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Re:Skittles.com: Interweb the rainbow by SwellJoe on Monday March 02, 2009 @10:30AM (#500173)
I don't think your comment deserved downmods, either. It just seemed, to me, to be a simplistic view of the situation, and maybe the one that the old media would take (along the lines of Fox News approach to the Internet: a place for child predators and cyberterrorists). And, so, I made a joke that I thought pointed out the ridiculousness of that simple view; when you give your customers the ability to say anything they will say bad and good things. And that's OK. It doesn't mean anyone approves...just that people get to have their say.

My little moment of bitchery was about the humorless folks who've been voting down comic gold around these parts because it's biting. I've seen it enough lately, in my posts and others, that it feels like a pattern. And it's a pattern I don't like.

Re:Skittles.com: Interweb the rainbow by scott_s on Monday March 02, 2009 @11:20AM (#500234)
I don't think his comment endorsed that view at all. I saw it as a surprised reaction to see blatant racism on the front page of the website for a popular candy.

Also: you have to consider that people aren't voting you down because your humor is biting, but because it's not funny and doesn't add to the conversation.

Re:Skittles.com: Interweb the rainbow by SwellJoe on Monday March 02, 2009 @03:23PM (#500566)
you have to consider that people aren't voting you down because your humor is biting, but because it's not funny and doesn't add to the conversation

Maybe you're rig....nah! That's not it!

Ninny.