dude, it's called adblockplus. google it.

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why would he come before he has sex with you?

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ban.

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Yes, your comment was.

Maybe next time (if you get a next time) try actually putting some thought/content into your comment?

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Come on, Giz. Something needs to be done about all this incredibly stupid commenting of late. All the non-Facebook commenters have had to earn the right to be able to comment by first demonstrating they had something at least slightly clever to say. What happened to that? Now with Facebookers being allowed to automatically flood the comments without being screended and without regard to commenting ability, Giz is becoming (has become) a graveyard for dullard dronings.

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anyway.

iProd?

Maybe it's a iPod in the shape and form of a prodding stick. An extra long ipod shuffle perhaps? We might even see a button!

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I actually LOVE Facebook, have my own account and am using it to network with filmmakers/photographers. Indeed, I actually welcome Facebookers to Gizmodo; more readers can only be a good thing.

BUT.

Where I am deeply troubled is by the apparent fact that Facebookers arrive in Giz with the ability to comment automatically enabled. So, where some FBrs will have actual fun or insightful things to say, others will be just...well...stupid.

Prior to this new arrangement, AFAIK, for years Gizmodo had it set up that your comments would not appear until you had first been approved by someone in Giz. While not a failsafe way to prevent lameness (and it could also inadvertently block/delay otherwise good/interesting commenters--I know this from firsthand experience) it at least kept the quality of comment up at a much higher level. (Well, sometimes.)

Now, without pre-screening, it's a free-for-all of banality.

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I haven't been a member for that long either, although I remember how there was no commenting feature for years, so I guess I'm too old school.

Now get off mah lawn, all of you!

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your first few comments are normally not posted until a moderator reads em and gives you the thumbs up. they sit in comment limbo. since most jackasses cant resist being dumbshits on the first comment, it's a reasonably good filter.

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That means more $$ for Giz, hence the propensity toward inflamatory articles and less policing on the commenters. A while back, when times weren't so lean, they could afford to seperate the wheat from the chaff, as it were. Now that chaff, though it chafes us, means more potential income for them, and so they tolerate it (with only extreme exceptions).

Note that there hasn't been much disemvowelling or banhammering lately, despite the rampant idiocy. Banning people increases the likelihood that they'll descrease their readership. Especially with Facebook, where the friend-of-a-friend model alters the way Giz gets new click throughs.

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