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On Being A “Vile, Loathsome, Despicable Pig”
Via Verge‘s best-of-2012 list, here’s an essay by Meghan Daum about the lakes of vitriol that make up so many online comments sections. She compares the unfavorable reaction to a somewhat naïve piece she wrote about safe sex in the ’90s…
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TPM Switches to Facebook Comments
In an interesting move, popular political site Talking Points Memo will begin using Facebook comments as their main commenting system. TPM Editor John Marshall explains the decision here. “…To make an admittedly long story short, we’re switching to Facebook comments…