01.19.09 SITE NEWS: WELCOME, INTERNET REFUGEES
The people who participate in the comments section here at With Leather represent way less than 1% of the site’s readership, so I don’t know why I spend so much time taking care of it. Nevertheless, the rest of this post addresses commenting issues. Everyone else, please stand by for NFL coverage.
So, uh, what the hell happened on Friday? I take one day off and the comments go crazy with expatriates from WWTDD. For you Durdenites who have come to With Leather: you are welcome to join the party here, but realize that this is a different forum with different guidelines. After all, Sudanese refugees who come to America don’t get to keep living under Sudanese law. You can’t just wander the streets killing cows with assault rifles and pressing children into military service. Yet.
The thing is, coming to WL isn’t like coming to America. It’s like coming to an extremely cool fascist country. Everyone seems totally friendly and fun, then you turn the corner and there’s a public execution. That’s how it is here. Everyone’s all on the same page here: nothing gets taken too seriously, everyone manages to keep the discussion more or less on topic, and in general the commenters sound like literate, intelligent people who just happen to like crude humor. People who don’t play along generally swallow their own tongues after the commenters have their way with them, and particularly resilient trolls get banned.
So there ya go. Everyone’s welcome to stick around and participate, and With Leather is flattered you’ve chosen it as your new online home. Just keep things funny and on-topic, and you can stay as long as you like.
**sharpens guillotine**


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SITE NEWS: WELCOME, INTERNET REFUGEES
Fuck With Leather! Cock!
I use to just read all the comments and wouldn’t comment all that often but those damn refugees got my ire up. This is ‘Merica can’t we put up some kind of fence ’round WL
YET HE FUCKING KEEPS ME AROUND, AND ALL I EVER DO IS BEG MORE CUM RAG JEW UPDATES!
hmm, this might be tricky. but as this post is about commenting, any comment would be on-topic. right?
I personally don’t see the big problem with a topic-drift, but if we can keep our titty-talk in a titty-post, would it matter whose titties we’re discussing?
for the durdenites and -istas reading up on this:
- B is still writing the items, if his profile can be trusted.
- layout and posting changes are fat penguin policy, not B’s.
if WL is not happy with our bunch of horndogs and crazies, I suggest we go back. right now we’ve got joaquin phoenix making a fool of himself over a hiphop-beat.
happy martin luther king jr day everybody!
grubber out.
oh, and thanks for the babe in the banner :)
This site fucking blows. FUCK FUCK FUCK
http://www.hobbes-forums.com/index.php?s=
fuck you fags we hate yall
Give me your half-wits, your trolls,
Your huddled masses yearning to comment free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming blog.
Send these, the siteless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift With Leather beside the golden door!”
So there isn’t going to be a mass execution? Seems like you’re soft on terrorism.
Dey took er jerbs!!!
killing off all those free gratis extra hits would kinda be commercial suicide…
give yourself some time to get used to us, just like you got used to that antiscoial attitude.
It’s really cool that you even thought to comment about us, Matt. Unfortunately I am one of those chicks that knows jack about sports, so if I post while wearing lingerie will that make up for my lack of knowledge?
“Just keep things funny and on-topic, and you can stay as long as you like.”
Matt, you forgot to add “Oh, and if you’re a Steelers fan and talk shit, especially while using some form of the word ‘we’ (as in, ‘We killed the Ravens’), I will drive to your house and murder you.”
@grubber - a lot of y’all seem to be pretty good commenters. I just wanted to be clear that this isn’t quite the lawless anarchy of WWTDD.
And the gratis hits are nice, but actually not nearly enough to make a commercial impact. I care way more about the quality of humor in the comments than I do about a couple page views.
hey grubber, WL has made it this far without you, and plus i’m willing to up my clicks if it gets rid of the lack of funny.
@Paleomiz - Drop the lingerie and youve got my backing.
it’s not clicks, it’s unique hits, Merk. (I only learned this 2 days ago, so not trying to be a smart-ass here).
and each to it’s own, right? I do not see anything funny in territorial angst, especially if it’s unjustified. but that’s just me; if you roll around on the ground crying over it, more power to you! love the avi by the way..
thanks Matt, I already tried to respond to that in the same spirit. ‘preciate the heads up. and of course I’m not trying to secure a spot for us by implying a financial gain, but you’re probably not the one I have to explain that to ;)
Paleomiz/Doctress + lingerie = ALL KINDS OF WIN
Just sayin’……
*sorry, that should’ve been: crying with laughter. my bad.
“lawless anarchy”
Matt, if that is all we required we could have stayed. We got upset because it looked as though WWTDD sold out–the threads were suddenly ads for American Idol and Dane Cook and the writing went downhill. We wanted to go someplace intelligent but close by. None of us wants to upset the balance here, and we actually discussed rules for not pissing you all off. We’re not hooligans.
We’re not hooligans.
speak for yourself, doc. this is a sports-blog. hooligans should fit right in :)
Cool. Looks like we’re all on the same page. Commence with the underage Thai prostitution jokes!
Word to the wise, be nice to the chicas that will be posting here and you’ll see much greater attributes than lingerie.
So let me get this straight…
Hypothetical rape = funny
Killing hookers = funny
Actual rape = not so funny
Being a fuckwit who continually links my own website and trashes this one in these comments = BANHAMMER
Just checking.
Looks like I missed an interesting day Friday. Hopefully I can still sneak on at the new gig and continue to bring the unfunny.
/Welcome
DocTroy is wiser than his years.
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