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Okay,
It's a list of the Ten Types of Commentators. I think it is meant for commentators on blogs, blogs, but I think it fits for forums too.

http://crookedtimber.org/2009/11/22/a-vaguely-passive-aggressive-post-on-commenters/


What do you think, and do you recognize anyone in particular when you read down the list?

Ten types of commenter, of which the last are the rarest.




1.The commenter who has not read the post properly, decides they know what it says anyway, and fires off a series of disgusted observations.



2.Commenter who applies the most uncharitable possible interpretation to the post, and goes straight into rant mode.



3.The commenter who takes the opportunity to make some sarcastic remarks highlighting his (99% of cases are male) own superior scholarship/intelligence and damning the CT author. “If only Chris has read the second treatise of Heinrich von Pumpkin in the original German, he’d be aware ….”



4.The commenter who uses every comment as a peg on which to hang his (yes, “his”) own obsessions about, e.g. analytical philosophy, populism, Palestine, etc



5.The commenter who simply wants to make nasty personal remarks about the CT author, often about female members of the collective, often using an alias.



6.The commenter with a sense of grievance against CT following their treatment in some comment thread back in 2004.



7.The commenter who notices that a CT author said P in 2005 and not-P in 2008, and who gives every impression of compiling an archive of such contradictions.



8.The commenter who has posted in the thread in error, and angrily denounces literary theory in a discussion of Irish cuisine.



9.The spambot.



10.The commenter who reads what we write, tries to have a conversation, is occasionally appreciative, points out mistakes helpfully rather than as “gotchas”, brings their own knowledge to the table.

Once again the legitimate claims of West Frisian are obscured by Flemish cultural imperialism. Von Pumpkin spent his formative drunken weekends in Bolsward, as I’ve exhaustively documented at my blog.

Of course, the feminazis of CT will delete this post just as they did that time in 2004.

Hehe.

How dare you spell Feminazi right! This is the internetz dammit!!!

@Dorn's Fist - You forgot something:




11. Frazzled.

I'm like 4, with the obsession being Gaga Well, that's only 15% of the time anyway.

Albatross wrote:@Dorn's Fist - You forgot something:




11. Frazzled.

Get off my lawn!

@Frazz i spewed coffee, you owe me a new latte.


funny pic btw.

Nevah! I'm not a Destructive Demon Prince for nothing!