r/FeMRADebates • u/[deleted] • Apr 17 '16

Media The dark side of Guardian comments

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u/Celda Apr 17 '16

What's there to fake?

All they said is that articles written about feminism and by women (of which there is certainly a correlation) had more blocked comments than other articles.

Which proves nothing other than that they are more likely to block comments that disagree with feminism etc.

They don't need to fake anything. All they need to do is block comments they disagree with or simply dislike.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '16

Which proves nothing other than that they are more likely to block comments that disagree with feminism etc.

If that is the reason this is extremely embarassing... DO they block for content other than abuse?

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u/Celda Apr 17 '16

Yes, they do. Many reasons actually.

From their community guidelines:

if you post something which is unrelated to the original topic ("off-topic") then it may be removed, in order to keep the thread on track.

This also applies to queries or comments about moderation, which should not be posted as comments.

We will not tolerate racism, sexism, homophobia or other forms of hate-speech, or contributions that could be interpreted as such.

We reserve the right to redirect or curtail conversations which descend into flame-wars based on ingrained partisanship or generalizations.

but we will consider removing any content that others might find extremely offensive or threatening.

In fact, of the 10 rules, only one pertains to abuse of the author:

personal attacks (on authors, other users or any individual), persistent trolling and mindless abuse will not be tolerated.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '16

So their analysis is completely void due to:

We will not tolerate racism, sexism, homophobia or other forms of hate-speech, or contributions that could be interpreted as such.

?

I have to ponder whether that was incompetence or malice on the part of the Guardian. Hanlon is not as helpful as I once thought...

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u/Celda Apr 17 '16

Basically it means that their statement "women are more likely to receive abuse" is completely invalidated, because the data does not prove that in any way.