LOL someone is butthurtz about my post and modded it off topic. I guess I'm going to need a bigger shotgun.

I only want to be the best that I can.

My mouth is stained.

Ah fuck it, you know what? Fuck you and your mother, I'm not getting paid enough to post this shit.

Hi Folks,
It's your regular neighborhood troll magic maverick , and I've got a small couple of requests for you.
1. In the firehose, vote down as offtopic anything that isn't related to the beta. Vote up anything that is related to the beta.
2. Join the boycott from 10th to 17th Feb. Demonstrate that without the commentators, /. will obviously die.

Cheers,
Now back to your regular scheduled trolling.

The reason so many people are "spamming" the comments section is to highlight how much comments actually matter to this website. At the moment people are coming and posting, but posting anti-beta stuff. Next week, well, with many fewer comments, the management ("no smoking or spitting") can compare and contrast the numbers. Perhaps they'll realize that it is actually the commentators that make the site, and not the "editors" (who can't edit for shit).

Dear Bruce,
Of all the /. commentators that I've seen discussing alternatives to /., you are probably the most trustworthy (not to say that the others aren't, but they don't have the profile that you have). Please make a /. alternative that takes all the best bits of /. (threaded comments, moderation and meta moderation, user accounts, but also anonymous posting, etc. etc.), throw out the crap (the troll posts that are basically the repeat of each other, perhaps something that can just compare a comment against another comment and say "this comment is too similar", try again), and add some goodies (e.g. Unicode), and done. I'll come and join your site. I'll even donate to make it happen.

Yours sincerely, /. user since at least 2004 (third or fourth user account): magic maverick

If the comment system doesn't even load comments even with nothing blocked, then it is crap and should be replaced. Despite all the bad things one might say about D2, at least I can load the fucking comments. Which I can't do with your new shit. Just a FYI. (And as others keep saying, without comments, there is literally no point in coming back.)