November 11 at 6:42 pm
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One minor point: I don't see how the author knows the commenters on FC are from the US. The Internet isn't just our country, it's a world thing. But yeah -- it's a cesspool. Not exactly front page news. - Dave Winer
Another thing -- when I started writing on the net I wrote a piece much like this one, asking why people were just tearing me down, not making the postitive constructive statements I hoped they would. A reporter from a print pub asked me to take a look at the Letter to the Editor section of Time or Newsweek and guess what -- same shit! No one writes positive comments, everyone has a bitch, everywhere, always. I guess it's the human condition. To blame men exclusively is a sort of sexism of its own, btw. - Dave Winer
omg. - Paola
One more thing then I'll stop. There are even some people who are part of the BlogHer community who do this same shit. Not going to name names, but they're there Elisa. I started off thinking of one, but now I have three. I bet there are a few more. :-( - Dave Winer
The comment by Scottie, "insert female porn star name here" is actually spot-on in terms of the web. Nothing drives innovation, page-views and $$$ like porn. - Rudolf Olah
Trolls are trolls, and my approach is to ignore them generally, male or female. I don't think we should give these people the time of day. I will say, and was also my contention during the K. Sierra incident: women tend to get hit with troll talk of a sexual (with a little sprinkling of violence) nature that men just don't. Not that I've seen. Men get hit with other stuff...like name-calling designed to question/challenge their masculinity. - Elisa Camahort Page
Elisa, there is absolutely a difference betw the kind of trolling men and women attract. I think men are attacked on sexuality in a negative way, the implication is that we are wimps or inadequate or effeminate. In both cases people are objectified, which is what we resist, we all want to be treated like humans. - Dave Winer
Have a good meal you tell 3 people. a bad one you tell 10.... apparently. Which fits Dave's point. - Toby Graham
So interesting you say that Toby, because I totally agree, but I just saw a presentation from a guy from ExpoTV (where consumers can go create and post video talking about products...uncompensated) and he said people don't go out of their way to do that for a negative review, so the vast majority of videos are positive. Wonder why the switch in that medium? - Elisa Camahort Page
