- Some newspaper are going for complete disabling policy on comments because they specifically experienced bad commentors that ruin the experience of all commentors. In one of the articles linked, they mentioned that one person would continue to comment pornographic GIF or photos in the comments which of course just causes the comment section to be ruined for everyone. I think some others are supporting anonymity along with even applying moderation policies because it allows for people to be more free on their opinion without the worry of getting backlash. For example if someone has a controversial opinion they can be free to voice it whereas with their name on display even if voice, anyone can go attack them for voicing their opinion even if the person did it in a respectful manner.
- Reddit’s subreddit call r/Athleanx is it’s subreddit within the umbrella of reddit and has it’s own policy on posting comapared to other subreddits. This is what I like about reddit, depending on what the sub is used for, different policies can be created to help make discussion for that topic be the most streamline as possible. For r/Athleanx at the moment before posting you just need to make sure what you are posting is not a duplicate, so no double posting of the same topic. Another subreddit I frequent is r/Apple and just like other subreddits they have their own rules for posting and commenting. Allowing for discussion to be nicer. There are about 12 rules, just to highlight a few. No reposts, and/or rehosted content. No NSFW content. No content related to piracy or illegal activities. These policies help the subreddit to moderate the content and punish people that are clearly breaking them and especially for people repreating breaking them. The third digital portal is r/iOSBeta similar to other subreddits, the rules are no spam, and be respectful just to name a couple. What makes it different from other policies are rules such as Relevance, meaning your post should prove to be relevance to the times and No low-effort posts. This is to say you should put effort into the post you are about to make so that others can have a good base to start the conversation.
- Yes I do think academic journals should be treated different than news portals or adult websites. This is because things such as academics should be treated with more thoughts so comments should come with more thoughts into them, people should be more aware of the information they are commenting on and the information they are saying. So the comments in these portals shoud be more regulated, people should be more held accountable to the information said in each comments. However, for sites like children websites, you might not want to be looking at the accuracy of the informaton but what kind of stuff are being said in them. For example you might not care if someone says something that might not be scientifically true but you would care if they comment something absurd or sexual. So I think that the comment sections need to be moderated at all times if possible but depending on the type of portal these comment sections exist in, the moderation should vary.
- I support moderation of comments. The policy would be pretty generic to fit a wide ranges of topics. Of course you must be respectful and no irrelevant topics. However, it would also include things such as your comment must be conversation continuing, meaning you should add to the conversation and it does not shame anyone else. I think this is a good approach to begin with because I believe that having names on the comments will force user to think before posting something in the heat of the moment. As well as if they choose to break any rules, their account would be flagged depending on how many times it has occurred.
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