Why do people on the FP always ask to be ungreyed?

"Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)" (6speedhaven)
05/18/2015 at 01:08 • Filed to: None

Shouldn’t ungreying be for those who provide meaningful discussions, frequently?

If anybody can spare me some pain, the gif of the white 918 here, I need the video to (can’t remember the video). I need to re-make it, as it’s one I made but never posted to my car gifs blog on tumblr. Now they allow 2mb uploads...so I can make a much better version of it and be satisfied by fixing the issue with the sky there....

DISCUSSION (17)

Brian Silvestro > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
05/18/2015 at 01:11

because they want attention

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Brian Silvestro
05/18/2015 at 01:18

Now that the flood gates for ungreying have been open ever since the greyed system was implemented, everybody wants in.

I really, truly don’t like this system. 75% of the time the ungreyed comments have no recommendations or just one star.

Brian Silvestro > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
05/18/2015 at 01:21

most comments on the fp are just comments that have already been made, but people need to say the same thing because omg I know this fact and I want the whole world to know that I know pls give me attention

dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
05/18/2015 at 01:33

Sometimes it’s because you’re a regular on most subs but somehow not this new one that [editor’s name here] just started. When the system first started, I asked to be ungreyed, but now I can’t be arsed. Plus I usually get in greyed anyhow.

Snooder87 > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
05/18/2015 at 01:35

Because the whole point of a comment system is to be able to comment.

The greys aren’t the default. The greys are supposed to be for spam and people who are so shitty they should never be seen. But the way the system got implemented, pretty much everyone got stuck in the grey and now it’s almost not worth commenting because the only person who’ll ever see your comment is the person you responded to, and it’ll die a pitiful death.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
05/18/2015 at 02:09

Because the grey thing sucks. It's worse than down voting on reddit because you will never be seen except by the diligent.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
05/18/2015 at 03:14

I’m grey on FP. It lends a certain stealth to the 4 mundane comments that I’ve ever made on there.

RyanFrew > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
05/18/2015 at 03:18

If Gawker just implemented the Disqus commenting platform all over, our problems would be solved. Nick Denton will never have it.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > RyanFrew
05/18/2015 at 03:20

Disqus is gross

RyanFrew > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
05/18/2015 at 03:22

Kinja is grosserer

LongbowMkII > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
05/18/2015 at 07:48

It’s a way for authors to control the comment section. Less so on Jalopnik, but you’ll often find the most recommended post is buried in the grays since it disagrees with the author.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
05/18/2015 at 11:12

Is the gif from this one?

NJAnon > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
05/18/2015 at 13:12

It does put the control in the hands of the topic creators. But as far as user replies go, we’re still able to grey and ungreyed ones. If you’re comment is greyed I’ll still reply or recommend it (because I’m diligent like that)

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
05/18/2015 at 17:17

The scenes are correct but the video is wrong because of the watermark on the video.

Here’s the closest one I can find without it being directly form Porsche! I know this video is directly from Porsche, the editing quality of the video just screams Porsche to me.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
05/18/2015 at 17:40

Okay, well I was just trying to help.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
05/18/2015 at 18:13

I appreciate the help! The video gave me a solid direction to which channel I got it from.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
05/18/2015 at 19:30

No problem at all.