Tuesday, July 01, 2003
: I post the RollingStone.com review of Gang Starr's The Ownerz not because it's a great review, but because I think I have discovered something dark about RS.com. On the surface, their decision to post Web site-reader responses to reviews with equal prominence appears to be a way to make the site interactive, which is a standard stickyness-builder. Yet, after reading many of the responses over the past year, it almost seems as if RS is daring people to notice how completely immature and utterly narrow-minded most users are. The terrible secret of the Internet is how it is reinforcing some really brain-dead behavior. The user comments on RS.com -- and a lot of blogs incidently -- throw this unfortunate situation into the spotlight.
