DCist: Preview: Sonny Rollins @ the Kennedy Center

washwords

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:45:00 -0500

I'm confused - these aren't comments?

HCE

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:06:40 -0500

You know exactly what they were doing there. Getting loaded on PBRs and wishing that their nerd asses could snag some poontang.

hillrat

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:49:42 -0500

@Nate All I really wanted to know is WTF were Hopkins students doing at the Big Hunt? When I was in college we almost never went to a bar that we couldn't walk to.

hillrat

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:47:27 -0500

I'm surprised it's just now rubbing you the wrong way. It's not, I just finally decided to speak up about it. I had actually meant to say something when there was a bit of controversy about the lack of comments on the sponsored "About Tonight", but I was actually working that day and never got around to it. For the record: I feel bad about hijacking the Sonny Rollins thread. He's a musical giant that deserves better than my whining and prattling on in his thread.

hillrat

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:26:06 -0500

Also, I hope that I'm still as fly as Sonny Rollins when I get to be 77.

Nate

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:25:01 -0500

That's standard -ist policy, Hillrat, and has been since before DCist even got started ... I'm surprised it's just now rubbing you the wrong way. I think the basic rationale is that arguing with the writer of a blogpost is acceptable but "arguing with" someone who has agreed to be an interview subject is more problematic. The content in an interview post should theoretically be almost exclusively the words of the interview subject, and since it's unrealistic to expect them to register for the site and start monitoring the post, they don't have the same opportunity to answer questions or respond to criticism that the regular writers do. My honest guess is that Gothamist got too many "this guy or girl is a jackass" and "I'd do her" comments on early interview posts, and wanted to take preemptive action to ensure that people would continue to agree to be interviewed by the -ist sites.

HCE

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:21:30 -0500

Rat: The emo/indie/hipster folks who they interview are typically of the oversensitive type, and are fearful of negative criticism.

hillrat

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:13:34 -0500

WTF is with no comments on DCist interview posts?