The dark side of Guardian comments - The Guardian gives stats on its comments

[TheBloodyNine]

[QUOTE]As part of a series on the rising global phenomenon of online harassment, the Guardian commissioned research into the 70m comments left on its site since 2006 and discovered that of the 10 most abused writers eight are women, and the two men are black. Hear from three of those writers, explore the data and help us host better conversations online[/QUOTE]

[url]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/12/the-dark-side-of-guardian-comments[/url]

[Saturn V]

tbh its really grating how if theres like a video on a woman doing something or whatever and most of the comments are shit like "oh so and so and VERY PRETTY :):):)"

[elfbarf]

The shit that a lot of Guardian writers get has absolutely nothing to do with gender. Jessica Valenti writes ridiculous, inflammatory articles about feminism.

[FlashMarsh]

These are apparently the guidelines they enforce. I can tell you from first hand experience the one about anti-semitism is simply not true from the very few times I have ventured below the line on this tabloid:

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/lsCh7vE.png[/IMG]

Basically they have no tolerance for rudely stating terrible opinions. That is fair enough, given that they run their own comments section and can pretend that people actually discuss things there if they really want to.

[ayay]

[QUOTE=elfbarf;50119504]The shit that a lot of Guardian writers get has absolutely nothing to do with gender. Jessica Valenti writes ridiculous, inflammatory articles about feminism.[/QUOTE]

If it had nothing to do with their genders you would see no difference between comments directed towards male and female regardless of their articles. Instead the opposite is true, you see different comments directed at them whether that article is ridiculous and inflammatory or not. Pretending it has nothing to do with gender ignores the specific ways that women recieve harassment online.

[carcarcargo]

Jessica Valenti writes stupid inflammatory articles and then wonders why people get pissed off at her. I remember another writer who wrote an article on how white people make her uncomfortable. No shit you're going to get angry replies from that.

[Phygon]

[QUOTE=carcarcargo;50119993]Jessica Valenti writes stupid inflammatory articles and then wonders why people get pissed off at her. I remember another writer who wrote an article on how white people make her uncomfortable. No shit you're going to get angry replies from that.[/QUOTE]

Stop tone policing you [I]disgusting chauvinist[/I]
[sp]-Idiots[/sp]

[A_Pigeon]

[QUOTE=carcarcargo;50119993]Jessica Valenti writes stupid inflammatory articles and then wonders why people get pissed off at her. I remember another writer who wrote an article on how white people make her uncomfortable. No shit you're going to get angry replies from that.[/QUOTE]
[B] You answered allow. We thought differently.[/B]
This was deleted because it is both author abuse and goes beyond reasonable criticism of the piece to smear both the Guardian and the journalist.

[Riutet]

What they should do is be sneaky about doing this kind of data collection in future.

Take some average articles that are just reporting on news without any opinion, but then every person who clicks on it is sent to a version of the article that is unique to them and it says who wrote it, one person might find it was written by one of the black staff, another female and another male.

That way you might be able to see if people are receiving bad comments because of who they are or because of what they are saying.