I spent a greater part of my life reading Internet comments, here's what I found...
Hopelessly dumb:
Yahoo News, Newswine, Foxnews, CNN, MSNBC (pretty much any news site), Youtube (depends)
- By reading comments from these sites, you will lose all hope for mankind
Dumb but not hopeless:
Cnet, Endgadget, Verge, Facebook...
- It does not speak well for mankind but we still have hope...
OK:
Wired, Washington Post, Huffington Post
Best quality comments:
Slashdot, New York Time
- There is intelligent human out there!
You must be kidding about Facebook. That should be in the "is this really written by a human?"-category. I'm not a Facebook user myself, but Facebook comments sneak in everywhere I look, and I can't believe how dumb they are. For instance this site http://heltnormalt.dk/rydforsiden [heltnormalt.dk], which do grotesque bogus news in Danish. There is always some Facebook sucker who doesn't get the joke and think it is real. And to make it worse, Facebook replaces Danish words der, da and i with there, the and I. It is a disgr
Professional wrestling: ballet for the common man.
Wrong place to do a Q&A (Score:5, Insightful)
Reddit, Digg, YouTube, and FaceBook have a standard of comments so low that Slashdot looks like the Encyclopedia Brittanica in contrast.
Perhaps we can get CmdrTaco into a forum with more standards, or just do the chat in cryptocat and post the result here.
Slashdot has the best commenters... (Score:4, Interesting)
Hopelessly dumb:
Yahoo News, Newswine, Foxnews, CNN, MSNBC (pretty much any news site), Youtube (depends)
- By reading comments from these sites, you will lose all hope for mankind
Dumb but not hopeless:
Cnet, Endgadget, Verge, Facebook...
- It does not speak well for mankind but we still have hope...
OK:
Wired, Washington Post, Huffington Post
Best quality comments:
Slashdot, New York Time
- There is intelligent human out there!
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