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June 2, 2006

This orz that…

You know, since Blogsome recently turn on their anti-spamming page, I was seriously considering turn off my policy on having to approve all comments from first time posters on my site. You see, one would now have to type in a security code in order to post on my site. I believe that this is an annoyance, so if someone went through all the trouble of going through that, then I should pass their comment through with no problems.

But thankfully, someone reminded me today why it is still good to screen comments from new users:

“Lol anime in usa. fags. You buy your anime, you don’t download it. fu. :(

“Oh, you know what? The Negima anime is horrible. And lol @ chibi kawaii figurines ^__^ …. *sigh*”

““I won a Paranoia Agent poster signed by the complete cast of the English version”
You know what? That is _not_ cool. Because everyone knows that english dub = shit sux fagz”

Now at first I thought that this was joke from one of my friends since they all came from the same IP address. But it turns out that the posts actually came from Sweden, and I sure as hell don’t know any Swedish people.That means that this complete stranger would even go through that little extra hurdle to post three different flaming comments on my site.

And so, ladies and gentleman, I orz for you tonight.

I orz not because my Negima was tarnished, or that my believed English dubs sux’ed, or even because all Americans were called “fags” and “fagz” with a “z”.

No, my friends, I orz for you because my faith in humanity is starting to wither away.

So everyone in the blogging community, what have been the biggest orz-inducing comments left on your site?


13 Comments »

  1. I am the embodiment of orz.

    I demand… … …REPARATIONS. (j/k)

    Comment by DrmChsr0 — June 2, 2006 @ 10:59 pm

  2. My sites’ comments have mostly been positive or intellectually stimulating. Maybe its my blog title, which sounds pseudo intellectual haha.

    I haven’t come across such flames yet.

    I guess being an American makes you an easier target. Everyone despises Americans.

    Comment by tj han — June 2, 2006 @ 11:28 pm

  3. I dunno. Even when I write about inflammatory topics, I don’t get flames. The closest thing to an ORZ comment thread was when people started discussing the relative merits of nakadashi, but that just made me laugh.

    Comment by jpmeyer — June 2, 2006 @ 11:45 pm

  4. People will strangely contradict themselves and really not say anything useful. Like, “I don’t really know if I like this anime, but it’s really good!” This makes me go STO and orz as well as OTL.

    Comment by Hung — June 3, 2006 @ 12:02 am

  5. Well, that is sad something like that happens. I can understand your “anger”, but once awhile comes some persons with that attitude on forums and chatrooms.

    Also i am swedish, but I would never see down on a american or someonelse. Maybe Bush and his government, because he is ordering around with the swedish justice departement to close down a downloading site. That pisses me off! >O

    Comment by Hiro-san — June 3, 2006 @ 9:50 am

  6. Well, Hiro, I only hope that the world realized that even America hates Bush. That’s why half of the country, my half, didn’t vote for him in either election.

    Comment by Scott — June 3, 2006 @ 12:14 pm

  7. I’m still relatively new and unread, so thankfully I haven’t had to deal with anything yet. *knocks on wood.. or rather the fake processed wood they make computer desks out of*

    Comment by Ace — June 4, 2006 @ 1:10 am

  8. *sigh* some people are just lame. But don’t think of all Swedish people like that please! I’m Swedish~ (Although I’m not living there right now.)

    Well, I do hate America as a whole, but not people individually. All problems will be solved when I live in Japan. Machitakunai desu wa~!

    Comment by Tess — June 4, 2006 @ 8:56 pm

  9. the closest i have is my post on the Suzuka manga, which basically stated how worthless i thought it was.

    I now have about 20 comments on there, from Suzuka fans, who help each other figure out where to download the manga from

    i don’t delete them because the irony amuses me.

    Comment by Willuknight — June 7, 2006 @ 12:27 pm

  10. Before now, I thought that OTZ was an expression of gratitude, not frustration. Learn something new every day.

    Comment by Pete Zaitcev — June 11, 2006 @ 2:37 am

  11. “omg, u buy anime fu downlowding it iz waay betar thn DVD plus dubs SUCKZZORZ ervyone knowz dat lol

    and steve blum is a fagz like all you americanz lol i’m gunna go watch gundam wingz bootlegz becawz i am kewl lol”

    People who talk like this are fags. And people who diss Steve Blum are even bigger fags.

    Comment by Starwind — June 14, 2006 @ 7:30 pm

  12. I’m still gladly looking forward to the day when I’ll start getting orz comments,

    Comment by Lupus — June 17, 2006 @ 10:54 pm

  13. You should always screen your comments as some people try to write comments that are nothing to do with the post that you have written, i know that it is a pain when you get a load of spam but there are some great plugins that you can get that will block out most of that spam

    Comment by Inuyasha MP3 — November 7, 2006 @ 6:47 pm

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