Requiring responders to publish their own posts fostered better discourse than open comments

Evidence

Blogging networks shift all the time; new blogs enter the network, older ones fall away; new networks constitute themselves. One of the most significant developments was the introduction of comments; a largely unfortunate change in my view. In the early days of blogs, if you wanted to respond to a post, you had to reply on your own blog, and if you didn’t have a blog, you had to create one. Comments tend to reduce things to banal sociality, with all its many drawbacks. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2054

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Comment sections are governed by a host-guest logic of reciprocal obligation — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2362; Blog communities can maximize collective energy by aggressively deleting hostile commentary — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2356; Comment-box dynamics reward one-upmanship and drown out collective discussion (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Comment-box dynamics reward one-upmanship and drown out collective discussion #corroborates (0.82)
• Comment sections are governed by a host-guest logic of reciprocal obligation #qualifies (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2362
• Blog communities can maximize collective energy by aggressively deleting hostile commentary #complicates (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2356
• Unchallenged assertions gain credibility with passive audiences #corroborates (0.72) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 263