NO MORE COMMENTS
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Comments sections are the worst idea in the history of the internet.
Why does CNN have a comments section? Or the NYTimes? WHY? If people want to write a letter to the editor, then great. Let them write it to the editors, and let the editors read it, and if it’s awesome, let the editors print it.
But the way it’s set up is giving an automatic platform for the worst people on earth, in the very space we get our news from! I went to this friggin website because it’s written by professionals. If I want to hear morons, I have that chance every day on the street, at any service industry outlet, and at work.
Comments are good for three things:
1. Hate speech and negative-intelligence political diatribes.
2. Shameless plugs.
3. Asinine agreement.
If you want to express your opinion, get your own blog. It’s free, and people who agree or disagree with you can post and link to you, and vice versa, and suddenly you’ve become a real live person instead of a troll.
I’m not knocking discussion boards, those are a totally different beast altogether.
If you have a comment, fine, this is Tumblr, that’s the point of Tumblr. I don’t pretend to be the New York Times. But if you really have something to say, you’d be better off re-blogging it and actually thinking for five minutes about what you want to add.
Peace,
Johnny
