What is it about Yahoo comments?

I’ve always wondered (or for a few years now) why most Yahoo answer pages are from 3 or 4 years ago? I can’t think of one Google sent me to that was less than a year old. So why is that?

Why!?

Oooh yeah! Last week the local rag published one of my letters to the editor…a thoughtful, well-reasoned response to a guest editorial from some twerp who was trying to form a “College Republicans” chapter at the state’s largest university. (Well, at least my letter was as thoughtful & reasoned as it’s possible to be with a 200-word limit).

The comments section in the paper’s online edition promptly filled up with vitriolic and mostly illiterate replies from the local wingnut brigade. Best one was from a lady who told me I was a liberal fascist :dubious: Still trying to figure out what that is, but it might make a good screen name somewhere…

I was gratified by the next commenter who informed the lady that at least I was a far more erudite writer than she was.
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