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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Sept 22, 2017 15:02:00 GMT -5
I am so sorry you have enough stalkers that we can only narrow it down to a range. It honestly is just an annoyance now: it doesn't upset me, I just really don't get it. seems like a lot of effort. I won't engage the troll, but I'm sorta tempted to ask it something only you would know/get and see how that goes  |
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Sept 22, 2017 15:08:12 GMT -5
It honestly is just an annoyance now: it doesn't upset me, I just really don't get it. seems like a lot of effort. I won't engage the troll, but I'm sorta tempted to ask it something only you would know/get and see how that goes The sad thing is that would work so well on the old AVC, where enough of the community would see it and spread the news. But now, with Kinja, we'd just convince like two people. |
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Post by pairesta on Sept 22, 2017 15:51:05 GMT -5
I won't engage the troll, but I'm sorta tempted to ask it something only you would know/get and see how that goes The sad thing is that would work so well on the old AVC, where enough of the community would see it and spread the news. But now, with Kinja, we'd just convince like two people. Yeah, they're legit getting older posters engaging them like it's you and playing along. Also they are posting on all Kinja sites, not just AVClub, with that name. |
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Sept 22, 2017 15:58:12 GMT -5
The sad thing is that would work so well on the old AVC, where enough of the community would see it and spread the news. But now, with Kinja, we'd just convince like two people. Yeah, they're legit getting older posters engaging them like it's you and playing along. Also they are posting on all Kinja sites, not just AVClub, with that name. I can forgive those posters for not seeing the name difference, but the icon is a completely different color! |
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Post by pairesta on Sept 22, 2017 17:16:17 GMT -5
I was going to call out a Scrawler imposter, too, but it looks like nope, that's actually the real Scrawler, who can't get her account merged under her old name. Kinja!  |
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Post by Post-St. Patty's Day Bloat on Sept 22, 2017 18:16:57 GMT -5
Could those of you making use of Kinja do me a solid and report or flag this person? They're impersonating me. kinja.com/mslangdonalgerGood grief. This sort of thing makes me feel perfectly justified in leaving the AV Club for dead. I haven't been entertained by internet edginess since 2002. |
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Sept 22, 2017 19:00:12 GMT -5
I looked up my name on kinja, and they have not posted anything or followed anybody, so I figure it's either me, and I just can't figure out how to make the damn thing work, or it's a really unambitious troll.
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Post by MissBeaHaven on Sept 22, 2017 19:59:46 GMT -5
Holy crap, I didn't even know AVC had changed/was changing until about an hour ago when I went over there to check out new South Park reviews. I was disoriented and afraid. So does this mean all the goodness from the former comment system is completely done & dusted?
I know I could probably find out by reading this section more in-depth, but I thought I'd liven things up by portraying the blithering ass who comes stumbling in late to the funeral, acts shocked to find out someone died, demands to know how & when it all happened, and has a huge public breakdown even though aforementioned ass hasn't even seen the deceased in almost an entire year. Y'know, everyone's favorite character to punch in the face.
I went ahead and registered my screen name with Kinja, just in case. There's only a 0.00000006% chance anyone nefarious would remember me or bother to steal my screen name, but god DAMN IT, I'm not willing to take that 0.00000006% chance.
***pours one out for all the dearly departed upvotes***
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 22, 2017 20:08:15 GMT -5
Holy crap, I didn't even know AVC had changed/was changing until about an hour ago when I went over there to check out new South Park reviews. I was disoriented and afraid. So does this mean all the goodness from the former comment system is completely done & dusted? I know I could probably find out by reading this section more in-depth, but I thought I'd liven things up by portraying the blithering ass who comes stumbling in late to the funeral, acts shocked to find out someone died, demands to know how & when it all happened, and has a huge public breakdown even though aforementioned ass hasn't even seen the deceased in almost an entire year. Y'know, everyone's favorite character to punch in the face. I went ahead and registered my screen name with Kinja, just in case. There's only a 0.00000006% chance anyone nefarious would remember me or bother to steal my screen name, but god DAMN IT, I'm not willing to take that 0.00000006% chance. ***pours one out for all the dearly departed upvotes*** The comments migrated over, but the upvotes died on the way back to their home planet. The community is on life-support. |
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Post by MissBeaHaven on Sept 22, 2017 20:28:49 GMT -5
The comments migrated over, but the upvotes died on the way back to their home planet. The community is on life-support. Ah, of course. They retained all the value added to their piss-poor articles by keeping the entertaining/thoughtful commentary provided for free by the community, but removed the one thing which rewarded those contributors with a sense of camaraderie and small-but-gratifying achievement. Of course, of course. I will never understand why they chose to screw over their loyal community, beginning with their first big redesign, but whatever. Yay for business folk and their big ideas. Have they gone bankrupt yet, or are they still falling slowly toward inevitable financial decrepitude? |
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Post by Post-St. Patty's Day Bloat on Sept 23, 2017 15:24:46 GMT -5
The comments migrated over, but the upvotes died on the way back to their home planet. The community is on life-support. Ah, of course. They retained all the value added to their piss-poor articles by keeping the entertaining/thoughtful commentary provided for free by the community, but removed the one thing which rewarded those contributors with a sense of camaraderie and small-but-gratifying achievement. Of course, of course. I will never understand why they chose to screw over their loyal community, beginning with their first big redesign, but whatever. Yay for business folk and their big ideas. Have they gone bankrupt yet, or are they still falling slowly toward inevitable financial decrepitude? They were bought out by Univision a little while back. Univision owns Kinja. Unfortunately, this was inevitable. I would bet on the AV Club being shuttered at some point in the next two years. When every third article is an ad and only one out of five of the real articles are worth reading, they're not going to get an awful lot of clicks from newcomers, let alone disgruntled readers/commentators from the days gone by. It's done. |
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Sept 25, 2017 11:47:49 GMT -5
The video of "Who Would You Not Want to Be Roasted By?" freezes image on Julia Sweeney. I tried watching three times but after the third disembodied male voice saying "Probably Olivia" I gave up.
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Post by pairesta on Sept 25, 2017 12:30:46 GMT -5
You know it just occurred to me that someone at the AVClub really pressed for account portability as part of the Kinja move, and alot of hours were probably spent negotiating that, then they finally flip that switch and like a fraction of a fraction of commentors did it, given the low double-digit comment count under articles these days.
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Sept 25, 2017 12:46:58 GMT -5
You know it just occurred to me that someone at the AVClub really pressed for account portability as part of the Kinja move, and alot of hours were probably spent negotiating that, then they finally flip that switch and like a fraction of a fraction of commentors did it, given the low double-digit comment count under articles these days. I wonder how much is "commenters didn't switch their accounts at all", how much is "commenters switched but never commented", and how much is "commenters switched, but Kinja still sucks for commenting". |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Sept 25, 2017 13:07:57 GMT -5
You know it just occurred to me that someone at the AVClub really pressed for account portability as part of the Kinja move, and alot of hours were probably spent negotiating that, then they finally flip that switch and like a fraction of a fraction of commentors did it, given the low double-digit comment count under articles these days. I guarantee you that the majority of us ported over, took one look at the desolate wasteland of AV Kinja, and moved on. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 25, 2017 13:22:21 GMT -5
You know it just occurred to me that someone at the AVClub really pressed for account portability as part of the Kinja move, and alot of hours were probably spent negotiating that, then they finally flip that switch and like a fraction of a fraction of commentors did it, given the low double-digit comment count under articles these days. I guarantee you that the majority of us ported over, took one look at the desolate wasteland of AV Kinja, and moved on. I think that's what it is more than anything. There's something fundamentally unfriendly about the layout, and on top of that Kinja goes completely kablooey after 100 posts or so. |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Sept 25, 2017 13:23:16 GMT -5
I guarantee you that the majority of us ported over, took one look at the desolate wasteland of AV Kinja, and moved on. I think that's what it is more than anything. There's something fundamentally unfriendly about the layout, and on top of that Kinja goes completely kablooey after 100 posts or so. Plus there's a negative reinforcement aspect of having seen so many empty comment sections that posting in a new article feels like it'll probably be pointless. |
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Post by Hippo on Sept 25, 2017 13:51:41 GMT -5
The site is machiavellian in how it makes you work just to find a review or longform article, nobody likes the layout and Kinja’s comments are a graveyard when they don’t have vandals spraypainting tombstones with vaguely attempted swastikas.
AVC might live and their writers still employed but the heart has left, it’s just a shell of past glories.
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Post by pairesta on Sept 25, 2017 13:51:46 GMT -5
The MrsLangdonAlger imposter account is still active and now harassing people who have called them out as fake. So clearly Kinja doesn't have a mechanism for/care to ban posters for harassment. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 25, 2017 13:56:39 GMT -5
The MrsLangdonAlger imposter account is still active and now harassing people who have called them out as fake. So clearly Kinja doesn't have a mechanism for/care to ban posters for harassment. He kept replying to me and I kept dismissing him and he stopped pretty quickly. That's what I'd advise anyone else do under the circumstances. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 25, 2017 14:59:24 GMT -5
MLA's stalker is on the NCIS article - do not respond to him, though, especially if you're out of the greys, because it only helps him. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2017 15:01:48 GMT -5
MLA's stalker is on the NCIS article - do not respond to him, though, especially if you're out of the greys, because it only helps him. As of right now, "her" comment is marked as Pending, so hopefully someone finally noticed and is doing something about it? Maybe? Probably not. Fuck Kinja/Univision! |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 25, 2017 15:04:00 GMT -5
MLA's stalker is on the NCIS article - do not respond to him, though, especially if you're out of the greys, because it only helps him. As of right now, "her" comment is marked as Pending, so hopefully someone finally noticed and is doing something about it? Maybe? Probably not. Fuck Kinja/Univision! No, the pending just means the commenter isn't out of the greys, which is going to be the case for any new account. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 25, 2017 15:07:31 GMT -5
Does anyone know how to get in touch with Marah Eakin, maybe via Twitter? She did MLA's Expert Witness; she might be more amenable to verifying this and being able to do something about it and she is still with the AVC.
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Post by Hippo on Sept 25, 2017 15:07:39 GMT -5
Very depressing to be reminded that their best defence against trolling and abuse is the greys.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2017 15:13:40 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2017 15:15:05 GMT -5
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 25, 2017 15:31:24 GMT -5
I finally got Laura Browning's attention, and linked her to both accounts, hopefully she'll take them down.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Sept 25, 2017 15:47:40 GMT -5
I finally got Laura Browning's attention, and linked her to both accounts, hopefully she'll take them down. She just emailed me to verify that those accounts aren't me and is working on banning them. Thank you! |
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Post by Baron von Costume on Sept 25, 2017 15:47:59 GMT -5
I still don't have a functional account and kinja support has stopped replying.
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