The Guardian Publishes Comment Abuse Stats, Invites Debate On Moderation (theguardian.com)

AmiMoJo writes: British newspaper The Guardian has published some stats on its popular comment sections attached to each story. So far the Guardian's site has received 70 million comments, of which around 2% were removed for violation of community standards. Articles written by women tended to get the most blocked comments, especially if they were in male-writer dominated sections like sports and technology, while fashion was one of the few areas where men got more abuse. Further down the article the reader is invited to moderate some sample comments and see how their actions compared to those of the paper's staff. You can leave suggestions for improvement here.

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Re:Broad definition of abuse

[serviscope_minor]

uh ... men commit suicide about three times as often as women - why aren't you concerned about them?

That's because it's a vavuous comment designed to troll, that's why.

For every issue someone considers important, you can always point to another issue that's worse. That does not invalidate commentary or efforts to fix the first issue. At best it invites a pissing contest over whose issuse are worse. It also makes the unfounded accusation that the author is uncaring about shicidal men.

So yeah, it's just a troll comment which adds nothing, makes unfounded accusations and tries to incite flaming.