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Dear readers:
In response to user feedback, Bwog has recently added an official Comment Policy as a permanent feature of the site. Comment thread discussions are part of what makes Bwog valuable and entertaining, and we want to make sure the chatter remains civil. We’d love to know your thoughts–feel free to weigh in on this post and tell us how we’re doing.
Thanks for reading,
Taylor Walsh
Managing Editor, Bwog
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@but hannah! they told you to wax them off! this is all about method, you see. must be an eyebrow-wax-seller…
anyway, if you keep them, you won’t have to paint them in with eyeliner thirty years down the road, which will save you money AND face. my grandmother is living proof of this. why she chooses a reddish pencil is beyond me, but it is disturbing.
@yellow more like bored at suck-ler
@b@b free speech lives on at http://www.boredatbutler.com
@great now drudge is going to make columbia look like it loves ahmadinejad. check the frontpage http://drudgereport.com/ this can’t go over well after all the mealac stuff
@thanks, bwog reading this comment thread and the last together was really illuminating. it’s nice that there is a fairly open debate on community standards here, even if it’s sometimes a little incivil.
(dorksaywhat?)
@rumour has it that Bwog received a stern talking-to from the powers-that-be at ABC after a certain now-deleted post that triggered a string of comments demeaning a person
@Avi Wrong. Bwog’s has always had a policy, but it was internal, and we decided to publicize it.
@I object to all the profanity on this website. As much as I enjoy Bwog’s witty and entertaining prose, I am absolutely appalled at the amount of profanity the censors allow on this internet forum. Each time I come across such a comment, I cringe in disgust and have on more than one occasion been brought to the brink of vomiting from the vulgarity on here. I would like to place a formal request that Bwog begin to enforce profanity filtering, as well as grammatical and spelling filters. After all, this is the internet, and everything should be upheld to the highest moral and qualitative standards.
@anon i object to your mom
@rp so after the last sentence i imagine its mere mockery, but just to be sure…is this for real? if so that’s the opinion a tool would have(see i didn’t call anyone a tool directly)
@CDS A lot of the policy is basically a disclaimer so the Bwog editors can distance themselves from the shit their commentors say: that’s just plain necessary, given some of the prejudiced and ignorant remarks people feel entitled to make anonymously.
@great this is ridiculous. the bwog was a surprisingly fresh forum where columbia could comment, sometimes rudely, on things pertaining to our college life.
anyone who took offense to some of the posters’ language or ideas should not bother visiting here. Has anyone noticed that while the internet does not have censorship, somehow society has not collapsed?
nice job fucking this one up, taylor & co.
@uh whatever Everytime I’ve seen a comment blacked out, it was fairly obvious from the ensuing commentary that the offender had managed to offend more than the bwog’s sensibility. The discussions on this site can be as useful and influential as the posts themselves. Who knows, maybe the administrators read our comments, too. Maybe they care… Why ruin it by distracting everyone with shitbag comments?
And I can see why the editors would want to make people bother visiting this site. It’s no use if people avoid it as if it were b@b, which is in fact the appropriate forum for being a total unreasonable douchebag.
@Anonymous Please feel free to comment rudely about college-related topics. Bwog is ultimately about creating a fun, entertaining, and (sometimes) scandalous community. We’re just not interested in allowing students to slander, libel, or viciously assault other students.
@Hannah G I’d just like to say that I found the libelous, slanderous comments made about my eyebrows on my personal post to be extremely helpful. In fact, I’ve shaven them off!
@dude there are no longer humans – this constitutes a breakdown, no?
@free speech should be based on a policy of self-censorship. internalizing the censorship is a dangerous trend. mill would be spinning in his grave.
still, there are a lot of douchey posts, so whatever.
@mmno Hey no one cares if you quote Mill, we all took CC ya bum
@he didn't quote mill, he referenced him…and you understood why because you took CC…I hope.
@max How about fixing the messed up RSS feed?
@sam THE MAN STRIKES AGAIN
next you’re going to start requiring us to DESCRIBE A COLOR IN ONE LOWERCASE WORD
it’s like a sobriety check for bwog comments!
@disgruntled the thing that gets me about the color description is that there’s no room for creativity. once i put “lavender” instead of “purple” and it wouldn’t let me post. honestly..
@that's because lavender is MAD GHEY. you should know that. bwog webmasters clearly do.
@anon it is because of these kinds of comments that this policy exists. thanks for proving that individuals are incapable of monitoring their own speech in relation to respecting the rights of others.
@disgruntled, again i actually thought it was kinda funny, even though the commenter was mocking what i said. sometimes people shouldn’t take themselves so seriously.
@Oh, please. Don’t throw down the first amendment line here. They’re just trying to keep total assholes from writing demeaning, cruel things about other students.
I’m surprised Bwog waited this long, although I’ve noticed horrible comments that have been deleted before.
@Incognito Damn! Where is PrezBo when you need him?
@mario savo the Man strikes again, and free speech loses.
@Um... What? “The Man?”
@dude Taylor’s a girl.