Indian Comments League

Posted on | May 7, 2009 | Comments

The Fake IPL Player Blog needs no introduction to blogosphere. 

My gut says a lot of people are glued to the blog a tad more than to the event itself.
‘Damn revealing’ is how my cricket-crazy friend Subbu describes it.
True. In more ways than one.

The Blog has also revealed a side sport.

The Indian Comments League.

I have been observing, with rising interest and falling hopes, the quality of comments posted on the site.

Trust me, it is ‘revealing’.

The Indian Blogosphere seems to be teeming with over-enthusiatic people who wish to post nothing short of utter garbage in the form of comments.

Yes it is a hugely visted and hugely commented upon site. Every post here invites comments in hundreds.
And which blogger worth his post doesn’t love comments?

Initially, the comments centered around the Blogger’s identity.
Every reader had a take on who the writer was.
That done, the comments quickly moved on to guessing the true identity of the players behind the wonderfully corny names used in the posts.
‘Appam C’ is legendary stuff now – call it permanent branding.

But it ends there. Period.
One look at the comments beneath the posts and this is what you will find.

1. A crash course in the choicest cuss words in various Indian languages.
2. Proxy regional wars being fought (mallu, bong, punjabi etc etc)
3. Language that is blatantly abusive and sexual in nature

Yes, the Blog itself treads the thin line when branding the players and the people associated with the event.
So I guess it would invite comments to tread the same path.

But the Blog is written wittily. And wit assumes and presumes a little liberty.
The league to which the comments have stooped, however, is inexcusable.

It is a running commentary on the pitiful quality of bloggers.
You should also see the number of people placing links to ridiculously unconnected sites in the comments section.
‘Playboy Pics’ included.
Or the number of comments that encourage you to ‘Click and get Freebies by making points’. Each posted multiple times – (an evade deletion technique I assume)
There is also the reader war – one reader calling the other names that are usually confined to college campuses and hostels.

In fact the number of comments deleted by admin is going up as we speak.
Poor Fake IPL Player – he seems to be desperately seeking a blog monitor.

I guess when there is a good show on, who doesn’t want to stand up and do a quick jig dance and sit down again.
Old Indian style.

Ah yes, one good point. The next time you have a great web idea and your client shoots it down saying internet penetration is low in India, point that client to the comments sections on Fake IPL Player.

That’s greater India having a great time, if you ask me.

P.S. Know the latest side-sport on in the comments section of the Fake IPL Player Blog?
Who gets to post the first comment. Lol.