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Re:Facebook removed post by ex-manager who said site 'failed... by sctb on Thursday December 06, 2018 @11:29AM (#18619423)
The first comments are often thoughtless noise because commenters can skip reading or thinking about the article, or typing something more than a one-liner. The thing to do is wait for the thoughtful ones (more of those will appear, but it takes a bit of time) and engage with them.
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Re:Facebook removed post by ex-manager who said site 'failed... by kwamenum86 on Thursday December 06, 2018 @11:49AM (#18619658)
That's fair and I shouldn't have let that color my opinion of the entire community. But for hot button issues knee jerk reactions do tend to set the tone for conversations, if not dominate them.
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Re:Facebook removed post by ex-manager who said site 'failed... by sctb on Thursday December 06, 2018 @12:12PM (#18619872)
Yes, that's really true. I wonder if we might be able to do something about that in software.
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Re:Facebook removed post by ex-manager who said site 'failed... by pathseeker on Thursday December 06, 2018 @04:05PM (#18622229)
You already do. If you refresh the page now, the much more nuanced positions and things have substance have risen to the top and crap has been flagged/downmodded away.
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