Aug 24, 2016

The Value (and Danger) of Comments

NPR recently closed down the comment option for its online news articles, due to the cannibalistic cesspool that all comment sections inevitably become. “Don’t Read the Comments” is the unofficial Golden Rule of the Internet. 

But comments are not all bad. There is a tipping-point to be sure, but before that point, comments are, in fact, the sweetest currency on the internet...