Post by Trog on Jun 4, 2020 9:14:59 GMT
EWN
So who remains? MyBroadband? BizNews? PoliticsWeb?
The problem is, these all have small and mostly reasonably intelligent readerships. And they usually publish well thought-out and reasoned articles. So, although commenting there is generally a more rewarding exercise, it often requires a lot more work and often some genuine research.
Whereas, difficult as it may be to believe, and as mistaken as I may be, I consider my activity on news-site comments sections as almost a public service, i.e. questing glaring errors, exploding unstated and wrong assumptions, sometimes substituting truths for erroneous 'common' knowledge, pointing out fallacious reasoning, and in general just taking the crap. For that one needs a platform that caters more specifically for the more 'general' public and offers a comments section. There are very few of those left in South Africa, today.
