I understand. And if someone had pointed out the specific problem they had with my remark (which you finally did - thank you), I would not have gone on and on about laugh tracks, I would have said oh I see your point, sorry that was not my intention, The End.

B.

Every review I've read mentions the laugh track, so I decided to post the information that they don't use a laugh track. That's ALL I was doing there. I was not endorsing slavery or jokes about slavery, I was correcting the notion that this show uses a laugh track.

I think you think I'm trying to defend the show or something. I'm saying there's a difference - a laugh track is the same people laughing in the same way each and every time (for an example search for the youtube "How I Met Your Mother supercut canned laughter") and "sweetening"* is people in the specific audience of…

That is not "using a laugh track," that's "sweetening." They are not the same thing.

They don't use a laugh track, something they have stated repeatedly, plus it's filmed in front of a live audience, so no - it's not sarcasm, just an FYI for the reviewer. Who has mentioned the laugh track in every review I've read.

They don't use a laugh track.

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I believe you're exactly right. It's the grocery-aisle-rearrangement approach to web design.

Anybody else wonder if he's really a mole?

It's even worse if you have bad vision and already set the fonts to be larger. Now they're gigantic, and screaming at me.

Love your username.

Not only that, but (for me anyway) clicking on anything with commentary takes me directly to the comments - skipping the article and the ads entirely. I have to scroll up to see those. This is the one single sort-of-advantage of this godawful redesign.

I think that's it - I registered with Disqus to comment on another site and that's the one that's showing up here now.