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You think mean comments are a SO or reddit problem? The fact that anonymous online discourse gets rude and heated has been known since the days of usenet. Ther
by all_blue_chucks 6y ago
You think mean comments are a SO or reddit problem? The fact that anonymous online discourse gets rude and heated has been known since the days of usenet.
There was even some of this on BBS forums, but that was a more civilized time, likely because we knew the people we were talking to were within our local calling area in most cases.
None of this is new. It's a humanity problem, not a technology problem.
- sampo 6y ago> You think mean comments are a SO or reddit problem? No. They mean a hostile attitude form the company towards the users and the volunteer moderators.
- unishark 6y ago> None of this is new. It's a humanity problem, not a technology problem. When you put it that way though, maybe technology can address it by somehow humanizing the communication more. I bet people are researching ways to do this.
- MauranKilom 6y agoFWIW, StackOverflow have (as mentioned in the blog post) deployed a machine learning system for detecting unfriendly comments.
- z3t4 6y agoIt's a community problem. And more specifically a growth problem, when a community grow too fast it's hard to educate all new members about the community policies. Once those new members get moderator status without first being educated, the community is doomed.
- all_blue_chucks 6y agoIf you think it's possible to "educate" everyone participating in an anonymous online discussion you have failed before you even began.