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What is The A.V. Club?
The A.V. Club is an entertainment websitepart of the Paste Media family of sites—including Paste MagazineJezebel and Splinter. You can view it online by directing your computing device to www.avclub.com.
What is your comment policy?
We love the comments sectionalong with the discussions and community they foster. We take the “club” aspect of our name seriously—it’s your site too. But here’s the deal: We strive to cover pop culture with intelligence and witand we assume that’s what brought you here. Abusive/offensive/obscene posts simply don’t contribute to that goal.
These are some of the things we find unacceptable:
- Flagrant attacks on other commentatorsstaffersor interview / review subjectsparticularly aggressiveinsulting posts with no other point to make. Unacceptable: “You’re a dick!” Acceptable: “Only a dick would watch Con Air six times in a row!” Better: “You watched Con Air six times?! You should’ve taken IQ tests before and after to see how it affected you.”
- Offensive commentary on interview / review subjectsincluding but not limited to ad hominem thoughts on how they lookhow they might smelland exactly what you’d like to do to them in bed. Hate on their work all you wantbut attacking them for their appearance is childishand providing detailed commentary on your sexual reaction to them iswellicky. If you did that at our party at our houseyou wouldn’t be invited back.
- Racisthomophobicor sexist remarks. Don’t assume that everyone else gets your sarcasmironyover-the-top toneetc. Attack comments don’t get a free pass just because you “didn’t really mean it.”
- Blatant trolling.
- Blatant plugs for your own website.
- Offensive images or GIFs.
One more thing to keep in mind: We can’t be everywhere at once. You can help us maintain the quality of our community. If you see someone behaving offensively in the commentscontact us.
Be passionatebut be kind. Learn from each other. And remember there is an actual human being on the other end of the line. The comments work best when people do these things.
Didn’t you guys put out a book?
We’ve released three books under the A.V. Club banner. The Tenacity Of The Cockroach: Conversations With Entertainment’s Most Enduring Outsiders (2002) collects dozens of our best early interviews with the longtime survivors of the entertainment industry. Inventory: 16 Films Featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined by SaxophoneAnd 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop-Culture Lists (2009) features some of our most popular Inventory listsplus a variety of new lists that never appeared online. And Nathan Rabin’s My Year of Flops: The A.V. Club Presents One Man’s Journey Deep Into The Heart Of Cinematic Failure (2010) collects some of the most popular columns from Nathan’s My Year Of Flops featureplus a ton of book-only content.
