Online Comments Don’t Work In Korea Either
A full 14% of internet comments are no more than cursing and threats. That’s what Korean News Service Dong-A Ilbo reported today on the english language version of their website. In a study that Dong-A undertook with National Internet Development Agency of Korea, they scoured through 320,000 comments left on articles on the three biggest web portals in Korea.
Among their amazing findings are these further indications of the failure of web comments to capture healthy online dialogue:
- “Among derogatory comments, cussing and threats accounted for 65.3 percent, while repeated postings of the same comments to prevent users from reading the posts of others took up 36.4 percent.”
- “Five percent of frequent posters accounted for as much as 30.5 percent of all Internet comments.”
- “Only 2.5 percent of readers among Web users post comments.”
- “Only 0.12 percent of users reading online news reports generated a third of all Internet comments”
- “The top five percent of those posting comments wrote 44.2 percent of the Internet comments considered derogatory.”
Even as someone who can be down on the online commenting, these stats still managed to surprise me.
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