When it comes to comments, numbers are irrelevant

There seems to be a general "conventional wisdom" that having students' work seen by thousands of people is a good thing in and of itself. Closely allied to that is the notion that the more comments made on the students work, the better. I think that both of these views are wrong, and that such a non-discerning approach is actually anti-educational.
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