>>The newspaper that did this and heavily moderated trolling comments had higher participate by women than most >>news >comment areas.

>Like. Like. LIKE.

 

It never fails to amaze me that, for all the complaining people do about barely-moderated comment sections and the driveby hate speech they inevitably attract, how little is actually done (save making it necessary to have a Facebook account to make the comments, which is a slap in the face to those of us who, for whatever reason, don’t find it necessary to have one) to change that, especially in light of how little could be done to make a considerable improvement in the quality of the comments.

It makes you appreciate the sometimes heavy-handed approach of some of our Wikipedia administrators in some instances (cough cough).