So, Fox News staffers get paid for leaving pro Fox News comments on their websites, on Facebook and Twitter. And we did not know that?
I am sure we are all well aware of how comment sections of any website are so dominated by Right-wing lunatics, mostly the gun crowd who have nothing better to do with their lives other than the guns.
In trying to keep my sanity I have always told myself they are all the same guy. And he is old, because I first saw him all over the place in 1984 on a 300 baud modem.
Running a website for 20 some years now I do now a little about all this. First there is the law of large numbers that affect many areas of this business. One of them is that a comment section does not become viable unless a website does about 5000 a day. Secondly is that COMMENT SOFTWARE is not designed for ongoing debate, but rather to have your say and move on. Forums are designed for debate. And to have both confuses things.
Oh, and yes, if you leave a comment Google comes by and adds it to its database. To test this you can leave a comment here and then copy your words and paste it into Google and see for yourself, immortalized FOREVER. This is also why those of us who run websites are so anual about some words like the NWORD and the FWORDS. Google gives a big kick in the pants to those so we have to police it whether we want to or not.