How Facebook Ruined Comments (at Least For One Writer) 135
harrymcc writes "Back in late March, Facebook finally introduced a feature which lets you reply to a specific comment on an update. But at the same time, it started reshuffling the order of comments in an attempt to put the best ones at the top. The change only applies to Pages and to the Profiles of people with more than 10,000 followers, but it's driving me crazy. Over at TIME.com, I explain why."
Re:You know who else had things ruined? (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:An Extremely Decent video on the subject (Score:2, Interesting)
That can be said for all of the Internet.
The one true law of the Internet was, is, and should always be, that there are no laws.
The only reason for laws is that there is limited space and resources which people have to share. But on the Internet, there is unlimited virtual space and everyone can put up his own resources. Don't like it? Fork it! Works for any communication space. Infinitely.
So on the Internet, humans can go back to the natural form of organization called webs of trust. Without having to ever bash their heads in when they don't want to. The holy grail of a society.
Then came the businesses and non-digital-natives and they fucked everything up, by trying to force the Internet into their outdated systems, instead of integrating. ... Suddenly services were centralized and comments were censored because some morons sued instead of just *forking*.
Suddenly we were supposed to have "laws" because they can't handle configuring a firewall or server. Suddenly sites were limited to physical regions. Suddenly you could not call somebody a "cum-guzzling uncle-fucker" anymore because he would be too insecure to just laugh and leave, but would whine and bitch and
Eternal September was born.
I say we make a new Internet. With anons and webs of trust! Where the only laws are, that there are no laws, and no non-digital-natives.