干草网 – 解读苹果

科技网站Engadget的基调无疑是偏向苹果，但是在根据各种流言蜚语贴出了海量的关于苹果产品的文章，贴出 Windows 7 在平板电脑上表现丑陋的评测之后，Engadget的偏见激发了反作用，用户发表了大量评论进行抨击。

Engadget先是在1月30日宣布推出Apple-free Engadget，让痛恨苹果的读者不看任何关于苹果的新闻报道；接着在2月2日宣布关闭评论，因为读者的尖锐评论和争论已经失控了。

Do you hate Apple news?
By Joshua Topolsky  posted Jan 30th 2010 5:02PM
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/30/do-you-hate-apple-news/

Do you hate Apple news? Are you so bothered by stories about the Cupertino-based company that you feel the need to comment on each and every story about how bothered by stories about the Cupertino-based company you are? Do you lay awake at night, cold sweat beading down your forehead, dreading the morning when you’ll potentially see your favorite tech site writing about a new Apple product? Do you believe that Apple is 100 percent evil in every way? Well we’re here to help.

Due to the overwhelming demand of 16 commenters, we present to you the Apple-free Engadget! Yes — read all the hot news happening in the tech world without the upsetting presence of Apple-related stories. Your dream is a reality… so now you’ll have to find something else to complain about!

Read – Engadget, sans Apple news
Subscribe – Engadget, minus the Apple

P.S. – You can change “apple” in the URL to whatever else you hate, too!

We’re turning comments off for a bit
By Joshua Topolsky  posted Feb 2nd 2010 11:25AM
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/were-turning-comments-off-for-a-bit/

Hey guys, we know you like to have your fun, voice your opinions, and argue over your favorite gear, but over the past few days the tone in comments has really gotten out of hand. What is normally a charged — but fun — environment for our users and editors has become mean, ugly, pointless, and frankly threatening in some situations… and that’s just not acceptable. Some of you out there in the world of anonymous grandstanding have gotten the impression that you run the place, but that’s simply not the case.

Luckily, our commenting community makes up only a small percentage of our readership (and the bad eggs an even smaller part of that number), so while they may be loud, they don’t speak for most people who come to Engadget looking for tech news. Regardless, we’re going to crank things down for a little bit to let everyone just cool off, and we’ll switch them back on when we feel like we’ve shaken some of the trolls and spammers loose from the branches (AKA swing the banhammer in our downtime). See you on the other side!