The unintended consequences of shutting down comments on articles is
that the hostility will no longer be online but in the streets. It's a
sign of the time. People feel threatened by increasing authoritarian
behavior on the part of governments and corporations. So maybe it's
good they take to the streets and the corporate towers. ;-)
On 09/27/2013 09:17 PM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote:
*Why should Rick Archer host this site any longer for mostly
fractious, abusive and unpleasant postings by a few people flooding
the content with their personal animosities.*
*Popular Science magazine just shut down online comments to stories on
its website.*
*Disabling comments, The magazine says rude or insulting comments have
been shown to skew readers’ understanding of articles and drives away
readership.*
*Interviewing with Fairfieldlife at yahoo-goups [FFL] members out on
the sidewalks and in the coffee houses and cafes of Fairfield, Iowa
who no longer read FFL, they say the culture of animosity and
incivility of Rick Archer's list drives them away from reading it. A
few people who have taken over FFL have driven away the community of
what once was. It is a common complaint of the old readership.*
*-Buck*
