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by a5aAqU 1683 days ago
> I’ve seen some interesting projects in the past that were browser based and made the entire Internet be equipped with comments sections, including YouTube. I wonder if something like that would be viable, maybe with the addition of a like dislike bar.

If something like that ever took off, it would devastate independent publishers and a huge part of Internet culture by draining interactions out of websites. Google tried it before, and fortunately it failed. I think it's one of the worst possible things that could happen to the Web.
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beezischillin 1683 days ago
A lot of mainstream media sites have removed comments sections from their articles, there's no user interaction left on those.
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toxik 1683 days ago
To be fair, comments _must_ be moderated or they turn into a cesspool in short order. A like-dislike count does not have that problem, though. And YouTube isn't removing the comments (yet).
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a5aAqU 1683 days ago
That's what blogs are for. Write a blog post about the article. If it's good enough, it will get traffic.
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alanbernstein 1683 days ago
If you believe blog posts are the same thing as comments, why did you write a comment to say so?
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a5aAqU 1683 days ago
Not every site is the same. News sites in the US turn off their comments because it's too difficult to moderate in the current political environment.

Hacker News isn't a content site, but is mainly created for commenting. It is less political than the news sites which removed comments. It can also handle the moderation more easily than news sites partly because it has a very strong ugliness and usability filter.

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