One of those interesting side-effects of having lots of old blog posts around is that sometimes they come back to life. With Star being fired last week, there's been a whole bunch of new visitors and commenters to my old post which states, correctly, that Star and Bucwild can kiss my ass.
And since, naturally, their own site offers no content and no place for people to have a discussion, it seems like the only forum for the conversation is blogs like mine, even though my site isn't really about these clowns at all.
At any rate, I'm certainly not sad to see this no-talent get fired, but I do think it's always interesting that individual blog posts can essentially become mini-sites, where conversations go on forever. I'd seen that in the past with my own post about diamonds, and on other people's blogs in examples such as Jason's post about The Matrix Reloaded. Now I'm curious to see the next conversation that wanders onto my old posts.
I know what you mean.
I have well over 1500 comments from frustrated Sony Connect Player customers.
http://www.kanai.net/weblog/archive/2005/11/10/06h20m47s
also here
http://www.kanai.net/weblog/archive/2005/11/22/21h17m54s
and all of these Sony customers using my blog as a forum to troubleshoot their software made it into News.com
http://news.com.com/Sonys%20software%20future/2100-1041_3-6044937.html?tag=nefd.top
Here's another, where I noted a desktop widget for Entertainment Tonight, then kept drawing editorial comment on their programming:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2003/01/instantet_the_e.cfm
(I sorta started having fun with inline comments after a while there.... ;-)
People want to talk about local TV commercials from the 70's and 80's.
http://notes.torrez.org/2004/11/go_see_cal.html
I posted a link to a cool video. People argued for a year about hardware.
Killzone 2
I figure, if people need an outlet, give it to 'em.
Well, don't get too excited, Anil. Any stream of comments involving race -- especially with Dean Esmay near the top of it -- is guaranteed to end up a troll pit.
Look, for instance, at the ratio of comments by people with blogs (i.e. people with a track record) to (essentially) anonymous comments. A typical troll tactic is to make up some names and pretend to play the other side (badly). And you know that, so shame on you, hustler.
Now as for your bit:
You will have to come with more evidence than this one disgusting incident. Do you imagine that these two assholes "represent" hiphop? Or are they a pair of assholes who lucked into a mic? How clued-in are you to the hip-hop community?
Do you think it's damned near impossible to find evidence of the opposite (that the East Indian community disrespects the hip-hop community? I'm curious as to how you splice the two communities apart, btw. Are there codewords in here somewhere?).
You can always find "some" evidence of just about anything in the world, Anil. Anecdotes abound (I will assume you have personal experience you can to share). Wake us when you've got something that clearly indicates an attitude of disrespect is *typical*.
p.s. yes, I don't (any longer) have a blog, so you can consider my post a troll, too, if you like ;-)
p.s. yes, I don't (any longer) have a blog, so you can consider my comment a troll, too, if you like ;-)