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Re:Why we’re removing comments on most of Inquirer.com by JdeBP on Sunday March 14, 2021 @07:51PM (#26460816)
If you build a public scribbling board, people will indeed come and scribble on it. (-:

It's a lesson that definitely pre-dates computer-mediated communication. I've seen freely accessibly physical noticeboards quickly fill up with advertisements and suchlike, posted over the notices for which the noticeboards were actually for, for one.

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Re:Why we’re removing comments on most of Inquirer.com by bravura on Sunday March 14, 2021 @10:22PM (#26461937)
And, of course, graffiti has existed even before written language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffito_(archaeology)

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