Cromartie's comments made for good copy, and lots of folks seemed to agree with him.
So, in August, the department reviewed its rules and decided to post names and photos of only those people arrested on felony charges, not including drunken driving, and shut comments down for good.
And many have done just that, disabling their comment threads for good because they became too taxing to bother with.
"You never look as ugly as you do in a selfie," he commented, adding for good measure that he finds them "ridiculous and grotesque".
It's been predictably mixed: fiery giddiness or ice-cold disdain, with a marginal number of standoffish "Let's see what she comes up with this time" comments thrown in for good measure.
The first participant comment on the Socialdemokraterna posts are often by a party representative who invariably recommends participants to keep their comments focused, requests for good etiquette and presents further links, photographs to support the main post (6/11; Fig. 4).
And because he forecasts that the recession will be deep and long, we can expect Vince Cable will remain the much-sought holy grail of economic comment for a good while yet.
"I see the Thoreau poison working today in many valuable lives," Emerson commented, "in some for good, in some for harm".
There is a market for aggregation services, and yet instead of creating a two way interactive service like Google's still in development SocialStream will be (the real future of aggregation), FriendFeed seems to be nothing more than a fancy RSS service with commenting thrown in for good measure.
These three examples show the potential of post-publication comments as a force for good (and also raise the worrying question about the way that papers with such obvious flaws were able to withstand peer review).
