commenter-of-the-day

sunnyvalesteve

Owen Thomas · 11/13/08 07:40PM

The employee stock purchase plan seems like one of the few ways left for Yahoos to make money off their employer. Should it be eliminated because of short-term stock-flipping? sunnyvalesteve doesn't see the downside: "Hurt morale?? Like there's any left!"

MrMedia

Alaska Miller · 11/10/08 07:40PM

Aliph, the maker of the Jawbone Bluetooth headset, dropped half a million on fancy furniture for its offices, then fired 25 of the 75 people whose seats the purchase was meant to warm. Today's featured commenter, MrMedia, explains why the expenditure was worth it:

sample032

Alaska Miller · 11/07/08 07:40PM

Voters passed Proposition 8, California's gay marriage ban, sparking calls for protests. Today's featured commenter, sample032, explains the whole big can of worms:

TheronNaso

Owen Thomas · 11/05/08 07:40PM

Funny because it's vile: TheronNaso observed, after learning that MySpace celebrity Tila Tequila was dating Mac spokeshipster Justin Long, that "the Mac's long history of avoiding mainstream viruses has come to an end."

Tim the IT Guy

Owen Thomas · 11/03/08 07:40PM

Our house sysadmin, Tim the IT Guy, had the best take on Twitter CEO's Ev Williams open call for a wannabe-CEO assistant:

macbeach

Owen Thomas · 10/30/08 06:40PM

Why is Time Inc., the giant magazine publisher, paying McKinsey millions of dollars in consulting fees, when it could just ask Valleywag's commenters for free advice? Here's how macbeach weighed in:

RhymePhile

Owen Thomas · 10/29/08 06:40PM

Is hogging elevators evil? RhymePhile is today's featured commenter for suggesting that Google's kitchen cutbacks could lessen the environmental impacts on fellow tenants of its New York office building:

Antilles_Prime

Alaska Miller · 10/23/08 06:40PM

Did you copy an existing popular website and sell it off to a big corporation too dumb to realize what's going on? Twice? Xochi Birch did, first with Ringo and then Bebo. Today's featured commenter, Antilles_Prime, explains the kudos she's earned:

sggrf

Alaska Miller · 10/22/08 06:40PM

Jason Calacanis took time out from his mailing list to blog about firing a baker's dozen of his Mahalo staff. The very same brilliant, hard-working, antifamily people he said he'd never compromise on. Today's featured commenter is sggrf, who wonders out loud on whether Calacanis might turn the episode into conference fodder: