Each week, a handful of reader comments are selected for inclusion and veneration in the Gold Star Motel. Standards of excellence are arbitrary, fluid, and contradictory. The reward is strictly honorary (at best). This week, all the Gold Stars are taken from the post where we asked for your editorial ideas. Will this be the last Gold Star Motel?

Re: Your Editorial Input Requested

  • HoHoKennedy:
    "I vote Lies cause I'm sick of that photo."
  • Hot Chocolate(RIP!):
    "Since my head is already on the chopping block...Gold Star Motel seems to be little more than a giant mutual masturbation session. A cuddle party with handjobs, if you will. We are all smart enough to recognize a witty comment when we see one; I don't think we need someone to point it out and say, "That's funny! Laugh, fool!" And since it seems like the same people always "win," maybe you could just give them a star next to their name or something, a special picture in their thumbnail thing, that makes it clear how superior they are to everyone else without shoving it down our throats once a week.
    In short, the whole concept reeks of high school. And yes, I was a bitter nerd in high school, and I hated every second of it, and I don't want to see it recreated by adults on a website that I love (and will continue to love even if I get executed for having the opinion that nursing mothers should throw a blanket over their exposed breasts).
    Anway, perhaps being incredibly witty is reward enough. That's all I'm saying."
  • Steverino:
    "Make Balk and Choire go on CNN."
  • ambitious heckler:
    "Please keep potty girl but tell her to make the sex hotter? I don't see the point of bringing a guy to a dive bar just to bang him in the bathroom. The whole point is you've just met someone AT THE BAR and you just have to do them then and there. Duh! Other than that, I never really liked "And now he's dead" — people shouldn't die — and can you please tell the guy at Wonkette it's annoying every time he spells out "teevee" — and Josh shouldn't post his suburban-Jewish-skaterboy-rap videos about yogurt, it takes the brand down a little. The last "underminer" was phoning it in a bit, the monologue starts to sound too contrived to sound like it was actually spoken, and GMIJ was awesome, I miss it too. And can you bring back Elizabeth? Thanks!!!"
  • mindful_indulgence:
    "Dammit. I sorta feel like I voted for Nader all over again."
  • 10am-automatic :
    "keep altarcations but only include couples with pictures. After all, how can you truly judge someone if you don't know what they look like?"