Popular Science has turned off comments. Here’s why that’s a bad idea.
Citing research on the general awfulness of internet commenters, Popular Science has decided to do away with its comments. Over at Boundary Vision, University of Calgary science education researcher Marie-Claire Shanahan offers clear, compelling reasons why she disagrees with this decision. https://gizmodo.com/the-science-of-comment-trolls-5976374 Writes Shanahan: In addition to being on shaky justification grounds, I also see…
