It’s tempting, as the editor of a website, to commission subjects that will get as many comments as possible. The theory goes that a lively comments section drives hits and given websites like ours are businesses that’s quite a consideration.
But there’s a serious downside to this. The web’s provided all manner of characters with a brand new opportunity to access a mass audience and quite frankly an awful lot of commenters don’t deserve that.
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