Fair enough, if it's a free post. I'm not sure how you'd tell once you're subscribed.
Then again, every comment board/forum I've ever ever seen has either been drowned in white nationalists or bad-faith libs unless they either charge for post privileges or moderate ruthlessly. Usually requires both. Dunno how Kinja managed to dodge that bullet.
Anyway, it's your place, engage with this person however you think is right, I'm just so tired of these arguments where the Libs create a mess and then scream at the left when they don't come running to clean it up. It's been 20 years and I've yet to see a single person come around. They still hate Nader, even though they now love W.
At least they usually got clowned on and ratioed to hell by the rest of the people.
Substack isn't there yet, we need like 100 leftist commentors, funnier and meaner and smarter than I am, for every 'sara' to make these people not dominate.
Seriously, half the responses to articles here are centrists demanding an explanation of "Why Did You Even Write That?", or these Swann's Way length 'well I'm a GOOD liberal and I really Believe Women and think Black Lives Matter..." and then close it out with "And thats why I'm voting Biden and you should to"
A sizeable number of the comments on any of these articles are by people who hold literally nothing in common with the writers, aren't supporting their work, and are only here hatereading and posting because a grandkid who won't speak to them linked the article in a facebook thread they're stalking.
I am sharing every article I can to try and lure more people here for that reason.
I am a fan of Defector making commenting a certain paid tier. Hopefully it will result in Golden Era Deadspin comments and not "Look at these 2007 comments" from Barstool morons during Deadspin's last few months.
our community is large and varied, and i think it's fair that everyone gets a chance to chime in on free posts
Fair enough, if it's a free post. I'm not sure how you'd tell once you're subscribed.
Then again, every comment board/forum I've ever ever seen has either been drowned in white nationalists or bad-faith libs unless they either charge for post privileges or moderate ruthlessly. Usually requires both. Dunno how Kinja managed to dodge that bullet.
Anyway, it's your place, engage with this person however you think is right, I'm just so tired of these arguments where the Libs create a mess and then scream at the left when they don't come running to clean it up. It's been 20 years and I've yet to see a single person come around. They still hate Nader, even though they now love W.
"Dunno how Kinja managed to dodge that bullet." idk, a lot of Splinter's commenters were pretty right of the content.
At least they usually got clowned on and ratioed to hell by the rest of the people.
Substack isn't there yet, we need like 100 leftist commentors, funnier and meaner and smarter than I am, for every 'sara' to make these people not dominate.
Seriously, half the responses to articles here are centrists demanding an explanation of "Why Did You Even Write That?", or these Swann's Way length 'well I'm a GOOD liberal and I really Believe Women and think Black Lives Matter..." and then close it out with "And thats why I'm voting Biden and you should to"
A sizeable number of the comments on any of these articles are by people who hold literally nothing in common with the writers, aren't supporting their work, and are only here hatereading and posting because a grandkid who won't speak to them linked the article in a facebook thread they're stalking.
I am sharing every article I can to try and lure more people here for that reason.
I am a fan of Defector making commenting a certain paid tier. Hopefully it will result in Golden Era Deadspin comments and not "Look at these 2007 comments" from Barstool morons during Deadspin's last few months.