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The Case For Banning Internet Commenters - Derek Thompson - The Atlantic

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Curated: 25/09/2013 from www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/09/the-case-for-banning-internet-commenters/279960/
The Case For Banning Internet Commenters - Derek Thompson - The Atlantic

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" Popular Science has officially shut off its comment section, pointing to research showing that disagreeable comments hurt the reading experience. Or, at least, the reading comprehension. One study out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that mean comments under an article about nanotechnology "polarized readers," taking attention away from the story and warping the audience's grasp of the article. Another study found that even simple disagreements between commenters "impacted readers' perception of science," wrote Suzanne LaBarre, PopSci's online content director."

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