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Blog Comments & the Nasty Effect


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2013 Mar 5, 7:15am   1,396 views  5 comments

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http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/03/blog-comments-the-nasty-effect/

This latest article confirmed my suspicions that trolls and other rude commenters work to undermine the intentions of of the author. In a study of over 1000 participants who were given afictitious blog post to read on a new (mnade up) technology called “nanosilver.” After reading the post, one half were exposed to civil intelligent comments, while the half were exposed to rude ones.

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1   leo707   2013 Mar 5, 7:37am  

Interesting, but not surprising. I followed a link from that post and this sounded very familiar:

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/02/getting-rid-of-comments/

Therein lay the problem: A small group of trolls somehow confuse these sites for a town square. It is not. This blog is not a forum where I am obligated to give equal time to every crackpot conspiracy theorist, birther or intellectually lazy wanker out there. To be blunt, I don’t give a flying fuck at a rolling donut about these jackhole’s opinions. These folk need to rapidly disabuse themselves from believing other people’s blog’s are an open invitation for whatever ignorance or ill thought out nonsense they are peddling.

2   CL   2013 Mar 5, 8:47am  

Truly. Of course, without jackholes where would patnet be? :)

3   Tenpoundbass   2013 Mar 5, 12:50pm  

So in other words the Author was bullshitting people and only half the people called him on it, color me surprised.

4   leo707   2013 Mar 6, 1:29am  

CL says

Truly. Of course, without jackholes where would patnet be? :)

A place of well reasoned discussion, without the distraction of inane blathering?

5   HEY YOU   2013 Mar 7, 9:51am  

"A place of well reasoned discussion,"
We'll not be having any of that!

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