The same way the New York Times is a blog.
The problem with this is that the “top 10 comments” are not always the first 10 comments; even on Cracked.com and most newspaper comment streams, the list runs newest to oldest and if sub-comments are allowed, they may or may not affect the listing order. So the 10 or so displayed comments may only be the last 10 (or 5) nutters to wander by, with any serious comments long since buried.
Hates 'em, I do. Nasssssty commentses.
Ooohhhh whats the Bagginses got in its caches?
This is true, but generally you’re unlikely to have 85 well-reasoned and thought out comments and 20 barely literate, mouth-breathing dribblings in that order.
There’s a couple of news websites where I find the comments to be quite interesting and enlightening, but otherwise, when I am Emperor of the Universe comments will be disabled on most websites and “reputable” websites who have proven they can keep their comments intelligent will require an annual permit which can be revoked if the quality starts becoming unacceptable.
I like to think that “Load more comments” is a warning that’s there’s a load more comments. It’s implied that the remaining load is just as dumb as the load you’ve already read.
And wait and wait for the comments to load, and then it’s just some message about someone’s step sister who finally made $10,000 in one day on the internet. What’s up with that?
If you PM me I can give you an address where you can send me $59.99 for complete instructions on how you too can take advantage of a little known trick.
I hate how Facebook does it. Often my half-assed brother in law makes a comment on some right wing meme and to see what he has to say, I have to go through many pushes of the more comments button. Why not have an option to download comments that we can use word or excel to wade through?
Most of the comments are only going to get you angry anyway.
Unless you like being angry, in which case you’re probably a
[Press Enter to load more Comments]
And then all of a sudden you realize that all the comments you’ve read so far are two years old and some idiot has reposted it as “news” on facebook or somewhere.
Another shout-out to the ** AV Club**. Aside from all the Simpsons references and inside jokes there’s actually a fairly vibrant community of people who are passionate and knowledgeable about the pop culture that’s being discussed. Also dick jokes.