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Just to provide a counter point, I really love comment sections. It's a way of seeing how other people are reacting to what I just read. When a news site does
by sfeng 12y ago
Just to provide a counter point, I really love comment sections. It's a way of seeing how other people are reacting to what I just read. When a news site doesn't support comments I find myself searching for them.
- zf00002 12y agoI find old comments on old news stories interesting. They provide kind of a snapshot of what people were thinking/feeling at a given time. The day Obama released his birth certificate for instance. If you go back and look at some of the more fringy sites, the comments on that day are pretty amusing. A lot of people mystified by pdf layers.
- fluidcruft 12y agoI don't know why anyone should believe comment sections are authentic. In my mind they are propaganda ground zero.
- smtddr 12y agoThe fact that I can count on opinions like this countering propaganda is exactly what makes comment sections valuable.
- tim333 12y agoWell there are usually some authentic comments mixed in. Admittedly some dictatorial regimes appear to employ people to comment in their favour. Iran, N Korea and Russia seem to do that but you can mentally filter them.
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- krapp 12y agoFrom what I've observed on HN at least, people seem to invariably spot propaganda in comments which contradict their politics or biases, but somehow the comments they agree with are always authentic and valid.