Commenters = Heroes
Yesterday’s Sunday Styles featured an article about the ever-increasing celebrity/bravery of blog commenters. Which got us to thinking: who are IvyGate’s commenter/heroes? Who is our LolCait?
Is it keggy, our only fan – and therefore favorite human being – at Dartmouth? Or is it steve-o, the Princeton gossip queen who seems to know what’s going down long before it happens? Maybe it’s Lynah Faithful, whose ears perk up at even the hint of an i-banking scandal?
Personally, we are rooting for Brown ‘11, whose ignorance is so hilarious that an entire commenter community now exists simply to denounce him.
Here’s to you, commenters, for making our jobs so much more fun: to the dozen staffers at the Cornell Sun who recently chimed in to defend their “sacred” newspaper, to all the IvyGate patriots who backed us up in our too-brief war with Sex and the Ivy, even to the random Stanford kids who every so often come to the site to discuss how happy they are that they don’t attend an Ivy League school.
Keep the comment boards alive, folks. Don’t feel the need to pose anonymously behind your schools and graduation dates; develop anonymous identities, and pose behind those.
And if you think we’re wrong – as you invariably will – post your clever ripostes ASAP.
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October 1st, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Jacob, rumor has it that you’ve been in new york for eight hours and still haven’t MADE it. What’s taking so long?
October 1st, 2007 at 1:10 pm
No, here’s to YOU GUYS for feeding our egos even more. And to steve-o, keggy, and my brother in arms brown ‘11…I love you all!
October 1st, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Really, you guys deserve all the credit for letting us comment on posts like “Congressman, Still Pissed About A-Jad, Tries Cutting Columbia’s Purse Strings”… oh wait… nevermind.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:17 pm
my name is the first word of the sentence i am typing.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:25 pm
I never realized that I needed to not be anonymous
October 1st, 2007 at 2:59 pm
i’d saying keeping it to your school+year is more fun. i wouldn’t want commenters to develop their identities, keggy style. keep it anonymous!
October 1st, 2007 at 4:24 pm
I’ve been reading IvyGate for a while now, and, up until now, I’ve never commented. It seems like an appropriate time to start!
October 1st, 2007 at 5:30 pm
sometimes i post as keggy.
October 1st, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Just because Gawker jumped the shark by getting into the whole meta-posting deal doesn’t mean you have to as well. You’ve already been name-checked in the New Yorker, pandering to the Times’ Styles section is a bit of a step down, no?
And on a related note, if you love us so much, then why did you erase my borderline anti-semitic, highly self-loathing comment about Jews at Penn the other day? Haven’t my people suffered enough?
October 2nd, 2007 at 7:12 am
REMOVE THOSE STUPID ROLLOVER TALKING SMILEY ADS ALREADY!!! SOME OF US ARE WORKING IN AN OFFICE YA KNOW
October 2nd, 2007 at 7:54 am
I’d say switch to Firefox and install an extension called Adblock. Then you can read IvyGate completely sans ads.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:29 pm
the Harvard Crimson has recently banned all comments in its online incarnation, and deleted all those previously made. They say all the praise was embarassing them, but in fact the reason is this thread here: http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:LG9sR8G9S-8J:www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx%3Fref%3D519498+Israel+and+Censorship+site:thecrimson.com&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:43 pm
I don’t restrict myself to I-bank scandals. Most I-bankers are skull-crushingly stupid enough to be scandalous per se. The average trader (ex-quant/prop) at a big bank is not much better. And undergrads line up for this like freshman for fraternity spankings. That makes for a wealth of material.