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> It’s the equivalent of reaching the end of a book and having a mob of other readers immediately descend on you, everyone trying to make their review heard ab
by randallsquared 14y ago
> It’s the equivalent of reaching the end of a book and having a mob of other readers immediately descend on you, everyone trying to make their review heard above the fray.
But when you reach the end of a book (and if you liked it), the first thing to do is seek out others' opinions of and discussion of the book, right? It's the same with TV shows; as soon as it's over (on a weekly schedule), people naturally want to discuss it at twop or tvtropes' forum or whatever. Making that discussion easy on your own site just streamlines the process.
- smrq 14y agoIt's still not exactly the same, though. I think the point the article makes is that by appending comments to the end of an article, you take away some important personal processing time. While you're navigating to tvtropes, you're still thinking and forming opinions on what you just watched. The streamlining takes away that pause and makes the discussion leak into the original article.