This is the first Internet group I've encountered where the baseline recruit is actually cooler than me. I've seen at least 60 people with outrageous piercings, dirty hair, and an interest list full of industrial music.
Two main types dominate friendster: Semi-literate party animals who post pretty pictures and describe themselves in sentence fragments, and pretentious hipster geeks who list authors they read in English class and write screeds about how much they hate TV.
I have lost count of people who use their profile space to denounce television. My favorite specimen is the type who lists six favorite television programs and says, "But I only watch them on DVD." Like it's cool to be three seasons behind.
Comment spam is an ongoing problems that we're trying to address. Previously we required people to create accounts and log in. I am thankful to say that is no longer the case. We're giving Captcha another try and are playing around with a text-based Q&A variant of Captcha. So bear with us as we try to figure out how to best get a handle ont he problem. Please note that any comment on a post more than 30 days old will go into the moderation queue, where I will get to it when I can which could be once a week.
