In a piece by the Bee’s Ken Chavez, new rules were rolled out today to help police the otherwise monumentally ridiculous world of online comments. In an Onion-esque move, the Bee has gone to a system called “Pluck” to help monitor, organize, and expand on the Bee’s current comment system.
To this reader, the new system looks like it’s aimed at doing three things: 1) Keep inappropriate comments off the site, 2) keep inappropriate commenters off the site, and 3) create a community on the website that will draw more clicks throughout sacbee.com.Â
The most insane, and perhaps the most meta, thing about this issue are the comments on the story at sacbee.com talking about comments on stories on sacbee.com.  Feel free to comment.
The Sac Rag 
Plucking chickens (ba dum, Pah!). Just set a “rumble in the sacbee building” date and let the commentors fight it out if they have the guts to show. No one wants to go through 17 clicks to read “You are such a [left/right] wing pig, go suck an egg” commentary. Enough with the poultry.
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