Posted on December 4, 2008 at 7:09 p.m.

There's a significant difference between the critique of a writing style and advocating for home invasions.

If users, including myself, cannot accept other readers having problems with their writing, then they shouldn't put it up in public.

It's one thing to take issue with someone's style but to blithley advocate for assaults on users crosses a line of decency.

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Posted on December 4, 2008 at 6:33 p.m.

I don't know that I would agree that the NHL has been made worse by the recent rule changes. If you've watched for a while, you'll probably have to agree that the dump-chase-hook routine was getting really old.

The fights? Just stupid. We were at the Stars-Oilers game on Sunday to see the first period altercation and really, what's the point? It's not like any hockey fights are actually good for much other than getting a drink and racking up penalty minutes.

Avery's comments probably were more related to taking the night off to troll 17th Ave that evening for one of his next victims.

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Posted on December 4, 2008 at 6:25 p.m.

If there's something disgusting around here it's the suggestion of violence against people for debating improvements to the web site interface.

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Posted on December 4, 2008 at 10:08 a.m.

They've actually trademarked "Pizza for Pesos", although I didn't try it out the last time we were at the AAC.

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Posted on December 4, 2008 at 10:05 a.m.

SD, I don't know the details well enough to comment on what mechanics, original or third party code would be reasonable to consider using. I'm waiting to see what if anything the dev/progs come up with.

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Posted on December 4, 2008 at 9:55 a.m.

TB, there's no surrogate for activity other than user posts available to us on the site as far as I can tell. So, I am not sure what you see as dishonest. If there is something, I would be pleased to be corrected.

I'm also not sure what you are referring to as new service.

There are a lot of fans of AT's content. I have commented myself that some of it may be accurate and entertaining. However, the style is a copy-editor's nightmare. The volume of disjointed internal monologue did not lend itself to meaningful participation in a discussion.

In the end, I think the comments could be improved to allow for some streamlining of posts related to the original thread versus user to user discussion. AT is going to be fine. Rick Yost has been through worse and he still hangs around here.

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Posted on December 4, 2008 at 12:43 a.m.

Rex Murphy recommends Catherine for exquisite reading!

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Posted on December 4, 2008 at 12:42 a.m.

"I got up and choked the [expletive] out of his [expletive]."

I nominate this one for quote of the year right after the "pelvis to pelvis physical contact and moving around."

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Posted on December 4, 2008 at 12:40 a.m.

I don't think anyone here is of the illusion that traffic does not equal revenue for the site. I do think we've seen that when the latest comments section gets plugged with strings of sentence fragments that the conversations between users drops and likely their traffic drops at the same time.

If the 'comments' section gets cut from PN, we might as well just forget the whole thing and turn to the Observer site instead.

I agree that in general the few sites that make use of threading generally end up coming off poorly. However, I think that some shrewd, young developers could probably put back enough vodkaredbull in some late night sessions to make something interesting happen.

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Posted on December 3, 2008 at 7:42 p.m.

Well, if you do not care for my comments I suggest you take some of your own advise.

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