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A small-time Massachusetts paper is instituting a paywall -- for commenters (Download Squad)

Jul 14th 2010 6:12PM Longtime reader and lurker here, and I just feel compelled to say something here.

moosetoga said this:
"I think it's a great idea. The founder of MetaFilter was on NPR recently talking about their $5 one-time fee and how it makes a huge difference in the quality and tone of community discussions. You don't present an argument against what they're doing beyond, "I understand having mixed feelings for Web commenters, but really... ?" Care to finish your thought?"

At what point was he trolling? Did he lambaste you on anything? He simply felt you didn't present an adequate argument and felt it was incomplete. He didn't use a single offensive word, nor did he phrase anything in such a way as to equate an attack. How did you interpret all of that as an attack? And then subsequently attack everyone else after that for pointing out that you were a "douche" for being so hyper-sensitive?

While I enjoy the occasional article here on DLS, I've always found it severely lacking in user comments to drive discussion and whatnot. And from the way some of the DLS authors react to user comments that don't even troll (such as how you reacted here), I can see why very few people bother commenting here.

Perhaps DLS should charge some its more "hack"-ish writers to post here to discourage such "douche"-y behaviors?