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> The biggest difference is that comment threads are the majority of how people create content on the internet now and they weren't before.

Were you not around for newsgroup flame-wars of the early 90s (and probably long before that, if you were among the lucky few that had access)...?

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I was. The web went from not most people on it to not most people commenting in threads to now where most people are commenting in threads. Newsgroups fall into the first two categories. So I think you're not really disagreeing with me. I might have missed a word in my statement though?

Anyway my point is mostly to suggest that OP is wrong from ignorance.