So io9 can un-fuck their comments when they want to. See this (heavy spoilers for Looper)
Dawn: You're not fleeing. You're... moving at a brisk pace. Buffy: Quaintly referred to in some cultures as the Big Scaredy Run Away.
'Touched'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
le nubian - Oct 09, 2012 7:37:06 am PDT #22659 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Polter-Cow - Oct 09, 2012 8:26:05 am PDT #22660 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That's a really nice Q&A. Thanks for the link!
§ ita § - Oct 09, 2012 8:52:55 am PDT #22661 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That's a different interface from "normal", LeN. The Q&A has a different formatting and questions are hidden from us but visible to the person being asked, or some weird stuff. I don't participate in those clusterfucks, myself.
le nubian - Oct 09, 2012 8:55:35 am PDT #22662 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
right. that's my point that they could have a functional commenting interface when they want to.
Typo Boy - Oct 09, 2012 9:36:15 am PDT #22663 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Oh certainly. They admit to deliberately choosing to umgepotching their comments. I never understood exactly how they profit from screwing up their comment system, but they claim they do or will or something.
§ ita § - Oct 09, 2012 9:50:27 am PDT #22664 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, for that definition of "functional" they had one before they rolled Kinja out. It was a choice, not mandatory, for them to have what they do now. No one argued differently, did they?
Typo Boy - Oct 09, 2012 9:53:34 am PDT #22665 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
NOt as far as I know. I'm just trying to figure out what the profit or potential profit is in screwing it up. Didn't they claim their motive to be a business model?
§ ita § - Oct 09, 2012 11:10:43 am PDT #22666 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They don't want people to read other people's comments. Which they can put a big check mark in the "Achieved" column for. The motive beyond that I can't speak to, but they did go on record as saying "read fewer other people's stuff".
Juliebird - Oct 09, 2012 1:58:20 pm PDT #22667 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Oldish movie anecdote: Ever since seeing Evolution with David Duchonvy, my brother and I have adopted the "ka ka!" as a way to find each other in shopping malls and other places, and it also became a way to get the dog to come back in from the back forty (the joke started as us singing "You. Are. So beautiful. To ME!" which then led to shouts of "ka ka! Tukki tukki tukki!"). My dad's cockatiel sings ka ka tukki tukki.
At work today I went down looking for our facilities manager, and called out "ka ka!". I heard answered back "tukki tukki!".
Apparently, this is how he fetches his four year old son from school.
IO oldish movie remarks, I'm watching A Knight's Tale again, and I just love how the love letter is used to add depth to the other characters in the story, rather than just be a treacle interlude easily fast-forwarded through. Still such a wonderful movie.
le nubian - Oct 09, 2012 2:57:23 pm PDT #22668 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."