This stance will not endure.  They will eventually give in.  I remember when The New Yorker took up the position that the internet would not be an appropriate medium for them.  That lasted a couple of years, tops.

Keep fighting the good fight, G.

How did this place get so damn sensitive?  The deleted comment below is a case in point.  Stop listening to all that Bon Iver type music and man the fuck up people.

Hmm.

This sort of species-ism is why they introduced flagging.

But it grew weary of demanding humor from her a long time ago.

Allen Haysoos is an alien?  That sounds like profiling to me.  Which is legal in Arizona.

Looked like a bunch of apes from Oakland tried to take over Candlestick last weekend.

Are you a bear, @avclub-bc68599029928a93ff775e686c3be325:disqus ?  It's hard to tell.  And do you hang out in the Castro?  That would be confusing.

You have explained 9/11 and 8/23 quite concisely, SarCCastro.

I always wanted to be unregistered, Sean O'Neal.  It's hard to chill when a tiny insignificant piece of your world has been turned upside down.

Why would they diminish their regal stature on the comment boards?  They had no fucking idea what they were doing with this change.

AV Club's 8/23 comment switch caused this.

Just like Deadliest Catch meets Ice Road Truckers.

They've been hiding all day.  I haven't seen a single staff comment today.

The 8/23 switch resulted in the Pentagon being evacuated today.

I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said "Keep Austin Dawes."

Does anybody look at Jeremy Piven and NOT think "Douche?"

http://www.chicagotribune.c…

O'Neal is a cat person who reads In Touch Weekly.  I'm really beginning to doubt the accuracy of his twitter pic.