Moot: "sterile Facebook comments over provocative YouTube comments?"

Partially this is due to inconvenience, (the web browser with my Facebook login credentials has always had its own VM, to prevent like button tracking) and partially because associating my real name and identity with a blog comment seems like using a cannon to kill a squirrel. If Samuel Bierwagen wants to say something about an issue, he'll write an essay about it; but rolling out my name and my face for a TechCrunch comment just ain't going to happen.

Re: Moot: "sterile Facebook comments over provocative YouTube comments?"

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Post by jrockway » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 5:44 PM UTC

jfruh wrote: post #3

If by "provocative" you mean "so painfully stupid and offensive as to make you weep for humanity," then sure, I guess.

"I'm 8 and what's a provocative?"

Re: Moot: "sterile Facebook comments over provocative YouTube comments?"

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Post by Steko » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 5:44 PM UTC

josh_miller wrote: post #4

Personally, I'd take Hacker News comments over all of the above!

Shorter josh_miller: Thumbs up if you like HN comments!

Re: Moot: "sterile Facebook comments over provocative YouTube comments?"

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Post by josh_miller » Thu, Sep 29, 2011, 5:47 PM UTC

sbierwagen wrote: post #7

I have never left a Facebook comment on a third party site. Partially this is due to inconvenience, (the web browser with my Facebook login credentials has always had its own VM, to prevent like button tracking) and partially because associating my real name and identity with a blog comment seems like using a cannon to kill a squirrel. If Samuel Bierwagen wants to say something about an issue, he'll write an essay ab…

If the quality of TechCrunch comments were higher would you think about it? I'd actually love to participate in an engaging discussion on AVC.com, for example. But when 200 people have commented, and 75% of them are tooting Fred's horn, it's no fun.