Comments on: Metafilter Comments http://www.swankpad.org/blather/2007/04/13/metafilter-comments/ If it's Swank... Mon, 20 May 2013 00:42:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Les Jones http://www.swankpad.org/blather/2007/04/13/metafilter-comments/#comment-350 Les Jones Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:58:43 +0000 http://www.swankpad.org/blather/2007/04/13/metafilter-comments/#comment-350 Oddly enough, I was just reading that part of the site the other day and the “Crisco – It’s Digestible” ad was the one that stuck out in my mind.

Nuts! to the nuts in the peanut gallery. You got some good publicity.

]]> By: Mark http://www.swankpad.org/blather/2007/04/13/metafilter-comments/#comment-349 Mark Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:51:57 +0000 http://www.swankpad.org/blather/2007/04/13/metafilter-comments/#comment-349 It certainly appears that some of them feel “empowered” by the notion that, having paid their $5, they are justified in spewing negativity. This may, of course, having little or nothing to do with the subject matter of their dietribe, but rather the sudden realization that they could have gone to Slashdot (or any number of other communities) and done the same thing for free…

]]> By: MrBaliHai http://www.swankpad.org/blather/2007/04/13/metafilter-comments/#comment-348 MrBaliHai Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:09:25 +0000 http://www.swankpad.org/blather/2007/04/13/metafilter-comments/#comment-348 Now you know why I don’t waste my time posting anything at MetaFilter any longer. No matter how much effort I would put into crafting a post, some asshat would pop up in the comments and complain about some aspect of it. It’s like being at a convention of armchair quarterbacks.

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