Seattlest: A Note to Our Readers

3mpire

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:17:13 -0800

eef.

MvB

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:32:01 -0800

In brief: Seattle Weekly finds out Stranger's ECB has personal business in court, posts info on it. Troll brigade shows up at Slog demanding "transparency," hijacking all comment threads for the past few days. Today ECB admits--A Note to Our Readers--she was in court, Stranger staff files million Notes to Readers of their own in solidarity. Net: trolls still trolls, readers screwed.

TroyJMorris

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:09:27 -0800

MvB, I think the only time a person should use "retarded" is when not dealing with a person(ification). As in, flame retardant. In addition, you may find this series of PSA for the Special Olympics interesting: http://www.scaryideas.com/content/10224/ http://www.scaryideas.com/content/10223/ http://www.scaryideas.com/content/10222/ The last is my favorite to really illustrate the strength of that word when used against/towards a person.

3mpire

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:05:36 -0800

i stopped reading it over a year ago, and refuse to visit. so for those of us who don't want to visit the site, what's the fuss about?

sciencevsromance

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:58:55 -0800

I really thought that it couldn't get stupider than the series of pathetic commenters showing off their knowledge of a misdemeanor court hearing, but then they went and proved me wrong. I switched to keeping only their "city" feed (1-2 posts per day) in my regularly-checked RSS a couple months ago.

DanaeK

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:53:03 -0800

I kicked them out of my RSS feed long ago and haven't looked back since.

MvB

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:45:02 -0800

1) I can't stand the use of the world "retarded"--my brother's autistic and growing up I heard all the variations on it that I care to. 2) The plus side of the Slog losing out to the winged monkey brigade is that I finally kicked them off my RSS feed. The signal-to-noise ratio has been growing the wrong direction for some time, but I stuck around out of habit. I'll miss Mudede the most, of course.

rjh

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:39:05 -0800

Seattlest seems overly obsessed with all things Slog/Stranger.

Charles Redell

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:34:14 -0800

this is news? Aren't they always retarded over there? I thought that was their shtick.

TroyJMorris

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:48:03 -0800

Did Danny boy seriously link to a week old video? Lame! It has nothing to do with Seattle... Seriously, wtf are they highlighting with the bolds. The puzzler in me wants to see if it spells out some secret message. All I got before I gave up was "Now and Laters silver balls" On the plus side, they can now post a note to readers explaining how they stole my five minutes. I have hundreds more quips.

Katelyn

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:45:46 -0800

I was just about to post something along these lines. Wow. Let's do this at Seattlest for April Fools Day!

TroyJMorris

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:44:22 -0800

A Note to Audrey: I didn't heed your advice. My brain matter has been significantly retarded.