How To Talk Amongst Yourselves Using #whitenoise

Here at Gizmodo we've created a special place for you commenters to post just about anything you want. We call it #whitenoise and here's how to use it... More »

How to Make Quality Comments, Earn a Star and Be a Hero

In the spirit of holiday house-cleaning, it's time for a crash course in comments etiquette. What can you do? What should you definitely never do? What, in effect, do we want from you, Citizen Commenter? More »

Name Your Own Forum Section - Need More Entries

As you know, our comments recently got overhauled to allow you to contribute and make commenting pages of your own. Now we're making an entirely new section just for you guys to talk. And we want you to name it. More »

Comment Intern Needed to Wield the Mighty Banhammer Against Trolls

We are looking for someone who will take full control of our comment system and only use the power for good, not evil. It is easy work, but extremely important, so we're gonna pay you. But only a bit. UPDATE. More »

Look Sharp: Gizmodo Comments Need Work

The comments have been fairly terrible lately. I've spent some time going through and handing out some stars to the good ones, but it's not enough. I need you guys to stay on topic, on point, and star commenters, promote those comments you think contribute to the conversation. Also: Do not feed the trolls anything but banhammers. XOXO, Blam

New Comments System! NEW COMMENTS SYSTEM!

Hey, transistor faces. Heads up: we've just made a new comment system that will hopefully (we think) make comments much more readable and allow us to do some cool things. Here's what you need to know.

How To Comment: Link To Comments

Have you ever wanted to link to a specific comment on Gizmodo to share with beloved Friends? It's much easier than you think, here's how: More »

How to Comment: Commenter RSS

Last week Lifehacker showed you the elaborate process needed to receive Comment Reply Notifications, but this week we'll take it a littler slower with Commenter RSS Feeds. Here's How: More »

How To Comment: Set Up Reply Notifications

Lifehacker has a great tutorial on how to Set Up Comment Reply Notifications, and if you missed their post a few days ago here it is again. More »

How To Comment: Read It Your Way

You might have glazed over it before but our comment system at Giz allows you to personalize your comment reading experience. Here's how: More »

How to Comment: Friendly Messages

Remember a few weeks ago when we showed you how to make Friends on Gizmodo? Did you know you can leave your new friends messages? Here's how: More »

We Didn't Start the Flamewar Video is the Definition of Epic

Well, this about sums up the internet, doesn't it? Wow. More »

How to Comment: Etiquette

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How to Comment: Follow Your Friends

We don't want you to feel like a loner so we've given commenters the ability to make friends, it's extremely simple and for most of you it will be much easier than in real life. Sorry that last bit was a joke, I'm sure you have no problem making friends... More »

How to Comment: Facebook Users Welcome

Our comment system has evolved pretty rapidly over the past few years, adding features like threaded comments, ability to follow friends and one of our newest features using your Facebook account for comments. More »

How to Comment: Hello Again

It's been a while since we explained how to use your Giz given right to speak up and become a valued commenter. So here's how: More »

Hello Commenters, Let's Talk (You Need to Read This)

Hey guys, it's a new year, and we have all these new people from this new Facebook Connect thing, so let's talk about commenting at Gizmodo for a minute. More »

You Can Now Comment on Gizmodo With Your Facebook Account

If you've always wanted to comment on Gizmodo but didn't want to sign up for yet another login, now you can comment using your Facebook account. Here's how. More »

This Wacky Comment System: Friends and the Collapsed Comments on Page 2

So you may have noticed, dear commenters, that when you move onto the second page of comments, they're mostly collapsed. What's the deal with that? Well, now, when you move onto the second page of comments, the only expanded comments will be those written by star commenters and those written by your friends. Want more of them to be expanded? I have two simple solutions for you. More »

Comments Update: Permalink Threads, Popular Conversations

We have a couple of new, cool features for you commenters out there: permalink threads and most popular sorting. How do they work? Well, the timestamp next to each thread in comments (a comment and its responses) is now a link to that thread that stands on its own. You can direct people to that conversation specifically using it. As for popular sorting, you should now see a "Most Popular" link at the top of comment threads. Clicking it brings you to a page showing the threads with the largest number of replies, with the discussion with the most replies on top. Try 'em out and let us know what you think!

Update: Threaded Comments Now Chronological

A quick update to yesterday's comments upgrade: comments are now chronological again. There's still threading, and replies will appear under the comment that they're replying to, but new comments that aren't replies will go at the end of the conversation. This should make things much easier to follow. Thanks for the feedback, and keep it coming! We'll keep tweaking this until it's as good as it can be, because we care so much about you, our valuable readers. Group hug, all y'all!

New Giz Feature: Threaded Comments

Welcome to the future, my friends. As of today, Gizmodo (and all the other Gawker sites) now have threaded comments. What's this mean for you? Well, it means that comment threads will no longer be one long list of chronological comments. Instead, when you reply to a specific comment, your comment will go right underneath it. Let's look at it a bit more in depth, shall we? More »

Commenters, Can We Have A Talk AGAIN?

Well, commenters, here we are again. After we had our little talk a month ago it seems like what we went over hasn't really taken hold. The number of off-topic conversations hasn't really decreased and complaints from your fellow commenters are piling up. Instead of running wild with the banhammer, we figured we owed it to you guys to have another talk. More »

Hey Commenters, Can We Have A Talk ?

For all you commenters, this post is intended for you. We at Gizmodo want to go over a few things. Off topic comments, a new comment specific email address, and reasons we ban are on the agenda. So if you're a frequent commenter or just starting out, let us have a few words with you. Oh and, if you haven't already checked out Lifehacker's amazing commenting user's guide, you definitely should. More »

Comment of the Day

Hey commenters: Despite what we may say to one another, I know deep down we are one big happy family. So after sifting through the daily dose of "Will it blend?"s, "DO (NOT) WANT"s, insane rants, conspiracy theories, and this well-crafted missive, I found something that was both funny and out of the ordinary, and it represents how much you all mean to me. True, it did come from the legend Strider_mt2k, but this is good advice for you up-and-comers who hope to see your own comment up in the bright lights one day. So here it is, your comment of the day, a quick one-liner found on the Massive Lens post: More »

MacBook Air: Vent or Praise in this Flamewar Thread

Apple's products are usually divisive, but it's rare to see the kind of "I LOVE IT, YOU SUCK!" and "I HATE IT, YOU'RE AN IDIOT" reaction they've gotten with the MacBook Air. Well, here's a post for you readers to go nuts in, either explaining to the world why the MacBook Air is the harbinger of the apocalypse, or why it's the beacon of light that will save humanity from a future stuffed full of thighs crushed by heavy laptops. And like our last flamewar thread, you cannot be banned for anything you say in this thread. If your insanity carries over to another thread, however, bye bye. Here's how to comment.

Comment Of The Day

Today's comment of the day actually comes from the Question of the Day and is another response type comment. The comment was made by RIPFIRE4 and was addressing morganlh85 's inability to find a decent watch. More »

Comment Of The Day

The video showing the SmartNav hands-free mouse that controls your PC with your head was just waiting to be made fun of, and that's exactly what our comment of the day did. NUTBASTARD 's (if you think his name is ultra-cool, you should see his avatar; appears to be a bona-fide badass) comment with reference to a Tilaka and his use of trademark symbols proved to be a comment that was simply a cut above the rest, and so it must be awarded with the comment of the day. More »

Comment Of The Day

Since yesterday's comment of the day was so popular, we struggled to find one today that would be just as compelling... At first it seemed that a comment in the Apple Year-End Report Card was going to take it, but then about 40 other commenters said the same thing, by also calling the Giz "fanboys"; so that quickly became unoriginal. Then the comment of the day was found, and we know at least one commenter will agree, EMOSHUNZ that means you. OMG!!! PONIES!!! 's comment on Bill Gates' recent Mexican investment, is a well thought-out joke that we couldn't help but award with the comment of the day. And to all those fanboy callin', Apple haters, you'll probably like this one too... More »

Comment Of The Day

Today's comment of the day was actually a reply to the worst comment of the day (go figure); and can both be found under another one of our excuses to post pictures of a woman, in Christmas attire, holding gadgety junk. To make sure you get the comments full effect, we'll post the worst comment first, and then the reply after. Oh yea, almost forgot to mention, congrats to Adam Frucci (hmm, sounds familiar) for posting the comment of the day. More »

Comment Of The Day

Today's comment of the day came to us while browsing the comments for the Turbo Toaster; and although we anticipated to read jokes criticizing the Queen lovin' Redcoat's inability to make tasty food, this comment was sadly not one of them. Dustybutt's (wish that wasn't his name) comment proved to be very entertaining by not only making a joke of a crazy product idea but also having a superb choice of delivery. So without further adieu, here is the comment of the day, by our very own, Dustybutt.. More »

A Gift for Our Beloved Commenters

As an early Christmas present to our commenters, we are announcing new and improved commenting features. These new features include following friends, tracking comments and an updated profile page. Since we know you're gonna love your present, here's how it works. More »

How to Comment: Team Fortress 2

After winning Halo 3 last month, the Giz crew's decided to move on to Team Fortress 2. Any readers interested in playing with/against us on Xbox Live? If so, leave your gamertag in the comments and we'll get something going. You can even get some reader on reader matches going to fight it out for who loves Adam Frucci the most. No hair pulling or biting—there's enough of him to go around. More »

How to Comment: Leopard

We're definitely enjoying the upgrades that a new OS brings, from increased productivity to new features we didn't even know we needed. We've got a Question of the Day today on Leopard and how you're faring with the install. Like it? Dislike it? Can't even get it installed? Let us know. Here's how to comment: More »

How to Comment: Two Days Left

Only two days left until the Gizmodo vs. Kotaku Halo match is here. We're still working on how we're going to record Kotaku's loss for posterity, but you can catch it live on Justin.tv at 8 p.m. PST (11PM EST). We'll be liveblogging it as well, so expect to see lots of "8:53: I just teabagged Crecente." To get a sneak preview of how that looks, check out the picture above. More »

How to Comment: This is How We Roll

You see that? That's what's going to happen again next Thursday when the Gizmodo vs. Kotaku match is on. Except instead of just me corpse humping them, it's going to be all of us. Can you taste it? More »

How to Comment: OK, ANOTHER Change of Halo Plans

Apparently Kotaku "doesn't have time" this Thursday to participate in the Halo match. They have "more important stuff to do" and "will have to move it to next Thursday". If you ask us? Our ever-increasing rank on Halo makes them nervous—and they need more time to practice. Either that, or they're actually busy. Which one do you think is true?! More »

How to Comment: Halo's On

Slight change to our Halo match against Kotaku. It's going to be Thursday instead of Friday, and we're going to try and Justin.TV it live, as well as try and liveblog it while it happens. After the match is done, we'll try and capture video from the replay and post it up. Look forward to animated gifs of us corpse humping Crecente. More »