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It would be nice to have some labels on the bar graph. I assume that orange represents the rude messages and blue the heckling, but for all I know it's the oth
by contravariant 9y ago
It would be nice to have some labels on the bar graph.
I assume that orange represents the rude messages and blue the heckling, but for all I know it's the other way around. It's even possible that one column is for normal messages and one for rude/heckling messages, especially since I'm not entirely sure what the difference is between between rude/trolling and sexual-harassment/heckling (I'd understand if it were rude/sexual-harassment vs. trolling/heckling).
I would also be interested in whether there was any effect on the number of 'normal' messages.
- riskable 9y agoI don't know what did it but something changed inside me a number of years ago where now I have this uncontrollable reaction of disgust whenever I see graphs and charts like this. Maybe I've viewed too many "reports" from places like the Heartland Institute and Fox News. Seeing charts with missing information or misleading/inaccurate heights for things kicks off my bullshit detector and throws me in defensive mode thinking, "what agenda are they pushing here?" There's an instant assumption of nefarious intent. I can't be the only one, can I?
- contravariant 9y agoWell in this case you're on your own I'm afraid. Making clear unambiguous graphs is incredibly hard so minor nitpicks like missing labels can hardly be called 'nefarious'.
- jenthoven 9y agoHey this is Julia, the post’s author. Sorry there’s no legend; I kind of included it in the title of the graph but orange was “Rude or trolling messages” and blue was “Sexual harassment or heckling”
- jaaames 9y agoDid you consider that this maybe not be representative of a systemic bias against women across all demographics, rather, the demographic that searches for video meme makers on the internet is skewed towards horny rude teenage boys that bask in anonymity?
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- radioo75555 9y agoHi milk truk
- Steltek 9y agoSorry, if I missed this but did you see if the total volume of messages (good and horrible) went up or down based on the 4 profiles? Not that getting more notice from customers is a great trade for abuse but it might be some small silver lining.
- scott_s 9y agoGiven that the title says "Rude or trolling messages (per week) and Heckling or sexual messages (per week)", I think that clearly means the left (orange bars) are rude or trolling, and right (blue bars) are heckling or sexual harassment. In other words, the title are the labels.
- joemi 9y agoThe titles are the labels, yes, but that's not exactly clear (and definitely not explicit), as shown by the fact that people were confused about it.