[CyberRabbi]

It’s a sign of elitism to have this much contempt for internet comments. The internet is not academia or your fancy hierarchical tech job, it’s a place where anybody of any ilk can have a say. Yes there will be wrong comments or mean comments but that’s just because you’re amongst the people and the people are imperfect. Yet it’s the masses of people who form the audience of this site that make this site so valuable.

If one cannot get over their contempt of bad internet comments then it might be better for their stress levels to stick to reading academic journals or other elite publications. Much higher ratios of nice/correct opinions there.