How to trash Green Splatter with a blog comment

I started Green Splatter as a means for the disc golf community to discuss both serious and not-so-serious topics. Once upon a time, I’d been a fan of the punchy, short-form writing prevalent on Gawker. I wanted to bring similar content to the disc golf dinner table.

Tips, news, reviews and opinion – LOTS of opinion.

And not just mine, either …

All of ‘em are welcome.

Thankfully, to date, that’s largely been the experience – I love it. My biggest disappointment, however, has to be the more salty comments I review on WordPress each morning before clicking the “approve” button. And no, it’s not the fact that they exist that mega-sucks …

It’s that not enough of them see the light of day. 

They’re impassioned. They’re well (-ish?) written. And the alarming majority of them call into question the average IQ of writers on the Green Splatter platform – they bring the heat.

I’d estimate I approve a solid 85% of them without issue. Before the end of the year, though, I’d like to bump that up 10 percentage points. There’s no hope for the remaining 5%, as they’re almost exclusively third-world robots h*ck-bent on moving as much ED juice as possible.

Do you have a cutting remark and a keyboard?

Play by the rules:

• Rule No. 1 – No profanity of any kind.
• Rule No. 2 – Nothing sexual, either – this is disc golf.
• Rule No. 3 – Threats of violence won’t ever be tolerated.
• Rule No. 4 – Religion, family, race, etc. Stick with plastic, please.

Turn that frown upside down, Mr. Keyword Warrior …

There’s STILL some meat left on this bone:

• Welcomed No. 1 – Insult intelligence like it’s going out of style.
• Welcomed No. 2 – Call into question a writer’s D.G. acumen.
• Welcomed No. 3 – Lose it over a lack of quality writing.
• Welcomed No. 4 – Classify content as “clickbait.”

Done properly, your comment should look something like this:

And incorrectly, like this …

Fill in the blanks as best you can:

Practice makes perfect.

Bust out your crayon in the comments below – boom, roasted.

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