Yahoo News Commenters are the Best

[88keys]

This got my Monday morning off to a good start.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

ugh stuff like this irritates me.

Yeah maybe it just ate a bird and was covered in feathers when it died and none of those feathers blew away.

 

[Markbnj]

I don't even get why most media outlets still have comments. Granted in some cases the humor resulting from reading the opinions of developmentally challenged individuals is in fact the only value the content has, but I can't see how they are anything other than a net loss and massive pain in the ass for the publisher. Let the trogs do their discussing on social media, which is already so valueless that they can't really do it any harm.

 

[dr150]

I regularly read the comments on Yahoo news stories.

You'll be hard pressed to find a bigger group of belligerent mouthbreathers on a news site this side of Fox.

 

[lxskllr]

Comments almost universally suck, and I typically keep the script that powers them blocked. I don't need to know what a bunch of idiots "think". The only comments I actively read are on Ars.

 

[MajinCry]

Didn't Ken M start out over at Yahoo?

 

[CZroe]

Comments almost universally suck, and I typically keep the script that powers them blocked. I don't need to know what a bunch of idiots "think". The only comments I actively read are on Ars.

What's that? Sorry. I configured my browser to block comments on these OPs.

 

[Thanatosis]

This is weird, I thought this was something only I did. Whenever I read a read a yahoo news article at the end I always say to myself "I wonder what the average yahoo news commenter thinks" and it is usually pretty disgusting but sometimes funny. They really aren't fond of black people or young people, and especially not mexicans.

 

[88keys]

I regularly read the comments on Yahoo news stories.

You'll be hard pressed to find a bigger group of belligerent mouthbreathers on a news site this side of Fox.

The comments are the only reason that I have the Yahoo News page liked in the first place. Some people might think they're just trolling buti see stuff like that almost everyday. It's an untapped comedy goldmine. People wonder how people like Ben Carson can say the dumbest things and become more popular with his base doing so. But I don't.

 

[AdamK47]

I remember the old Yahoo chat rooms. It was similar in amusement, but more instantaneous in gratification. The people that infected that corner of the Internet long ago now infect Facebook and Twitter in far greater numbers.

Sadly, the sheer number of these people that have access to the Internet have made these absurd comments more commonplace and less odious. I've become numb to it.

 

[vi edit]

I regularly read the comments on Yahoo news stories.

You'll be hard pressed to find a bigger group of belligerent mouthbreathers on a news site this side of Fox.

Youtube comments tend to make me weep for the future of civilization.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Youtube comments tend to make me weep for the future of civilization.

There are a few rare times they have given me real good info about the video. Like a 1% success rate.

 

[Jeff7]

I remember the old Yahoo chat rooms. It was similar in amusement, but more instantaneous in gratification. The people that infected that corner of the Internet long ago now infect Facebook and Twitter in far greater numbers.

Sadly, the sheer number of these people that have access to the Internet have made these absurd comments more commonplace and less odious. I've become numb to it.

The early Internet was open mostly to people who had the skills, or were at least geographically near to someone with the skills, necessary to connect to and navigate the wild west.

Now it's open to everyone.

I think what you've got now is a glimpse of what's really out there in society.

 

[Newell Steamer]

Why do you hate free thinking?

Why do you want to oppress people's opinions?

 

[88keys]

I don't take issue with free thinking. The problem is that people in general don't think at all.

 

[CZroe]

I think you are all poo-poo doo-doo heads.

That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.

 

[Jeff7]

I don't take issue with free thinking. The problem is that people in general don't think at all.

I hear it a bit too often that I overthink things.

- Here is a 284-page 10MB PDF about wind-induced vibration in stay cables on bridges.
284 pages on cables that vibrate due to wind. Not earthquakes, wind. And only cables on bridges.

- MIL-STD-810G: 90 pages alone concerning vibration testing.

- GPS satellites: "I know, we can use really accurate clocks in space to figure out where a thing is on Earth. Really accurate clocks. Say, did you know that time slows down when you move fast, but it speeds up if you get far away from a source of gravity? We should probably take that into consideration."

- Cellphones: Good god, the things that go into getting your conversation from one place to another in a sizable fraction of a second...



Luckily for the good of society, some people went ahead anyway and took the time to think way too much about a whole lot of these little things.