You see it all the time; someone spends the time to write an article for people to read and enjoy. For the most part, that’s exactly what happens, but in these days of web 2.0, everyone has something to say.
Behind closed doors.
Most writers on blogs use their real names. They are not afraid to stand behind what they say, it’s out in front and one great thing about the Internet, its usually permanent when you do say something. Not so with comments however; their posts are anonymous. And they do so for a reason, they would never say the things they say if they were out front in the public or in front of a person.
Instead people hide behind their computer screens, and fire away pointless drivel committing fallacy after fallacy, just to stand out so they can read their own pointlessness.
Go to any blog, and you will find it; someone who cannot command basic grammar will attack an educated journalist with a defenseless “This is the worst garbage I’ve ever read”, and yet cannot even explain why it was so bad. I’ve seen Tampa Bay’s best journalists, Gary Shelton, Martin Fennelly, Ira Kaufman, belittled by people who could not write a proper paragraph much less a weekly column.
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Yesterday on JoeBucsFan.com, the report of Lee Roy Selmon’s heart attack brought out some sympathetic well wishers; at least at first. But in no time, the hate squad showed up, to bash commenter who wished ‘RIP’ when the report said Selmon was dead, and then attacking the man who runs the site because he could not update his site within SECONDS of finding out the report on his death was erroneous.
I’m sure these commenters would have been able to change the post quickly enough; they seem to live on the Internet, doing nothing but firing empty salvos of nothingness against each other, at all hours of the day. Some start at 6:00 in the morning, and go at it all day. Do these people even work? Go to school? Obviously not judging from the grammar.
On my YouTube page, I have a video from 1992 of Brett Favre’s first ever completion; to himself. The ball was batted back in his face. I haven’t been to the page in months, but I probably have another dozen or so comments from people who will call me every name in the book because that is not his first pass, which was as a Falcon the year before. Never mind the fact it says in the first line “This says first completion people, not pass”, some people are just so full of vile they cannot wait to leave that anonymous comment that makes no sense.
Kudos to the St. Pete Times who on their Tampa Bay.com website HIDES comments unless your foolish enough to click the link to show them. It’s a shame, because a lot of sites have good dialogue among its comments. What it comes down to is the administrators of some sites not willing to give away some of the hits they get from these low-lives, instead of better policing the site with stricter comment rules and regulations.
This site have very few comments, because for the first year the site was running I did not even allow them, for this very reason. Perhaps in the future comments will start to take off on Bucstop.com, but they will never get to the level of some blogs. If you can leave a thought provoking comment, by all means do so, but one of the oldest ideologies in the book says, if you don’t have anything nice to say about someone, don’t say anything at all.
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