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I (and likely others) often don't bother to comment when I agree with an article. In cases like that, I have nothing to add.

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I was about to jokily reply, "same", but then I vaguely remembered that maybe the community standards discourage low-content comments. As they should. But the emergent result is that people add content by adding disagreement.

That's an interesting theory. Doesn't it stand to reason that if that were the case, then in a situation where low-content comments were acceptable, the same people would post low-content comments which disagreed (e.g. a simple "No.")?

I think it's an inherent property of human society that disagreement is easier to write, more compelling word-for-word and idea-for-idea. War is more interesting than peace, and so on. So I do think that natural tendency will bias online discussions where social pressure against discord are lesser than in person.

I'm not sure it necessarily follows to the extremes, but I do think one could find places where absurdly short disagreements are the norm. 4chan, say.

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