What about the men!?

[james_davis_nicoll]

Won't someone please think about the men!?

Comments

[moonlithoughts.livejournal.com]

I'd really love to see how the female list compares. I honestly doubt it's much longer, if at all.

Are those comments carefully vetted, or is no one seriously calling them out?

[txanne.livejournal.com]

AFAIK, tor.com's comments are completely unmoderated. So really, we're lucky it isn't worse.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

AFAIK, tor.com's comments are completely unmoderated.

You may be correct; however, given what I know about the people who started the site, I rather doubt this is the case.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

This is true; I will amend my statement to "I have never seen any evidence of moderatorial activity."

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I am sure the people at CBC and at Asimov's are fine people but both have comment sections that are toxic (or did when I last looked, in the case of Asimovs). It's not who founds the place but who shows up to populate comments.

But for some reason I thought Tor did do light moderation, zapping spam?

Anyway, compared to the "hysterical peen-haters and their unjust hating on Heinlein" stuff in the summer, the article in question was pretty tame.

[kate_nepveu]

They certainly have automated spam filters, and at one point you could report spam that would get zapped (which I haven't done lately so I don't know if it still works), and I have on occasion seen staff do substantive moderation on particularly contentious topics, but I would not call it actively moderated.

[lurkingcanadian.livejournal.com]

I've only really read the comments on Leigh Butler's series of posts, but I have seen moderators threatening to ban people. However, the only offense I've ever seen them threaten to punish is the obnoxious "OMG I got the FIRST post" that some people like to post for some reason.

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

They do have moderators, who occasionally step in to note that a particular direction in a comment thread would not be a good idea to carry on with. For Leigh's posts' threads, she tends to step in before the moderators do (and her crowd of commenters is usually pretty self-policing, as well). And yes, they'll zap spam posts that are brought to their attention, leaving a gap in the comment numbering.

--Dave