Arts & Entertainment Introducing The Time Out Corner Are you someone who neither comments nor reads the comments on SFist? Good for you! Go ahead and move along. OK, now that we've gotten rid of those weirdos, we at SFist are
SF News Phil Bronstein Notices How Awful SFGate Commenters Are, Scolds Them We ourselves tend to avoid doing too much scrolling on SFGate for fear that our eyes will fall upon the shrill, vitriolic, frequently ALL-CAPPED stupidity that is their commenter pool. Today, Phil Bronstein
SF News Comment of the Day: Tea Party Parody SFist commenter fizzandpop captures the mule-like tone of the entertaining Tea Party sect via the following comment on President Barack Obama's re-election bid. Behold: I think he's going to have a fight on
SF News Comment of the Day: Raining on Starbucks Parade After hearing word that Starbucks might acquire Emeryville-based Peet's Coffee & Tea, SFist commenter CetiAlphaFive chimed in with the following gem: I don't usually get so worked up over things like this, but
misc Comment of the Day: How to Steal a Hot Car Responding to the harrowing news that Guy Fieri's yellow Lamborghini was stolen from a Van Ness showroom, DJTennessee revealed the following: The thief will have no harder a time than with any stolen
SF News Comment of the Day: Muni Doesn't Care About Pretending to Care We're breaking out our Comment of the Day again. Sharpen your wits and writing prowess with the hopes that one day you might make it in Comment of the Day. Fame and envy
misc Maintenance Update: Changes to Commenting A word from the Gothamist tech team: Hello! You may have noticed that we've changed the way comments work on Gothamist. About a month ago, we transitioned to Disqus, a third-party comment provider.
misc Pardon Our Dust: Comments Are a Bit Wonky As some of you might have noticed, SFist has a spiffy new comments system this morning. Look, you can "like" each others' comments now! Currently, comments from the previous six days are being
misc Comment du Jour: Sunset Shootings & Pho Pun After SFist commenter Joel mentioned (in "Pedestrian Hit, Killed By Car Fleeing North Beach Shooting") a recent gang-related shooting in front of Kevin's Noodle House in the Sunset, saying, "I think I'm gonna
misc Comment du Jour: Holy Ashes and Public Office SFist will re-energize its comment-of-the-day feature today -- awarding just one comment the honor per day -- starting with this one from charliegal in Photo du Jour 576. See, after making an innocent
misc Bravo PR Caught Astroturfing SFist to Whore Out Horrid Teens Is Bravo's new show, , about a gaggle of vile, murder-worthy teens so poorly received that they have to resort to spamming a site like SFist? Seems so. See, yesterday on SFist, the following
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Great American Food and Music Fest Goes Bad? Saturday's Great American Food and Music Festival looked like it had win written all over it: ' Guy Fieri, alpha-male grilling fanboy Bobby Flay! A16's Nate Appleman! Boulevard's Nancy Oakes! LA's Pink’s
SF News Comment Wars: Eater vs. Yelpers Whether it be his readers or the wait staff at Bar Bambino, Eater editor extraordinaire, Paolo Lucchesi, can get almost anyone whipped up into a frothy frenzy. Take, for example, the very innocent
SF News 'Map of Prop 8 Donors' Heats Up One of the perks of being behind-the-scenes here at SFist is that we get to read all of the angry comments that come after a story has moved away from the home (or
misc Mick LaSalle Feeds the Trolls Chronicle film critic turned amateur psychologist Mick LaSalle has a lot to say about those filthy peons known as commenters. Mainly, that they suck. Hard. In his post "The Real You is the
SF News Moving On Up: Misfiled Hysteria Over SFGate Comments In the Tips Section Moved Things are getting prickly over in the anonymous tips section -- which, as you all well know, should be reserved for delicious tidbits of info only -- so we moved the discussion over
misc Dis of the Year -- Wired vs. Tesla Motors. Future: Tesla 2.0? We’ll bring you up to speed about what's happened since our previous post, (oh the hate mail that generated -- use the Comments Section instead people, that’s what it’s there
SF News Defy Newsom And Face His Wrath We like one of the SFGate commenters' take on the sitch: hit by a car "after getting thrown under the bus by Newsome [sic]." We hit the recommend button on that one! You
SF News SFHomeless Yahoo Group Oh, this looks like fun. While hogging the Internet today, we came across this Yahoo group for the homeless, which bills itself as a "unique, independent, community based support group, moderated by anonymous
misc Pardon Our Dust: Comment Fix In the Works In the meantime, please don't repost your comments. Even if you do get an error message that says your comment did not go through, it is in fact being posted just fine. So
misc Vallejo Mayor Disgusted By Folsom Street Fair But that's the entire point! Anyway, RicardoSF tells us in the comments section here that: In January's issue of The Advocate in the Rants & Raves section -- unavailable online -- -- Openly
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy Let's get it started... "All MTA employees get to ride for free, provided they have their employee badges with them." Question for the Muni Security Guy, isn't it illegal for the fare inspectors
Arts & Entertainment SFGate Dupes a Few Trolls In an effort to tame the trolls, SFGate's site (as well as a few others like ThinkProgress) use software from an outside company that implements a unique "block user" function. This feature blocks
SF News A Special Stand-Alone Thankfulness Post! Yeah, yeah, it's been a crazy few months at the day job for us (thanks for noticing, commenter MHTH! We really are trying to get back to a semi-normal posting schedule again soon,
