This sentence contains a provocative statement that attracts the readers’ attention, but really only has very little to do with the topic of the blog post. This sentence claims to follow logically from the first sentence, though the connection is actually rather tenuous. This sentence claims that very few people are willing to admit the obvious inference of the last two sentences, with an implication that the reader is not one of those very few people. This sentence expresses the unwillingness of the writer to be silenced despite going against the popular wisdom. This sentence is a sort of drum roll, preparing the reader for the shocking truth to be contained in the next sentence.
This sentence contains the thesis of the blog post, a trite and obvious statement cast as a dazzling and controversial insight.
This sentence claims that there are many people who do not agree with the thesis of the blog post as expressed in the previous sentence. This sentence speculates as to the mental and ethical character of the people mentioned in the previous sentence. This sentence contains a link to the most egregiously ill-argued, intemperate, hateful and ridiculous example of such people the author could find. This sentence is a three-word refutation of the post linked in the previous sentence, the first of which three words is “Um.” This sentence implies that the linked post is in fact typical of those who disagree with the thesis of the blog post. This sentence contains expressions of outrage and disbelief largely expressed in Internet acronyms. This sentence contains a link to an Internet video featuring a cat playing a piano.
This sentence implies that everyone reading has certainly seen the folly of those who disagree with the thesis of the blog post. This sentence reminds the reader that there are a few others who agree. This sentence contains one-word links to other blogs with whom the author seeks to curry favor, offered as examples of those others.
This sentence returns to the people who disagree with the thesis of the blog post. This sentence makes an improbably tenuous connection between those people and a current or former major political figure. This sentence links those people and that political figure to a broad, ill-defined sociodemographic class sharing allegedly similar belief systems. This sentence contains a reference to the teachings of Jesus; its intent may be either ironic or sincere.
This sentence refers to a different historic period, and implies that conditions relevant to the thesis of the blog post were either different or the same. This sentence states that the implications of the previous sentence are a damned shame. This sentence says that the next sentence will explain the previous sentence. This sentence contains a slight rewording of the thesis of the blog post, a trite and obvious statement cast as a dazzling and controversial insight.
This sentence contains an apparent non-sequitur phrased as if it follows logically from the reworded thesis of the blog post. This sentence is a wildly overgeneralized condemnation of one or more entire classes of people phrased in as incendiary a fashion as possible which claims to be an obvious corollary to the thesis and non-sequitur.
This sentence proposes that anyone who might disagree with the wildly overgeneralized condemnation is, by so disagreeing, actually proving the author’s point. This sentence explains that such people disagree primarily because of the author’s courageous and iconoclastic approach. This sentence mentions the additional possibilities that readers who express disagreement with the wildly overgeneralized condemnation are merely following political fashion or trying to ingratiate themselves with interest groups. This sentence is a somewhat-related assertion based in thoughtless privilege and stated as dispassionate objective truth. This sentence explains that if the scales would merely fall from those dissenting readers’ eyes, they would see the wisdom and necessity of the author’s statements.
This sentence invites readers to respond freely and without constraint as long as those responses fall within certain parameters. This sentence consists of an Internet in-joke that doesn’t quite fit the topic.
[This parenthetical sentence was appended some time after posting as an expression of gratitude for the post’s many visitors and an apology that server overload has prompted the owner’s closing of comments, at least for the time being.]
this mispunctuated internet acronym expresses the idea that the commenter could not be bothered to read all of the words you have decided to post
This sentence consists of a single word all-caps exclamation expressing the commenter’s mistaken assumption as to the numerical order of his comment.
Wonderful!
I never meta-incendiary blog post I didn’t like.
=v= This comment makes its exasperation manifest. It careens quickly into pet peeves that have nothing to do with the post, focusing instead on generalizations about women, races, bicyclists, and an ethnicity described with an adjective used as a noun. A coded racist remark is added, followed immediately by accusations of a “race card” being played.
In summary, disagreeing with this comment to any degree is censorship, which is typical for you and your misdefined 19th-century agenda.
This comment comes to the defense of the original blog post’s author with a zeal that is unsettling to behold.
This comment misreads one of the previous commenter’s comments and wonders why on earth he has posted something so off-topic as a rant about women’s bicycle races, and wants to know about this “race card” he thinks everyone is playing -what is it? Some kind of betting pool on the Tour de France?
This comment contains Internet buzzwords of approval (FTW, made of awesome) in uncertain syntax, along with one or more links to the commenter’s totally unrelated get-rich-quick scheme.
This comment takes issue with the first sentence of the blog post and goes on for quite a while making it clear that the commenter didn’t read any further.
This comment has nothing whatsoever to do with the topic of this blog post but is actually a spam comment disguised as a topical comment about online marketing.
Incendiary blogging incentivizes blog traffic.
Or, put another way:
She sells screeds by the sea shore.
This comment is a scathing attack on a commenter above that basically amounts to bringing an ongoing fight here from another site.
This comment is spam and does not even pretend to be topical. It is written in Russian so I’m not even sure if it is a sentence or not, but I’m pretty certain it’s a list of 238 links to porn sites. Somehow, it made it past the spam filter.
This comment attacks the post author by using the phrase “ad hominem” incorrectly.
This is not a comment.
This comment addresses a different blog entry and was posted here in error.
this comment goes on for far too long in a manner only tangentially related to the subject, frequently veering into personal details of the commenter’s life that were really better not shared in a public forum.
This comment nominates PZ Myers for a poll he is not a part of.
This comment agrees with the blog but worries that it may send the wrong message to those that are undecided.
This comment notices several puney spelling and grammatical errors in the previous comment’s, then goes on at length about how misuse of the English language annoys the poster more than incendiary blog postings.
This comment agrees with the content and the need to highlight the issue but thinks that presented the way it has been makes us all look mean.
This comment alludes to Muphry’s law and takes the previous reply to task for its own misspellings and grammar errors, completely oblivious to the fact that they were clearly intended as a joke.
This comment triggers Godwin’s Law.
This comment takes issue with the above commentor’s pointing out spelling and grammatical thus vearing the comment thread further off topic.
This comment congratulates the author of the blog post on being willing to say what everyone is thinking, emphasising the large number of people who agree with the author whether they know it or not, while explaining that the vast numbers of knowledgable and authoritative figures who disagree are part of a vast, pointless conspiracy.
This sentence descends into vitriolic attacks on the aforementioned authorities and blames them for unrelated or possibly nonexistent atrocities.
This comment attacks the commenter by using the phrase “begging the question” incorrectly.
This comment indicates that I have left a message simply due to the presumed future epic-ness of this thread
This comment gives a link to a YouTube video which is proffered as an excellent example of the thesis of the post, but, is actually only tangentially so at best.
This comment has been deleted by the author.
wait… what?
This comment demands information that is easily googlable and completely off topic, and castigates the post author for not presenting “both sides”. It then goes on to make implied death threats and ends with either “I’m praying for you” or “Jesus Loves you”, possibly in all caps.
This post was intended for another thread entirely but was posted here due to a mix-up in the poster’s browser tabs.
Thiz comant sez that anyone that DOESNT AGREE is blind and just hasnt open thair heart to TEH LORD XEEEEENUuUU!!!!!
Becuase the commenter nose the other commenters will die an eternal death and tortcha and burn in firey wading poolz they will pray and self-flaggUL8 for everyone (and the liddle unborn babies too).
Anyway someone sez someone died so if YOU don’t do what I say you killed them -NAZI
(than they go away)
This comment is about bacon
This comment contains the post author’s obsequious greeting to the readers dropping in from a far more highly trafficked blog with whom the author seeks to ingratiate himself.
This post erroneously claims to be first.
This post subtley brown-noses the post’s author by expressing solidarity with the common cause of both the higher trafficked blog and this emergent one.
Commenter notes that this is the first time they have seen the blog and promises to drop by again (and bookmarks it but probably doesn’t).
This comment angrily disagrees with the initial statement of the post and offers as proof an argument directly addressed within the content, thereby demonstrating that the commenter failed to read the post beyond the third sentence. This comment ends with a recommendation that the author “do some research” or “read a book”.
This comment accuses the original poster of trying to re-start a previous online controversy completely overlooked by every single denizen of Earth not a member of an online niche community which was denoted by a word to which the suffix “-fail” was appended followed by the year of the controversy.
This post claims that the original post was written in an attempt to troll the internet, as no one could genuinely hold such silly beliefs.
This comment castigates the blogger by irrelevantly insulting his/her gender and the fact that he/she is sexual in some way.
This post is only tangentially related to the original post or the thread so far, but links to an awesome song.
This comment scolds another commenter for being a troll. It is followed by self-preening and mockery of said other commenter.
This comment takes a secondary point of the original post and responds by pointing out that someone who shares the author’s point of view once said something similar to a thing the author has criticized, implying the author’s entire essay is invalidated.
This comment is authored by an anonymous author who would like to point out that this is all Obama’s fault.
This comment contains one or more irrelevant Bible quotes.
This comment explains how an open source software product, or methodology would completely negate the thesis of the post, and how the author is somehow less that competent for not understanding this in advance.
This comment deplores the low quality of discussion and criticism in this comment thread, making fun of at least one other commenter by his or her handle (“placed in sarcastic quotes for no apparent reason”), then goes on to re-state what this commenter mistakenly presumes is the intended argument of the post in a very pedantic fashion.
This comment blames either the Rethuglicans or the Democraps for the whole mess.
This comment would like to assert without any backing evidence whatsoever that the post author is [insert slur for homosexual here] simply because this commenter does not agree with the post author and is unable to articulate a cogent argument, let alone a coherent sentence.
This comment is not shown due to negative ratings.
This comment laments that D-Dave made word-for-word the exact same comment that this author intended to make, believing it to be Highly Unique and Witty.
This comment angrily claims that a previous comment of his has been censored.
This comment is a serious warning that you will all be sorry someday if you don’t repent (for your eternal souls’ sake) and will probably do so on your death beds (just like Charles Darwin).
This comment is by a friendly, yet lonely, internet stalker looking for a sense of community and verification, knows that the blog poster would really like him(her0 if they ever had a chance to me.
agrees with everything the poster has ever said, wrote, wrote or thought.
This post posits the factually deficient notion that anyone who pisses all sides off must be doing something right.
This comment is to correct appalling errors made in previous comment.
This comment is made with the sole purpose of sucking up to another commenter.
This comment is in vehement support of a comment I made previously that everyone is disparaging.
I have changed the handle so (despite common spelling errors and grammar) it might appear that I am someone completely different, that others think I am sane, share my extreme opinion and I should be listened to.
Reference will also be made to a widely discredited nutjob in the public eye that also advocates the same. Said “celebrity” is only infamous from media and internet reports of their whackiness, ridicule by peers etc.
The “celebrity”, the original commenter and the writer of this comment are possibly all the same person.
This comment by the original post author takes vague issue with statements by a number of the above commenters and includes a clumsily worded nonchalant link to the unrelated book he is trying to promote.
This comment betrays the fact that the commenter couldn’t be bothered to read any of the foregoing comments and engages in several points of petty criticism relating to the original blog post each of which have already been refuted ten times over in the course of the discussion.
Contrary to all the previous comments I contradict everything for the sake of being contrary, because contrariness seems to be the new form of commenting on blogs, probably contrary to popular opinion.
This comment is bad haiku.
This comment ends with a random string of animated smilies.
This sentence attempts to be witty, but due to the commenters lack of understanding of any of the issues involved, this sentence is merely irrelevant.
This comment is insightful, but no one bothers to read this far.
. <——Notice the period.
Realizing he now looks like a total prat, he grouses in a later comment about how there needs to be an edit function when it’s clear as day there is a preview button next to the submit.
This comment presumes to know the political inclinations, gender identity, secret culinary cravings and DNA sequence of the poster and finds them all reprehensible. It then urges right-minded fellow commenters to storm Heaven for the sake of condemning the poster and wrong-minded “fellow” commenters to the eternal torment of being prodded with pointy things. Then it says “Poop” just for kicks.
This comment accurately rebuts the weak claims of the original post; the author of this comment does not realize that every intelligent reader already understands the weakness of the original post, nor does he realize those unable to grasp its weakness are not intelligent enough to understand the rebuttal.
This comment is in and of itself the location of the WMD. And more tangentially, the entrance to bin Laden’s cave and the indicator light of Bush’s Self-Doubt.
This comment includes an irrelevant link to the commenter’s own blog, with a strained attempt to make it seem relevant.
This comment reiterates, at far greater length and less clarity, a point made higher in the thread.
This comment is actually comment spam, and includes a vague compliment to the author, then a link to some other unrelated website.
This comment is a pretext to try to get readers to click on a link to the comment’s author’s own blog.
This comment makes reference to the beautiful wallpaper and asks where can eye has me some.
This comment is a double post.
This comment is a double post.
This comment contradicts all previous comments and refutes claims of #176 that the wallpaper is based upon a logical fallacy and needs to see some critical science-based evidence for any such future claims.
This comment claims evolution, global warming and evidence based medicine are all falsified by Newton’s Second Law of Thermodymanics.
This comment makes reference to some obscure meme that only the first 20 people who registered on this message board would possibly understand.
The last bus to the train station left fnord at 4:30 and darkness is completely unacceptable.
This comment asks with passionate zeal about the many groups, causes, and issues that are completely unrelated to the original post.
This comment is a long, snarky response to an irrelevant comment made above. Fortunately, both are so far down the comments list that neither will ever be read.
This comment repeats a point somebody made some ten or so posts ago.
This comment indicates the realization that another poster actually made that point already and apologizes profusely for wasting the time of anyone reading this far.
This comment takes umbrage at the excessively poor comment moderation and violates many of the cardinal rules of the blog while doing so.
This comment claims that the author is absolutely right and includes a link said to support this point which in fact redirects anyone who clicks on it to a disturbing image or shock site.
This comment comes to the party too late, after everyone else has moved on to the next outrage storm in the blogospheric kettle!
This obscenity comment expletives all over the obscenity expletive, and it expletives an obscenity expletive unprintable to expletive obscenity censored.
This comment wants to know WHAT ABOUT TEH MENZ?!
Ths cmmnt ws dsmvwld by th athr f ths blg fr bng wy vr th ln.
This comment is sexually charged, and directed at the most prolific commenter. It also references a Monty Python skit.
This comment merely proves that I was here. It’s a form of graffiti, really.
This sentence is a plea for civility combined with a desire that people were more careful with their arguments, arguing that even though the author has a position similar to one of the sides of the argument, the points made by that side (and the others) were not careful enough, unnecessarily inflammatory, and made it hard to convince new people of that position.
This comment castigates the blog owner for not writing about some other urgent matter.
This comment echoes this sentiment, and expresses outrage at the fact that people are wasting their time talking about the original subject of the post when people are dying in Darfur.
This comment by the author apologizes for the lack of trigger warnings in the post, and contains a promise to be more sensitive in the future to readers who have been triggered by some trigger.
This comment praises the author’s airtight reasoning, unyielding stance and harsh criticisms, and wonders how anyone could possibly be obtuse enough to disagree.
This comment repeats a point somebody made some ten or so posts ago.
This comment informs all readers that they have just lost the game.
This animadversion employs sesquipedalian loquaciousness to excoriate a previous commenter with unctuous condescension for the purpose of disseminating the cognizance of this commenter’s relatively superior intellect.
(This paranthetical addendum apologizes for possibly using too many big words in the main body of the comment, but is really an exercise in false modesty meant to emphasize the impact of same.)
This comment is just to say that the commentator is just too busy right now but promises to be back later to provide the first really insightful comment on the subject (but never does).