January 17th, 2009

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Internet, Words

First Comment (and Spelling) Fail

I followed a link from Beth’s blog to The Stranger’s site (somewhat unsafe for work), where Dan Savage is soliciting new definitions for the term ’saddleback’. I scrolled down to the comments section, and spotted this:

First Comment (and Spelling) Fail

There’s an old, silly online tradition of posting ‘First!’ (or some variation) to popular forums or blogs. This is a particularly poor execution of that practice.

I wonder where this ‘first’ business started. Slashdot, maybe?

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First comment!

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Seriously, though, which definition of “saddleback” did you vote for?

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@Beth Yeah, I think #5 is the best bet as well.

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I found it amusing that the commenter you are mocking is identified as *me*… which led me to think that Darren had left that comment :)

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It’s silly. The same thing happens on internet forums.. “first post!”.

I guess some people are just proud of being a certain kind of early adopters/finders ;)

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