by Edgar Cabrera » Sun Feb 08, 2015 6:44 pm
I have to admit that since the article about male rape came out, I haven't visited Cracked, not as an act of spitefulness for closing the comments, but simply because recently a lot of things in RL left me with little time to check anything on Internet besides maybe this forum. So when I saw this post, I immediately bolted to the end of the article to see if they were going to take the same measure, and while there wasn't a "we closed the comments because of you" line at the end, the comments were gone and there was what Tess posted above me.
Now, I've seen pretty much the exact same comments on Cracked, and Tess even shared some of them here, but if they're going to do it, why not just being direct about it? Why use Huffington Post as an example when they've made countless articles (the "B.S. news" quick fixes) arguing the only difference between them and Fox News seems to be that they go for the opposite political spectrum, and the people who read it include, well, the kind of people that make comments like those above? Why not just take a screenshot of one of those Cracked articles that they cited as a reason for closing the comments of the male rape article in the first place: the sex slavery one, or the one made by Zoe Quinn (since there was awful stuff in those and it was stated in PWoT that they outright deleted some of the offensive comments in them)?
No, I don't get it either, my Indian friend.
That being said, and as the thread about the comment section being closed stated, if they want to do it, Cracked is within their right to do it. I guess all I can say is that it's gonna be an annoyance from now onwards.
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Edgar Cabrera on Sun Feb 08, 2015 6:48 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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