"You can write the word Twitter 20 times in an actual Twitter post, but you can only write Skittles 17 1/2 times. We don't want to call it a conspiracy, but..."
Would it help if Skittles offered watermelon flavor?
Edit: OK, so I'm going to explain the humor and the criticism here, since I'm being voted down and I actually wanted to get a point across with this comment. thomasswift's comment of "and apparently racists love skittles" rubbed me the wrong way, in that it seems to implicate Skittles in the racism by association (or even just accepts the premise that by allowing people to say anything about Skittles on their home page they were tacitly endorsing everything people say about Skittles). I thought my comment was over the top enough to be obvious. But, I'm pretty sure every satirical comment I've made in the past couple of months here has been voted down. Hackers love satire. I dunno who you humorless ninnies are, but you aint who I wanna hang out with. I'm guessing you're new around here.
I originally wrote my comment in regards to the fact that about 8 tweets you can see on the page that were not obscured but the red boxes were extremely racist, hence what I said.
I did not mean to imply if you a non-racist person that likes skittles then you are a racist, or skittle endorses racism or anything like that.
Also other people seem to notice people taking advantage of this.
>> Naturally, people are already spamming the hell out of this. One tweet being repeated over and over again unfortunately uses a racial slur. As such, I suspect this little experiment will end rather soon for Skittles.
This is from a venturebeat article - http://venturebeat.com/2009/03/01/skittles-tweet-the-rainbow...
I don't usually like to comment when people downmod me, they probably had a reason, but I feel like I should try to explain this one.
I don't think your comment deserved downmods, either. It just seemed, to me, to be a simplistic view of the situation, and maybe the one that the old media would take (along the lines of Fox News approach to the Internet: a place for child predators and cyberterrorists). And, so, I made a joke that I thought pointed out the ridiculousness of that simple view; when you give your customers the ability to say anything they will say bad and good things. And that's OK. It doesn't mean anyone approves...just that people get to have their say.
My little moment of bitchery was about the humorless folks who've been voting down comic gold around these parts because it's biting. I've seen it enough lately, in my posts and others, that it feels like a pattern. And it's a pattern I don't like.
I don't think his comment endorsed that view at all. I saw it as a surprised reaction to see blatant racism on the front page of the website for a popular candy.
Also: you have to consider that people aren't voting you down because your humor is biting, but because it's not funny and doesn't add to the conversation.
