wow!

[topaz]

Well, what a ride that was!  Thanks to everyone who participated in our roundtable discussion this afternoon.

I don't know about you kids, but the lesson I took away from today was: don't hesitate to use that little "freeze" button in LJ.  I nearly hit it on several occasions, but decided to let the thread play out naturally, and WHOA NELLY what a train wreck!

The thing is: there actually are some troublesome issues around the role that Samantha Geimer's mother played in the Polanski assault, and I believe that there's room to have an interesting and productive conversation about that.  I may even have that discussion some day.

This, however, wasn't it. It wasn't even supposed to be that, and I sincerely apologize to all of you for letting it run wild the way it did.

Comments

[candle-light.livejournal.com]

I just went back to see the more recent comments and they're all gone. I thought "freeze" stopped all further commenting, not made them invisible... Did you delete or hide them? Just wondering. Thanks!

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I'll see if I can fix that.

[candle-light.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I wasn't all caught up :-)

[docorion.livejournal.com]

Crikey. It was like a train wreck. You want to, but you just *can't look away*.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

There, I left them on but with new comments screened.

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

Whoa! 112 comments!

*settles down with a snack*

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

I love that little freeze button.

Also the little delete button.

And let's not forget the little ban button.

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

Nah, it was more like a ten-car pile up, with the later cars actually deliberately crashing into the rest. ;-)

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

I never use any of these! I guess I am just not popular enough to be controversial.

[harimad.livejournal.com]

Count me as another who falls into the "is anyone reading" category.

[keyne.livejournal.com]

I read you!

(I find that when my LJ is feeling sad and lonely, running a poll always cheers it up.)

[nooks.livejournal.com]

I too, was impressed with the size of the response but not the content as such. For a wild moment I wondered if you'd gotten Boinged.

[khedron.livejournal.com]

My work involves coming downstairs and sitting in front of a computer all day. I read everyone. But that doesn't mean I have relevant things to contribute to them. (I try not to be the guy who responds first to everything. That guy is annoying.)

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Only after the kids are in bed.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

You mean you aren't controversial enough to be popular.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

HOW DARE YOU APOLOGIZE

It's your journal; you aren't accountable to us. We're accountable to you.

[vespid-interest.livejournal.com]

Me too.


[Crap, now I'm the annoying "me too" guy.]

[docstrange.livejournal.com]

Wokka wokka!

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

It's a vicious (or, I guess, non-vicious) circle!

[queenmomcat.livejournal.com]

Hmph. My journal isn't that popular. (sulks)

[sconstant.livejournal.com]

By the end of this, every time I checked in to see what had been going on in comments, I kept mis-reading this at the end of your original post (directed at Hollywood):

I love you, guys. I really do. Now stop fucking up.

as this (directed at your LJ readers):

I love you, guys. I really do. Now shut the fuck up.

Probably something subconscious.

[kcatalyst.livejournal.com]

*laugh* I was reading the words the same as before, but like you, started reading the "you guys" are directed at commenters.

[kcatalyst.livejournal.com]

My own feeling about freezing, etc is that you should feel free to use it or not use it, completely at your own discretion, based on what you want happening in your journal. I'm a grown-up (mostly!) and can choose whether to read or participate in a trainwreck if there's one around (ok, that skill was acquired well past what's generally seen as adulthood in my case). So no apology necessary imho, though I totally support you keeping a tighter rein in the future. Whew!

[reesei.livejournal.com]

It's only annoying when the only thing they respond with is "First!"

[awfief.livejournal.com]

Do what you like, I let the trainwrecks pile up, because if people want to be an idiot I am happy to let them, and keep the evidence of their idiocy around as long as possible.

[harimad.livejournal.com]

Nice analogy. Is this, then, like the YouTube video of the crash between the 1959 Bel Air and the 2009 Malibu?

[cruiser.livejournal.com]

Oh, that reminds me - I need to post the real answer to my poll.

[malefica-v.livejournal.com]

As in "First!" followed by "Me too!"