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Is it still a blog if the comments are off?

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Amber Bouman on Engadget’s one week trial of turning all comments off: But we’ve increasingly found ourselves turning off comments on stories that discuss topics of harassment, gender or race simply because so many of the replies are hateful, even threatening. Articles that mention Apple deteriorate into arguments of iOS vs Android, replete with grade-school name calling. Articles that don’t make mention of Samsung often include comments claiming that we are shills for Apple. Some commenters plain attack our writers or editors or other commenters. Some are outright threats. And that’s not even getting into the spam problem. The thing

Engadget focus on Manicures not Mobiles

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Have to love the commenters at Engadget – they’ve picked up on one of the many demo videos of the PsiXpda that I did at Le Web (more on my experiences of that in an upcoming post). A quick glance at the comments (compared to other sites) show a distinct fetish with my single painted nail. Bless them all and their wonderful let‘s not talk about the product! Still congrats to ‘Ale’ for this one which has cheered up my Monday morning: That’s Cap’n Half Beard Long Nail to you! Arrrrrr!!! Engadget commenter And yet again, I think a tip