> it's to encourage people to actually visit the link.
You read the links? I'm just here for the commenting. If the comments imply the article is good enough I'll read it.
(This effect used to be very strong on the Guardian's commentisfree site, where the top comments often contained valuable correction/context to the tritness of the article)
> Next, we'll have people just copy-pasting the entire article body as a comment
I've seen that done a few times; it's useful if it's paywalled/adwalled/unusuable-crashy-javascript-walled.
You read the links? I'm just here for the commenting. If the comments imply the article is good enough I'll read it.
(This effect used to be very strong on the Guardian's commentisfree site, where the top comments often contained valuable correction/context to the tritness of the article)
> Next, we'll have people just copy-pasting the entire article body as a comment
I've seen that done a few times; it's useful if it's paywalled/adwalled/unusuable-crashy-javascript-walled.