Tech Buzz It's troll vs. troll in a fight to the death (of discourse). Spoiler: everybody loses.
Culture Buzz Buzzfeeders are the best commenters around, obviously, and here our some of the best things you guys said last month. For more awesome comments, check out the Hall Of Fame feed.
Culture Buzz Everybody knows that Buzzfeeders are the best commenters on the internet. So here are our favorite things Buzzfeeders said in the comments last month. For more, check out our ongoing Hall Of Fame.
Culture Buzz John Cleese once again proves how intelligent and funny he is. Glad to see he's still talking about the war.
Culture Buzz Here are our favorite things Buzzfeeders said in the comments last month. For more, check out our ongoing Hall Of Fame feed!
This train-wreck of a sentence appeared as a response in a 4chan thread about “animals that are bad-ass”. It's no “Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?”, but it's close. (via boards.4chan.org)
Politics Buzz Scrolling through a Michelle Obama thread on Fox Nation is like going to a Klan rally. All of these comments were taken from ONE article.
Harold Camping, the Christian broadcaster who predicted the Rapture was going to happen this past Saturday, speaks briefly to the press after nothing happened. He looks genuinely confused and defeated.
Tech Buzz In case you haven't noticed yet, we are trying out an exciting new feature that will allow you to comment on your favorite buzz using Facebook. You can still comment the regular way, but if you're logged in to Facebook, you can also in the new “Facebook Conversations” field underneath a post. You'll then have the option to move that conversation to your own Facebook page if you want. Try it out and tell us what you think!
It starts with a matter-energy transference machine and ends with the birth of Ash Ketchum.
http://www.richardcobbett.com/codex/review-comment-thread...
“Go back to FarmVille” is going to be my new retort for everything.
For every group of trolls leaving stupid comments on the internet there is at least one comment, comeback, or answer full of win. Here are some of the best of the best, but for the rest you can check out Comments Full of Win on tumblr.
Culture Buzz So it's Doppelganger Week on Facebook. It also looks like “Go to urbandictionary.com and find your name and post it” week. But we can do better. I hereby name this Sex Offender Criminal Name Week! Go to CriminalCheck.com, type your FIRST name where it says “Last Name(required),” and copy and paste the crime or charge of the FIRST entry for your name in the comments!
http://curbed.com/archives/2009/08/13/in_which_we_explore...
This article was meant to be a scathing indictment for a common problem in New York City, people getting handjobs in massage parlors. But judging by the comments, she missed her mark. Some examples: “i wish she had mentioned the pricing in her post.” and “If I were married to this broad, I'd know the address of every hand-jobbin' parlor in the City.”
Congrats to BuzzFeed user Julie S who completed a rare “comment hat trick” yesterday in protest to the baby fashion post (see screen shot below). A comment hat trick requires posting three unique comments in a row without any other comments or reactions between them. It is very hard. In fact, I bet you can't do it! Give it a try on this post! I will write a heartfelt poem in honor of the winner! [UPDATE: It has to be a real comment!!! You can't just write random stuff to try and win the poem.]
This SF pizza place made staff t-shirts out of bitchy reviews on its Yelp profile. Ha! If we did this at BuzzFeed, we'd all end up wearing “WTF?” and boob shirts.
Tech Buzz It's always fun to harass your friends offline, just like you do online, so make sure you can always leave a comment — even when you're away from the computer.
This Venn diagram explains one of the great mysteries of the Internet. Extra points for whoever can leave the most annoying comment.
A clear sample of the decline of public discourse. Of course, choosing comic book fans as the sample might be kind of a mistake.