I meant that I'll likely not bother reading future comment threads. So don't worry about that.

Honestly I've never seen a mod get so angry. There seems to be a lot of sentiment here that people aren't happy with how it's being done.
(obviously it's your site, you can do as you wish)

On the other hand when a lot of people tell you something, maybe there is something worth learning from them. It's hard of course, since the natural response is to be defensive when someone criticizes you.

I was snarky/mean/defensive on a few comments. You deleted them. Fair enough. Sorry. Probably something I should learn from.

I am curious as to why my suggestion of checking out how another site handles moderation got disemvowelled. Was it just collateral damage? I really do think they've struck a nice balance. In particular they tend to use emails to get people to "cool it" rather than do it publicly. Also deleting the offending comment entirely helps to keep things isolated.

Oh and yeah you moderated a lot of stuff that is certainly on topic and not that bad. In particular a lot of posts that I would have considered satire. But hey quash dissent all you want, I'll never look at another comment thread here. There are plenty of other weblogs posting the same stuff you do.

Really heavy handed to mod this thread in any way. But hey last time people complained they just did away with comments altogether. (it wasn't nearly as "septic" as the mod would have you believe, I was there) Given the non response/attitude of the mods/editors maybe that was best.

Obviously I have no say, but I'd prefer no comments to this moderator.

Oh ok well a least Meetafilters discussions are fairly in depth. "Respectful" is a very relative term. As a large community it seems to work beeter than say fark without the heavy handedness of here.

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So are the little eyeballs a subtle way of telling us you're watching us?

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Howevermuch Miss Hayden think it is clever, it's simply annoying to make readers work so hard to read a comment.

To quote someone else: "Not everything in the world needs to be clever"

Could you just use the common methods the rest of the world does? (delete, filter, edit, etc.)

Sometimes there's a reason people use time tested methods.

Quite frankly a disemvowelled post just clutters things up. Please either delete the comment outright or leave a "deleted comment stub"

Yes it's a cute little name and idea, but functionally you're spilling cat litter on the floor as you empty the litterbox.

Could you fix my spelling while your at it?

Could you fix my spelling while you're at it?

The time she invented disemvowelling, it was so she could deal with a flaming leftist.

Did the mod really invent this?

Shroud of Turin proved real cloth
Al Capone's vault full of imaginary goodies

Do I have to fix everything?

I doubt Mark meant to intentionally mislead with his headline, but this seems to occur a lot in the news.

Plane hijacker D.B. Cooper's parachute might have been found

"nigger in the woodpile"

Oh I'm so using that one... What? What are you looking at?

I really like the idea of a novel about people using technology to fight back against "big brotherish" intrusion.

The rag tag group of kids outsmarting the adults is a rather annoying cliche though. But I guess kids outsmarting adults is almost a requirement for a book aimed at that target age.

"DON’T TRUST ANYONE OVER 25"

Aren't you over 25?

They just wanted you to think they are fake.

Why didn't he film the whole thing? I was disappointed.

Wow saving 6 cubic inches.

The dangers of so called "non-lethal" weapons. They're much more likely to be used when they don;t need to be.

Yeah I don't get the space saving part. Looks like crap from all but one vantage point.

I bought three of these (demented xmas gifts). Great comic.

"An article about an article about an article. I'm dizzy (although that might be from the drugs)."

or the spinning (which, as I understand it, will soon be illegal)

The slate article points out how the criminalization of drugs only leads to more violent sellers.

Along those same lines, making alcohol/marijuana not available to teens may drive them to find highs in other places. A son of a friend recently went to the ER after drinking a bunch of Robutussin DM in search of a high... maybe if he had milder drugs available, he wouldn't try risky highs.

Saw this a few days ago. For someone with as much ADD as me, I can't believe I read the whole thing. Very good article.

Time for Tor and Freenet, I guess.

People like this because it reinforces their stereotypes of beauty queens (also makes them feel superior to someone who has them beat in the looks department)

She was obviously very nervous and got flustered when it wasn't going well.