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    Dsmvwl  Admin  Promote to frontpage Approve user Ban user ×
    Image of Avastmateys Avastmateys
    12/01/09

    In reply to How to Make Quality Comments, Earn a Star and Be a Hero
    Yes there's several other things you can do to earn a star:

    1. Cat burglar skills, and the ability to photograph new tech products with said skills.

    2. Having a girlfriend underwear model who doesn't get snippy when asked to model with the latest cell phone at the AT&T store on the day a new product is available.

    3. Being an underpaid big box tech who doesn't mind sending a spreadsheet of the latest product release plans their way.

    4. A female who is willing to wear the original Star Trek miniskirt and pantyhose uniform.

    5. If you can comment in Klingon, or if you know who is the top rogue in World of Warcraft, can can't tell who won or even played in the last Superbowl...
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    Segador promoted this comment Avastmateys was starred Avastmateys was unstarred
    Image of Segador Segador
    12/01/09

    @Avastmateys: 6. Adding a picture to your profile. It takes 2 seconds and shows that you at least minimally care.
     Reply
    Segador was starred Segador was unstarred
    Image of Slinkytech Slinkytech
    12/01/09

    In reply to How to Make Quality Comments, Earn a Star and Be a Hero
    I've been staring at that picture for a while, and I don't see a boat.
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    Slinkytech was starred Slinkytech was unstarred
    Image of MrEvil MrEvil
    12/01/09

    In reply to How to Make Quality Comments, Earn a Star and Be a Hero
    I am thankful for the star I received not too long ago, and I only hope I can continue making comments than are even better than the one that got me my star.
     Reply
    MrEvil was starred MrEvil was unstarred
    Image of ID Ron Burgundy ID Ron Burgundy
    12/01/09

    In reply to How to Make Quality Comments, Earn a Star and Be a Hero
    I like the #whitenoise tag, both in name and in function. I'm happy to see that the hate for Facebookers has dwindled considerably.
     Reply
    ID Ron Burgundy was starred ID Ron Burgundy was unstarred
    Image of Brickmodder Brickmodder
    12/01/09

    In reply to How to Make Quality Comments, Earn a Star and Be a Hero
    I just came for the MagicEye picture.
    Too much "blah blah" for me to take an *actual* interest in... I'm an office webtard that only has a 15 second webpage attention spa... Squirrel!
     Reply
    Brickmodder was starred Brickmodder was unstarred
    Image of dragon:ONE dragon:ONE
    12/01/09

    In reply to How to Make Quality Comments, Earn a Star and Be a Hero
    As much as the star's nice, it sucks having to have a wee bit more pressure to be the 'ideal' star commenter.

    Of course, a lot of that goes to the wind anyways when people comment here, star or no star.
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    Image of FredicvsMaximvs FredicvsMaximvs
    12/01/09

    @dragon:ONE: You don't really have to be "ideal." Just don't bring the suck, and all will be well. ;)
     Reply
    FredicvsMaximvs was starred FredicvsMaximvs was unstarred
    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/01/09

    In reply to How to Make Quality Comments, Earn a Star and Be a Hero
    pffft, that's all a bunch of bullcrap. all you have to do is be funnier or as funny as me. so... good luck with that.
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    nutbastard was starred nutbastard was unstarred
    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    12/01/09

    @nutbastard: He raises a good point...

    I don't think I've ever seen that nutbastard use a capital letter.

    (Maybe nutbastard = matt's alter-ego?)
     Reply
    OCEntertainment was starred OCEntertainment was unstarred
    Image of blash blash
    12/01/09

    @nutbastard: A Gizmodo commenter and a troll stumble upon a Genie in a lamp. The Genie decides to grant each 1 wish.

    The troll says "I wish all my fellow trolls were all camped together on Gizmodo to piss them off." The Genie says, "Nope, can't do that, their comment system is immune to trolls." The troll replies, "oh well I'll settle for all of us camped together on Engadget" so the Genie goes "poof!" and the troll and all his buddies are happy trolling away on Engadget.

    The Genie then asks the Gizmodo commenter what he would like. The Gizmodo commenter asks, "You mean to tell me that all the trolls are off my site and they're all destroying the quality of my rival site?" The Genie replies that yes, it's true. So the Gizmodo commenter replies, "well then, I'll have a Coke."

    #whitenoise
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    Edited by blash at 12/01/09 4:10 PM blash was starred blash was unstarred
    Image of Bertone77 Bertone77
    12/01/09

    In reply to How to Make Quality Comments, Earn a Star and Be a Hero
    Quick suggestion: since the #whitenoise tag is now the "official" name of the informal forum, can we get a link up by the "share" box/banner next to tips, dealzmodo, broken, etc....to make it easier to access?
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    Bertone77 was starred Bertone77 was unstarred
    Image of Gaucho85 Gaucho85
    12/01/09

    In reply to How to Make Quality Comments, Earn a Star and Be a Hero
    I kind of wish that if you get starred in one blog it would carry over to the other Gawker sites.
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    Image of fleebailey33 fleebailey33
    12/01/09

    @Gaucho85: I actually thought it did... Or maybe i just have more stars then i thought?
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    fleebailey33 was starred fleebailey33 was unstarred
    Image of korybing korybing
    12/01/09

    @Gaucho85: I think that sometimes, since I would like to be starred here like I am at io9, but the Gawker blogs cover a pretty big range of interests. While my comments are apparently star-quality over at io9 (I still don't know how that happened, honestly), they wouldn't be anywhere near useful over at Jalopnik, since I know jack-all about cars.
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    Gaucho85 promoted this comment korybing was starred korybing was unstarred
    Image of Bertone77 Bertone77
    12/01/09

    @fleebailey33: Same here, I comment on Jalopnik, Gizmodo and Lifehacker and each time the star shows up. You just have to be sure to sign in on each blog.
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    Bertone77 was starred Bertone77 was unstarred
    Image of Gaucho85 Gaucho85
    12/01/09

    @korybing: I'm mostly on Giz, io9 and Kotaku (and Lifehacker pretty often.) I only have a star on Giz but I've been commenting on Kotaku for a lot longer. I guess my insights on Ratchet and Clank aren't as thought provoking as I thought.
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    Gaucho85 was starred Gaucho85 was unstarred
    Image of ProfessionalGun ProfessionalGun
    12/01/09

    @fleebailey33: Now that would be something. . . commenters walking around with 4-star general status. . . .
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    OMG! Ponies! promoted this comment ProfessionalGun was starred ProfessionalGun was unstarred
    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/01/09

    @ProfessionalGun: And we also get these nifty military uniforms with braids, medals and ribbons.

    Kaiser-Machead earned himself a Lam Medal Of Distinction for his comments in the Apple Flamewar of April 23, 2008.
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    OMG! Ponies! was starred OMG! Ponies! was unstarred
    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    12/01/09

    @Gaucho85: They used to do so, and some bug on the previous iteration allowed them to cross the sites also. I know for sure that if you have an old star (Like Mr. Ponies!, or 92BuickLeSabre,) before the comment overhaul, it travels no matter what.

    I think that same bug might be cropping up again though...
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    Scotland promoted this comment Edited by Ruthless, If you let me at 12/01/09 4:25 PM Ruthless, If you let me was starred Ruthless, If you let me was unstarred
    Image of Stevox Stevox
    12/01/09

    In reply to How to Make Quality Comments, Earn a Star and Be a Hero
    My gut reaction to this article was that Jason came off a little douchey, but after reading some comments on Engadget, I fully support these rules. Gizmodo's panoply of excellent commenters keep me reading long after I've forgotten what the post was about.
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    OMG! Ponies! promoted this comment Stevox was starred Stevox was unstarred
    Image of lankysob lankysob
    12/01/09

    @Stevox: I broke up with Engadget two years ago and decided to go steady with Gizmodo for that exact same reason. If the topic written by one person can't be expounded upon in a semi-helpul, semi-rational way by the commenters, what use is that community to me? None. A lot of times I find just as much (if not more) useful information on Gizmodo and Lifehacker in the comments as the original article itself.
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    Scotland promoted this comment lankysob was starred lankysob was unstarred
    Image of Scotland Scotland
    12/01/09

    In reply to How to Make Quality Comments, Earn a Star and Be a Hero
    Is this announcement being made on all the Gawker blogs? [kotaku.com] (1040 comments!)

    What Gawker website has the best commenters (or which one has the least bad ones)?

    [www.bestofthe2000s.com] - Gizmodo needs more votes.
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    Scotland was starred Scotland was unstarred
    Image of Segador Segador
    12/01/09

    In reply to How to Make Quality Comments, Earn a Star and Be a Hero
    Sometimes someone make a pointless or idiotic comment, but a down-thread response to that comment is solid gold. I'd love the option to "promote this comment only", as opposed to the whole thread.
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    Edited by Segador at 12/01/09 2:49 PM Segador was starred Segador was unstarred
    Image of anexanhume anexanhume
    12/01/09

    @Segador: You still need the original comment for context, no?
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    anexanhume was starred anexanhume was unstarred
    Image of Segador Segador
    12/01/09

    @anexanhume: Most of the time, yes, but not always.
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    Segador was starred Segador was unstarred
    Image of Lysdexia_NoKotakuEdition Lysdexia_NoKotakuEdition
    12/01/09

    In reply to How to Make Quality Comments, Earn a Star and Be a Hero
    What happens if a starred commenter accidentally promotes an asshat's thread simply because it's automatic?
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    bornonbord promoted this comment Lysdexia_NoKotakuEdition was starred Lysdexia_NoKotakuEdition was unstarred
    Image of bornonbord bornonbord
    12/01/09

    @Lysdexia_NoKotakuEdition: oops.

    ;-)
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    bornonbord was starred bornonbord was unstarred
    Image of Lysdexia_NoKotakuEdition Lysdexia_NoKotakuEdition
    12/02/09

    @bornonbord: Ooooh I see what you did there!
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    Lysdexia_NoKotakuEdition was starred Lysdexia_NoKotakuEdition was unstarred
    Image of Nick Nick
    12/01/09

    In reply to How to Make Quality Comments, Earn a Star and Be a Hero
    We like to see good spelling and grammar

    Wees likes to sees best grammars and shi*.

    /fixed
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    Nick was starred Nick was unstarred
    Image of ninjagin ninjagin
    12/01/09

    In reply to How to Make Quality Comments, Earn a Star and Be a Hero
    I'd just like to add that I frequently visit just to promote comment threads I like, and yes, I do read the unfeatured discussions as well. I'm not alone in this, either. If you're irritated about falling off the front page, and you're making an effort to keep things lively, keep commenting!
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    Image of Tiger-Fever Tiger-Fever
    12/01/09

    @ninjagin: I'm seconding this! I promote way more than I post. Although I would appreciate it if replying to a comment didn't automatically promote it (and I think approves users?). Sometimes I just want to answer a simple question that doesn't need to be promoted, just needs to be answered.
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    Tiger-Fever was starred Tiger-Fever was unstarred
    Image of FigNinja FigNinja
    12/01/09

    @Tiger-Fever: I sometimes leave a private message for that.
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    FigNinja was starred FigNinja was unstarred
    Image of FredicvsMaximvs FredicvsMaximvs
    12/01/09

    @ninjagin: Same here. I've often found that if I arrive later in the life of a thread, usually there's someone who has already said what I was going to. So I just promote that comment instead of adding my two bits.
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