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a) Scrolling to the bottom means you read it. Or do you comment without reading?

b) c) No account is needed and no approval is needed

I see why you'd rather comment here - it is more interactive and individual centric. That make sense.

Alex



Scrolling to the bottom means you read it. Or do you comment without reading?

No, scrolling to the bottom means scrolling to the bottom. If I scroll so that the last word of your content is at the very bottom of my browser screen, my scrollbar shows that I'm only about 15% into the entire content of the page. The following 85% is taken up by clutter and the comments of other readers which are poorer in organization and in content. Furthermore since ReadWriteWeb has no karma scheme, there is no good way to provide feedback to other commenters.

ReadWriteWeb's layout also sucks. On my laptop the silly ads and tag box to the right consume 40% of the window's horizontal area. That area is completely blank for 90% of the page (everything after I get to the section titled "Monopolistic Markets: The Tale of the Unfunded Startup"). If I try to correct for this by using my browsers zoom control, all that happens is I get smaller text and even more whitespace to the left and right of the content. YC Hacker news on the other hand handles this exactly right.

No account is needed and no approval is needed

I can distinctly recall otherwise when replying to something else on ReadWriteWeb in the past. Is that something you configure or did they change their policy recently?




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