A blog comment containing nonsense text may be encrypted message traffic. (news spam unmoderated posts are also popular)
There was quite a lot of such traffic September 9-10 2001.
Block their messages wherever possible.
Comments left by users are responsible for eroding much of my faith in humanityâŚmostly at sites like Digg, and Slashdot. How anyone can find value in them, I do not know.
Make the barrier to commenting high, and you weed out some of the noise as a result.
That post from âhelloâ shows why you shouldnât code (or post on Teh Intarweb) when youâre on LSD: it makes sense while doing it, but everybody else (including Your Real Self, next day) will bee all wtf about it.
You know, it kinda makes sense that the collective community as a whole, if focused in the one place can actually act like some sort of superprogrammer because of the collective knowledge. Iâm sure there is a real world paralell, I just canât thinbk of one.
I agree that a lot of the comments can be great, but you must get tired of posts that donât really add anything, for example saying âNice post Jeffâ. This post is self-referential.
This is so true, I have a blog that gets 5000 unique visitors or more at times but hardly anyone leaves comments and it just looks and feels empty. Comments are really an important part of the blog ecosystem.
I refuse to say âblogosphere.â
Please stop blogging about blogging!! http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000297.html
Agree w/ other comments re the blogging on blogging, navel-gazing, self reference, etc.
As penalty, I think you should write a solid post on recursion.
(P.S. I read 'em all, Jeff; itâs all good.)
Recursion error: Stack Overflow.
Hrm, interesting, sneaky, encoded way to advertise your other website, I see.
Any chance youâll start modding comments up and down so we donât have to read all 20 pages of them to find the gems?
My favorite comment that someone left on one of my sites went something like âYaaaa, I eat potatoes!â.
Gonzo programming?
Fear and Loathing in Visual Studio.
blogging about blog comments while I comment on your blog.
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I enjoy reading your weblog, Jeff, but when you start blockquoting yourself you may want to consider whether the new post is necessary. Just sayinâ.
Definitely sounds like some sort of mad lib generator.
This comment is about a blog post on the subject of blog comments. Hey, Iâm a self-aware comment! w00t!
If you find comments so important, why arenât they available through the RSS feeds?
That comment looked like an email an old developer of mine would send. He was Korean but grew up in Israel and spoke english, mandarin and hebrew. The best way we could generate emails like his was to take some english and auto translate it to mandarin, auto translate that to hebrew and then translate that back to english. I always wondered if the same kind of process was going on in his head.
The eccentric definition of âprogrammingâ you mentioned reminds me of a phone call I once received. Many years ago, I was working for a company so small that every employee had to take turns answering the phone. We were a slightly notorious research group, and sometimes we would get calls from private individuals who had odd requests. However, on one occasion I took a call from a woman who at first sounded normal, but then launched into a rapidfire stream of nonsensical words that nevertheless retained some grammatical sense. Later, I asked a psychologist acquaintance about this, and he suggested that his might be âword salad,â a possible symptom of schizophrenia (classic âinsanity,â not the misdefinition of multiple personality disorder). I wonder if thatâs what was going on with the âorange sponge donkeyâ person.
I donât find bizzare comments amusing - especially long-winded ones. Anyone can throw a bunch of words together. They are are a waste of yours and our time.