{"id":38823,"date":"2013-09-27T16:55:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T22:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/27\/shutting-down-comments-on-popular-science.html"},"modified":"2013-09-27T20:13:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T02:13:29","slug":"shutting-down-comments-on-popular-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/27\/shutting-down-comments-on-popular-science.html","title":{"rendered":"Shutting down comments on "Popular Science""},"content":{"rendered":"
Hrm.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, the immediate feel is, "Hey, great way to suppress discussion." Which is kind of silly, because there's eleventy-dozen ways to discuss any PopSci article without ethically requiring them to maintain a comments section.<\/p>\n

Further, I do agree, from a personal perspective, that contentious comments can stain overall perception of an article (even if I realize those contentious comments are so much bushwa). If nothing else, they make it all unpleasant<\/i> and lead one to simply page away.<\/div>\n

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Popular Science says comments are ‘bad for science,’ shuts them down<\/a>
\n Some comment sections are enlightening, some are depressing, and many \u2014 according to Popular Science \u2014 are actively hurting the scientific community. In a post today, the online wing of the…\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hrm. On the one hand, the immediate feel is, "Hey, great way to suppress discussion." Which is kind of silly, because there's eleventy-dozen ways to discuss any PopSci article without ethically requiring them to maintain a comments section. 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