Of course. It wouldn't be The A.V. Club comments without that.

The Newswire layout isn't about inflating pageviews through auto-load. 95 percent of our traffic comes from people clicking on a single article on Facebook (the vast majority of them through Newswire and GJI). At least half of those people, when they are done with the Newswire, click away. The idea behind the scroll…

I don't know how we're "artificially inflating" them so much as just giving them to smaller pieces that deserve them. If no one would have clicked on, say, a Your Old Droog review on its own, but now a reader is seeing one, solely because they wanted to read this week's music reviews, then why isn't that a good…

Cool, it'll be like Quadrophenia up in here.

No. To be honest, I'm not sure how those URL numbers are generated, but it's not that we wrote reviews that were then discarded.

The way this is formatted, similar to Newswire, every review in the article has its own individual URL, which counts as its own pageview when you scroll past it. Before, our separate music review articles were among the lowest-read on the site, because people tended to just ignore artists they'd never heard of. This…

Well, thanks. Those articles will still be here. The commenting community will still be here, albeit on the side instead of the bottom.

You're the guy who just said he never reads the articles and only comes here to comment, right?

It's actually more like 1.5 percent.

It presents those casual, pop-in readers with more content that they might then click on.

We want more readers to click on things we write, giving us the traffic that allows us to exist.

As I said, the scrolling format allows us to present casual, pop-in readers with more news stories. The comments have to be fly-out to work with that.

Having been part of the staff for the past 11 years, I can tell you that no one who's been in charge during my decade-plus here would have told the author of that Bill Maher article any such thing.

Of course. I wasn't trying to diminish his overall contributions in that string of descriptors; just remarking on the one that was the most unusual among rock bands at the time.

Yawing, not yawning.

No one's debating whether his performance was good, they're debating whether the Oscars would have broken its historic disregard to recognize it without those tragic circumstances you yourself mention. And if you click on that link you'll see that yes, people debate it.

No.

No you weren't.