Moderating is not easy. It is just as hard as blocking spam and hacking attacks, but far more resource intensive because it
is almost impossible to automate. You need real people moderating full time. And unless they are anonymous, they take a lot
of abuse.
Janine
Daniel and Elizabeth Case wrote:
/>>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/).
Daniel Case
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