Comments on: Most “Controversial” Guardian Crosswords http://longair.net/blog/2009/11/21/most-controversial-guardian-crosswords/ (occasional miscellanea) Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:42:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mark http://longair.net/blog/2009/11/21/most-controversial-guardian-crosswords/comment-page-1/#comment-2367 mark Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:13:51 +0000 http://longair.net/blog/?p=319#comment-2367 Thanks, Shuchi. I've often found your posts on the FT crossword useful! To the extent that I have any theory about why the Guardian posts attract so many comments, I suspect it's a combination of: <ol> <li>The self-perpetuating nature of the community of people who comment</li> <li>The often rather eccentric clues which appear compared to other newspapers</li> </ol> The Guardian crossword certainly has a distinct reputation for the latter :) Thanks, Shuchi. I’ve often found your posts on the FT crossword useful! To the extent that I have any theory about why the Guardian posts attract so many comments, I suspect it’s a combination of:

  1. The self-perpetuating nature of the community of people who comment
  2. The often rather eccentric clues which appear compared to other newspapers

The Guardian crossword certainly has a distinct reputation for the latter :)

]]> By: Shuchi http://longair.net/blog/2009/11/21/most-controversial-guardian-crosswords/comment-page-1/#comment-2355 Shuchi Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:03:39 +0000 http://longair.net/blog/?p=319#comment-2355 Great compilation, Mark. The Guardian crossword's comment space is very lively! I wonder if Guardian solvers are more exacting. I blog about the FT crossword on fifteensquared; even the most potentially controversial FT crosswords get nowhere near that range of comments. Great compilation, Mark. The Guardian crossword’s comment space is very lively! I wonder if Guardian solvers are more exacting. I blog about the FT crossword on fifteensquared; even the most potentially controversial FT crosswords get nowhere near that range of comments.

]]> By: mark http://longair.net/blog/2009/11/21/most-controversial-guardian-crosswords/comment-page-1/#comment-1749 mark Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:59:11 +0000 http://longair.net/blog/?p=319#comment-1749 Thanks. I may well have missed some posts, since I was rather haphazardly using Google to locate them in order to avoid using up the server's CPU or bandwidth quota. Thanks. I may well have missed some posts, since I was rather haphazardly using Google to locate them in order to avoid using up the server’s CPU or bandwidth quota.

]]> By: Gaufrid http://longair.net/blog/2009/11/21/most-controversial-guardian-crosswords/comment-page-1/#comment-1746 Gaufrid Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:21:19 +0000 http://longair.net/blog/?p=319#comment-1746 Mark Thanks for the summary and for reminding me about a post I made some time ago, but one that is still relevant. Some people take crosswords far too seriously. They are meant to be a form of entertainment and therefore fun. I am not sure that you have got the puzzle with the most comments in your list. From memory this was an Araucaria but it may have had some comments removed for being off-topic. Gaufrid (aka Geoff Moss) Mark
Thanks for the summary and for reminding me about a post I made some time ago, but one that is still relevant. Some people take crosswords far too seriously. They are meant to be a form of entertainment and therefore fun.

I am not sure that you have got the puzzle with the most comments in your list. From memory this was an Araucaria but it may have had some comments removed for being off-topic.

Gaufrid (aka Geoff Moss)

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