Internet Drama Report For 1/16

As you may know, the Internet was slowed to a crawl yesterday due to geeks hitting F5 to reload their browsers to hear about the new MacBook they will then complain is too expensive. But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t big Internet news going on!

First off, Sweeney entertainingly tells us the Salt messageboard has been taken over by ultimate fighters. If that previous sentence doesn’t make much sense to you, it’s okay.

As of this morning, we’ve heard from several longtime posters: One who has definitively quit, and others who are just wondering where their old board went. But maybe poster Somo said it best; when asked for a quote, he sighed heavily, thought on it for a moment, and said, “I just hope everyone can be cool, man.”

If that isn’t enough, the Fox 29 American Idol chatroom was invaded by IRC bots last night and all hell broke loose. If that sentence doesn’t make any sense to you, just go to after the jump, where Internet drama leaks into the real world!

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Messageboard Drama As Good As Any Other Kinds

In New Jersey, two sisters were killed by their half-brother, Marquis Lee. For commentary on tragic times, we turn to the Courier-Post Online forums.

Read the whole thread. Four pages long, and it’s like a soap opera, with people wishing horrible deaths on the killer as a sidebar. There are accusations of heartlessness, true tales of compassion and apologies all around. No, really.