1019: First Post
| First Post |
 Title text: 'Nuh-uh! We let users vote on comments and display them by number of votes. Everyone knows that makes it impossible for a few persistant voices to dominate the discussion.' |
Explanation
This comic displays how much money goes into advertising vs. how much money is actually needed to do basically the same thing. The left graphic shows a $1,500,000 budget for ads on news sites every day until the election. The right graphic shows $200,000 that can be used with virtually the same results just by giving tech-savvy users salary to troll websites and make sure the employer's view is dominating the discussion. This practice is widely used, though most of America is unaware of it.
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Consistent posting order . . . .
You know, I think you're right, Blaisepascal. That's a good point. SilverMagpie (talk) 00:29, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
With a Wiki, you can edit the posting order any way you want, there's no reason you have to add your comments to the bottom Blaisepascal (talk) 20:15, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
First!! (ok, bad joke...)--B. P. (talk) 19:36, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
I personally prefer seeing comments in chronological order, especially if the respondents reply to each other. I find it very annoying to see the reply before I've had a chance to read the original. The current comment system on Slate (where not only do new comments appear first, the page defaults to auto-updating, so the comments move down the page as you are trying to read them) is especially horrible. Blaisepascal (talk) 20:15, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
- I prefer threaded discussions. Chronological is close enough for short discussions, but threaded makes it so much easier to find read all the replies a comment got. (Yes, I know I'm replying to a year-old post.) gijobarts (talk) 07:06, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
Yes it is. Just some random derp 23:47, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
. . . . is overrated. 74.213.186.41 17:01, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
I have the same interpretation as the current explanation, yet the "Incomplete" text says there are other interpretations. What are they? Smperron (talk) 15:52, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
This is precisely why Digg failed and now Reddit will fail. The moment the owners think they can manipulate discussions is the moment any discussion has any real value. 173.245.50.161 02:53, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
I wonder if this cartoon was the inspiration for the Russian trolling operations targeted at the US 2016 Presidential elections and the subsequent European elections. 172.68.58.5 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
He definitely foretold Bloomberg's run for Dem nominee in 2019. (Maybe Bloomberg needed more college students.)162.158.107.167 01:52, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
- What?? This is definitely a prediction about "democracy" in Serbia few years after this comic. By the way, who's Bloomberg? BytEfLUSh (talk) 03:26, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
Does anyone have any examples of parties actually doing this/anyone know how to contact them? Sure could use the extra cash. 😂 Heleatunda (talk) 17:09, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
