[JP1990]

What did you expect? It's a personal blog. Your comment is also based on your opinion and is representative of your preferences. And also, they're not complaints; through the post I'm trying to inform others of what are generally, bad practices. Sure, they're not all agreed upon as bad practices, but that's what the comments are for. Have you read all the comments? As the author of the post, I've found other's opinions to be invaluable to me -- maybe you should post an opinion that confronts the post's shortcomings, instead of just saying that it's "silly"...

[noodle]

if you want people to read your article with a discerning eye on the topic of what you think should or shouldn't be jquery best practices, you should probably mention that somewhere in the title or intro paragraphs. and maybe offer more than a sentence of explanation on the examples

right now it reads like "jquery code is ugly. here's some examples of how ugly it is". and people are simply pointing out that the ugliness is purely self-inflicted. the code examples don't need/have to be written as such. you can classify them as stylistic choices. so its more like "my jquery code is ugly" or "i found these ugly snippets online".

just my $0.02.