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Re:Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source c... by bpp on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @11:03PM (#15235178)
I worked on the blog team for Barack Obama's '08 campaign. The comments section developed a culture of posting a link to their personal fundraising page as the top comment, and other commenters would then donate to it.

Someone on the team got annoyed by this so for a while we would post the top comment before publishing such that they couldn't post their personal fundraising link. Then we ran some numbers and realized how much money it was costing the campaign (a lot).

Moral of the story: comment sections are weird.

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Re:Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source c... by brosirmandude on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @02:14PM (#15240987)
That's really interesting. Did you guys ever test adding a fundraising link in the top comment you post vs a users top comment?
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