Do you contribute to newspaper article commentaries?

C.K Dexter Haven

Sometimes, commentary on online articles are very similar to AH 1st posts:


This:
Sorry, the interior is a bit too plane for me.
For this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2575696/Two-air-two-Couple-spend-40-000-transforming-floor-terraced-home-Boeing-737-aeroplane-got-big-moving-industrial-unit.html


And this:

Don't worry, Eamon is just getting their visas sorted out first.

For this newspaper article:
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/putin-mocks-the-west-and-threatens-to-turn-off-gas-supplies-30073345.html#comments

Are AH posters also newspaper commentary posters?

RayM

Never. And those who do are the worst people in the world.

C.K Dexter Haven

RayM wrote: »

Never. And those who do are the worst people in the world.

So, it's Daily Mail for you, yea?:P

Sh1tbag OToole

Yea I'm a regular troll on The Journal..

Lenin Skynard

I used to enjoy the comments on The Journal but it seems to have gone a bit wayward now. It's a forum all of its own, the commentators all know of each other and bring up previous arguments from different articles to slag each other off and fight a battle of green thumbs vs red thumbs.

Usual stuff "Sure you're only the PC Brigade/Facist/West-Brit/Republican/Lefty/FFer/FGer...etc". I've never contributed on it because you've to use a twitter account. It seems a lot of them make mock-accounts for the sake of posting.

Independent seems a bit thin on comment and the Daily Mail comments usually mirror the standard of journalism which isn't to my taste.

Maybe these comment sections would be better off without thanksing, upvoting, liking and all this stuff. It could become less adversarial and less of a soap opera to read.

Sir Arthur Daley

Only if i could attribute something relevant.

dxhound2005

WikiHow wrote: »

Only if i could attribute something relevant.

The great thing is that you don't have to read the original article. You just pick a fight with anyone who appears to be from a different tribe and trade insults with them.

Jimoslimos

If I want to read something insightful on a DM article I'll scroll to comments and sort by "Worst Rated".

Sh1tbag OToole

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

I used to enjoy the comments on The Journal but it seems to have gone a bit wayward now. It's a forum all of its own, the commentators all know of each other and bring up previous arguments from different articles to slag each other off and fight a battle of green thumbs vs red thumbs.

Usual stuff "Sure you're only the PC Brigade/Facist/West-Brit/Republican/Lefty/FFer/FGer...etc". I've never contributed on it because you've to use a twitter account. It seems a lot of them make mock-accounts for the sake of posting.

Independent seems a bit thin on comment and the Daily Mail comments usually mirror the standard of journalism which isn't to my taste.

Maybe these comment sections would be better off without thanksing, upvoting, liking and all this stuff. It could become less adversarial and less of a soap opera to read.

Even if I post the most populist comment imaginable it will garner 6-12 red thumbs because of the 'enemies' i have built up, where as a fresh account might only get 2 or 3

Ruu

I occasionally comment troll on the "entertainment" section on rte.ie.

uch

You hurt my eyes

Sunglasses Ron

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

". I've never contributed on it because you've to use a twitter account. .

I still struggle to get how anyone uses Twitter. The layout is f'ucking sight cancer. Horrible to read all over the place hashtags and @ signs.


I like giving the oul Daily Mail comments a read, as they have a few old reliables.

In the US section, EVERYTHING, and I mean, everything and anything, is Obama's fault.

Obama wants to intervene in Syria? He is an idiot who is intent on backing Al Qaeda.

Obama refuses to intervene in Crimea? He is a chicken who hasn't got the balls to fight the Russians.

Black people commit a crime? "Obama's America" "Obama's sons" (this despite the fact the crime rate was far greater in the 80's when their hero Reagan ruled the land).

Obama hands out a few Medals of Honour? "Obama hates the military. Obama is a foreign born Islamic fundamentalist communist who hates America". A veteran gets snubbed for a medal? "Obama hates the military. Obama is a foreign born Islamic fundamentalist communist who hates America".

The mass shootings always bring out the "banning guns makes as much sense as banning knives" brigade.

It is gas stuff :pac:

I wouldn't be into stories about the royal family at all but I can't help when the DM reports a story on Pippa Middleton, as the chattering classes of the readership spare no ammo in going after her as some sort of hanger on getting rich of her tenuous connections to royalty Some of it is fairly frothing at the mouth stuff like!

As far as I am aware, the press stalk her because she is a very attractive relative of the royals. Tis hardly her fault. But in saying all that, even if she is milking it, she is putting in work milking it. Putting in work is the last thing the actual royals need to do to get their free residences, staff and holidays.