist and Federalist Papers.
Not that anything so grandiose will likely happen on a city blog, but the point is still valid.
@ Bill Marvel,
Bill, you only have a point if I don’t assume your name is, as Trey suggests, just a cartoonish alias, that is if I’m responding with a quaking “Y-e-s-s” to your thundering “Don’t you know who I am?!”. If I don’t, it becomes moot whether you sign your posts “Bill Marvel” or “Marvelous Bill”, and it only really matters if I even actually give a fig who Bill Marvel or Marvelous Bill is in real life.
Bethany argues strongly on Trey’s blog for a Terms of Service, a TOS, although she has yet to find a reason to yield absolute arbitrary control on her own blog to such an objective measure. And who can blame her?
No, Bill, the only solution to the peculiar needs of FrontBurner is, as you suggest, to register the commenters with full, IRL identifying credentials such as driver’s license or Social Security number, no matter with what name they may wish to face the public, so that they can then become properly vetted members of the FB editorial family. A properly gated Dallas community, as it were.
Chris, Bill Marvel is his name. He’s a well-known and respect writer. I know him and enjoy his writing and his blogging.
I was joking about his military coup quip.
A verifiable email address should be sufficient. I don’t remember exactly, but I don’t think I got a confirmation email when I registered. I could have put anything.
Sorry, I just don’t don’t give out my SS# at the drop of a hat.
And this is largely a tempest in a teapot. Rarely have I seen full-frontal personal attacks and name-calling on this blog (conceivably they have been deleted before I have a chance to).
Things get a little on the ugly side, sure, but a) commenting on blogs is the wrong arena for you if your sensibilities are that delicate; b)the bar for deleting comments on FB is pretty high (low?) — this one may well be deleted for the way I’m about to end this very sentence, for Christ’s sake.
Trey:
You’ve revealed my true identity!
But I gotta say, this ain’t exactly the Federalist Papers. And they wrote with the shadow of a noose around their necks. All we risk is being snarked to death.
And to Chris: I appreciate the thought. But I didn’t understand a word of your post.
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