Why does anyone take internet comments seriously?
People are too fucking sensitive
[quote]Insulting comments and marketing spam had diminished the site's ability to foster "lively, intellectual debate," she added. [/quote]
Good job, now you've made it that "lively, intellectual debate" can't happen at all.
[QUOTE]The consensus surrounding scientifically validated topics, from climate change to evolution, had been "eroded" thanks to a "politically motivated, decades-long war on expertise"[/QUOTE]
Agreed.
[QUOTE=Antdawg;42303591]Good job, now you've made it that "lively, intellectual debate" can't happen at all.[/QUOTE]
Not that it was ever going to happen anyway. The comments section of any online article is an electronic cesspit of the most vile bile anonymous screennames can hurl.
[QUOTE=Lukeo;42303575]Why does anyone take internet comments seriously?
People are too fucking sensitive[/QUOTE]
'cause behind every angry comment there's one more-or-less angry person. Whether anonymity makes people less restrained and thus more honest or more assholey (or a bit of both) is up to debate, but it's not like you just look at a torrent of bile and can just pretend its just virtual.
Internet can throw a metric fuckton of (negative) feedback at you at a daily basis, something not that many are used to in their day-to-day lives. Even if you have a tough skin it still sucks to get crapped on for something you put considerable effort, passion, time into - and once you reach a certain point you'll be getting that kinda feedback regularly.
It can break people down over time. They might lose their passion, have the things they loved doing turned into something tedious, annoying and ungrateful. They might risk becoming cynical and starting to deflect critique - constructive or not - which can cause all sorts of quality control problems in the long run even if you're not concerned about your emotional well-being.
No matter what angle you view it from, it's toxic through and through.
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