ZGerman's Blog

There were, as usual, several reasons. But the most prominent one is the amount of completely useless comments which appear on engadget. The amount of Apple-related news aside, seemingly every other post turned into some kind of fanboy war in the comments. It just gets old, really, really fast. As a sidenote, I read the actual webpages, rather than via an RSS reader. Call me oldfashioned, but I like it that way. But here is what really sealed the deal for me regarding the comment system: Disemvoweling. When a comment gets flagged as "inappropriate" (read: useless), instead of getting voted down (not really effective imho) or deleted (not a fan of the censoring aftertaste) it simply gets all its vowels stripped out. The offending user is warned and his message is neutered enough to not matter anymore, but still "there". Genius!