Comment by ItsMonkk
3 years ago
Here's the thing - 360 comments is not written by 360 people. 360 comments is written by 36,000 readers only 1% of whom decide to comment.
It's not the time it takes to write the comment, it's the time it takes to accumulate the knowledge. With the comments you are consuming way more than 3600 man-seconds. I'll take the comments most of the time.
> Here's the thing - 360 comments is not written by 360 people. 360 comments is written by 36,000 readers only 1% of whom decide to comment.
You could make a similar argument about blog authors though. And the % of people who become blog authors is much lower than the % of people who become commenters, because of the vastly different barriers to entry.