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I was about to jokily reply, "same", but then I vaguely remembered that maybe the community standards discourage low-content comments. As they should. But the
by rdw 14y ago
I was about to jokily reply, "same", but then I vaguely remembered that maybe the community standards discourage low-content comments. As they should. But the emergent result is that people add content by adding disagreement.
- wuest 14y agoThat's an interesting theory. Doesn't it stand to reason that if that were the case, then in a situation where low-content comments were acceptable, the same people would post low-content comments which disagreed (e.g. a simple "No.")?
- rdw 14y agoI think it's an inherent property of human society that disagreement is easier to write, more compelling word-for-word and idea-for-idea. War is more interesting than peace, and so on. So I do think that natural tendency will bias online discussions where social pressure against discord are lesser than in person. I'm not sure it necessarily follows to the extremes, but I do think one could find places where absurdly short disagreements are the norm. 4chan, say.