Mrs. Paco frequently reads news articles on Yahoo!, and she got in the habit of automatically checking the comments (originally, this was because Yahoo! stories often are poorly written, and sometimes commenters provide useful clarification). Another thing she noticed (and I did, too) was that the comments tend to come from readers who are right-of-center.
Well, today, Yahoo! decided to terminate the regular comments section that appears at the end of its articles, and replace it with a "survey" that seeks to gather info about readers, and to discover, among other things, whether readers actually want a comments section. I think the company is dismayed by how many non-woke commenters there are out there, and is trying to find a way to deplatform them.
I guess we better get on the stick and do like the plump philosophes of Conservative, Inc. have suggested: come up with a billion dollars somewhere to start our own news
and social media companies. If only all the billionaires weren't leftists...
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(originally, this was because Yahoo! stories often are poorly written, and sometimes commenters provide useful clarification)
I wonder if what you really meant to say is: (originally, this was because Yahoo! stories often are fake news, and sometimes commenters provide the truth)
And Yahoo can't have that, now can they?
If only all the billionaires weren't leftists...
Fortunately for the country, there is one very obvious exception. But, he's working on other things right now.
Doesn't surprise me -- the good news (such as it is) is that Yahoo is in the toilet, and has been for a while.
I noticed a few days ago that Yahoo had suspended comments in favor of the surveys, which I refuse to fill out. I think you are right that there were too many non-left commenters disagreeing with their news articles (a big bunch come from outlets like AP and Huffpost, so you know what they were like).
Also, while I'm at it, Yahoo trying to find out if commenters actually want comments is ridiculous, since a whole lot of their articles generated comments in the thousands.
I wonder if what you really meant to say is: (originally, this was because Yahoo! stories often are fake news, and sometimes commenters provide the truth)
Sometimes that's the case. Other times, it might be a non-political article about somebody who's missing, or a big traffic accident, etc., and the story is just written so badly you can't tell who, what, when or where.
Yahoo trying to find out if commenters actually want comments is ridiculous, since a whole lot of their articles generated comments in the thousands. Very true - and revealing.
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