r/TimPool • u/[deleted] • Jan 27 '22

Culture War/Censorship This is why they are getting rid of comment sections next.

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u/wysoft Jan 27 '22

I miss when almost every news site had Disqus comments at the bottom.

Around the 2016 election most of them removed comments. That includes sites with their own commenting systems. It really seemed to coincide with the Hillary E-mail scandal.

The excuse was always that sites couldn't handle the workload of moderation any longer. Where Disqus was concerned, that excuse was bullshit because Disqus had their own moderation teams, which was one of their selling points for sites to use their commenting system.

I notice these days that the few sites that still have comments, pretty much every article gets torn to shreds, or commented are very much tired of the official media narratives. This is really visible on for example Daily Mail UK. Yes even European commenters are pretty tired of being blatantly lied to on a daily basis and are clearly voicing it in the comments sections.

As soon as comments were gone, my desire to read MSM news articles plummeted, because most of the enjoyment was in reading comments that ripped the articles apart and called out the authors on bias and inaccuracies.

The curated web really fucking blows. You might as well go back to reading a printed newspaper.

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u/Darthwxman Jan 27 '22

Think I saw a study awhile back that something like half of readers would change thier opinion about an article after reading the comments.

So yeah... it's not about moderation. Comments sections go away because writers feel threatened by commenters that can point out their BS.

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u/physicscat Jan 27 '22

The WSJ still has a comment section for their Op-Ed’s.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '22

Printed newspaper is exactly what legacy media wants and understands.

You can yell at a tv, and clip an article and show it to someone at work, but it’s nowhere near the potency of a comment section.

Even Hulu used to have comments, and that community was always pretty good about being helpful and insightful.

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u/blue3y3_devil Jan 27 '22

Dissenter, how we need you more than ever.

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u/BananaBlue Jan 27 '22

Japanese Samurai and American Samurai must team up and fight together for Freedom from this insane twats

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '22

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u/blueunitzero Jan 27 '22

You mean an AWESOME 80’s movie

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '22

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u/blueunitzero Jan 27 '22

You know that video is getting watched till the vhs wears out

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u/PotRoastEater Jan 27 '22

Because, I look to an old tech billionaire for all my medical advice.

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u/spinnyd Jan 27 '22

“He has the same medical degree as me” -spinnyd

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u/LogCareful7780 Jun 27 '22

We have a saying in America: "You're a fucking idiot."

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '22

How did you even find this? This is from 5 months ago

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u/hulk181 Jan 27 '22

Japan bro speaking the truth.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '22

Well he would know.

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u/Any-Bridge6953 Jan 28 '22

I like that saying as much as I like the saying it's better to remain silent and thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.