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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Sept 25, 2017 16:50:46 GMT -5
I jumped through all the hoops, and kinja told me that my legacy account had merged with kinja, and they were linked to my twitter, and indeed my old avatar now shows up. However, when I try to post it keeps saying that my username is already taken. I looked it up, and it does show up on kinja, but has no activity. I think it may be that it is me, but I don't know how to reconcile all this. I have a burner kinja account, but deliberately used a different username, with the display name Floyd D Barber, so I don't know if that is further muddying things up.
If I go ahead and create a slightly different username for kinja, will my original one be forever lost to me? I emailed kinja, and have gotten no response.
Anybody got any ideas?
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Post by GumTurkeyles on Sept 26, 2017 13:01:12 GMT -5
I jumped through all the hoops, and kinja told me that my legacy account had merged with kinja, and they were linked to my twitter, and indeed my old avatar now shows up. However, when I try to post it keeps saying that my username is already taken. I looked it up, and it does show up on kinja, but has no activity. I think it may be that it is me, but I don't know how to reconcile all this. I have a burner kinja account, but deliberately used a different username, with the display name Floyd D Barber, so I don't know if that is further muddying things up. If I go ahead and create a slightly different username for kinja, will my original one be forever lost to me? I emailed kinja, and have gotten no response. Anybody got any ideas? Someone did probably take it. It'll say there's no posts by that user, but click on Discussions on the bottom left, and comments appear. I just did that with "Gumbercules" since it was taken. Turns out, that person has been using it since 2012, so that's a legit user. Your display name can still be floyd d barber, but the username is going to be a code. For example, mine is kinja dot com/avclub-72a8ab4748d4707fda159db0088d85de--disqus |
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Sept 26, 2017 13:10:38 GMT -5
I jumped through all the hoops, and kinja told me that my legacy account had merged with kinja, and they were linked to my twitter, and indeed my old avatar now shows up. However, when I try to post it keeps saying that my username is already taken. I looked it up, and it does show up on kinja, but has no activity. I think it may be that it is me, but I don't know how to reconcile all this. I have a burner kinja account, but deliberately used a different username, with the display name Floyd D Barber, so I don't know if that is further muddying things up. If I go ahead and create a slightly different username for kinja, will my original one be forever lost to me? I emailed kinja, and have gotten no response. Anybody got any ideas? Someone did probably take it. It'll say there's no posts by that user, but click on Discussions on the bottom left, and comments appear. I just did that with "Gumbercules" since it was taken. Turns out, that person has been using it since 2012, so that's a legit user. Your display name can still be floyd d barber, but the username is going to be a code. For example, mine is kinja dot com/avclub-72a8ab4748d4707fda159db0088d85de--disqus I'll check that out, and probably go ahead and get a new username. In the meantime, Can I call you 72a8ab474 for short? |
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Sept 26, 2017 13:13:50 GMT -5
I just checked out the Star Trek: Discovery review and I was excited when I saw all the comments (510 as of a few minutes ago). I thought, yay, the old days are back!
It turns out most of the commenters are assholes.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 26, 2017 13:15:53 GMT -5
I just checked out the Star Trek: Discovery review and I was excited when I saw all the comments (510 as of a few minutes ago). I thought, yay, the old days are back! It turns out most of the commenters are assholes. The thing about Kinja that may keep the AVC from ever really recovering is that there's no way to block the assholes. With Disqus, we had block functions, plus reasonably active moderators. Kinja is just overrun with unrepentant trolls. |
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Post by GumTurkeyles on Sept 26, 2017 13:21:50 GMT -5
Someone did probably take it. It'll say there's no posts by that user, but click on Discussions on the bottom left, and comments appear. I just did that with "Gumbercules" since it was taken. Turns out, that person has been using it since 2012, so that's a legit user. Your display name can still be floyd d barber, but the username is going to be a code. For example, mine is kinja dot com/avclub-72a8ab4748d4707fda159db0088d85de--disqus I'll check that out, and probably go ahead and get a new username. In the meantime, Can I call you 72a8ab474 for short? "72a8ab4748d4707fda159db0088d85de--disqus? I love that guy!" |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Sept 26, 2017 13:23:15 GMT -5
I just checked out the Star Trek: Discovery review and I was excited when I saw all the comments (510 as of a few minutes ago). I thought, yay, the old days are back! It turns out most of the commenters are assholes. The thing about Kinja that may keep the AVC from ever really recovering is that there's no way to block the assholes. With Disqus, we had block functions, plus reasonably active moderators. Kinja is just overrun with unrepentant trolls. And by joining the Kinja-verse, the AVC has started aggressively cross-promoting its content on sites like io9 and Kotaku that have existing communities of dickish commenters who have a specific interest in being dicks about these topics. It's like what happened with posts that got heavily shared on Facebook, except if the only people who saw it on Facebook were MRAs, and also it was every post. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2017 13:23:37 GMT -5
Looking forward to O'Neal's cartoon about the sassy robot
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Sept 26, 2017 16:33:45 GMT -5
I just checked out the Star Trek: Discovery review and I was excited when I saw all the comments (510 as of a few minutes ago). I thought, yay, the old days are back! It turns out most of the commenters are assholes. Yeah, I was honestly curious what some of the old Trek comment hands would think and…nope, almost no one with an opinion worth reading made it past the Great Barrier. |
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Post by pairesta on Sept 26, 2017 18:33:37 GMT -5
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Sept 26, 2017 20:37:05 GMT -5
I'm just glad and grateful people are in the know that it isn't actually me. |
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Post by pairesta on Sept 26, 2017 21:11:35 GMT -5
I'm just glad and grateful people are in the know that it isn't actually me. Yeah for a bit there there were some old school posters who were thinking it was you, and whoever it was played along. But now word's out so whenever they post usually the first response or two is someone pointing out they're an imposter. |
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Post by Pastafarian on Sept 26, 2017 23:15:58 GMT -5
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Post by Dellarigg on Sept 27, 2017 7:21:25 GMT -5
Comments won't load on my tablet, and haven't for a while now. I know this is nothing really to complain about nowadays.
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Post by Lt. Broccoli on Sept 27, 2017 8:19:36 GMT -5
I claimed my legacy account but it won't let me post without logging in through Twitter or Facebook or Google. And if I try to login through the Twitter account I created specifically to comment on the AVC, it just gives an error. But it sounds like I'm not missing anything.
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Post by pairesta on Sept 27, 2017 8:21:55 GMT -5
I claimed my legacy account but it won't let me post without logging in through Twitter or Facebook or Google. And if I try to login through the Twitter account I created specifically to comment on the AVC, it just gives an error. But it sounds like I'm not missing anything. This is where I'm at, and whenever I'm close to setting up a dummy account, I read a horrific comment section ("Maybe she shouldn't dress that way" on the newswire about Natalie Morales taking to twitter to complain about a paparazzo blatantly taking upskirt pics of her at a red carpet event. Bixby, everyone!) that drains any energy I have to do it. But my notifications window finally cleared. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Sept 27, 2017 15:02:11 GMT -5
The various MLA “parody” accounts seem to be aping Pass the Veal, not MLA.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Sept 28, 2017 16:46:07 GMT -5
The Hefner obit comments offer us an opportunity to view Kinja commenters in a nutshell. First, ImpromptuJ makes a very solid joke, saying:
"Before Hef, no one gave a damn about naked women. In fact, they were considered a nuisance at the best of times.
He changed all that. RIP to a pioneer in the field of sadly masturbating alone in one’s room."
A+ work, J!
Below it, replies include:
"Have you ever seen a “French Postcard?” Those predate Playboy." (which gets its own dumbass reply, "I am pretty sure he/she is talking about the U.S.")
"It’s hard to tell if this is satire or not. [Narrator voice: it was not that hard] If you really think that, you are insane. If not... well done."
And, of course, "The fuck? The art world is full of naked women. You’ve never been to a museum?"
God I miss the AV Club.
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Post by Hippo on Sept 29, 2017 6:43:59 GMT -5
Not the smartest bunch I guess sadly. I do miss the AV Club Classic... and AV Club classic.
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Sept 29, 2017 7:20:21 GMT -5
"We can't afford to pay our writers to watch TV any more, and this is a last ditch effort to try and get more pageviews by abusing the commentariat (most of those remaining after the Kinja switch being forced further out by trolls)."
I think this might have worked before the Kinjapocalypse, but now?
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Post by pairesta on Sept 29, 2017 7:33:02 GMT -5
"We can't afford to pay our writers to watch TV any more, and this is a last ditch effort to try and get more pageviews by abusing the commentariat (most of those remaining after the Kinja switch being forced further out by trolls)." I think this might have worked before the Kinjapocalypse, but now? yeah it was one thing to be doing this before, when there was still decent (but not as good as its heyday) episodic TV coverage, but it seems like alot of shows didn't make in through the Kinja switch and they used that as an excuse to cull the herd even further. So it's weird that there's these lingering shows that are just for discussion, when they cover so few actual shows themselves anymore. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 29, 2017 7:41:01 GMT -5
"We can't afford to pay our writers to watch TV any more, and this is a last ditch effort to try and get more pageviews by abusing the commentariat (most of those remaining after the Kinja switch being forced further out by trolls)." I think this might have worked before the Kinjapocalypse, but now? yeah it was one thing to be doing this before, when there was still decent (but not as good as its heyday) episodic TV coverage, but it seems like alot of shows didn't make in through the Kinja switch and they used that as an excuse to cull the herd even further. So it's weird that there's these lingering shows that are just for discussion, when they cover so few actual shows themselves anymore. It's even weirder that they're covering Young Sheldon. |
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Post by oppy all along on Sept 29, 2017 8:53:09 GMT -5
yeah it was one thing to be doing this before, when there was still decent (but not as good as its heyday) episodic TV coverage, but it seems like alot of shows didn't make in through the Kinja switch and they used that as an excuse to cull the herd even further. So it's weird that there's these lingering shows that are just for discussion, when they cover so few actual shows themselves anymore. It's even weirder that they're covering Young Sheldon. Young Sheldon is huge though isn't it? Like, in a world completely divorced from our online discussion bubble, Young Sheldon is objectively a popular and relevant TV show with a large and committed fanbase. Much like it's predecessor, most popular television show of our time Big Bang Theory, |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 29, 2017 9:07:36 GMT -5
It's even weirder that they're covering Young Sheldon. Young Sheldon is huge though isn't it? Like, in a world completely divorced from our online discussion bubble, Young Sheldon is objectively a popular and relevant TV show with a large and committed fanbase. Much like it's predecessor, most popular television show of our time Big Bang Theory, Using that logic, though, they should be covering all the NCISs and the like, and doing inventories on the best things about the Minions and the Transformers films. They used to be a little more discerning. |
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Post by oppy all along on Sept 29, 2017 9:14:39 GMT -5
Young Sheldon is huge though isn't it? Like, in a world completely divorced from our online discussion bubble, Young Sheldon is objectively a popular and relevant TV show with a large and committed fanbase. Much like it's predecessor, most popular television show of our time Big Bang Theory, Using that logic, though, they should be covering all the NCISs and the like, and doing inventories on the best things about the Minions and the Transformers films. They used to be a little more discerning. Can someone link me to that site? That site sounds cool. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 29, 2017 9:17:57 GMT -5
Using that logic, though, they should be covering all the NCISs and the like, and doing inventories on the best things about the Minions and the Transformers films. They used to be a little more discerning. Can someone link me to that site? That site sounds cool. buzzfeed? |
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Post by dwarfoscar on Sept 29, 2017 9:41:21 GMT -5
The Kinja disaster makes me miss the days of Disqus bickering. Are we willing to admit now that the Disqus interface was, albeit flawed, a perfectly fine comment hosting service ?
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 29, 2017 9:49:27 GMT -5
The Kinja disaster makes me miss the days of Disqus bickering. Are we willing to admit now that the Disqus interface was, albeit flawed, a perfectly fine comment hosting service ? I think most of us came around on Disqus after the spot.im disaster. We were joking about the horrors of kinja even then. |
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Post by dwarfoscar on Sept 29, 2017 9:58:20 GMT -5
The Kinja disaster makes me miss the days of Disqus bickering. Are we willing to admit now that the Disqus interface was, albeit flawed, a perfectly fine comment hosting service ? I think most of us came around on Disqus after the spot.im disaster. We were joking about the horrors of kinja even then. What was the spot.im disaster ? |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 29, 2017 10:02:20 GMT -5
I think most of us came around on Disqus after the spot.im disaster. We were joking about the horrors of kinja even then. What was the spot.im disaster ? Something like two years ago, they tested a new commenting system called spot.im. It was completely unsuited to handling the volume of comments the AVC got back then and was almost completely unreadable. After that, people started to like Disqus a lot better. |
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