John Quiggin — Trolls (crosspost from Crooked Timber)

John Quiggin explains his new troll policy.

I’ve decided that life is too short for me to deal with any more trolls.

John Quiggin
Trolls (crosspost from Crooked Timber)

John Quiggin | Profess of Economics at the University of Queensland

Update:

I just ran into this interesting study.

In a study published by Taylor Francis Online, and written by Kathleen Searles, Sophie Spencer and Adaobi Duru, it's quite clear that abusive and "uncivil" comments (like "UR a commie lib and you eat babies — go die") negatively affect perception of both a publication and its authors, regardless of gender.…

... what they found is that such abusive comments will negatively affect perceptions of the publication itself, as well as the author of an article, regardless of gender.

We found a significant effect for the abusive comment on author credibility and intention to seek news from the author and outlet in the future, but gender of the author did not moderate these effects.

Big Think
Study: The effects of online trolling on authors, publications

Brandon A. Weber