Nice article which includes a quiz to see if you would block or allow comments in the same way as a Guardian moderator. I agree on 7/8. I don't think the scrolling format of the article is a particularly good way to present the statistics though.
I try to take a somewhat more liberal line on G+, though I will close comments if it gets out of hand and occasionally delete comments if they're way off-topic tripe (e.g., link to a badly-written article about the mysticisms of consciousness posted in response to the recent constellation gif).
Originally shared by John Poteet
A fair amount of internet trolling is about imposing social violence by proxy. If you reveal female, a minority, gay, or disabled you will be attacked and be targeted for hate speech. It's just a matter of when and how much. It has to stop.
"New research into our own comment threads provides the first quantitative evidence for what female journalists have long suspected: that articles written by women attract more abuse and dismissive trolling than those written by men, regardless of what the article is about.
_Although the majority of our regular opinion writers are white men, we found that those who experienced the highest levels of abuse and dismissive trolling were not. The 10 regular writers who got the most abuse were eight women (four white and four non-white) and two black men. Two of the women and one of the men were gay. And of the eight women in the “top 10”, one was Muslim and one Jewish.
And the 10 regular writers who got the least abuse? All men.
How should digital news organisations respond to this? Some say it is simple – “Don’t read the comments” or, better still, switch them off altogether. And many have done just that, disabling their comment threads for good because they became too taxing to bother with."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/12/the-dark-side-of-guardian-comments
#moderation
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/12/the-dark-side-of-guardian-comments
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