"What’s astonishing is that design choices that were out of date when built into commenting tools and blogging software 15 years ago are still repeated as mistakes today on many large, mainstream sites.
The result of continuing to repeat the mistakes we made when building commenting systems a dozen years ago is that nearly every popular large-scale app or social network or news site has some significant issues with widespread abuse of users, particularly marginalized users...
I think our reflexive use of these grim jokes have gotten accepted into the culture of people who build, manage, and publish on large social apps and media sites. The fact that we joke about it documents an acceptance of a culture of abuse online. It helps normalize online harassment campaigns and treat the empowerment of abusers as inevitable, rather than solvable."
https://medium.com/@anildash/against-don-t-read-the-comments-aee43ce515b9#.o10jhcabo
Yes. I'm thinking now - who told me that this wasn't solvable? I never read comments, I've really accepted that they are just a lost space where the kids of people whose voices I want to avoid get to talk to one another, where no one will stop them.
And honestly, the most radical thing about being a leader and a change-maker is to recognize that it is totally possible for shitty things to be good things.
Related: Why women don't read the comments or write them either
FB: "There’s a grave cost to assuming online interactivity is always awful. The burden is felt most acutely in denying opportunity to those for whom connecting to a community online may be the only way to get a foot in the door. Those underrepresented, unheard voices are the most valuable ones we lose when we throw the baby out with the bathwater and assume online comments are necessarily bad."
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