ranlynn's comment is pretty stupid. Good and bad have no intrinsic value, they're utterly subjective.

Saying something is bad DOES mean it's bad. The opinion will only be applicable to that person and anyone else who agrees with it, but it DOES mean it's bad. That's the only way anything can be bad!

...unless there is some objective way of evaluating the quality of a television programme without injecting your own personal bias and belief. Which there isn't.

I recall reading a lot more cooler and funnier posts when people were taking shots at scifi. I guess they're feeling a little sensitive to all the potshots.

pjowens75's comment about the 2012 article was brilliantly put. I'll have to check out Beyond the Fringe.

While I agree with you, asfm about good and bad being subjective in that everyone will have their own opinion about what is good and bad, ranlynn's comment wasn't stupid. Most people who post here do not make the distinction between their opinion and fact. If they say something is bad, they act as if they expect eveyone else to agree with them. Once they make a pronouncement, all others who disagree are morons. That of course is ridiculous, but is the way most people think. Ranlynn on the other hand was stating that he understood his opinion applied only to himself.
Next time don't be so fast to call someone stupid. People might take you for that.

asfm, I disagree and I think ranlynn's comment is very apt with respect to many of the comments that are left on this website.

Every person is, of course, entitled to an opinion...but an opinion is, by definition, not fact. I agree that there is no objective way of evaluating the media discussed here, but I am utterly confused by your assertion that saying something in a subjective way somehow gives it objective meaning. I'm wondering if this is just an issue of semantics but saying that something is bad does not mean that it is bad...it means that you think that it is bad. You may have very good reasons for that (although I've noticed that many people that comment on this site have very weak reasoning) but it is still an opinion. To say that one's opinion is fact is arrogant to an extreme and it is exactly that kind of attitude that generates so many of the ugly comment conversations that we see on a day-to-day basis.

I mean, take a look at the comments that professional critics make...supposedly they have as close to an objective view as possible. But just because they say a movie is good or bad does not necessarily mean that it is so. There have been movies that have been praised by audiences but hated by critics, and vice-versa. I mean, I can kind of see what you're saying in that, from a certain perspective, something is bad if someone says it is, but it sounded as if you are stressing an objective bad, which doesn't make much sense to me.

Anyways, I think that what ranlynn was getting at was how so many people that comment basically give opinions on something in a way that declares them as fact...and get really nasty about it. I very much agree with her admonishment of them since the way that they conduct themselves often shows arrogance, a lack of critical thinking, immaturity, and closed-mindedness.

"Just because I don't like something doesn't mean it's bad. It just means that *I* didn't like it."— ranlynn

"Good and bad have no intrinsic value, they're utterly subjective." -- asfm

These two statements say the same basic thing. Judgements of morality are subjective.

If you argue that someones stupid for a particular comment and then support it by paraphrasing what you took offence to, then you need to revise your views of whats truly stupid.

Best story of the week continues to be unreported- SyFy's deleting of critical posts and locking of threads when people make negatives about them,

Morality is subjective. Subjectivity is objective. And I think this is entirely jejune.

PS, I really hope somebody out there gets the Woody Allen reference.

I find it interesting that Syfy has taken the time and effort to read the various comments and even adjust some stories accordingly and reply in rare cases directly to us, however they still fail to do anything to fix the Captcha or picture loading so its half as decent as other sites.

I see a lot of complaining about Syfy censoring their comments that are negative to them. Considering the huge amount of comments wherein people rag on them and many times in a seriously derogatory fashion. I just have to wonder where all this censorship complaints come from.

Just what is it that people think is being censored, because it sure isn't negative comments about them. If that were true, a whole lot of other posts would be deleted which they let stand.

Perhaps it is only the comments in which people just gripe and insult without any attempt at civility. No, that can't be it, any glance at the posts show that those stay up as well.

So I'm confused. Other than paring down the comments when the list gets huge, I really don't see much censoring going on.

@jdmimic
You must not have been here back on July 4th, for their Independence Day declaration of their right to censor and deleete. A more badly timed announcement could not be imagined.