Due to gross incompetence in tagging last week, we’re leaving off our usual bullet point list of reader stories: either the site’s tagging system has suffered a thrombosis along with last week’s quadruple Movable Type heart attack or both Ben and myself really spaced out on tagging reader stories last week. Considering we both spent the vast majority of it drunk in NYC, the latter is as distinct a possibility as the former.
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Comments Really Screwy Right Now
By 6.8.06
Um so when you click the comments on The Consumerist, it’s going to one of the post’s tags. We’ve told the tech team. So what you should do instead is save that witty banter into a text file. Tweak it. Edit it. Make it super incisive. Make it drip with acid. Pour the acid into a milk bottle and break it all over our servers. Maybe that will jar them into behaving. We’ll get better soon. Gawd, they don’t call us festering sore of the Gawker Media Network for nothing.
Monday Morning Reminder: It’s A Good Week To Write Us
By 5.29.06
After a record week for readers’ emails, last week was a bit slower, with about half of the previous weeks’ 27 emails. I guess we’re bleeding you guys dry. Perhaps you don’t have what it takes to be a disgruntled consumer? We’re throwing down the gauntlet: can’t you guys find something to complain about?
Happy Memorial Day!
By 5.29.06
Happy Memorial Day, everyone! John Brownlee here. After a 7 hour flight from Dublin to Boston magically transmogrified into a 19 hour ordeal, I’m finally in Boston for a couple weeks. Say, when did they change that Doritos package, anyway? I don’t approve. There’s a Memorial Day Parade going on outside my window. Immediate observation: Malden High School lets fat girls be cheerleaders now. A good move. Those cheerleader pyramids need a firm base.
Hot Hot Kotaku on E3 Man Machine Love Association
By 5.9.06
If you lovvvvvvvvve video games, go to Kotaku. They’re covering the E3 game conference with reckless abandon, fanboy intensity and of course, Gawker Media Network’s trademark wit and panache.
What Should We Talk About?
By 5.2.06
If our obsession with Threadless and Amy’s Ice Cream and the resultant backlash is any indication, we may be a bit out of touch with your desires.
UPDATE: We Got Undone Over Threadless
By 5.2.06
We felt so bad about our Threadless behavior that we’re posted our apology twice so it gets full-time, front-page coverage.
Tip Us Or We’ll Spill This Milk!
By 4.25.06
Don’t forget, we love tips. Tales of customer service from beyond the pale of horror, secret pictures of executives flagellating complaining customers in poorly lit alleyways, nifty hacks on getting everything for nothing, we love it.
I’m a Blogger But What I Really Want to Do is Direct
By 4.19.06
We just got fancy YouTube Director privileges. This gives us the ability to upload videos any length up to 100MB. Sweet.
ATM Fraud Victim? CBS Wants to Talk
By 4.18.06
A CBS Evening News producer sent us a note today. She wants to do a story on the the big ATM PIN Block Scam story we made such a fuss about last month.
Winner: Neologify Your Consumerisms
By 4.17.06
Last week we held a contest, in parallel with Valleywag, for the best consumer neologism. Here are the results.
Contest: Neologify Your Consumerisms
By 4.12.06
We’re holding a contests to smith fake words and witty definitions within the topic of consumer affairs.
Contest: Make up a Word, Win Big Like Halliburton
By 4.11.06
In normal life, a neologism is making up a new word. In publication land, a neologism is when readers and editors jerk off together and preface statements with, “To coin a phrase…” Get it? “Gism.”
HOWTO: Comment on The Consumerist
New world order. Comments are messed up. There will be a new link in posts from yesterday going forward. It sits at the bottom left of the post. Click on it to make a comment. If you’re not logged in, you need to login, then go back and click the new comment link again. Sorry for the inconvenience, this should only be temporary.