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.

Comments

Re:Opportunity missed

[PopeRatzo]

My guess is that high visibility blacks and women are highly correlated with either controversial opinions and/or controversial subjects.

That's right. They just don't know how to behave, like us white males.

Trump 2016.

Re:The so-called 'community standards'

[Mashiki]

Because attacking anyone who raises issues of equality as an "SJW" is such an extraordinary sign of tolerance.

Hey, they were the ones who called themselves that. Mainstream society finally caught up and agreed. They're SJW's, which means they're whiny, racist, sexists who have never experienced any actual hardship in their life. While they virtue signal about an issue, and how oppressive everything is because they came from a well-to-do background.

Really though, SJW's are just a part of the regressive left. And they're the batshit insane segment of the regressive left which needs to have their shit taken out to the dustbin of history by the left themselves. And unlike the folks over there on the right, and the regressive right? Leftists seem to be quite happy to let them run amok because otherwise those little regressive's would suddenly start screaming about how they "sexist and racist" for not agreeing, which of course is their standard MO.

Re:The "dark side" of Guardian comments?

[Maritz]

The comment "black people are their own worst enemies" strongly implies that all black people are the same, which is stupid, and pretty racist. The reason you can't see that... well - I'll leave that to you. I bet you're white, and I bet I'm fuck all like you.

Re:The gender bit is misleading

[AmiMoJo]

Hundreds of people say this, because it's true.

Ah, the old "1 million lemmings can't be wrong!" argument. Okay.

She is controversial, sure, but also a lot of what is written about her is bullshit. The classic one is the "I bathe in male tears" t-shift. She was just mocking the MRA and anti-feminist movement, but of course they took the bait and immediately claimed she was a misandrist. So really all it shows is that those people are reactionary idiots who like to post comments on the internet.