"...anonymity has made comment streams “havens for a level of crudity, bigotry, meanness and plain nastiness that shocks the tattered remnants of our propriety.”
Here's the link. It's a NY Times piece: News Sites Rethink Anonymous Online Comments.
nytimes.com does a good job editing comments and has, generally, a high level of discourse. It does take manpower, though, something that sfgate.com doesn't have. So much hate and lack of sense, so little editing are a dangerous combo. Jim
nytimes.com does a good job editing comments and has, generally, a high level of discourse. It does take manpower, though, something that sfgate.com doesn't have. So much hate and lack of sense, so little editing are a dangerous combo.
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