Strange Comment
Today, a bizarre comment appeared on Twittch.com. Out of the blue, with no context or explanation, someone suggested I should move my Leopard menu bar to the top of my secondary display. This is the entire comment, bad spelling and all:
So put your menu bar at the top of your external screen instead of on your MacBook pro (drag it their in the Display prefs).
At first I thought maybe this was a bug in Disqus, or maybe my page IDs were incorrect and I was pulling in comments from some other site.
But the comment seemed vaguely familiar…I recalled reading an article about multiple monitors and Macs…but it took quite a bit of thinking to realize this person was referring to the comment I left on Elliotte’s blog.
I don’t understand how anyone could think this is the appropriate way to respond to comments on web sites:
A) Leave your response on a completely different site
B) Make no mention of what you are referring to
I was about to blame the old Facebook wall mentality, until I remembered that people did this all the time on LiveJournal back around the turn-of-the-millennium.
It’s the worst idea ever, and it annoys me so much. I took pride in making those people mad by deleting their comments.
Sounds just like how MySpace works.