Notes on our new comment system

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  Thanks to all of you for providing your feedback and voicing your concerns about LiveJournal's new comment system. Please understand that we are taking your feedback seriously, and will continue to evaluate this new feature. In the meantime, we'd like to explain the reasons behind the change and the greater impact this has for LiveJournal.

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[ecctv]

Hopefully people can say what they don't like about the comments or whatever in a calm way, rather than threatening, yelling, or being over dramatic.
At the end of the day, it is a website and there are bigger problems to go HAM about.

[ecctv]

I hate ending a sentence with a preposition, but I did it there. Please forgive me at.

[conuly]

You didn't end a sentence with a preposition, you used a phrasal verb.

I wish people would get it right already!

[tisoi]

^like :-)

[whatifoundthere]

Nice try, but you're dead wrong. See analysis here.

The "phrasal verbs" of which you speak are neither verbs nor phrasal. They are sequences consisting of a verb and a preposition (or sometimes two prepositions, as in look up to meaning "respect"). As The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language carefully points out (chapter 4; see pages 273-274), it is impossible to take these sequences as constituents, because sometimes, despite the special meanings attached, they are not contiguous (e.g., in the idiom take [someone] to task).

There is nothing wrong with ending a sentence with a preposition and there never has been. And I speak as someone whose LITERAL JOB that she is LITERALLY PAID TO DO is correcting people's grammar.

[conuly]

Of course there's nothing wrong with ending a sentence with a preposition, that's obvious. However, there are still phrasal verbs.

[lafinjack]

[pashenko_ecolog]

СРОЧНОЕ СООБЩЕНИЕ: - просмотрев это, путин покинул страну в 23:50 московского...
http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/pashenko-ecolog/album/131369/slideshow/
Теперь пора на местах разобраться, почему 50% всяких начальниковцев только путины и ничего больше…

[aphroditescloak]

+200 for hip-hop awesome points.

<3 me some HAM

[caithream]

At the end of the day, it is a website and there are bigger problems to go HAM about.

Except for the part where, you know, unlike other social networking sites like twitter and facebook, I am was a paying customer....

[buffy]

Lmao, I'M A PAYING CUSTOMER, DAMMIT.

[caithream]

I know right, terrible customer service is HILARIOUS HAHA

[buffy]

Your obnoxious entitlement is hilarious.

[slayedaking]

paying for something and expecting to get it is not obnoxious entitlement.

[basilmemories]

Tee hee, you know what also is cute? not being able to warn people about triggers anymore! So what's the things that really get under your skin, because I'm sure people will be just as respectful to you about those now as you are about this.

[chimbleysweep]

...paying customers shouldn't feel entitled to enjoy the product they paid for?