Regularly I get comments on the past entries of this weblog. People must find the posts via a search engine and think somehow I’m watching every single post for comments daily. An understanding of how weblogs and comments work is not pervasive.
Here are the kind of comments I get on my post about Burger King Tacos:
IM OVER THE ROAD TRUCK DRIVER. I WAS IN FLORIDA A FEW MONTHS AGO AND DECIDED TO STOP AT BURGER KING AND TRY THE NEW TACOS I HAD HEARD SO MUCH ABOUT.I GOT TWO TACOS AND WENT BACK OUT TO MY TRUCK TO EAT.TIME I GOT TO THE TRUCK THE STORE WAS CLOSED. I SAT IN THE SLEEPER AND OPENED THE TACOS AND TO MY SUPRISE THE TACOS LOOKED NASTY THEY HAD TAKEN A HAMBURGER PATTY CUT IT IN HALF AND PLACED IT INTO THE SHELL WITH CHEESE LETTUCE AND SOME KIND OF SAUSE PUT INTO A MICROWAVE AND HEATED IT UP. I ATE BECAUSE IT WAS LATE AND THEY HAD ALREADY CLOSED. BIG MISTAKE I GOT SO SICK AND STILL GET A SICK FEELING EVERTIME I PASS A BURGER KING. I AM SO GLAD THEY STOPPED SELLING THEM BUT I WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO BRING MYSELF TO EVEN TURN AROUND IN A BURGER KING PARKING LOT LET ALONE GO IN AND EAT.
Posted by: TED on July 22, 2003 07:18 PM
I LIVE IN PENNSYLVANIA. WHY DID YOU STOP SELLING THE TACOS?????? FINALLY AFTER YEARS OF NO MORE JACK IN THE BOX FOUND TACOS THAT ARE VERY MUCH LIKE THEIRS AND I JUST LOVE THEM AND SO DOES MY DAUGHTER. PLEASE BRING THEM BACK; GUESS I’LL HAVE TO GO BACK TO MCDONALDS BECAUSE THE TACOS ARE WHY I WENT TO BURGER KING
Posted by: LINDA on August 19, 2003 12:10 PM
Ted had a bad experience and Linda thinks I am Burger King. There’s not much I can do to help these people.
Sometimes I do get comments that need a reply. Take a look at some of the comments in the post about Red Licorice Soda:
this is jeffrey patskan and i would like to try your red licorice soda how can i purchase it or where can i buy it thankyou. and you can e-mail me thanks and have a nice day.
Posted by: jeffrey patskan on August 4, 2003 12:10 PM
this is jeffrey patskan and i love pepsiblue soda and it is my favorite soda thankyou. and here is a blacklicorice flavored sodadrink for you to try and you take pepsibluesoda and you mix it with a little orangedrink and you get a greenish darkgreenish color and that is how you make blacklicorice flavored soda thankyou and if you try it you mighnt like it too. and you can also share this drink with kids too. and you can e-mail me thanks and have a nice day too.
Posted by: jeffrey patskan on August 19, 2003 06:33 PM
this is jeffrey patskan and i really do love pepsiblue soda thankyou. and i hope that you enjoy my blacklicorice flavored sodadrink because i tried it when i made it and it was sweet and good thankyou. and i like all kinds of soda too thankyou. but my favorite is pepsiblue soda and my favorite one also is the new blacklicorice soda drink that i made thankyou. and you can e-mail me at jeffreyp18201@yahoo.com thankyou and take care and have a nice day too.
Posted by: jeffrey patskan on August 19, 2003 06:53 PM
Not only does Jeffery come to realize that I am not selling soda, but attempts to share his knowledge with me. I can appreciate that. Here’s what I wrote back to Jeffrey:
Jeffery,
Thank you for your idea for black licorice soda. The next time I get to the store, I’m going to pick up some Pepsi Blue and Orange Soda and make Black Licorice Soda.
Keep up the good work!
Thank you,
-Michael
Here is a recent comment that I love:
fuck this fuckin website, fuck…
Posted by: pj on August 16, 2003 09:42 PM
Evidently pj has some issues with my site.
Anyone else get weird comments on their sites?
But how much do you charge to wash hats?
Here is a good example of what you’re talking about. Talk about changing the subject.
I don’t mind goofy comments that are left 2 months after the entry was posted. I don’t have time to respond to them though…
But offensive comments? I delete them, then ban the IPs.
Censorship – It’s Not Just For China Anymore.
One of the things I like about Greymatter is that after a post is off the front page, no more comments! I’ll still switch to MT one of these days, but I hope that I’ll be able to have it set the same way.
All the time.. I started a page to collect Stupid Comments
http://www.8bitjoystick.com/StupidComments.php
Now just hold on there a minute…LOL!!! Some of us who are new to the blogging world didn’t know that the comments aren’t emailed directly to the author of the blog until we started up blogs of our own. Until I started my own blog, I was reading blog archives and commenting left & right on old entries, thinking the owner would read it the next day or something. Now I feel like a dork.
Anyway, thanks for sharing those hysterical comments you’ve received! Very fun to read!
I found a nice php script which automatically closes comments after 7 days. It works if you are running MT on a mysql database. It was written by Kevin Schumacher (www.geeksblog.com) but since I can’t find it anywhere on his site, I posted it at http://www.lomara.org/misc/closecomments.zip in case you or anyone running MT would like to use it.
This in response to an entry on my site that talked about Christina Aguilera gaining weight:
ALL OF YOU ARE A BUCNH OF ASSHOLES FOR ALL OF YOU WHO ARE SAYING SHE IS FAT ARE PROBABLY FAT YOURSELFS..OK I WILL SAY THIS MUCH YES SHE DID PORK UP A LITTLE BIT. WHO KNOWS MAYBE SHE JUST GOT IN THE EATING MODE..I DONT LIKE HER THAT MUCH HER MUSIC IS OK BUT YOU DONT NEED TO HARP ON HER..COME ON JUST LET OFF
whats going on? Man this place is so weird with all this cruft and blog and tivo etc. Funny yet confusing.
Yeah, people often seem to misunderstand that you’re providing a service that you’re not, you’re just aware of it. This happened to Chris Ruzin when he found out how to write his name in Chinese and posted it on his blog. I couldn’t resist jumping into the fun, though.
Comment Cruft
I’ve been slightly annoyed recently by the minor outbreak of inane comments posted by the intellectually inept who wind their way to some years old post via a search engine. Comments of this nature tend to be more annoying than…
Comment Cruft
I’ve been slightly annoyed recently by the minor outbreak of inane comments posted by the intellectually inept who wind their way to some years old post via a search engine. Comments of this nature tend to be more annoying than…