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Account, the first footnote you will see on a given post is the "featured" one. We editors don't directly choose which elucidation gets featured—it's whichever one has the most responses. That means that on a doubtful post, the most baiting or trollish comments become featured, usually due to a great number of people voicing disagreement with the comment in question. The featured opine is rarely illustrative of what's actually going on in the thread—to get a sensation of that, you have to click "all" down in the "view comments" tab.
If you do that you'll see that yes, we get trolls, and overly mean self-styled comedians, and scheme-theory spouting weirdos, and folks who are convinced that we're a bunch of amateurs (we are not) who are on the take (we are not). But those types of commenters are the peculiarity, not the rule, and in and around them are hundreds of people just… writing what they come up with. Don't believe me? Here, I'll show you.
Just today, we ran a guest editorial from Denis Farr following-up on his "This Gaymer's Feature " post we ran a while back. It talked about the word "faggot" and why he believes the word is not okay. Both of his stories were very personal, and invited abuse from commenters. The post went up and like clockwork, I saw people in my supply and elsewhere complaining about how awful the comments were.
Source: Kotaku