Something happened in the last ten years or so, where blog comment sections turned into a big hug box. Slow Boring’s comment section is sycophantic to the extreme. Blogs articles from the 00s and 10s tended to have at least a few comments going into detail about why the article was stupid and wrong. I do think Yglesias was somewhat moderated by his commenters, and then later his colleagues pushing back on his most psycho takes. It makes me wonder about the model of having paywalled articles or podcasts will eventually just turn it into a hugbox for the paied subscribers.
Something happened in the last ten years or so, where blog comment sections turned into a big hug box. Slow Boring’s comment section is sycophantic to the extreme. Blogs articles from the 00s and 10s tended to have at least a few comments going into detail about why the article was stupid and wrong. I do think Yglesias was somewhat moderated by his commenters, and then later his colleagues pushing back on his most psycho takes. It makes me wonder about the model of having paywalled articles or podcasts will eventually just turn it into a hugbox for the paied subscribers.