Comments on: Chinese Wedding Video Impress Netizens, Spreads Online

By: WinGal

WinGal — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:09:21 +0000

It doesn’t look like a real wedding.The wedding banquet is like a variety show…Or the couple got trucks of money to burn.
It is more like a commercial.

By: Rocketship

Rocketship — Sat, 09 May 2009 09:17:33 +0000

no. men simply are not impressed with mediocrity and phoniness. you can whine about how men don’t have情调 and whatnot but the fact of the matter is, all the greatest romances have been written by men, because romances are 大线条. women can only write erotic novels because thats the 情调.

By: Vinowank

Vinowank — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:11:22 +0000

That’s so expensive… I got my Chinese bride on the internet for 10,000 yuan. We had a wedding for less than 2,000 yuan (wedding ceremony, reception, video, hotel, honeymoon for 2 people) – now that’s good value for money.

China the best place to get married. If only they would lift the one child policy….

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:15:15 +0000

It’s pretty good, but not that extraordinary.

By: meep

meep — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:27:52 +0000

>I suppose I won’t ever understand the Chinese’s penchant for Glamor Shots of themselves that they can show to friends.

Well how could you posssibly understand the “Chinese” penchant when you assume this one video represents the majority.

By: Kai

Kai — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:26:07 +0000

Wow, Fauna’s comment is both interesting and damning.

So here’s the thing: What’s more important? Fair representation or maintaining a website that encourages people to participate and converse with each other (er, in more productive ways than racist or trollish grunting)? Doing one seems to negatively affect the other, and I certainly can see the rationale for both sides.

I will go ahead and argue that leaving stupid comments up to remind people of how stupid “their own” can be will do more harm than good. Why? Because most self-righteous hypocrites will never really acknowledge or admit that “their own” is or can be as bad as “the others” they so viciously generalize or racially attack. On the other hand, most reasonably intelligent people already avoid making racist comments or generalizations because they implicitly know such comments don’t hold up. As a result, I suspect leaving up stupid comments discourages the intelligent people from participating because they don’t like the environment of idiocy, while actually encouraging more stupidity because the stupid people think they can either get away with it or they’re just joining a crowd of people that agree with them.

Anyway, I made my own comment policy clear on CNR: It is your website, you’re free to do as you please with it, whiners be damned.

By: Overseas Chinese

Overseas Chinese — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:36:58 +0000

The editing is done well…but it seems rather impersonal. It is just like watching another mass produced video done by a studio.

My personal preference is minimal editing. Wedding memories should include warts and all.

By: Mercator

Mercator — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:58:23 +0000

I think the “eleven years olds, who get all excited about being the first person that makes a post?” is just a bit of silly harmless fun.

But the general air of idiocy is starting to annoy.

By: bert

bert — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:32:04 +0000

Waste of money. The woman looks psycho. A wedding is about union and true celebration not spending money for the sake of showing off.

By: Fauna

Fauna — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:13:36 +0000

I translate stupid Chinese netizen comments so I normally allow foreigners to show that they make stupid comments also.

I will try to do a better job monitoring the comments but I hope you can use the voting also.