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28 Dec 2010, 12:18 pm

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"Ignorant audience. Evil comments."

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28 Dec 2010, 12:57 pm

They need to do something like that for Daily Mail comments.

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28 Dec 2010, 1:27 pm

No surprises here.

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28 Dec 2010, 2:25 pm

Ehh, I've seen worse in the Salon.com and MMFA comments sections; an ideological audience cloaked by anonymity is just about guaranteed to spawn some outrageous statements.

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28 Dec 2010, 3:17 pm

And how many news bosses on the left pressured their staff to not cover scientists with legitimate doubts? Take news for what it is: the world seen through the filter of those reporting it. Always subjective, always with a bias and agenda, regardless of the source.

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28 Dec 2010, 6:41 pm

Is it me or does the guy think the native Americans were Africans?

Dox47 wrote:

Ehh, I've seen worse in the Salon.com and MMFA comments sections; an ideological audience cloaked by anonymity is just about guaranteed to spawn some outrageous statements.

It's called Poe's law.

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29 Dec 2010, 12:00 am

Vexcalibur wrote:

It's called Poe's law.

Now to my understanding, Poe's law refers to fundamentalist behavior becoming indistinguishable from parody, so I'm having a little trouble following your point. Are you saying that the Fox comments aren't meant to be taken seriously, or that similarly extreme/ignorant comments on other sites are meant as parody? Maybe some third explanation that hasn't yet occurred to me?

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29 Dec 2010, 12:21 am

I am saying that foxnews and salon are full of crazy people AND trolls. Good luck distinguishing them.

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29 Dec 2010, 12:59 am

Vexcalibur wrote:

I am saying that foxnews and salon are full of crazy people AND trolls. Good luck distinguishing them.

Ahh, that makes more sense. That would tend to support my feeling that obnoxious comments are pretty much a universal internet phenomenon, and that singling out and condemning any particular site for this sin is mental masturbation at best. Given that they're posted by anonymous third parties, I'd count them as even less relevant since the more extreme ones could easily be efforts at parody or provocation.

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