Comments on: ROK Drop Weekly Linklets – November 22, 2009

By: ChickenHead

ChickenHead — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:06:49 +0000

GI, Kushibo, Leon…

How dare you make light of American territory belonging to another nation.

This sets a bad precedent for my activist group, the Machias Seal Island Riders.

Machias Seal Island OORI DDANG!

Don't let it happen again or there will be some finger-cutting going on.

By: Angele

Angele — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:48:44 +0000

The Saipan shooter really hated Koreans. In the Philippines, we hate Koreans too. I think it is only a matter of time before we rise up and start shooting Koreans. I hope we don't but I think it will happen someday.

Koreans must change their ways.

By: Adam Cathcart

Adam Cathcart — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:56:11 +0000

Hi GI, thanks for the links! You might want to check the one for "Obama's bow getting press in China," it goes again to the MR. T/MAO link instead of this one, which I think you may have intended:

http://adamcathcart.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/obam…

Hope you had a solid weekend and are getting geared up to eat some birds.

By: Leon LaPorte

Leon LaPorte — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:16:43 +0000

Can I go down to Dunkin Donuts and buy my "Do you know Saipan" shirt yet?

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:22:43 +0000

Blog discussions have a point of diminishing returns, a bell curve with respect to quality. As the popularity of a blog measured in hits per day increases, so does the quality of its comments sections. However, at some undetermined point, this quality actually begins to decrease as popularity increases.

Sometimes I worry that ROK Drop has become too popular, but you do a good enough job of policing the trolls while allowing them to have their say as well.

By: GI Korea

GI Korea — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:57:36 +0000

The thing is that it is tough when administering a website to read all the comments and moderate them when you got a day job and I'm sure Robert stays quite busy during the day. If everyone just ignores the people leaving troll comments then they eventually will go away. However, many of the commenters on the site seem to enjoy fighting with the trolls and thus they never go away.

However, the troll comments are usually left on hot button topics such as racism in Korea but for less hot button topics the comments section can actually be quite informative.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:27:55 +0000

Is the Marmot’s Hole comments section out of control?

Exactly why I bailed on Marmot's as of 19AUG07.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:25:54 +0000

Is the Marmot’s Hole comments section out of control?

I believe that's why I bailed on Marmot in 2007.

By: Teadrinker

Teadrinker — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:39:00 +0000

"Japanese doggy style, literally."

These sort of publicity stunts are exactly why my friend's wife, who is Japanese, doesn't get North Americans' fascination with Kitano Takeshi's movies.