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Nastiness threatens online reader comments (Liberals don't like being told they suck)
Yahoo.com ^ | 11/7/2015 | Rob Lever

Posted on 11/07/2015 12:58:43 PM PST by Beave Meister

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To: Beave Meister

Liberals need their safe spaces.


21 posted on 11/07/2015 1:44:34 PM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Beave Meister
I am always amazed that when I have thoughtful exchanges with my liberal friends on Facebook, usually in response to their posting of yet another deceptive Occupy Democrats meme, it is my liberal friends who resort to name calling.
22 posted on 11/07/2015 1:49:57 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Beave Meister

Liberals in the media do not want people to know theirs is the minority view.

Alinsky’s rule book said to make people feel they are alone and isolated. And ‘wrong’.


23 posted on 11/07/2015 1:55:43 PM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Beave Meister
news organizations are increasingly throwing in the towel on online comments.

oh good! Just in time to make sure we don't have to read the nasty all those comments from those nasty Europeans about how their countries are being sold out to a satanic cult. Nobody wants to hear those nasty cry babies anyway.

24 posted on 11/07/2015 1:58:46 PM PST by uncitizen (Trump: Saying what we are all thinking)
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To: Beave Meister

Isn’t this idea the OPPOSITE of “progress”?


25 posted on 11/07/2015 2:01:02 PM PST by uncitizen (Trump: Saying what we are all thinking)
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To: uncitizen

If any weenie LIB is reading this: Remember...you suck.


26 posted on 11/07/2015 2:10:28 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen

This is not about somebody somewhere being offended by some comment by someone else. This move would be so Anti-progress, including financially, that one has to wonder what the real purpose of it might be.

I pose that it is to make it harder for Americans to learn what is taking place in Europe right now, which we all now is coming for our country next!


27 posted on 11/07/2015 2:20:24 PM PST by uncitizen (Trump: Saying what we are all thinking)
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To: Beave Meister

The Left are no more nasty and vitriolic than they were 40 years ago. What is happening is that the Right are realizing that this ain’t no conversation...it is war.


28 posted on 11/07/2015 2:22:28 PM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job...)
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To: Beave Meister

“The Internet was supposed to facilitate better exchange between the public and news media. But vile and hateful comments changed all that.”

And as a followup, beatings will continue until morale improves.


29 posted on 11/07/2015 3:28:13 PM PST by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: Beave Meister

This is exactly what the Huffington Post has done. To comment, you have to be a registered member and you get monitored on Facebook. Anyone who strays from the leftist plantation is banned.


30 posted on 11/07/2015 3:53:07 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (I am going to get those guns out of peoples hands. - Hillary Clinton 10/05/2015)
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To: desertfreedom765

The comments section can be entertaining!


31 posted on 11/07/2015 5:23:32 PM PST by BraveMan
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To: vpintheak

>>>In my local paper they went away from anonymous logins to using FB login. I noticed a rapid decline in vitriolic comments. When people realize other people can see who they are, they clean it up.<<<

Oh shoot, I have to clean up my Comments? Just darn.


32 posted on 11/07/2015 5:34:59 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Republicans hold Debates while Democrats hold Auctions.)
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To: Beave Meister

So even the hipster douchebags at Vice have decided they don’t like comments on their articles?

They are the same site that created ‘Do’s and Don’ts” fashion smears of random people photographed on the street with all sorts of snippy critique.

I guess they can’t take it.

Plus the media hates it when you point out their errors and biases.


33 posted on 11/07/2015 5:52:25 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx and Lenin were in agreement on this.)
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To: BobL

I come to FR to comment (and read comments) on articles I run across from elsewhere anyway.


34 posted on 11/07/2015 5:53:50 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx and Lenin were in agreement on this.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

That is up to you FRiend.


35 posted on 11/07/2015 8:39:18 PM PST by vpintheak (Death before disarmament!)
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To: Beave Meister
The Internet was supposed to facilitate better exchange between the public and news media.

That "exchange" used to consist of letters to the editor which that editor had the ability to alter at will and printed only as a sop to the lumpenproletariat. That isn't exactly what I'd call a fair exchange.

Heat. Kitchen. Get the hell out.

36 posted on 11/07/2015 8:47:19 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
I have noticed a clamping down of comments sections and forums the past decade.

I got banned from TED talks once for calling a certain lecture left-wing & distorted. While I enjoy their science & technology lectures, I can't stomach anything of theirs in the humanities or social sciences.

37 posted on 11/07/2015 8:59:09 PM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: vpintheak

A while ago I had another FReeper get upset at my use of the term “Illegal Invader”.

Thank goodness I’m anonymous here. LOL


38 posted on 11/07/2015 9:35:22 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Republicans hold Debates while Democrats hold Auctions.)
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To: BobL

I refuse to read any content that is not followed by reader comments.

If their are no comments, it is merely one-sided, leftist propaganda.


39 posted on 11/09/2015 7:07:02 AM PST by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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