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When Misogynist Trolls Make Journalism Miserable for Women
- andrewfong 13y agoI wonder if public shaming is a viable option here. Get e-mail threatening rape? Publish said e-mail. Something tells me that a lot of these morons aren't taking great care to anonymize their threats.
- lmkg 13y agoI'm not against that, but it only treats one symptom of misogyny, not the disease. Granted, it's one symptom that has many consequences of its own, so maybe it's ok. I also wonder, given how widespread the phenomenon appears to be, whether shaming individual trolls will have any non-trivial impact on the total volume. Snowflakes in an avalanche, and all that.
- mc32 13y agoThat's not an answer. It's a human reaction, but there is no vetting or 'due process'. For example, what about people who impersonate/hijack email addresses, etc? Those people get caught in the maelstrom while totally innocent. It's a mob reaction. I don't know what the answer is, but that's not it.
- eliteraspberrie 13y agoI have a hypothesis. This phenomenon is similar to spam, i.e. an overwhelming amount of traffic from a busy minority. If that's the case, the solution may be the same: blacklists. I've attempted to implement a primitive Spamhaus for social media, to test this hypothesis, but it's not something that can be done in one's free time.
- gruseom 13y agoThat would be well worth testing, so I hope you or someone else does find time.
- doubledouche 13y agoAs a white educated male I have never no will I ever take part in the politically correct circlejerk that is the "blogosphere". I could care less about the state of the "blogosphere" and the narcissistic parasites that inhabit it. Although I fully accept my part in the blame for making it so bad for women.