Men still outnumber women in comments

Men still outnumber women as online commenters on media sites. At least, the evidence suggests that.

The Times of London recently reported that while 32 percent of its subscribers are female only 23 percent of its commenters are female. (Of course, some women use male pseudonyms.) Men also comment more frequently. Just under 19 percent of Times comments appear to come from women.

Life as a comment moderator

Catching up on some articles about online comments ...

Atlantic Monthly ended online comments Feb. 2 in favor of an online letters section. (You can read about that here.) One of the magazine's comment moderators wrote about his experience.