The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.To generate a link to a specific comment all you have to do is click the Time & Date under the commenter's username and the URL in your browser will automatically point to that comment. If you want to easily copy that link just right click and Copy Link. It's that simple!


Don't have a Gizmodo comment account yet? Well here's how you get one:

1) Click the "Login" link on the top right of the page and doing so will show a drop down box for logging in. Click the "new user?" link and you'll be directed to our Registration page. Fill out the form by choosing a username, password and email for your eventual comment account.

2) Choose a post, click on it, and scroll to the bottom.

3) Fill in the comment.

4) Refresh the page to see if your comment shows up. If it hasn't within a day or two, try again with a better comment.

5) If you have any comment related issues or questions, feel free to send an email to comments@gizmodo.com.

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If you've got that special commenter that you can't get enough of, the first step in stalking them is setting up an RSS feed that will notify you as soon as they make a comment. It's super easy! All you have to do is navigate to that commenter's profile page, I'm sure you already have it bookmarked, and in the top right corner under Giz Login you'll see a RSS Feed button. Simply click the RSS feed button and your browser or default RSS reader should do the rest.

Don't have a Gizmodo comment account yet? Well here's how you get one:

1) Click the "Login" link on the top right of the page and doing so will show a drop down box for logging in. Click the "new user?" link and you'll be directed to our Registration page. Fill out the form by choosing a username, password and email for your eventual comment account.

2) Choose a post, click on it, and scroll to the bottom.

3) Fill in the comment.

4) Refresh the page to see if your comment shows up. If it hasn't within a day or two, try again with a better comment.

5) If you have any comment related issues or questions, feel free to send an email to comments@gizmodo.com.

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I mean, you do realize, all those fancy Kindle DX firmware functions, like .pdf support and line length adjustment (an easy way to add space to the margins), won't be coming to the Kindle 2 or Kindle 1. Amazon claims that these updates are dependent on screen size. But wouldn't you prefer to make that judgment on your own? Wouldn't you prefer to at least have the option to view a .pdf natively?

Let it all out in the comments at Amazon's expense (which is technically your expense, if you've bought a Kindle or any other product from the company). You can't be banned in this thread, haters. So get mean.

The LH post explains:

When you're done with this little walkthrough, you can either grab an RSS feed that contains only replies to your comments (which you can then plug into your newsreader) or you can go one step further and set up email alerts for your comment reply notifications.

So If you're hungry for some comment reply notifications, Lifehacker's how to should whet your appetite.

Don't have a Gizmodo comment account yet? Well here's how you get one:

1) Click the "Login" link on the top right of the page and doing so will show a drop down box for logging in. Click the "new user?" link and you'll be directed to our Registration page. Fill out the form by choosing a username, password and email for your eventual comment account.

2) Choose a post, click on it, and scroll to the bottom.

3) Fill in the comment.

4) Refresh the page to see if your comment shows up. If it hasn't within a day or two, try again with a better comment.

5) If you have any comment related issues or questions, feel free to send an email to comments@gizmodo.com.

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Atop the comment's section of each post you'll see all the customizable viewing options related to the comments below. The selections are pretty self explanatory which give you the ability to view comments via RSS and change the view style to classic or expand all. You're also able to change the order in which comments are displayed from oldest first, newest first and by most popular. For those of you who love reading comments and didn't already know about these features, welcome to Giz world of customization.

Don't have a Gizmodo comment account yet? Well here's how you get one:

1) Click the "Login" link on the top right of the page and doing so will show a drop down box for logging in. Click the "new user?" link and you'll be directed to our Registration page. Fill out the form by choosing a username, password and email for your eventual comment account.

2) Choose a post, click on it, and scroll to the bottom.

3) Fill in the comment.

4) Refresh the page to see if your comment shows up. If it hasn't within a day or two, try again with a better comment.

5) If you have any comment related issues or questions, feel free to send an email to comments@gizmodo.com.

After you've made a friend simply click their commenter name and you'll be redirected to their profile page. Once you're at a friend's profile page click the Message link under their screen name and you'll now see a Leave a Message box followed by all their recent messages. Just type in your stupid message, select if you want to make it public and hit submit. It's that simple, but remember you can only leave messages for your friends and not just any commenter.


Don't have a Gizmodo comment account yet? Well here's how you get one:

1) Click the "Login" link on the top right of the page and doing so will show a drop down box for logging in. Click the "new user?" link and you'll be directed to our Registration page. Fill out the form by choosing a username, password and email for your eventual comment account.

2) Choose a post, click on it, and scroll to the bottom.

3) Fill in the comment.

4) Refresh the page to see if your comment shows up. If it hasn't within a day or two, try again with a better comment.

5) If you have any comment related issues or questions, feel free to send an email to comments@gizmodo.com.

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Commenting on Gizmodo isn't hard, essentially it should be fun and enlightening. Some of our commenters have trouble understanding that and instead they choose to be dumb.

For the most part our commenters and their contributions to Giz are irreplaceable and add that extra level of insight. If you're posting good comments this message isn't directed at you, it's for that other guy.

We're talking about anyone who posts such overplayed dumb comments like "First", "Will It Blend", "Fanboys" and so on. Having good commenting etiquette isn't hard and to help you out here's a few simple tips:

Before you make a comment ask yourself:
- Has my comment been made before ?
- Is my comment dumb ?
- Does my comment add anything positive to the discussion ?

If you follow those three tips you should be on your way making insightful and respectable comments. For more info on what's an acceptable comment and what's not feel free to catch up here or here.

Don't have a Gizmodo comment account yet? Well here's how you get one:

1) Click the "Login" link on the top right of the page and doing so will show a drop down box for logging in. Click the "new user?" link and you'll be directed to our Registration page. Fill out the form by choosing a username, password and email for your eventual comment account.

2) Choose a post, click on it, and scroll to the bottom.

3) Fill in the comment.

4) Refresh the page to see if your comment shows up. If it hasn't within a day or two, try again with a better comment.

5) If you have any comment related issues or questions, feel free to send an email to comments@gizmodo.com.

Note: Any commenters who feel the need to post stupid comments like "First" in this post will be immediately banned.

To "Follow" or "Friend" another commenter is simple, once you are logged into your commenting account and you have found a commenter you want to befriend, just click that little heart under their name. Once that heart turns red a message should display on the side of the comment window confirming your friendship. You can now celebrate your popularity.


Don't have a Gizmodo comment account yet? Well here's how you get one:

1) Click the "Login" link on the top right of the page and doing so will show a drop down box for logging in. Click the "new user?" link and you'll be directed to our Registration page. Fill out the form by choosing a username, password and email for your eventual comment account.

2) Choose a post, click on it, and scroll to the bottom.

3) Fill in the comment.

4) Refresh the page to see if your comment shows up. If it hasn't within a day or two, try again with a better comment.

5) If you have any comment related issues or questions, feel free to send an email to comments@gizmodo.com.

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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.

First, go to any post that you want to comment in. Then, click the Facebook Connect button, enter your login and you're done. Your username will have a little Facebook 'F' logo so people will know you're a FB user as well.
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If you don't have a Facebook account or using your FB to comment isn't really your style, you can still sign up for a good ol' Gizmodo comment account.

1) Click the "Login" link on the top right of the page and doing so will show a drop down box for logging in. Click the "new user?" link and you'll be directed to our Registration page. Fill out the form by choosing a username, password and email for your eventual comment account.

2) Choose a post, click on it, and scroll to the bottom.

3) Fill in the comment.

4) Refresh the page to see if your comment shows up. If it hasn't within a day or two, try again with a better comment.

5) If you have any comment related issues or questions, feel free to send an email to comments@gizmodo.com.

Note: Don't flame Facebook users just because they're using Facebook. Do it individually if a person is being an idiot, not to the entire Facebook-user community. – JC

1) Click the "Login" link on the top right of the page and doing so will show a drop down box for logging in. Click the "new user?" link and you'll be directed to our Registration page. Fill out the form by choosing a username, password and email for your eventual comment account.

2) Choose a post, click on it, and scroll to the bottom.

3) Fill in the comment.

4) Refresh the page to see if your comment shows up. If it hasn't within a day or two, try again with a better comment.

5) If you have any comment related issues or questions, feel free to send an email to comments@gizmodo.com.

Update: Also, don't flame Facebook users just because they're using Facebook. Do it individually if a person is being an idiot, not to the entire Facebook-user community. – JC

Comment Email Address - For All Your Commenting Needs
First up, Gizmodo has a specific email address just for comment related concerns. Emails about account approval, account problems, banning questions, thread problems and even requests for banning will all be handled through this email. So here it is, COMMENTS@GIZMODO.COM, shouldn't be too hard to remember.

What Will Get You Banned
If you didn't already know, we have an all-mighty banhammer of Thor that we can use to smash your commenting account to pieces, forever. Here's what'll get you smacked with it, guaranteed: obscene, racists, trolling, mean, spammer, stupid, or completely off-topic comments. So if you see that your account has been banned, please check your stupid ass comments before you send an email to COMMENTS@GIZMODO.COM asking why you can't comment. Nine times out of 10, I'm sure you'll see why.

Because it's easier than ever to get a commenter account, we've got more commenters than ever, which inevitably more stupid comments than ever as well. So the banhammer sensitivity has been turned up to threat level orange.

Other Stuff That'll Get You Banned
From here on out, long commenter names will get you a warning, then a ban. Like our cynical, chain-smoking cousins over at Gawker, we've decided tacking a bunch of stars on the end or other craziness is annoying, and it busts up site formatting. We're going to go around starting Monday, but be pro-active and change your name now, so it's less crap to deal with for everyone.

Also bannable: Cries of "first," asking if something will blend, welcoming any kind of overlords and other cliche stupidity.

I hope our little talk wasn't too harsh. We value all you commenters and enjoy the additional insight you add to Gizmodo. We just want it to be good for everyone. If you guys have any ideas or features you would like to see happen in the Giz comment world, please feel free to let us know. And don't forget COMMENTS@GIZMODO.COM is where you're gonna send all that comment related junk.

The first is to use the "Expand All" link right at the top of the comments. There was previously a bug that caused this link to not work. It is now fixed. Simply click this and all the comments will be expanded and easy to read. Bingo bango.

The second option is to add more friends. Like what certain commenters have to say? It's pretty easy to just click the little heart icon under their name to start following them. Once you do that, their comments will always be expanded for you to read, enjoy and respond to.

As for star commenters, stars are doled out by the staff to our favorite commenters. Want a star? Write better comments, and you'll probably get one. You'll probably get more followers as well! Funny how that works. Don't ask for a star, by the way; that's just tacky.

I hope that clears things up a bit. And thank you, as always, for commenting. Writing for Giz would be no fun without you.

The ladies at Jezebel laid it out pretty nicely, so we'll crib a bit from their explanation:

How are the threads displayed, still in chronological order?
Each conversation will be displayed in chronological order. But organization of the conversations overall will be displayed based on popularity. The most popular conversations will migrate to the top. The most recent comment that has no replies will appear on top for 15 minutes before being filtered down. If a more active conversation receives a reply within those 15 minutes, that conversation will overtake the stand-alone comment.


Where did the plus and minus go?
The plus and minus, which was used to friend or un-friend a fellow commenter, has been replaced by a heart. Friends show a red heart, and the rest are empty.

What's the deal with the star again?
Star commenters were readers who have 25 or more followers, or were designated as stars by a comments admin. With the introduction of threading, the number of followers required to attain star is increasing to 40.

Is there a way to view comments the "old-fashioned" way?
You can switch to the old style comments layout by clicking the "classic view" link in the comments bar at the top of the threads.

So, what do you think? Exciting, no?

And yes, I know change is scary. I saw how many people flipped out when Facebook changed its layout. But hey, change is fun. Give it a shot in the comments below, fiddle around with it, and let us know what you think. As long as what you think is positive, because after how much work our illustrious tech crew put into making this possible, we ain't changing it back. Enjoy!

Secret 2: Type the most clever comment you can think of.

Secret 3: Choose a user name & password, also if you want toss in your email address and select submit.

Now you've done all you can, and it's up to the man children of Gizmodo to determine your commenting fate. If after 24 hours you still can't comment chances are you have not made the cut.

Secret 4: Just try 1-3 again.

If after all this you're still having trouble, just check out our commenting FAQ.– Ben Longo