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Newspaper looks inside the world of the anonymous newspaper commenter

From the Boston Globe, and posted without comment.

An excerpt:

When he gets home, he'll look to see how other commenters have responded to his earlier posts. There's a "Recommend" button on the comments page on Boston.com, where people can give their thumbs up to posted comments. This is the metric by which Talabach judges his daily performance. He recalls the time his comment on a column titled "My Lazy American Students" drew hundreds of "Recommends." Leaning back in his chair, with his left arm resting on his thick belly and his right arm jingling change in his pocket, he smiles. "There were more than 600 comments, and at least half of them agreed with me!"