{"id":3089,"date":"2010-10-14T20:06:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T14:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/?p=3089"},"modified":"2010-10-14T20:19:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T14:49:59","slug":"abuses-in-blog-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2010\/politics\/abuses-in-blog-comments.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuses in Blog Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I feel the quality of Indian blog comments is really nosediving. I’m not talking about flawed logic<\/a>, or other diversionary tactics. Those are undesirable, but can be found everywhere. I’m not even talking about violent disagreement of ideas. What I’m talking about is abuse<\/em>. Pure, unadulterated abuse in its most vitriolic form.<\/p>\n

An example is on this post talking about the dangers of the UID<\/a>. Most of the comments there agree with the author’s point that it can lead to dangerous invasion of privacy. But there are some who disagree, and that is fine given that it’s an open forum for the discussion of ideas. By and large the comments are decent, and make valid points. But a few comments are just abusive<\/a>. Here are some snippets:<\/p>\n

people like you\u2026Anti Indians, pseudo seculars.. wearing a mask of goodness and patriotism.. I knew it!.. U don\u2019t give a damn about our country or neither you have any sense of patriotism or pride left as an Indian. Because people like you all they love is to defend the minority terrorist groups in name of human rights etc\u2026Indians like you\u2026 who have no whatsoever pride,love for our nation..nor u want to know the truth..but all u want to propagate s false peace..goodness..and image of a perfect writer who actually r antI Indian pseudo secularS.<\/em><\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

People like you who r anti-national, anti-Hindu pseudo secularists, communists, minority appeasers, extremist\/terrorist sympathizers and truth blockers should open up and see..that what IS the real situation and propaganda is\u2026 rather than going against some1 who is a patriot and opposing Stallman for talking anti-India.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Those who’re interested can find many more of these sort of comments in my experiments on\u00a0dialogging with those who disagree with my views<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Most of us have come across them, and I must admit to enjoying it immensely at some level…they’re kind of funny. The problem is they completely short circuit any mature discussion. I’ve come across many of these recently, and almost all of them are by Indians.\u00a0They’re very common on news sites like the Times of India which strangely enough, holds all comments for moderation and yet lets these through! This is in contrast to the New York Times which has a strict policy against abuse.<\/p>\n

Where is all this anger coming from? I don’t like to stereotype and I’ve seen abuses from both sides of the political spectrum, but it seems to me that most vitriolic hatred is spewed by the right wing<\/a>. I mustn’t tar all right wing commenters with the same brush and there are many who engage in civilized debate even if it’s something I don’t agree with. But if a particular comment is vitriolic and hate filled, it’s probably from a right winger!<\/p>\n

It doesn’t seem to matter what the topic is about. I’ve seen such comments on Religion, Government, the Media, and even topics such as Climate change! No sphere seems to be free of abusive comments. I wonder if this trend is only going to increase, or will some sort of consensus emerge where those spouting vitriol will be shunned? We’ll just have to wait and see.<\/p>\n

One thing I’ve started doing is to reply to such comments drawing their attention to the fact that they’re being abusive. I ask them to be polite, tell them it’s not good manners and also suggest that people will take them more seriously if they come across as being cool and level headed instead of frothing at the mouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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