What about the men!?

[james_davis_nicoll]

Won't someone please think about the men!?

Comments

[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.