I have been saying for years YahooNews comments section is a cess pool of racism, bigotry, white supremacy, and allowed this to be the case in a largely unmoderated way. Today, Yahoo no longer has comments and that is honestly a very good thing for society. Others were thrilled to see Yahoo finally do away with a comment section that often contained messages of hate and vitriol.
It only takes a few seconds of scrolling through what people are saying about Yahoo on Twitter and other platforms to see why Yahoo chose to suspend its comment section. While many outlets deal with toxic commenters, it seems as though the discussion on Yahoo News articles often devolved into unproductive hostility.
The comment section was filled with racists and nut job conspiracy theorists. Good riddance. It was a bold move as the website was amongst the few online broadcast hubs where people could freely discuss and express their opinions about reported articles and current affairs. While this move was praised by many, some are disappointed by the actions.
Others are wondering about "What happened to Yahoo comments section? The international news site of Yahoo suspended comments on July 23, Many speculations started running around after Yahoo suspended comments on its site.
Some say that the feature was stopped because many people on the site used words that might disregard certain communities, feelings, and more. However, a message by Yahoo news on their website reveals exactly why the website removed the comment section. In order to improve our community experience, we are temporarily suspending article commenting.
The move is said to be a temporary move and it may come back in a matter of a few days or even weeks. Nevertheless, this move can be understood as a means to stop abusive and offensive comments from Yahoo's comments section as it usually observed to result in lots of arguments, hate and online trolling.
Many Twitter users find it a way to point out that their freedom to present opinions on articles have been stopped due to this move. Works on all devices. Do you develop on GitHub? You can keep using GitHub but automatically sync your GitHub releases to SourceForge quickly and easily with this tool and take advantage of SourceForge's massive reach.
Follow Slashdot on LinkedIn. Yahoo has replaced the comments section under its articles with a survey. Now, there's a message that reads: "Our goal is to create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interests and passions. In order to improve our community experience, we are temporarily suspending article commenting.
In the meantime, we welcome your feedback to help us enhance the experience. Guess they were tired of people pushing back against their narratives," one person wrote. Guess they can't allow that type of 'free speech,'" said another.
Others were thrilled to see Yahoo finally do away with a comment section that often contained messages of hate and vitriol. Do you agree with Yahoo's decision to temporarily disable comments? This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted. Full Abbreviated Hidden. More Login. Alternative Perspective Score: 5 , Interesting. Share twitter facebook. Re:Alternative Perspective Score: 5 , Informative. Parent Share twitter facebook. Re:Alternative Perspective Score: 5 , Funny.
Re: Alternative Perspective Score: 3. Now if only you could maintain a consistent message within a thread, let alone an entire article. Look, I'm no longer an AC! I can't help it if people keep posting under my old ID.
Re: Score: 2. I'm pretty sure there's only like the same 30 of us here, and even I forgot about Slashdot for a couple years. Re: Score: 3. Re: Score: 3 , Interesting. Obviously user comments are fake news and we're better off without them. I see what you did there. Score: 2.
I fully agree with you, specially about self-referential comments. Re: Alternative Perspective Score: 4 , Insightful. Comment removed Score: 5 , Funny. Comment removed based on user account deletion. Re: Score: 3 , Insightful. If there's one thing journalists hate, it's being corrected. Thus comment sections had to go. Then why remove them. Yahoo has no real journalists. Expect a Surge in Bias Score: 5 , Insightful. The post article provided reference to multiple studies. Do you have anything to say that these studies are invalid or incorrect, or are you just suggesting that your opinion is factual because it's your opinion?
Re: Expect a Surge in Bias Score: 2. Were the gun sales happening in the same geographical areas as the increased crime? I'm laughing at you right now because you are suggesting that there's no way for guns to cross state lines. Re:Alternative Perspective Score: 5 , Interesting. What's old is new again Score: 4 , Insightful. Y'know, back in the day, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, we had these things called "newspapers".
You'd read the articles in them, but you couldn't comment on them. Well, not directly. If a particular article riled you up enough, you could write a letter to the newspaper publisher. And if they thought you had a good point, they'd publish your letter in a future edition of the newspaper under a section titled "letters to the editor. But I suspect that's unlikely to happen in a self-moderated forum like slashdot, as whichever viewpoint which ends up in the minority will just mod down opposing viewpoints to hide them from view.
It's like most people with mod points never bothered to read the moderation guidelines [slashdot. Re: Score: 2 , Interesting. I really hope so Score: 2. Re:Alternative Perspective Score: 5 , Insightful. I think you might be the snowflake here. Suck it. Re: Alternative Perspective Score: 2. Yahoo is like a zombie that just won't go away. They very big in the 90s, but only the 90s. I've actually not seen that guy for a while. Were people really going to Yahoo to get a feel of how the population feels?
But they had to do something. They were a cesspool More recently I was posting on Fox News, which I finally quit because it was ridiculous. They said they would bring it back " If more than a couple months go by and nothing materializes, they were lying through their teeth. Just search for blogs about the article.
Those are still a thing. Comments and bots Score: 3. Trolls get upset Score: 3. Yahoo was a comment cesspit and one which was obviously vulnerable to exploitation by bots, trolls and idiots. Locking it down is probably a good thing although the better response would be to crack down on the abusers.
Re:Trolls get upset Score: 4 , Insightful. I'm glad some still try to have comments but I don't envy them. Cancel Culture Score: 3. They should just use a slashdot-style peer-moderation system. Is that so hard? Slashdot has serious problems with people gaming this system, too, unfortunately. Re:Cancel Culture Score: 4. The only way that really works effectively without being outright abused and gamed is for everyone to be required to have a user account, it has to be your real name, and you have to prove who you are before you're allowed to have an account in the first place.
You'd also probably be required to pay for your access. All that would have a massively chilling effect on free speech to the point where you'd be defeating your own purpose.
It might be the case here where the only winning move is to not play in t. Re: Cancel Culture Score: 2. The public Internet is great. The issue is the monetized Internet. If you want to see those kinds of comments, you can always switch to Youtube. Youtube seems to trend conservative. Twitter seems to be rather liberal. I don't know why such large platforms tend to trend one way or the other. If that were the case news sites wouldn't have to turn off comments one by one to keep the narrative alive.
Re: entertainment value Score: 2. To me that might mean a stronger filter bubble, comparatively YouTube I have more experience with. My bet is Verizon isn't getting the value they thought they could and they're looking for a buyer. Maybe, but if removing the comments section diminishes traffic, then their plan will have failed.
That's because any rich potential buyer is buying traffic. I don't even think you have to bet, they already did it with Tumblr. Say what now? I remember the year , it Yahoo was the shit that everyone talked about. But I thought that company was sold to Verizon. Today was the first time in a long time I hear it still exists. I remember The internet had blue skies, clear of idiots, as far as you could see.
Whether we 'agree' with it or not is irrelevant Score: 2 , Flamebait. The Internet has become steadily more and more toxic and cancerous, because of how open it is to free speech -- a privilege and yes, Victoria, it's a privilege which has been abused.
In my opinion, the response many sites are going to have will be for things to become increasingly read-only. Break your toys, they get taken away from you, you don't get any new toys.
Just like the restrictions, rules, laws regarding consumer drone use that all of you drone owners hate, you have the misbeha. Their site their rules Score: 2. Despite the whackjobs and ascii nazis, some of the comments are informative and I walk away knowing more than what I read in TFA.
Wisdom of the crowds What platform is OK for comments? Score: 3. The real reason? Re: Score: 2 , Informative. Either way - Pot, see kettle. No, I think they should make it permanent.
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