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Trolls Be Gone: Introducing Comment Free Fridays
Running a creative blog that attempts to feature a cross-section of local creative work in a mid-sized city like ours has its ups and downs. The ups are those days when the sun is shining and so, in turn, are the comments from readers – constructive, confidence-building comments that seek to better the work, not stomp the very life from it. We long for more of those collaborative days and we're fairly certain you do too.
To encourage more local agencies and individuals to share their work and benefit from the positive PR this venue can actually provide, we're introducing Comment Free Fridays starting this week. That means, you can submit local work and choose to have us turn off the comments on your Friday post – enjoying the bash-free bliss of simply sharing the cool stuff you've done with the large audience amassed here.
We know it's not the same as a bunch of comments brimming with positivity, but let's try it and see what happens. Please submit your work here and indicate it's for a Comment Free Friday post.
Thanks.
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this is cool. constructive criticism for all.
i have a feeling this is going to be good. great idea.
Just like you weak-kneed scumbags to hide from the truth!
How do I do the anonymous thing?
Oh crap.
Have you considered the audience is reflective of the blog itself?
By staying anonymous and no personal accountability to your trollish views (see: speedball) you foster no reason for people to act otherwise
I am actually more impressed by your readers who use their name and stay accountable. They make this blog way more powerful (and suck less) then you do.
This sounds like a nice idea. I imagine there are many like me who have wanted to submit work but were deterred by the all too frequent vile spewed from anonymous commenters. Having a thick skin is good, but no creative wants to be berated without any trace of constructive criticism. Hopefully a lot of people will submit so we can see more of what's happening around here.
Now I'm off to sing Kumbaya :)
I dunno. I kinda like the anonymous venom slung here. Some of the anonymous haters sound like arch-right wingers who viciously post on any news story about potential signs of economic recovery and scream that Obama is an Al-Qaeda sleeper agent who is plotting to turn all of our children gay.
Here and there, but not often, The Egotist has crossed a line where I think they should put their names on their postings. But overall their posts are issues-related, the sacred cows in this town that need their long-overdue slaughtering because they're holding our community back.
Cool idea though. I'm excited to see the work! Might even post myself.
Thanks for the support, Chris. Send us some work. We need to load up the queue for Friday.
Looking forward to this!
When I first found this website, I have to admit to being a bit appalled (put off?) by the word Egotist. However, I like this place.
Your irreverence is refreshing. Many posters seem genuine and not overly, ahem, egotistical. And I usually get at least one laugh a day somewhere along the way. Thank you for this forum, and thanks for keeping it real.
We're all great friends here... most of the time.
I think it's a fine idea; I just wish my submission a while ago actually got posted (comment free or not).
Sounds good, leave it up to the artist, though as a casual visitor I haven't seen the peanut gallery here behave as impish as many other areas of the interwebz.
Stay tuned.
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