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Post by Post-Lupin on Jan 9, 2017 15:15:17 GMT -5
I wonder if they will even post the results of [end-of-year] reader voting. Or the results of the vote for best AV Undercover, for that matter. We're a week in to 2017 now, so the answer is "no" on both counts. I assume the means Undercover is cancelled forever: no 2016 winner, no call for a new song list, no new season. It's a shame to see yet another long-running feature disappear. That newswire contest where they gave away a chunk of the old round room certainly was an apt metaphor. |
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Post by ganews on Jan 9, 2017 18:16:29 GMT -5
We're a week in to 2017 now, so the answer is "no" on both counts. I assume the means Undercover is cancelled forever: no 2016 winner, no call for a new song list, no new season. It's a shame to see yet another long-running feature disappear. That newswire contest where they gave away a chunk of the old round room certainly was an apt metaphor. Well how about that, and just after I wrote that too. But did they ever post the poll results? Not that I've seen. Interesting that the article has far more comments combined than the entirety of the last season's articles. |
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Post by ganews on Jan 11, 2017 22:32:48 GMT -5
AVC promised reviews of Taboo from Emily Stephens in What's On Tonight, but they don't exist.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2017 22:39:47 GMT -5
AVC promised reviews of Taboo from Emily Stephens in What's On Tonight, but they don't exist. Does that show exist though? Like I still can't believe Tom Hardy is doing a cable show after the 2015 he had in film. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2017 19:45:32 GMT -5
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Post by Dellarigg on Jan 12, 2017 19:52:21 GMT -5
AVC promised reviews of Taboo from Emily Stephens in What's On Tonight, but they don't exist. Does that show exist though? Like I still can't believe Tom Hardy is doing a cable show after the 2015 he had in film. It's not a cable show, dear boy - this is the BBC we're talking about here. It started in the UK last weekend, to generally disobliging notices. He wrote it with his dad. His dad is named Chips Hardy. |
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Post by monodrone on Jan 13, 2017 3:49:11 GMT -5
Does that show exist though? Like I still can't believe Tom Hardy is doing a cable show after the 2015 he had in film. It's not a cable show, dear boy - this is the BBC we're talking about here. It started in the UK last weekend, to generally disobliging notices. He wrote it with his dad. His dad is named Chips Hardy. I got a CHiPs notification for this??!? |
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Post by Post-Lupin on Jan 13, 2017 7:55:07 GMT -5
AVC comment section... do better Most optimistic post of 2017? |
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Post by Post-Lupin on Jan 13, 2017 15:13:26 GMT -5
The use of the phrase 'the most glorious sound in the audible spectrum' here is unconscionable. |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jan 13, 2017 15:59:43 GMT -5
Not gonna lie, the Chuck Tingle piece feels pretty close to laughing at someone's mental illness to me.
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Post by ayatollahcm on Jan 13, 2017 16:17:23 GMT -5
Not gonna lie, the Chuck Tingle piece feels pretty close to laughing at someone's mental illness to me. I've heard some less-than-flattering things about the author of that piece, so color me already jaded. But, yeah, mental illness "lol's" seem to be making more rounds from a lot of the freelancers these days. |
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Jan 13, 2017 17:11:13 GMT -5
Not gonna lie, the Chuck Tingle piece feels pretty close to laughing at someone's mental illness to me. I assume Tingle is using a shtick/persona. I've never read his books but I've seen the titles and they all look 100% tongue-in-cheek to me. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jan 13, 2017 17:21:22 GMT -5
Not gonna lie, the Chuck Tingle piece feels pretty close to laughing at someone's mental illness to me. I assume Tingle is using a shtick/persona. I've never read his books but I've seen the titles and they all look 100% tongue-in-cheek to me. That's how it reads to me - like he's very much in on the joke, and has decided to commit to this ridiculous persona in the AMA. |
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Post by Pastafarian on Jan 13, 2017 18:43:39 GMT -5
The article on Trent Reznor's recent comments on the state of music. It's like they started with snark, forced it to fight pit bulls and roosters for six months while feeding it nothing but red meat and steroids, and then wrote an article.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2017 15:41:48 GMT -5
io9.gizmodo.com/nbcs-powerless-breaks-the-canon-with-a-made-up-wayne-co-1791211046I know this is for AVC, but io9 has been on a downward trend for the past two years IMO. And it is shit like this that is a part of it. Shitting over powerless which is a comedy(that hasn't even come out yet!) over a Bruce Wayne cousin that isnt canon. So the author whines. The cherry on top, the cousin was actually a comic character! Years ago an io9 writer would actually know that obscure character.
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Post by Dellarigg on Jan 14, 2017 16:30:26 GMT -5
I'm hoping an obituary for William Peter Blatty is coming down the tubes very soon.
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Post by Invisible Goat on Jan 14, 2017 16:46:10 GMT -5
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Post by Dellarigg on Jan 14, 2017 16:54:22 GMT -5
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Jan 14, 2017 22:03:12 GMT -5
The Marilyn Monroe Newswire just inspired me to block a whole buncha whiny dudes.
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Post by Dr Livingstone on Jan 15, 2017 3:17:18 GMT -5
Yes, what the hell was going on there? It wasn't the usual crowd at all.
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Post by ayatollahcm on Jan 15, 2017 3:54:33 GMT -5
Did anyone catch the one on the Monroe article joking about all the "usual" commenters "finally" leaving (meaning those on the liberal-slant, but weirdly making point to mention Dik) and the comment section could finally be full of what I can only assume would be conservatives, Breitbarters, alt-righters, or whoever else?
I tried to go back and find it from reading it hours ago...maybe it was deleted?
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Jan 15, 2017 10:50:25 GMT -5
Yes, what the hell was going on there? It wasn't the usual crowd at all. I have no idea, but I hate more than half the people there now, want a shower, and trust random men on the street even LESS now. It's great! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2017 11:55:47 GMT -5
*goes to the aforementioned Monroe post after not visiting the AVC in a few weeks* *takes one look at the comments*  |
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Jan 15, 2017 12:41:40 GMT -5
I'll be honest, I feel like the AVC (and also, sadly, the Avocado) has been getting progressively more hostile towards women, but this was just a BLATANT example of it, and the self-congratulatory nature of a ton of the comments made me want to barf.
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Post by Dr Livingstone on Jan 15, 2017 13:38:29 GMT -5
I haven't been as active on it as usual, but of all the congratulatory "yeah, right!"'ers and other commenters, I didn't recognize anyone. Was the article linked somewhere else, maybe?
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Post by Post-Lupin on Jan 15, 2017 14:03:09 GMT -5
Yep, that's a thread full of gobshites, even after a bunch were deleted.
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Post by swagonion on Jan 15, 2017 14:18:06 GMT -5
I'll be honest, I feel like the AVC (and also, sadly, the Avocado) has been getting progressively more hostile towards women, but this was just a BLATANT example of it, and the self-congratulatory nature of a ton of the comments made me want to barf. It's an open comments system that nobody wants to/can moderate. It's only going to get worse. |
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Jan 15, 2017 14:56:05 GMT -5
I'll be honest, I feel like the AVC (and also, sadly, the Avocado) has been getting progressively more hostile towards women, but this was just a BLATANT example of it, and the self-congratulatory nature of a ton of the comments made me want to barf. It's an open comments system that nobody wants to/can moderate. It's only going to get worse. They should hire me to moderate. I'd go scorched earth on a couple long term trolls. Which probably makes me unqualified actually. |
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Post by swagonion on Jan 15, 2017 15:13:48 GMT -5
It's an open comments system that nobody wants to/can moderate. It's only going to get worse. They should hire me to moderate. I'd go scorched earth on a couple long term trolls. Which probably makes me unqualified actually. While I was there, we flirted several times with hiring a fulltime community manager just to read comments and get rid of trolls and so on. But that was under Phipps, who was more insistent that writers engage with the comments section than his successors, who have mostly held the opinion that comments should be ignored outside of rare occasions. |
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Jan 15, 2017 15:44:01 GMT -5
They should hire me to moderate. I'd go scorched earth on a couple long term trolls. Which probably makes me unqualified actually. While I was there, we flirted several times with hiring a fulltime community manager just to read comments and get rid of trolls and so on. But that was under Phipps, who was more insistent that writers engage with the comments section than his successors, who have mostly held the opinion that comments should be ignored outside of rare occasions. I can see the benefits of both. It's really nice when writers hang out with the commenters: it's part of what makes the place special and all my favorites, including yourself, are people who have engaged with the community. I do think that shouldn't necessarily include moderating the comments, though: that's an entire other job. I could see a community mod with only that as a job also being able to avoid issues of playing favorites: not moderating popular members for example, or having favorite issues. I say this with awareness that I have pet issues when I mod The Avocado, of course. |
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