it's like walking past a dog pound. The policy at Fark seems to be bark first, look at the article maybe later.

Their's articles?

subby should have linked to the actual blog post bashing us instead
Link (new window)

/submitter of the original thread

HOW IS BABBY FORMED

Shallow and pedantic.

Welcome to "I Said's List Of People Who Need A Kick In The Cock", or "ISLOPWNAKITC" for short, you fartsmith.

Nnyess - he's right, you know.
We are a bunch of smirking f**k-wits around here.

Too many long words...

What did we win?

The author has apparently never seen YouTube comments...

They make Freep (or DU) look rational...

I dun haz a cumputer?

I think the state of discourse on local newspapers comment sections, Youtube or 4chan would bring bitter tears to the eyes of these pedants.

Adjective Bird Whiskey: Shallow and pedantic.

Yes, I agree. Shallow and pedantic.

Someday I wanna be all superior and shiat too ;)

arf!! arf!!! arf!!!

(I'm a little dog)

Fark is the leader of sub-literate comments? This professor does not venture far into the wilds of the Internet. I think his head would explode if he read any comments from YouTube.

This guy needs to be introduced to 4chan and youtube. Fark isn't that bad.

Lando Lincoln: Fark is the leader of sub-literate comments? This professor does not venture far into the wilds of the Internet. I think his head would explode if he read any comments from YouTube.

50mm: This guy needs to be introduced to 4chan and youtube. Fark isn't that bad.

I think if this dude went to /b/, his eyes would get raped.

You pusilanimous pedantic parsnip.

fark off to him also. Look 5 word sentence and i have been able to say what i mean.

lots of tribal tattoos round these parts

Welcome to Fark. Come for the illiteracy. Stay for the ignorance.

i like to think of fark as a kind of a think tank for wild conjecture and the development of new and exciting logical fallacies. also, sometimes people post pictures of boobs.

Lando Lincoln: Fark is the leader of sub-literate comments? This professor does not venture far into the wilds of the Internet. I think his head would explode if he read any comments from YouTube.

I think he is saying we are the best sub-literates. It's like being the tallest midget.

So this guy's claims to fame are working at a copy desk, teaching copy-editing at Loyola of Maryland, and dropping out of his PhD program in literature? Oh, well, let us not forget that he's also a BLOGGER.


John McIntyre has worked on the copy desk at The Sun in Baltimore since 1986, successively as rim editor, slot editor, deputy chief of the copy desk, chief of the copy desk and, since May 2000, assistant managing editor for the copy desk. He had previously been a copy editor at The Cincinnati Enquirer. He holds an undergraduate degree in English from Michigan State University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a master's degree in English from Syracuse University, where he was a university fellow from 1973 to 1976. He abandoned an uncompleted doctorate in 18th-century literature and resorted to editing in 1980. He has taught copy editing at Loyola College in Baltimore since 1995.

HACK.

Yes, the Baltimore Sun.

That fabled journal of reputable journalism.

Oh, and the readers. So smart. So well spoken.

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TheYeti: HACK.

lol

There are a lot of well informed and highly intelligent people on here.

This article must be referring to the "liters".

mainstreet62: Lando Lincoln: Fark is the leader of sub-literate comments? This professor does not venture far into the wilds of the Internet. I think his head would explode if he read any comments from YouTube.

50mm: This guy needs to be introduced to 4chan and youtube. Fark isn't that bad.

I think if this dude went to /b/, his eyes would get raped.

I am tempted to email him a link to /b/ but am concerned about the legality of directing people there. I can't decide if that would be considered assisting terrorism, encouraging the piracy of copyrighted material, or promoting the distribution of probably very illegal porn, or possibly all three. Also, if someone killed themselves after visiting 4chan on my suggestion, would I be liable for a wrongful death suit?

/only half-kidding; Anon is on the Virginia terror watchlist

Holy butthurt, Batman.

It's like "Americans are so fat!"

Yeah, but we also have many of the fittest people in the world, too. There is a lot of very intelligent commentary around this place. Too bad it's all so ephemeral and usually lost in such long and drawn-out threads.

Oh, is Mr. "Look at me, I'm so much smarter than E. B. White (even though nobody's ever heard of me)" dragging his cravat-wearing, meerschaum-munching, patch-elbowed posse into this?

BRING IT, language bee-yotches! Let's do this!

/ can I borrow someone's trident?

Internet leaders in fatty's with piss-puddle vaginas that they can't reach to clean, and guys that would kill for the chance to sex them up is more like it.

TheYeti: John McIntyre

Nice work! I have been googling him and it turns out he has a farking Twitter account! Look at this: Link (new window)

What kind of douche has a twitter account and then makes fun of people for writing short sentences and being illiterate? Fark him

bobbette: I am tempted to email him a link to /b/ but am concerned about the legality of directing people there. I can't decide if that would be considered assisting terrorism, encouraging the piracy of copyrighted material, or promoting the distribution of probably very illegal porn, or possibly all three. Also, if someone killed themselves after visiting 4chan on my suggestion, would I be liable for a wrongful death suit?

/only half-kidding; Anon is on the Virginia terror watchlist

If you sent him a link to /b/ he would probably write another blog entry about how "this crazy person from Fark sent me a link to the most depraved stuff imaginable. SEE??? Fark.com is teh bad."

That or the whole eye rape thing.

What a dumbass

albo: subby should have linked to the actual blog post bashing us instead
Link (new window)

/submitter of the original thread

indeed.

reading that entry, and the one for the 13th, it is clear that Fark really got on the nerves of the writer. He can't let it go, it haunts him. He needs to keep insulting us to make himself feel better. What a colossal TOOL.

TheYeti: He holds an undergraduate degree in English from Michigan State University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa

Hey, I have a BA in English from Montclair & was elected to Phi Beta Kappa! Can I be a sanctimonious prick, too?

brigid_fitch: Hey, I have a BA in English from Montclair & was elected to Phi Beta Kappa! Can I be a sanctimonious prick, too?

Do you have a blog? If so, GET ON IT.

peck: Their's They'res articles aticel's?

FTFY

NikolaiFarkoff: It's like "Americans are so fat!"

Yeah, but we also have many of the fittest people in the world, too. There is a lot of very intelligent commentary around this place. Too bad it's all so ephemeral and usually lost in such long and drawn-out threads.

I was thinking you would never notice

.

I'm a big fan of Strunk and White.

I also have masochistic tendencies and will be the first to acknowledge that as a guy who writes for a living, I tend to be extremely lackadaisical when typing my stream of consciousness blathering posting on Fark. I hope to be a student of language 'til the day I am worm food.

So long story short; come back Mistress Mommy, come back!

brap:

I'm a big fan of Strunk and White.

Do not break sentences in two.

Use an apostrophe to form the possessive.

Use a semicolon to separate two independent clauses.

A participial phrase at the beginning of a sentence should refer to the grammatical subject

. . .

.

Also, I know for a fact that no one and I mean NO ONE is capable of name dropping Fark and simply living by the that's it I'm Audi (pardon my Vanilla Icing) it's hypocrisy of the highest order.

- My name is brap and I'm a Farkoholic.

DistendedPendulusFrenulum: brap:

I'm a big fan of Strunk and White.

Do not break sentences in two.

Use an apostrophe to form the possessive.

Use a semicolon to separate two independent clauses.

A participial phrase at the beginning of a sentence should refer to the grammatical subject

. . .

.

Don't stop. Dear god, I have never been so hard.

Obviously sarcasm and irony are things he missed out on when he was growing up.

Honestly, despite the numerous trolls slinking about, most Fark readers are intelligent people. You may have to wade through a lot of bullshiat, but i've learned more here in nine years than I did in all of high school and a great deal of college.

This guy wanted to find Freeper level idiocy and he hunted it out, which isn't exactly hard. I imagine the peeked at the first ten comments, didn't get any of the jokes or memes and buggered out comfortable in his intellectual superiority. Big deal.

Awww, some pedantic farkwit is butt hurt. Somebody call the:



And make sure they bring a plenty of:

adamgreeney: Honestly, despite the numerous trolls slinking about, most Fark readers are were intelligent people before they started drinking.

Sadly, the good professor's condescension and scorn has laid bare an aching nerve in the body of Fark. We, purveyors of witticism and mischief take pride in the articulation of our hyperbole. Thus, when castigated by such a prodigious intellectual, we naturally react with some trepidation and a small amount of malice. Therefore, I think I speak for many of my fellow denizens of Fark.com when I proffer this sage advice to the good professor, as a way of thanks for his insight on our literacy, eloquence, and intellect:

"I farked your Mom last night. You may not recognize her when you see her again, I shaved her back. Douchenozzle."

Sincerely
Ennuipoet

ha. I just handed in an academic paper on Information Policy articles found on Fark.com (and digg and /.).

Suck it, John E. McIntyre.