LA Times Surprised That People Are Jerks Online
from the so-let-me-explain-this-internet-thing-to-you... dept
It wasn’t hard to predict that the LA Times’ experiment with combining editorials and wikis would run into problems pretty quickly. However, early on, it sounded as if the experiment was actually going surprisingly well. That lasted just a few hours, until the expected online morons showed up and the LA Times killed the entire experiment. Of course, that leads to the inevitable questions about how the LA Times wasn’t prepared to handle the inevitable trolls and vandals? In the end, though, this was probably just a savvy PR move by Michael Kinsley to point some extra attention to the LA Times website — and, as such, it seems like the whole “experiment” was a success.
Comments on “LA Times Surprised That People Are Jerks Online”
dorpus?
trolls and morons?
so dorpus posts on the LA times as well as techdirt?
Re: dorpus?
Darn it, I was going to post that!
Re: Re: dorpus?
and everyone else was thinking it 😉
RSVP?
On Friday, Poynter had this article where the Michael Kinsely, the editor,
was saying that the experiment was a success and included this quote:
…”the ratio of assholes to good will people” is not as high as [the editor] had feared.
Good way to say “Hey, you’re not trying hard enough…”.
-cmh