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We Regret These Comments

The Worst Writing Our Commenters Contributed to TheStranger.com in 2009

Paul Constant
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1
Not a mention. I must step up my game .
steakhaus on December 30, 2009 at 11:36 AM Report this
2
snore
buck futter on December 30, 2009 at 12:10 PM Report this
3
No mention of Loveschild? I'm impressed.
Griffin on December 30, 2009 at 12:20 PM Report this
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@3....i'm thinking the exclusion of 'she whose name must not be spoken' is in the category of if we all ignore her maybe she'll go away
reverend dr dj riz on December 30, 2009 at 1:22 PM Report this
5
there's always next year you idiot fuckers :(
on December 30, 2009 at 2:17 PM Report this
6
C'mon, I'm pretty sure I had a couple good rants in there this year. Maybe not enough four letter words.

Side note: there's speculation that internet news is training people to read just headlines and maybe one or two paragraphs. This is probably contributing to less-than-informed comments (like those directed at Dave Segal), not to mention a general dumness.
presently out on December 30, 2009 at 2:35 PM Report this
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@1- That's exactly what I was thinking. Maybe I should make my posts longer and include more swearing? Or perhaps launch a petty vendetta against one of The Stranger's staff?
dwight moody on December 30, 2009 at 3:18 PM Report this
8
What about the oh-so-charming vitriol directed at pregnant women after I won the David Sedaris tix? Those were pretty awesome.
cedarthvader on December 31, 2009 at 8:45 AM Report this
9
Some people never have a nice day!
Vince on December 31, 2009 at 9:29 AM Report this
10
FAKE!
Fenrox on December 31, 2009 at 10:53 AM Report this
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news year regrets don't worry ill still send you a copy of the book you're all in it you'll love it promise promise once and future king underground and white fluffy wonder thing.
LAWoFFICEpANTHER on December 31, 2009 at 10:55 AM Report this
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Whoo hoo! I'm steadfast! Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

I stand by my Seattle art comment. Times double.
Fnarf on December 31, 2009 at 11:01 AM Report this
13
I'll have to try harder next year. Maybe if I trolled the article writers instead of the other dumb commenters...
on December 31, 2009 at 11:16 AM Report this
14
This contest reminds me of slavery.
sidereal on December 31, 2009 at 2:08 PM Report this
15
Seriously @3.
Michael from Washington on January 1, 2010 at 3:54 PM Report this
16
Am I in there?
(Shouldn't I be mentioned for how much I worship Bethany as a kickass writer?)
Coggie on January 1, 2010 at 6:32 PM Report this
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Well, jumpin'gee whiz!! I'm not mentioned, either? Well dammit all, I guess I'd better step up my game, too!

Happy 2010....
on January 1, 2010 at 10:09 PM Report this
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Yay, this is great. Call out the assholes :) I'm not being sarcastic.
on January 2, 2010 at 12:24 AM Report this
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You are right RiZ. Ignore and hopefully it goes away...
Mayhem on January 2, 2010 at 3:52 AM Report this
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Yoo hoo hoo hoo.

There is more bad ass stuff in the comments to Times and PI stories.

Gay topics fish them out from under rocks, manure piles, and brackish part piss water in plastic buckets. (saving rain water types beware - your teen neighbor boys will piss in your buckets)

Really now, isn't posting a form of modern therapy? Smoke a joint - medicine- post some shit - therapy. It all flows.

I must say, the slanted/opinion filled writing of Stranger so called reporters - that does open the box nicely in some cases.

Dom Holden has indeed been sucking off Mc Ginn now for about six months.

Best to All in 2010 - might get bad if the terrorists make another stand ... they need to drive up the price of oil and other misc. stuff.
on January 2, 2010 at 10:57 AM Report this
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Wait a minute -- nothing about the guy who never passes up a chance to complain about about how terrible Seattle (and everyone in it)is? How about a little journalism please, or would that distract you from your overly preening, buttfucking, hipster self. Go sip a latte.
ctmcmull on January 2, 2010 at 2:58 PM Report this
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Damn, I was waiting for a shout out to the "all-Seattle-women-are-ugly-hags-and-asian-women-are-compliant-geishas" troll.
emma's bee on January 2, 2010 at 3:33 PM Report this
23
Paul, I'm wondering: do you (and the rest of The Stranger staff) regret allowing comments at all?
jade on January 2, 2010 at 6:03 PM Report this
24
I regret not being a frequent enough slog commenter to warrant year-end coverage in the regrets issue. In future months, I shall remember to compare the experience of reading Mr. Mudede's reflections on Marx to the joy of licking infected haemorrhoids.
eclexia on January 2, 2010 at 6:52 PM Report this
25
ha ah ha
duffomatic on January 3, 2010 at 4:15 PM Report this
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ha ah ha
duffomatic on January 3, 2010 at 4:15 PM Report this
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what about the guy beating off while driving? I think it is a sport that most men will deny they do as they secretly blow their load when they see some broads face or poofta's ass they would like to see it dripping from. HA
duffomatic on January 3, 2010 at 4:26 PM Report this
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I have to say that you are quite possibly the most pretentious, pompous, self-important lot I have ever come across. I shan't make the all-too-overarching presumption that my assumptions are automatically correct, however I should point out that in this case I believe myself to be in the right. Sirs (and mind you this is not for the women or Charles Mudede, for I cannot possibly be expected to stoop so low as to refer to women or blacks, goodness no), I believe the lot of you is a pack of ruffians and scoundrels, and that every man should roundly pan thee for being petty mongrel know-it-alls and wordy spewers of nonsense, making groundless claims about vast swaths of people with precious little personal experience with any of them. Good day to you, sirs!
a friend on January 3, 2010 at 6:24 PM Report this
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Come on. Not a word about the bloviators? Surely Will in Seattle merits a special mention for holding forth on nearly every thread without ever managing to say anything at all.
TVDinner on January 3, 2010 at 8:42 PM Report this
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Gosh. Maybe that was gratuitously mean.
TVDinner on January 3, 2010 at 8:42 PM Report this
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@23: I can't speak for anyone else, but I enjoy the commenters. Even the crazy ones.

@ Everyone else: We'll get more coverage of comments next year. (Although those pregnant-lady-haters @8 mentions were especially regrettable. I regret not including them.
Paul Constant on January 4, 2010 at 8:58 AM Report this
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This was a lot tamer than I was expecting.

I mean, honestly, are these poor dumb saps really worse than the apparently organized platoons of racists who show up from time to time when Charles posts something to Slog?

And, I mean, no Loveschild.

Man.
balderdash on January 4, 2010 at 10:34 AM Report this
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what about my rant on airplane food?

that had to of riled some mothers up?!?

bah..
growler on January 5, 2010 at 12:10 AM Report this
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It's ironic that the article about bad comments Godwin's but the quoted comments themselves do not.
on January 5, 2010 at 3:56 PM Report this
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"Even calling these comments trolling is an insult to the right-wing trolls who spend so much time crafting their inane arguments." I friggin love it. Indeed, I did laugh out loud.

Sidenote--the fact that 57% of the commentors to this story are miffed that they weren't mentioned? Snore.
portland scribe on January 6, 2010 at 2:10 AM Report this

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