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Freight Train Battles Tornado, Loses |
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Wait a second.... None of that happened to me.
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@TowerOfPower: Hey, we could always use an extra hand in our chatroom.
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Do you guys want to go for 1000 again and not embed pictures, or should we have a lower cutoff this time?
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:)
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Whoa, 9** replies?!?
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Oh, and you commenters more awesome than me, how do you favourite posts?
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Looks like somebody had a broken CAPS Lock key, or never read LifeHacker's Guide to the Galaxy/Internet.
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I prefer this Youbook and Facetube Jeremy Clarkson advertised on last week's show.
Oh, and f*** the Great Firewall of China, can't even access Facebook right now.
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This has got me looking back on my Autoblog days with pity. Those commenters could never pull off somthing this big, even though they have more stars than we do.
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And sexy. :)
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@Mr. Syrax:Happy holiday, enjoy the nice weather!
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How you guys doing this morning? I only got a couple hours of sleep last night again, so hopefully I'll be rippingly funny again today, and get passed over for COTD by Matt again.
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I remember when Autoblog had a +/- voting system for comments, and if enough people + clicked you, you would become "highly ranked" or "highest ranked" instead of "neutral". That was sort of cool, since you could get a general feel for people's thoughts on any given comment, but given the amount of interaction we have in the comments on Jalopnik, we don't really need it to get people to voice their opinions.
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You gonna try asking for one? :D
@skaycog - 1000 Club: to @Leeeeena - 1000 Club: Good night to you, America. It's not quite so early here.
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It seems to be sort of hit and miss whether they start playing or not. The two videos in this thread do for me, but other commenters have linked to videos in other posts and they seem to be acting normally and only playing when you click on them. I think I might just keep a Firefox tab open for this thread until Nibbles sorts the autoplaying stuff out.
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I'm just kidding, don't assault my messages!
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That or she didn't see it yet.
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pj, I'm actually totally straight. I'm very open-minded and have tried a lot of stuff, but have figured out by now what does it for me or not. That doesn't prevent me from appreciating something remarkable, though, and beautiful bodies, whether male or female, definitely fall into that category. Besides, I know you guys enjoy it ;)
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"Must.Resist.Sex.Jokes"
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Oh, and no autoplaying Youtube, since there's no playing Youtube at all in China. The Commies have bitten something.
It's midnight, and I've got "sitting-around-an-office-pretending-to-work" tomorrow. Good night all! I'll keep this going during your night!
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Alright, good night for real. Zzzzz
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:)
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How do we know the reply count now?
At least we have an edit button.
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http://kotaku.com/5310953/kotaku-comments-get-star-power-edit-option-tiering
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As they say in China, "one hand can't clap".
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You are queer! Y... er... er... ok...
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I came to understand, that pretty much everyone on Gawker's main site is a friggin star-commenter. The rest was thoroughly ignored, pretty much. Especially with their concerns.
Mr. Denton, while addressing most technical issues, ignore more of the philosophical ones, with the exception of the following statement: "That's more or less it. We let the comments get out of hand -- the audience is about five times the size it was when we first launched comments. We want to showcase the smarter comments -- but without creating a static caste of elite commenters. Hence the ease with which a smart comment can be promoted to the front of a post. "
Personally, I feel he failed pretty bad at not creating static caste of elite commenters, especially after he created a system for caste of elite commenters.
We didn't have any elites before, because we treated everyone equal.
Now we're hiding away those "nor worthy" and I can't for the life of me see that actually making this place better.
Screw this shit. I don't appreciate being treated as a second class visitor while some elitists with stars get all the attention. Most star commenters I have read don't say anything worthy of privledges. Most of the really good comments come from the now second class user. So if you want to bury those and have the elitist comments prominent, don't be surprised if the site traffic drops.
With that, I say kiss off. I'll take my traffic and comments to another gaming blog where everyone's comments are displayed equally be default, without any segregationist bullshit class system in place.
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Dammit, Ray!
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And he's right about many star commenters having nothing that important to say. Heck, what exactly did we talk about on the 1000 thread?
Maybe, just maybe, Gawker could treat all comments equally but let us stars demote comments? We know a troll when we see one.
However, going to another blog? Have you been to any of them Weblog sites lately? No auditioning and free registration and commenting makes for some chaos.
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Yeah, I once was on Autoblog all the time, which wasn't anywhere near as bad as Engadget. Gadgets bring out the worst in 8-year-olds.
No other commenters willing to join the glorious 1000 Club from around the area where time is GMT+8? Come on!
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It was like torture. It was hurting my head. Nothing was where it was supposed to be. I almost went to Autoblog, for Pete's sake.
But has this thread gone quiet or what?
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Gawker 2.0 killed the 1000 replies star!
Gawker 2.0 killed the 1000 replies star!
In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone to far
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Hello? Anybody here? Ha! I got the last word here too!
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