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It is a stressful time to be a CC sophomore. This week, CC 2012 picks majors, realizes that making a Ruggles suite is difficult, and takes midterms that will determine THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. Sophomores and similarly stressed CC juniors get free Roti Roll (whose origins are demystified here) and massages tonight in McBain Lounge at 10.
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@Really... if one were to assert (without linking), that the Spectrum is a blog that is better than Bwog in some respects, I’m sure there wouldn’t be a problem. I’m personally opposed to the Spec redesign because I think it’s a mistake to make Spectrum the home page instead of the online version of the Spec, but I think Spectrum will take off and be better than Bwog in some respects. For one thing, the commenters are quite as cynical. Of course that may because there are very few comments.
@SPECTRUM SPECTRUM NEVER CENSORS THE WAY BWOG DOES
@Get a life, Spec fools. Because of this ranting, this thread has 60 comments. Last time I checked, the average Spectrum post has 5. Without Ben Cotton writing half the posts, you would have 0. Fail much?
@SPECTRUM so they are removing comments? GO SPECTRUM
@ZOMG I check back to see if anyone commented on my being sick to my stomach after eating Roti Roll, and instead I encounter 57 comments about the fucking Spectrum.
I was sick, fellow students! Sick to my stomach, I tell you!
@irony? If Bwog hadn’t started filtering comments (and thus starting this War on Blogs), I probably wouldn’t have heard of Spectrum for awhile.
@Dear Bwog I love you! No one will ever replace you. Thank you for being you, you beautiful white and blue blog you!
@Wow Deletion is screwing around with the comment order.
@Hey Spectator Stop picking fights with Bwog. It’s petty and makes me much less inclined to read your content. I’m serious.
@I Heart Bwog In full support of Bwog staff here. Love you kids! :)
@Clarify So, no spam in comments, yes to a sketchy “Paying the Bills” section that looks like link spam. Got it.
@Eliza Well, we do have a section called paying the bills that allows Bwog to exist on the Internet. We do not, however, get paid from your comments. Feel free to donate, however!
@' So, no spam in comments, yet you have a sketchy “Paying the Bills” section.
@wait... where is spectrum? is it a separate website? link pleaaase.
@hmm you probably feel a little silly now, huh?
@nope. my earlier comment is now “awaiting moderation.” don’t feel silly at all.
@Alum Used to be when bwog deleted comments they left the comment up and replaced it with a message saying that the comment was deleted. Bringing that feature back would help bwogs credibility.
@Wait... So this doesn’t count as, say, a comment that “does not add to the discussion in any way, such as a comment which was, in its entirety, ‘spectrum'”?
Oh wait, I know why. Because this one is being negative about Spectrum! In that case, it’s totally okay that it’s not adding to the discussion. Inconsistency much?
@let's sing kumbayaaaa, buh-woggggg, kumbayaaaaaa,
kumbayaaaaa, buh-woggggggg, kumbayaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
@dude my comments that simply said “pinnacle” and “the fed” were just deleted. i feel so violated.
@stop wigging out you leave up plenty of nasty comments or fallacious ones. are you really above leaving up comments that pitch a rival site? or that challenge bwog’s primacy. spectrum looks cool. and the fact is, it has a newspaper attached to it. do real long-form journalism and then come back to argue.
@James Downie “Rival” or not, it’s the “pitch” part that matters. Last year, Bwog routinely removed comments that advertised GoCrossCampus, LoveatCU, and other sites that weren’t “rivals” to Bwog. It’s a broad precedent that keeps advertising out of the comments without having to selectively choose which advertisers are ok and which ones aren’t; the latter would inevitably lead to inconsistency.
@well maybe you just shouldn’t delete any comments because everyone here are friends
@l sat p rep now “l sat p rep” sans weird spaces is being filtered. wtf bwog.
@l sat p rep i was going to reply to this post and say: i agree with you :)
@c'mon let’s not be insecure. there is no monopoly on information and witty comments. just like spectator learned from your competition, you can learn from spectrum without animosity
@Ok so... I know that Spectrum is sort of cool and thus potentially threatening to Bwog’s “journalistic” hegemony… but… it’s enough to observe and step it up, you don’t need to restrict free speech by deleting Spectrum related comments. let’s be productive here, folks!
@Hans Again, we are only removing comments that do not add to the discussion in any way, such as a comment which was, in its entirety, “spectrum”.
@Anonymous also why is that bad
@you guys are digging yourselves deeper and deeper…
@so... we’re not allowed to write comments that just say “spectrum” ?
@James Downie Not when it’s an advertisement masquerading as a comment. The same would be true of a comment that just read “lsat prep.”
@wut? dude, you just deleted my “lsat prep” comment. It was obviously not advertisement for “lsat prep” as it was simply mocking you. I don’t like where this censorship stuff is going. Boo.
@wut? Also: if that wasn’t contribution to discussion then I don’t know what is.
@James Downie Actually, that comment and other one-word doses of sarcasm have been marked “spam” by WordPress’s automatic filters. There wasn’t any manual deletion.
@yeah ok even my raisin bran comment?
@mmmm i could go for a bowl of raisin bran
@oh I didn’t realize it was official Bwog policy that only comments Hans the Webmaster deemed exemplary were permitted. Carry on.
@Eliza Oh you just wait til you meet Hans, pal.
@free speech is important, no?
@Anonymous bwog. let my speech be robust and uninhibited!
@track i asked a while ago and its still not here… when’s the track button coming back
@oops well those two were mine, from the same IP address. but that’s because i’m an idiot who doesn’t know how to comment. whoops.
@yeah i am not from this very dedicated IP address, but i also think its kind of lame to delete comments about spectrum (positive, negative, whatever) when spectrum leaves up comments about bwog and bwog has never had any problem leaving comments about spec in the past. isn’t it supposed to be a discussion? isn’t that what you want in comments?
@Hans
Yes. Spamming the word “Spectrum” is not discussion, however.
@Anonymous Way high up, this guy is.
@wow super lame, bwog. it wasn’t spam, it said spectrum was better. how’s that spam
@yeah i am not from the same IP address, but i also think it’s sort of lame to delete comments saying spectrum is good when spectrum leaves up positive comments about bwog. it’s not really advertising if it’s a conversation, right? and don’t you want comments to be a dialogue?
@bwog free speech come on stop deleting my commnts
@Anonymous lame move Bwog, how insecure of you
@Anish This comment is from the same IP address as this comment above at 2010/03/03 at 1:54am: http://bwog.net/2010/03/02/freaking-out-free-roti#comment-190714 .
@Just a Hunch This comment is from the same IP address as this comment above at 2010/03/03 at 2:00am: http://bwog.net/2010/03/02/freaking-out-free-roti#comment-190717
@woah my comment got deleted.
@Anonymous Bwog, I don’t work for Spec but it’s kinda obvious that you’re deleting comments linking to their site
@Anish Bwog routinely removes comments that advertise other web sites.
@Anonymous you should probably delete this post, then, since it’s blatantly advertising another website.
http://bwog.net/2010/03/02/quickfed-seas-spot-edition
@Eliza Hello, friend! Please see four years of QuickSpec and hundreds of EyePokes. Perhaps that will clarify the difference.
@Anonymous Well you don’t do QuickSpec/EyePoke anymore, right? Figured that was part of the same policy of not advertising the competition.
@Eliza We stopped doing QuickSpec six months before Spectrum existed–perhaps before it was even a thought, a dream, a whim! However, if you work for Spec, I would prefer if you could email me directly (eliza@bwog.net) so we can have this conversation in a place that doesn’t take up space intended for people unaffiliated with either of our institutions to say what they think. Thanks!
@bwog why are you deleting comments of most of the things people say about spectrum like that’s weird.
@Rectum? But I hardly know’em!
@Wow I had a tiny portion of a chicken roti roll and I was sick to my stomach
@Whoah there those be some fightin’ words.
also, blatantly not true.