Early Addition

That is one chock fulla nuts newsmap. We got EDPs, a bunch of overturned autos, 2 MVA/pin's (yikes!), 4 pedestrians struck, two fatally (not a police department issue of course), burglaries, robberies, fires and more.

Will we get the old days back, but without any culture? This will be the second time as farce, again.

Bring in the Mods.

there's nudity in the AA ads and there was a survey last week? guess I'm not reading Gothamist enough.

But, I'm glad people are noticing the trolling and the rise in the use of the complete wording of the "F word".

I have no problem with the "F" word as long as Velvet is in the same sentence.

jake, i love the exclamation point you put next to Justin's middle name. i'm *dying* over here, LOL!!

LOF'nL

Where is the outrage around this Diddy story? 20% of black men in this country aged 20-24 are unemployed/not in school and the situation in Haiti is starting to turn violent by the hour.....yet this a$$hole spends $500k on a 16 year old. He is a vile, closeted, poor excuse for a man.

Bill Gates says he won't leave his kids more than a pittance, and Sean Combs buys his 16-year-old a Maybach for his birthday. Who's more likely to have a proper perspective on life?

Yeah, that wall street link is all kinds of fucked up

The discussion of censorship always reminds me of this gem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n-rGnI9XNo

Fixed- thanks for the heads up. And watch the language— I'm feeling like we've been throwing around the F-bomb and C-word too much in these comments. Should I set the system to disemvowel or block those words?

Perspective FAIL. I think if we can handle a college student getting randomly shot in the head we can handle the F word. Americans have always been too obsessed with swear words. At the end of the day these words are just another way to express oneself. Big fucking deal.

I'm not saying you can't handle it emotionally. I'm saying that the overuse of cursing coarsens the discourse down here in the comments section, and there's no reason to let that go on. It scares off new commenters, and it doesn't add anything to the conversation.

The number one complaint we got on the survey last week, besides too much nudity in American Apparel ads, was that people thought the comments were out of control with idiotic, trolling invective. I honestly don't think things are that bad— but I've been a New Yorker for 33 years, and I've got a thick skin. But I do think we could improve things— and I've reached out to some other sites to ask them how they've managed to improve their comments. Some people have suggested a rating system or a star system the way Gawker has been doing it— but I've got an open mind to other ideas.

If Gothamist comments weren't "out of control with idiotic, trolling invective" I'm not sure they'd be worth reading.

As someone who does occasionally pepper her comments with F bombs, I feel that swearing a lot is a true and historical tradition in NYC.

Ban felixthecat first.

?!?!?!

F'ing A Yes. Enough with the "F" & "C" words.

Don't censor us! We're all adults, we can handle it.

Whoops! Sorry. Sometimes I let the expletives fly without even realizing.

I'm finding it difficult to get worked up for Wall Street 2.