Survey for WOC re: commenting on articles

[anonymous]

An old acquataince from HS is soliciting for feedback from woc regarding experiences with commenting on online articles.

The survey link is embedded within the study description.
medium.com/@meredithclark/having-our-say-women-of-color-discuss-online-commenting-f8ffde50caa4#.784svmu2g

[andwhat]

Very interesting. I am one who reads the comments. On a rare occasion I will post, if I just can't help myself. I notice I read news comments of FB more when it is an article that I can't imagine how someone would select the haha button, so I read the comments to see how they could think it was so funny. I often like comments.

I just can't help myself.

[anonymous]

looking at comments makes my blood pressure skyrocket.

[cookiemdough]

Nope. The news itself usually makes me upset. The comments under the articles would push me over the edge. Also I find the comments are rarely thoughtful and mostly sarcastic or hateful.

[bugandbibs]

I can tolerate reading about 5 comments before I can't stand it. I don't ever comment because it's pointless. No real dialogue happens in the comment section.

[andwhat]

Feb 9, 2017 20:13:31 GMT -5 cookiemdough said:

Nope. The news itself usually makes me upset. The comments under the articles would push me over the edge. Also I find the comments are rarely thoughtful and mostly sarcastic or hateful.

I only read from certain sites. NPR, Al Jezeera English, occasionally WaPo, the Hill, Politico

I read a ton of news sites, even Fox News, I do not read their comments ever.

[andwhat]

Feb 9, 2017 22:13:06 GMT -5 bugandbibs said:

I can tolerate reading about 5 comments before I can't stand it. I don't ever comment because it's pointless. No real dialogue happens in the comment section.

I saw an amazing statistical analysis in NPR comments recently. It was great for this math nerd. Different commenters were doing advanced analysis and there was a great debate about whether the analysis was correct or not. I wish I could remember what the article was about. I think it had to do with police encounters.

I have also commented on something and had people respond positively and say they never thought of whatever like that before. But I very rarely comment and it was on like NPR or something.