"Nobody wants to really comment for fear of getting blasted."
It is not like there is massive random trolling like more popular websites. Although if you comment about a controversial topic like child pornography, you can expect there potentially to be strong responses. And actually a large amount of the comments here have to do with copyright law, relevant to what happened to the site in the news article. One shouldn't be too surprised of corrections/responses if they post something wrong that would have been known if they actually read up on the subject, especially in cases when boldly making such statements. I thought it is kind of common sense that controversial subjects or excessive confidence can stir up trouble, and those are pretty easy to avoid. Unless one wants to make posts with no chance of someone disagreeing or pointing out potential mistakes, in which case public forums might be best to be avoided.
Otherwise, I thought the beauty of threaded comment system is branches can just be ignored...
"Nobody wants to really comment for fear of getting blasted."
It is not like there is massive random trolling like more popular websites. Although if you comment about a controversial topic like child pornography, you can expect there potentially to be strong responses. And actually a large amount of the comments here have to do with copyright law, relevant to what happened to the site in the news article. One shouldn't be too surprised of corrections/responses if they post something wrong that would have been known if they actually read up on the subject, especially in cases when boldly making such statements. I thought it is kind of common sense that controversial subjects or excessive confidence can stir up trouble, and those are pretty easy to avoid. Unless one wants to make posts with no chance of someone disagreeing or pointing out potential mistakes, in which case public forums might be best to be avoided.
Otherwise, I thought the beauty of threaded comment system is branches can just be ignored...