#1221 Constant Commenters

Is there a name for them? Those constantly commenting people you always see after every article in every online news source.
I hope it’s not “Constant Commenters.”
One could assume from that name that they’re all teabaggers. Not true. Many points of view are commented out there. But they’re always out there.
Maybe it’s a function of the high unemployment amongst young males. Most of the comments I see seem infused with enough passion and testosterone to testify to that origin.
Some of them do it so much they dialogue with each other. You’ll be reading along and the next comment will refer to the one before and then they’ll start chiming in about how they feel about other unrelated issues, all under aliases of course. One time I read a commenter who asked where another anonymous commenter was that day, sure he must have an opinion on the matter.
For gosh sake, it’s like our newspapers have become chatrooms.
Except they’re chatrooms filled with gripers. Anonymously griping about everything under the heavens. It’s not the blogosphere at all. It’s the gripe-o-sphere.
And it’s scary. These folks need to smell a rose every now and then. They’re so negative.
I was reading an article in the Seattle Times recently and I noticed they had an interesting innovation. They put a number next to the commenter’s alias. A total of the number of times that particular griper had vented.
You’d think that would engender some respect at their experience. But no, it made me take their comment less seriously, not more.
I just wanted to write in, “Dude, get out of your mother’s basement and see the world.
Drop that alias and make a real name for yourself.”
America, ya gotta love it.