Diet-Blog Retrospective: The Best and Worst Comments

Sometime last week diet-blog passed the 1,000 comment mark. This figure is dwarfed by the 8000+ spam comments that have been removed by both manual and automated processes.

Here is a retrospective look at some the of best and worst comments...

Short and Sweet Award

"you have crap food .. that is disgusting .. MCDONALDS ROCKS you suck"

- in response to Burger King's large breakfast offering.

Fascinating Diet History
Atlanta wrote an amazing 880 word story of her sobering life experiences with weight loss - all in the context of a threaded discussion about Anna Nicole Smiths TrimSpa ads.

Illiterate?
To the teens and kids who have commented on the "Ideal Body Weight" post. This is a post that effectively says there is no normal body weight, and don't measure your self esteem using bathroom scales.

Most of the comments are this: "I'm [age here] and weigh [weight here] - is this normal?"

Do they teach kids to read these days?

Awesome Rebuttal
Steve wrote an excellent rebuttal in response to some semi-patronising comments (on a post about Jesse Jackson):

Such ridiculous and self-aggrandizing comments are funny at best. What culture are you speaking of? AMERICAN culture (if there is such a thing)? The one where the diet and health food industries lie to us as much as the fast food industries do? Where so little value is placed on young people being physically active beyond exercising their thumbs on a video game or lifting an order of fries into their mouth?

The Don't-Mince-Words Award

"You women are a bunch of fat cows that read crap like this and think that any of it should actually have an effect on how you view yourself. Go get a life!!!"

- in response to Real Women in Advertising. I guess not everyone appreciates Diet-Blog.

Identity Confusion Award
About 3 comments have started with "Dear Oprah"

That's just a handful of some of the inspiring, insightful, awful and banal comments that diet-blog has received. It's the comments that make a blog.

Thanks Everyone!

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