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I'm glad you wrote this article. Since Salon writers rarely leap into the comment fray themselves, I've often wondered how our comments affect the site's content. When it comes right down to it, flames are more about creating an online spectacle and amusing other readers than actually contributing constructive thought. And I say that as someone who gladly flames Salon writers when things get too pompous around here.
When reading articles on the New York Times, I sometimes instinctively look for a "read comments" link...particularly when the article seemed phony or hot-button somehow. It's always a disappointment to find I can't view other readers' reactions instantaneously like I can on blogs or Salon, and whatever the newspaper says will stand as the documented "truth" regardless of other opinions (aside from a few carefully chosen letters to the editor, of course). But such is the one-way media.
