It’s not just politics or science, it’s something about the ability to post anywhere. At first I thought it was that we were seeing more comments from young boys who would grow up, but the algorithms encouraged pointless argument. Making weak connections and poor logic got the most attention.
Not surprising really, to anyone who has ever spent anytime in a library, and noticed how few people are there. Now it’s the inverse correlation of quality sites to number of visits.
You might have heard about the computer troubles this week
