Know Comment
So: How are the
new threaded comments working for everyone? Some news: later today, a few tweaks will go into effect: comments will be displayed in chronological order and replies will be collapsed, but remain in chronological order. As for the other changes, what do you like? What do you dislike? Put your thoughts and suggestions in the (duh) comments below.
crap email from a dude
I think we've all been in a situation where you are just yourself and are hanging with a dude who seemingly likes "you." Only, the "you" he has in mind has longer hair, or bigger breasts, or is more inclined to wear pink or be demure than you are. But, you know, he knows if you just changed these small details about yourself, if you just saw it his way, you'd be perfect. And that brings us to "Dave". Dave really totally likes Jezebel, you know, but he has some gentle suggestions about how we should be less off-putting and strident — you know, be more girly. Softer! Gentler! Like a girl blog 'should' be! Gosh, I think we are totally going to take that under advisement.
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Registration Required
Speaking of internet commenters: An eagle-eyed tipster informed us that gossip blog (and repeated Missdemeanor offender),
Perez Hilton, has started requiring registration for commenters this week. The tipster wonders if Perez grew "tired of the haters," assuming that Perez ever read the comments, and noted that the comments numbers have decreased dramatically. We put on our "reporter" caps and selected an older blog post
at random and compared the comment number to a similar,
newer blog post. Final tally? The older post had 165 and the newer one had 88. Definitely a dip! But the commenter threads are still as awful as usual, only now they include avatars. [
Perez Hilton]
Ladies' Night
What a weekend for Jezebels! For those of you on the West Coast there's a meetup in Seattle tonight at 7 p.m. at
Nite Lite Restaurant on 1926 Second Avenue. Readers should meet at the room with the smaller bar and pool table. There's
also a gathering in New York City tonight at
Common Ground on Avenue A and East 13th street at 10 p.m. On Saturday, New York area Jezebels can head to
Joe's Pub at 11 p.m. for a benefit for Voices of Women Organizing Project. There will be live bands, a raffle, and all sorts of fun. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. As always, sign up for regional Jezebel Facebook groups for more info on meet-ups in your area; if you organized a meet up, email us at
tips@jezebel.com so we can post it on the site.
announcements
It's been a busy week. Month, even. We've had controversies, good press, bad press, new people and lots of tech probs. And so our beloved Hortense has written a missive, originally posted on Facebook, and it's for you guys, the readers and commenters. She writes:
Hello Doves!
I've been fielding some questions from many people as of late, so I thought I would take a stab at answering some of them in convenient Facebook note form. Oo-de-lally!
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hells bells
The
Wall Street Journal is reporting that the latest trend in the wacky world of bridal is to
replace the wedding planner with an online poll. Why should brides spend time and money making tough decisions when they can turn that responsibility over to the folks who'll be attending? They don't have to worry their pretty little heads about the cake, the first dance song, the booze or even their hairstyle. Of course, a bride is still a bride. It's
her day, right? That's why Rachael Buskirk, 25, an engineer from Asheville, N.C. (who met her fiancé through MySpace), plans to ignore her cake poll. See, the guests didn't pick the style she preferred.
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group hugs
You probably heard, but the NY Times' 'Sunday Styles' section was chock-full of goodies this weekend. There was that surprisingly-unannoying 'Modern Love' column (gem of a passage: "As we ate, we theorized about the effects of pornography on romantic relationships. Dinner ended; he had to go pack for his trip. I asked casually when I was going to see him again. He sighed. "That's a loaded question." I asked what he meant, because I thought the question was fairly straightforward"); a story about the "branding" of Burma/Myanmar; and dozens of weddings. (So many weddings. Including one starring a Rockefeller!)
Oh, and then there was that story about Jezebel.
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how-tos
For the most part, "blogging" is an exercise in reaction; the majority of our posts are the result of news and feature stories we find online, in print magazines, and among friends we meet in the bars to which we retire at the end of a long day. The reactionary nature of blogging inspires some and angers others, which, of course, is echoed in the dozens of comments that accompany our posts. In fact, in the 10+ months since Jezebel "went live", our commenting community has ballooned in a way we could have never anticipated: Earlier this year, we became the most-commented site on the entire Gawker Media network, surpassing even geek/gadget blogs Gizmodo and Kotaku. (One of my enduring frustrations is that I rarely get to read the comments. With a schedule in which posts go up every fifteen minutes for 10 hours straight — it is virtually impossible for me to comprehensively survey the commentary accompanying our posts.)
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roll call
Today's
Times of London
reports that if you're looking for love online you've got to choose your screen name carefully. According to study by Dr. Monica Whitty, a lecturer in cyber-psychology at Nottingham Trent University, playful and flirtatious names like "fun2bwith" or "imsweet" were ranked top by men and women as those they would most like to contact. Close behind were names that were physically descriptive, like "cutie" or "blueeyes." Less appealing? Money-grubbing names like "wealthyandwise," "lovemyporsche" amd "entrepreneur." "We know from other research that women are generally attracted by wealth, but it seems they are well aware people embellish themselves online and it makes them suspicious," Dr. Whitty says. As we all know, dating isn't the only place one uses a screen name: Monikers are also used for IMing and to comment on
blogs. Ahem.
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how-tos
You may have noticed that some things have changed around here. And it's not just us: You, dear readers, will be changing as well. We want this site to be a happy place where we can discuss the positive aspects of what it means to be a woman: A sparkling personality! Having a great man in your life! Shopping! Career! And so you, the readers, will be expected to comment properly. There are new commenting rules, which will insure that the site has the correct tone, one of not only positivity but proper etiquette. Think of Jezebel as an incredibly chic tea party: You must look great and watch what you say. The new rules, after the jump.
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