Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Washington Post Tries to Foil Gabs' Dissenter, Gets Owned in a Single Day" video.

  1. "Comments" was a programmer's "extra", thrown in because it was easy and potentially attractive--guaranteed. But it was always a bad idea, from the viewpoint of the content host. Dissenter's purpose is to AGGREGATE commentary from all over the internet according to the interests of its users. Now your comments PERSIST, not being subject to the whimsical sensibilities of some malinterested content host. The more users, the more and varied the commentary. You won't need to CONDUCT polls personally: just query the database of this aggregated commentary. It could end up being a bigger, badder bugaboo, though...
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