| inbluevt | Date: Saturday, 2013/10/19, 0:10 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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A SCIENCE news website has told its internet commenters that they are no longer welcome on the site.
Popular Science published an editorial yesterday explaining that it didn’t take the decision to shut down its comments lightly.“As the news arm of a 141-year-old science and technology magazine, we are as committed to fostering lively, intellectual debate as we are to spreading the word of science far and wide. The problem is when trolls and spambots overwhelm the former, diminishing our ability to do the latter,” wrote Suzanne LaBarre, the only content director of Popular Science.
A recent study by the University of Wisconsin had more than 1000 participants read a fake blog post and the comments underneath it. They were then asked to answer survey questions about how they felt on the subject. The researchers found that “uncivil comments not only polarised
readers, but they often changed a participant’s interpretation of the news story itself”.
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