Houston Chronicle Sports No Longer Interested in What Fans Think?

Exactly. I posted over there for years on Texans, Rockets and other sports articles. It was convenient having one site for all the sports. Then a few years ago, even pre-Lin, that entire place took a nose dive. After the Lin signing it was 1,000 times worse. Then they removed the ignore feature. I stuck around for a few months but it was a waste of time.

I do know a handful of posters here that migrated over here from that wasteland. Decent guys.

 

Popular Science recently shut down their comment section too. Basically they concluded, after citing two studies, that comment sections permanently sway the opinions of readers (almost always for the worst) and that there will always be some commentator that posts trash that it effectively ruins any legitimate dialogue and casting doubt on otherwise good material.

Since Pop Sci's agenda is to promote science, the dialogue there was undermining it's own purpose (given trend of science haters).

I hope that humanity is starting to realize that comment sections on individual news articles are counter productive to life on earth.

Long live Clutch Fans!

 

Just go to the D&D for 5 minutes and you'll understand why they disabled comments.

 

The Chronicle actually disabled a sports section.

 

You think that's a systems shock, just imagine how the people used to the internet back in the usenet days when only people with clues actually had access to the internet.

Man, those days...sigh...

 

I will never forget the horror my geek friends and I experienced when AOL and other companies brought the internet to the common folk. I felt like that guy at Bushwood in Caddyshack 2.

 

Its not even worthy of that..

 

Ironically, above is example no.1 of the kind of posts you are talking about.

 

Good for them. Comment sections, for the most part, should be ****in' abolished any-damn-way.

 

nobody reads the comments section anyway unless it's facebook.

 

I don't blame them. Nothing but a bunch of LOFs and UT Longhorn haters post there!

 

Yea I like Lin. No problem with him but when his fans landed here and with the changing up of the format _ I couldn't take it anymore.

 

people still read newspapers?

 

Yeah them jokers were off the chains on there.

 

Twitter users: people still read message boards?

 

Yeah, papers seem to only make money online nowadays so minimizing the clicks wouldn't be a great strategy.

 

Why are you reading an entertainment magazine for sporting news?

 

Comments need significant moderation, and a stern banning policy or it can get ugly.

Much respect for Clutchfans, they found that balance.

DD

 

The Chronicle is a terrible newspaper. When we lost the Post, they got lazy.