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.

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