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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.
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.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Welcome to 2016. Over a decade ago we were telling you not to go to the middle east murdering thousands - you abused us for it in every way imaginable. We put little flash animations everywhere showing how killing one 'terrorist' would make terrorists out of his family and friends. You insulted and abused us for it.
Now we have dead children washing up on the shores, massive humanitarian crisis and series levels of hurt and suffering - you tell us its because they are barbarians who deserve it and know nothing better.
I guarantee that if the current climate continues, US embassies will burn all across Europe and it will be Europeans doing it. I have never had such distaste for an entire nation of people as I do for Americans today and I'm one of the educated, no criminal record non-political types. You don't want to hear what the everyday conversations contain from the rougher crowds.