CapitalistB [High Praise!] pointed out this rather amusing Twitter account that fairly well sums up the folly of looking for wisdom in comment threads. A few sample quotes:
Back in the day, we called comments “letters to the editor.” Someone read them, picked the best ones, & published them. Many were STILL bad.
Yes, sometimes comment sections contain insight and reasoned discussion. But do you really want to take that chance?
Be the change you want to see in the world. Don’t read internet comments.
The comments section has never added anything to your life.
Instead of reading the uninspired drivel of a comments section, you could articulate your own opinion by writing an article of your own!
While this caution generally applies, I consider IMAO the exception that proves the rule.
Commenters here don’t usually pipe up unless they have something constructive or entertaining to add.
Or… you can take this opportunity to leave the dumbest comment you can think of and prove me wrong.
I’m good either way.
I would never comment in comments that would have me as a commenter.
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Hmm.
YGDFT!YLTATSOTE
Beleive it or not, I have writen articals for major magazenes.
I have to admit that the comments around here are pretty top notch. Even that caps-lock chick who like played the bowler in ‘Mystery Men’ is actually usually pretty amusing.
Dang it AT you stole my comment! Get out of my head!!!
Ron Paul!!11!!!
Where’s Frank?
President Obama is an exemplar to us all.
Cheers
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Reading online comments is like letting someone punch your brain in the face with a fistful of stupid. If you doubt this, consider that I’ve been hit with the “fist of stupid” so many times, I now think brains have faces. Kudos, Internet.
Frank used to call us “Ronin.”
Commenters here don’t usually pipe up unless they have something constructive or entertaining to add.
Have you ferggot about half my posts
BECAISE OF THE GOPBERNMANT SHUTDOWN I”M CRAWLLING WITH ANNANTTTSS BIG HAIRY ANNTSSSS
first!
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Has anyone brought cookies?
Anybody remember me? I won the caption contest about a month ago.
“I will hug him and squeeze him and call him George.”
It was something of great contentment getting to your site this morning. The site loading velocity is amazing. It seems that you are doing any distinctive trick.
Barack Obama is the
bst betbestprezdunt precedentpresident ever!“Commenters here don’t usually pipe up unless they have something constructive or entertaining to add.”
All I can say is that when my pipe’s up that’s added entertainment at least for me.
You damn dirty ape. Librarians truely are the scum of the earth.
No comment.
I’m having a cheeseburger for lunch.
Mistyped my email and got moderated. Life is complete.
pr0n!!!!
Nuking the Moon would have a violent and irreversible effect on climate change. Trying to deny that is just anti-science.
Heh. Indeed!