Top 5 Comments of the Week: Oh, Behave!

Folks, we gotta be straight with you -- this probably should have been the "Top 5 Douches of the Week," because there were a hell of a lot more memorably nasty comments than good ones. We understand that on the site we get into some pretty passionate topics, but it's important to stay on point and minimize off-topic bickering, personal attacks, and, for Pete's sake, anything that could be remotely associated with implied violence, or accusing others of perpetrating the same. Even some of our best, long-time friends lowered themselves this week, often forgetting the cardinal rule: don't feed the trolls.

The signal to noise ratio, frankly, went to s***.

We believe that our soon-to-be-implemented new comments system will be a big help, and most of you stayed within bounds and were a great help in policing too -- but, please, in the meantime, we'd remind you intelligent folks to continue to be responsible commenters throughout.

Even so, there were some gems this week, some high-level discussion where people brought the insight, the knowledge, or the funny -- for everyone's betterment.

1)With truly our favorite comment this week, That Chick gets all "meta" (and really funny) by commenting about commenting (and this here "Top 5"). We couldn't have said it better ourselves, That Chick.

2) The often-funny fizzandpop makes the cut this week with a rather cathartic rant in response to Lev's latest "Tale of Mere Existence." Thank you fizzandpop -- we feel better just reading that.

3) "ohnoedjewnews" chimed in with some funny news (that we subsequently got confirmed by photo evidence). "Quickly resign." Ha!

4) So, we're sure thatguywhokeepscorrectingthings will find something to nitpick us about in this very post, but in the mean time, we'd like to point out his well-reasoned comment regarding taking stuff you see on the Internet (including SFist, kids) with a grain of salt/a bit of skepticism. While this story was legit (about a potential juror who was in a jury pool with Ed Jew), the principle he brings up has merit.

5) A commenter called Alex (the other one) had some good insight and shared his knowledge on calling emergency/non-emergency police numbers via the cellie.

Please enjoy our selections -- and please make the hard part of our job picking out good comments, not moderating them.