I am convinced that Vos Iz Neias is the heimishe version of the New York Post, they copy and paste a bunch of regular articles from CNN and Huffington post and then like clockwork every 10 articles or so is placed there to get your attention and piss you off, or some people off.
Every time there is more then 10 comments you can be sure that some sort of argument consisting of an Us vs Them mentality is taking place. Usually consisting of some sort of story not that has someone that isn’t orthodox which leads to a 100 comment discussion on why a heimishe news site has a story about frei or goyishe people, its quite funny.
Here are some of my own examples:
For instance a story about a family killed in a car crash would elicit comments like:
But were they frum?
Yidden shouldn’t participate in such dangerous activities such as driving
I heard that the mother wasn’t covering her hair so it serves her right
I heard they wore knit yarmulkes and they aren’t frum
Hurricane hits the coast of Cuba:
Don’t worry no Jews were hurt
Cuba is communist why do we care?
I heard one of the people killed was frum but he doesn’t wear a hat to shul so its fine
Frum man caught red handed molesting a boy:
Are they sure he was frum?
I don’t believe it
Frum people don’t do such things, where’s the proof
I heard that he didn’t give a donation to his kids yeshiva and they framed him
Treife hot dogs found in kosher store:
They weren’t treife they only had an OU
OU is treife
How can you read VIN all they publish is loshon harah?
The internet is assur I implore you all to leave now
I was at the store and the hot dogs weren’t treife, its just a rumor
Well if you were there say your name so we can prove it
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sorry guys but this new site design just looks older the nthe last one..
your grammar and spelling are too correct to be imitating the comments on VIN.
(i forgot to mention: hilarious!)
I reed VIN fer laffs. I wunder whi ther speeling es like that an tha grammer iz partecylerlee bed.
I vudn’t make fun of dem if I vuz you!
Funny stuff…..
Hesh- definitely one of your more funny pieces lately….
This is great.
Keep it up!
That is the first time someone has complimented me on my spelling – I even have a disclaimer at the top telling me people that my spelling and grammar is based on my poor yeshiva education
Your poor yeshiva education is an excuse for your crappy spelling and grammar. The reason it’s crappy is because you don’t take the time to edit your material.
VIN comments are moderated, but I am boggled when trying to figure out what is an “unacceptable” comment. I’ve definitely submitted things that weren’t even in the same universe as “unacceptable” that were never posted, and I see comments from some users that are downright insulting and antagonistic towards other comments.
I have serious problems with VIN. They say they are “The voice of the Orthodox Jewish Community” Eew, gross!! certainly not my voice!! I actualy wrote twcie to them asking how as an “orthodox” site they justify all the lashon hora generated, and have not recieved a reply.
I wonder if they even know what yellow journalism means?
You’re thinking of YWN. I read VIN regularly and those kind of comments aren’t posted there.
Site is probably moderated by some narrow minded, ignorant yeshiva kids. Probably some jokesters on there too, trying to feed the fire by hacking der chinek.
Chossid – yeshiva world news doesn’t get comments on its news stories anymore mostly because you have to be logged in to do anything. YWN is losing a lot of business and that can be seen by its trying to use its site as a portal – their alexa ranking is equal to that of VIN but only because of its other sub domains
very true, I love to hear people say “Rubashkins is a frum yid, he only employed low wage workers so he can give more to tzedakah (which is wrong)”.
I fail to see how your site is any different from what VIN comments are like. so they make comments about them vs. us — and you subtly do it as humor.
Anon – my comments are nothing like VIN – VIN commenters take everything and make it into a serious Jewish issue.
For instance there was an article tonight about a guy who rowed across the Atlantic to raise money for skin cancer and the comments were about whether or not the guy kept shabbos or is Jewish – it was pretty whack.
One comment I posted on VIN was censored. VIN posted a story about a Jewish doctor visiting Fire Island who, while walking to shul on shabbos, was mistaken by cops for a man who’d flashed a couple of little girls. The cops beat him, insulting him with anti-gay slurs. A couple of posters asked why the cops had used anti-gay slurs, given that the flasher was exposing himself to little girls and not little boys. So I posted that the cops probably just made incorrect assumptions about him because this was, after all, Fire Island. That really was all I wrote, and VIN censored it. I’m not sure how my comment was any worse than the story itself.
Anon you were not anti-Gay or you didn’t cause the conversation to take a negative turn
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FS, that may have been it. Or it may have been because the site editors figured no one would realize that Fire Island is a popular gay vacation spot, and did not appreciate me alluding to that fact. (When I told my brother the story he said the editors probably didn’t know it either when they posted the story).