boycott jalopnik

[herm0016]

a few days ago jalopnik posted a graphic about the oil spill that is misleading, i attempted to post a comment to that effect.

the graphic states that ll the dots are oil rigs and it is simply not true, the dots are oil wells. there are only 71 oil rigs in the gulf currently according to the industry standard rig count from Baker Hughes.

the comment was never posted, this was on the 15th. i tried again to post a comment and it also never showed up, i have sent 2 e-mails as of this morning and have not gotten any reply, i realize they probably get a lot of e-mail though.

I hope that their censoring of the truth will prevent you from helping giving them page views.

thanks.

 

[JS80]

wut?

 

[Bignate603]

What would they get out of censoring that? I bet if you had emailed the author with a well thought out explanation and pointed him to something that showed the facts he they would have edited the article. I've seen them do corrections before.

My bet is either something went wrong with the software on their site, something in your browser's security settings is incorrect, you missed it when it posted, or something is incorrect with your account settings on their website.

 

[PottedMeat]

I hope that their censoring of the truth will prevent you from helping giving them page views.

this image?

i doubt they're censoring anything, maybe it's your account?

 

[angry hampster]

Sweet dude Imma go read Jalop now.

 

[coxmaster]

If you've never posted before, it takes a while before comments get "enabled". It took a few days before my comments showed up

 

[herm0016]

we will see, i have emailed the author, the editor and tried posting twice.

 

[foghorn67]

I'd wait to get a response from the editors. Jalopink had/has a poop ton of spammers and trollers. And everyone reacts and takes actions differently. Engadget had to through several revisions of their anit-spammer software, followed by disabling comments altogether for a few days.

 

[ayabe]

Here's how their commenting system works, if you don't have a star then someone else who has a star or who is a mod has to "promote" your comment for it to be visible to people without jumping through a bunch of hoops.

Otherwise you have to expand out all replies and click show earlier discussions, etc, then you will see your comment most likely buried somewhere it will never be read.

Just how it works there, you have to get in with the douches who run the place, if you say something they don't like you'll probably be ignored and forever doomed to the basement.

I don't really post there for that reason, plenty of other sites are going to this model and it becomes an echo chamber, good for reducing spam I guess.

Edit - Basically you need to praise jalopnik constantly and fawn over everything they post, even completely stupid self promotion pieces like that guy who paid like $65+ K for that piece of shit Mexican Focus RS.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

It's a page about cars, not about science or the environment. If you want accurate information about stuff like that you obviously need to go elsewhere, otherwise it's like going to Anandtech's front page for cooking tips. Sure, one might come up occasionally, but there really are better sources.

 

[Fenixgoon]

autoblog > jalopnik

 

[yh125d]

Who gives a damn?

 

[AMCRambler]

I'm not sure anybody would cite Jalopnik as a credible source, so the fact that you know their information is wrong doesn't surprise me. Nor the fact that they make no effort to do anything about it.

 

[Hyperlite]

autoblog > jalopnik

this ^^

 

[Zolf]

Jalopnik's content and their annoying Gawker-ish troll posts have really started to suck, and their commentary system has always sucked.

 

[angry hampster]

autoblog > jalopnik

Gonna say yes and no on this. Autoblog has much more journalistic integrity and frankly I trust them more. However, I love the often satirical style on strange topics that come up on Jalop.

 

[EightySix Four]

Jalopnik feels like a blog run by a bunch of old school car guys, while autoblog feels like an auto news blog. Two different goals, both sites pop up on my RSS feed

 

[TehMac]

Jalopnik feels like a blog run by a bunch of old school car guys

Does it? Most of the articles I see are about stupid shit I couldn't really care about.

I prefer Car Craft Magazine's website when it comes to reading about doing cool shit.

 

[EightySix Four]

Does it? Most of the articles I see are about stupid shit I couldn't really care about.

I prefer Car Craft Magazine's website when it comes to reading about doing cool shit.

Really? I felt like Jalopnik fit your view on cars perfectly.

 

[Bignate603]

Does it? Most of the articles I see are about stupid shit I couldn't really care about.

I prefer Car Craft Magazine's website when it comes to reading about doing cool shit.

I like Jalopnik because the people that write for it obviously love cars. They don't only love new cars, fast cars, or expensive cars. They love the quirky cars, the homebuilt monstrosities, and the junkers that people that love to beat on.

 

[sandorski]

this image?

i doubt they're censoring anything, maybe it's your account?

The minimap looks like a Spider. Coincidence? I doubt it.

 

[TehMac]

I like Jalopnik because the people that write for it obviously love cars. They don't only love new cars, fast cars, or expensive cars. They love the quirky cars, the homebuilt monstrosities, and the junkers that people that love to beat on.

I don't know how true that is, I just checked out their blog again, and it just seems to be the same run of the mill stuff you always see.

 

[coxmaster]

The minimap looks like a Spider. Coincidence? I doubt it.

Really? I thought it looked like a dinosaur..

 

[Balt]

It took months after my initial comment to get approved on another Gawker site. I wouldn't take it so personally.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

The minimap looks like a Spider. Coincidence? I doubt it.

the main diagram looks like a velociraptor