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Yeah. This is a day late. Digesting solid food was a fresh and exciting experience for us, so most of our Thanksgiving was busy doing that. Anyway.
This year we weren't sure for what to be most thankful. The choices were aplenty: mentally-challenged PR people? The chronic stupidity of certain Chronicle editors who angrily "demand" SFist reveal their sources? Civic leaders turning into Norma Desmond before our eyes. Baskets of fried pickles? Clemency reports?
All of those moments were golden.
But what we've been most appreciative of this year? SFist commenters.
No, really.
Your comments have done an awe-inspiring job of showing just how readers add to a story's richness. Many of you have typed out more intelligent, more thoughtful, more fiery, and more humorous supplements than the actual posts.
You guys -- oh my God, no wait, seriously -- rock the site. Most of you don't use the threads to pimp your sites. You (try to) keep name-calling, death threats, and racial slurs to a minimum. You represent different views on the political and social spectrum. You don't bullshit readers with incestuous oh-my-what-an-informative-post comments like other sites. In fact, most of you fucking loathe us. (Speaking of which, to the scant handful of you we had to ban this year: that was just icing on the schadenfreude cake.)
Thanks a whole bunch. And on that note: flame away.
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I know you can't see it just now but I'm bending over, pants down. Pucker up.
#28?
starting October 28th, 2009 i am going to blow-the-fuck up in the comment section, thus securing my crown and #1 spot.
22 rhymes with poo.
1 rhymes with fun.
You're welcome biznitch!
I wish I had more interesting things to say and I'd comment more. But yeah, good call, they really do add a lot to the story.
Is it sweeps week already?
26th place has never felt so good. Thank YOU for the the thanking Brock.
Brock, please do tell --or at least, link to-- that story about a Chron editor demanding you to leak your source. I mean, the Lance Williams-Mark Fainaru story has been their crusade and their highlight in reporting over the last 8 years, so there must be a highly ironic post somewhere about demanding source confidentiality privilege here, and denying it to you there. Linkage, please!
I'm looking forward to getting banned this coming year.
Awww.
As long as Brock continues sending us commenters free blow, we'll be cool.
No arrests have been made?
p.s. thx for the thx. thank YOU!
hmmm, pic did appear above
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dlytle/3064491522/
I pretty much stopped commenting after reading the other comments on a certain incident that occurred in August. And number one up there is my number two reason. Still like the blog, though, Brock.
i pretty much just look for fizzandpop's comments that dude is comedy gold
First I lose my job and now I'm not even in the Top Users? oh man. Bad month.
will someone PLEASE flame brock for this? i mean, he DID ask for it...
i've got nothing.
wait. maybe,,,
FAG!
would you say, maybe, that the comments are the raisins and the walnuts in the sfist stuffing?
I would.
Yeah, SFist is like an extended cocktail party game... Only sober (most of the time), with folks from all around the City. The SFist crew (and somehow, in my mind, I'm always thinking "S-Fist" even though I'm not that kinky) seems to bring up topical and humorous subjects and the rest is like a Seinfeld episode.
Thanks for the laughs, the news, the events, and the witty posts ... and I agree with andyc that Fizzandpop's comments are golden (as are many others ... but those stand out in my turkey day leftover addled mind)
look, ma! i never made it to law school but i'm commenter #41 on sfist!
"help, help, my son the 41st most popular commenter on sfist is drowning!"
I must work harder at being a sardonic, mildly smarmy, smartass.
I think my New Years resolution is to break the top 10. Yes, I think that is exactly what I should do.
How do you change your avatar?
No, really, how?
@gjtorikian: click "Edit" up on the top left.