I do wonder, however, why both the press and the BBC put a place for replies at the end of news items, they are always littered with rubbish like this.
Because people like the sight of their own words, and apparently other people like to read them (not that this applies to us, you understand).
Even a fairly heavy-weight site like
www.economist.com enables comments to articles, and among high-brow and erudite posts is a fair sprinkling of rather immoderate ones.