the.com/comment
Where the article ends and humanity's unfiltered id begins, gloves off.
means A spoken or written remark expressing an opinion, observation, or reaction to something.
from From Latin 'commentum,' meaning an invention, contrivance, or interpretation — itself from 'comminisci,' 'to devise or contrive,' built from 'com-' (together) and a root tied to 'mind' (the same root that gives us 'mental'). So a comment was literally something the mind cooked up — fittingly, given what it has become.
- first comment
- Bloggers in the late 1990s pioneered open reader replies
- code roots
- Programmers write comments machines deliberately ignore
- never read
- Most articles end with 'don't read the comments'
- section killed
- Many outlets nuked comments rather than moderate them
- first dibs
- Strangers race to type 'first' under everything
for instance
youtube comments section — platform where over 500 hours of video are uploaded every minute, generating millions of comments daily
reddit comments — social platform where the most upvoted comment of all time received over 500,000 upvotes in 2019