Opinion: Popular Science is wrong to get rid of online comments
Monday, September 30, 2013 - 07:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Popular Science has announced that it will be closing online comments on its news stories. Uncivil commenters have an overly negative effect on readers, it claims, with a small number of negative commenters poisoning the way readers perceive the stories. A New York Times article is used to back up the claims.