As the recipient of a recent blogger shitstorm, I first came to terms with this phenomenon. I asked myself whether online forums reflect our society. Do the comments printed on them at least roughly reflect the opinion of the population? Are they a serious indicator of the mood on a specific topic?
The answer: no, no and no again, especially when it poland rcs data comes to politically explosive questions. Proof: At 20 Minuten Online, a whopping 90 percent of people voted in favor of the proposal in the run-up to the Ecopop vote. We know the result at the ballot box: a full 28 percent voted yes! A greater discrepancy is hard to imagine. The general analysis of the comments on this important online portal shows that right-wing and ultra-right entries always predominate. They hijack the air supremacy right from the start, so that dissenting opinions hardly want to enter this environment anymore, as they are immediately voted down or denigrated. This means that in the politically heated climate of Switzerland, the blogosphere has become a domain of right-wing populists, where they can let off steam without regard for decency or spelling.
Do these comments still have an effect, even on decision-makers? My recent experience suggests this.
In the USA, some media have closed the comment sections, which they believe have gotten completely out of control. But it's different here. Purely online media in particular use this method to get the click numbers that are so important for commercial reasons and fuel hot stories at all costs. The loss of journalistic credibility is easily accepted as collateral damage. And so the online Pegidas continue to spread with the claim that they represent the majority opinion. This could end badly.