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For a long time, certain sites and their comment sections have been considered easily-accessible, but murky parts of the internet, that few wish to spend much time in. Now, a number of high profile websites have recently announced the closure of their comment sections, citing too much management and moderation as the cause.
Both The Daily Dot and The Verge have recently shut down their comment sections, meaning that they no longer incite interaction with fans. Social networking comments are still possible with both still operating Facebook and Twitter accounts. The question is, is this a sign of the times and something that may become more common place online in the future?
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For many sites and sources that have closed the comments on their videos or articles, like Pewdiepie who closed them on his Youtube videos (for about a month) it's down to negative behaviour and attitudes among commenters and a sheer lack of time to moderate them. Indeed if comments always devolve into name calling and personal attacks, it's hard to imagine why comment sections would remain open.
But then that cuts off a very vital line of communication between readers and writers, without which, perspective for the content creators is harder to maintain.
What do you think toxic comment sections say about the sites that contain them? Does the content breed a type of reader and commenter? Or is it the curse of every publication that once it reaches a certain size, its comments naturally attract trolls?
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KitGuru Says: If we disabled comments, how would we ever know when we make those little spelling errors you guys love to point out to us?
You misspelled personal as p[personal, though I have a sneaking suspicion you did this on purpose.
pewdiepie is a prime example of media creating the hateful atmosphere it then blocks 🙂
Trolls and bad behavior will not go away by shutting down comment section on a website. Shitty people will always be shitty people and this is in no a solution to the that problem.
I can see why they would, WCCFTech is one of the most toxic communities I’ve ever come across and it reflects poorly on the site itself.
^THIS.
All of this. A thousand times over.
This is the only reason that Fudzilla is marginally higher than WCCF on the list of “respectable” tech sites. (They’re both still at the bottom, though.) I left WCCF after Hassan openly admitted in the comments that A, he’s the only person on staff who moderates the comments, B, he almost never bothers to do so (and when hounded about it tries to blame “being too busy”), C, he actually likes the way the comment threads are, and D, he never, ever, ever reviews ‘flagged’ comments, he just hits ‘approve all’.
Some sort of real id would help mitigate the trolls, I doubt it would stop them completely, but it would certainly help.
I think toxic comments sections say more about the readership than about the content creator(s). That said, if people or organisations knowingly permit toxic behaviour on their sites and do nothing about it, that DOES say something about them…
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What we need is to enforce some kind of mechanism to make users accountable for their messages. The problem is, these same people will always cry ‘infringement of freedom of speech~!’.