On the Comments Section
I’m all
for free speech (another thing you may have noticed), but the “comments”
section for any website – ANY website – is generally filled with lots of a)
LOLs and other thoroughly obnoxious acronyms (rotfl, brb, omg, omfg, ttyl,
pppsmb) or b) hate and resentment.
Quick experiment: I’m gonna go on ESPN.com right now, and I’m going to click on the top story, and I will come back with the three most recent comments on that particular story. Annnnnnd go:
THE ARTICLE: Romo ready to return, doesn’t expect problems from broken pinkie
Comment #1: "you need to take romos #### from your mouth. all you dallas fans say is “compare the numbers”, or “hes the greatest”. tell us again what is record in the playoffs is? how many playoff games is he singlehadidly responsible for losing?"
Comment #2: "Yeah lynch him because he sucked not becuz he was the nxt Tom Brady. Sorry im an idiot for not being able to read yur mind…d-bag."
Comment #3: "im going to bed to it was fun arguing and thats whats great about this game but one game at a time it starts sunday night!!! to all by cowboys fans stay up and to anyone that dislikes my team thank u and i will praise my team when they angry u even more for being a hater GOOD NIGHT EVERYONE!!!!!!!"[2]
I’ve reluctantly allowed comments for this site because it’s six days old and its shelf-life totally relies on hits and feedback. But ESPN.com (I’m pretty sure) has eclipsed that level of insecurity, and it still condones this dogshit.
Of course, the most likely scenario is that Chris McGrath remains the only person to comment on any article, thus rendering this post just as moot as any other.
[1] My favorite was from an unnamed Merrimack alum who bemoaned, “Ughhhh byebye paycheck.” Yeah? Obama’s out to get your money? Really? I don’t think you’re making $250,000 if you go right from the Merrimack graduation ceremony to Eliot Spitzer’s suite at the Ritz, let alone an entry-level job. Imagine Obama’s grandiose speech that announced something like that? “It was a creed, written into the founding documents, that declared a destiny for a nation: YES WE CAN take this dumb bitch’s 30 grand. YES WE CAN.”
[2] I suppose I can admire this particular person’s enthusiasm. His username was “iluvsportz86”. At least he’s making things subtle.
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