Psychology of Online Comments: The Tyranny of the Vocal Minority

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Negative comments make articles less persuasive, shows a study by University of Duisburg-Essen. The researchers explored how journalistic articles from respectable news sites are perceived when posted as links on Facebook. The type of user comments and the number of likes that each post received were systematically varied. While negative comments were found to reduce the persuasive influence of the articles, positive comments had no strengthening effect. Moreover, the high number of likes received by some articles didn’t enhance their persuasive value for the readers, which indicates that comments are more impactful than mere quantitative support with one-click interactions.

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Straight to the point; comments are always a difficult area to moderate without limiting the voices of your audience. The concept of an incentive to maintain civility is something of a novel concept, especially when you factor the Wild West that is social media as the predominant precedent for comment etiquette. 

very interesting point. I never think about this. good analysis.. I loved it.

I am currently doing a little research on the difference between comments and Q & A platforms. Have you ever come across an article/report that covers psychology behind commenting on VK Q & A platform? Why do people use them? What are their real intentions? What are the differences?

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Can I share this with my Twitter, with the name of your site?

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Discussion groups and forum sites are great way to widen your understanding about a specific topic. It is an ideal platform to read informative content and to interact with people who are expert in the field. Unfortunately, more people on discussion groups are disregarding their manner when posting messages and talking with other members of the group which reduces the value of forum sites.

if there is a negative comment we should be a manjer we can talk to the concerned to direct him to positive comments by talking directly to the person in order to understand what he meant from our words about these negative comments. that's just lost in my opinion.


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I am doing a little research at the moment on the differences between commenting and Q&A platforms. Have you ever come across an article / report that covers the psychology behind commenting v’s Q&A platforms? Why people use them? What are their real motives? What are the differences? 

many people can not comment on articles. This is due to the fact that they lack the skill of critical thinking and drawing conclusions. I once read about it at http://perfect24hours.com and I am sure that if only people would learn to discuss skillfully, commenting would be great.

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I am a part of Social Media Marketing Agency and I am sure this is a very good resource for our team.

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A happy customer will tell their family and friends, an unhappy customer will tell everybody.
Hardly somebody who had a flight will say -what a flight, bla bla bla. But imagine if the flight is delayed, etc The company can expect tweets, comments, even articles etc...
Maybe we should all more say good words as well. Compliment and thank ;)
Rina

Commenting over here is like meeting new peoples and finding the problem solution which means this platform help us a lot and this is what i was looking for.

Thanks & Regard's

Great site. Lots of useful information here. Very interesting concept – most forums at the moment implicitly reward those who post the most, eg with post counts or classifications which get more “senior” as the post count rises. So, I guess you get a negative spiral where the vocal are encouraged and the quiet feel ever more excluded.
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before i read this article, I thought comment is just a place for chatting. But this article give some awareness about comments and physiology behind it. For marketing analysis it will help more and more
arjun,

With online comments, people always think that they are zero to responsible for what they had written. But they are also unware that their comments can last long as the website.

i think a good article is the best and we can have more comment

I read the content. this content is very useful and informative for everyone. I hope you will post more and more content in the future. 
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I think the negative comments also help us improve and it shows the commentator attitude toward the article. Priya.

I don't see any issue with incentives for comments. It isn't much different than running some type of promotion or discount for being a member of a club or something of that nature. The idea is to help generate interaction and have people that might normally sit on the sidelines, participate. I don't know that there is any room for the "higher ground" when it comes to these types of needed interactions. 

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C Sullivan

Very interesting post, I will be using it with my students.
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Zulay

As allways dealing with user comments, this topic is always headache, to moderate all comments become a time consuming, the best way for that is to be updated and interacting with audience .

Straight to the point; comments are always a difficult area to moderate without limiting the voices of your audience. The concept of an incentive to maintain civility is something of a novel concept, especially when you factor the Wild West that is social media as the predominant precedent for comment etiquette.

Adam Michalowicz
Digital Marketer

Keep on writing, but also keep on working on your writing. While some of the wording is offensive, which surely is not helpful to get their point across, some of these comments actually ring true.

Pat Filippelli Sales Representative

I've often struggled to avoid overreacting to those few negative online comments in spite of enormous positive comments I receive face to face. Thanks for the article.

Negative comments definitely have a purpose. All positive comments cannot verify the value of a topic. Therefore, I think we should welcome people let their thoughts, share in the comment section, as long as it's proven to be valuable for conversation implement. 

I think the negative comments have purpose: namely, to stir up debate on important issues of our day, and solicit the views of others - who may disagree.

Alex Babenkov

It seems like many people simply discharge their negativity online, particularly in comments. Sad but true.

Joanna Clarks

Oh how I wish , DESPERATELY, I had read this blog post prior to negative comments that transpired this summer... key advice, thank you for sharing!!

Yelp and many other websites are profiting off of negative comments and reviews. As the years go by and we start reviewing and commenting on everything such as waiters in restaraunts I believe that we will become more numb to the negative comments. Thanks for the great article.  

Keith Dunham

But don't you think both negative and positive comments open our sight wider?
I think the negative comments also help us improve and it shows the commentator attitude toward the article.  

Negative comments should not take it lightly nor hard.  Not all agrees on an idea.  Just accept negative online comments and make it positive.

Mike Jae Crayton

Psychology is a great way of learning and I am very happy to read about this.I always preferred to comment my opinion on psychology. 

It's like I've heard in business, "A happy customer will tell their friends, an unhappy customer will tell everybody." I think revenge is the most likely culprit of motivation of negative comment posters. Not sure if I agree with the articles notion that a negative comment will inspire others to do the same but what do I know. I think the writer of this article is probably a lot smarter than I am.

Jeff

Excellent article and topic.

It's so hard to corral the negative few without resorting to moderator/dictator mode or curbing interaction by turning off comments. 

In my experience, interacting with the negative nellys can help diffuse the situation and show the other readers that you are responsive and can handle constructive criticism well.

- Cindy

Very good article,
You are right about what you said regarding how forum users ride the flow when a negative comment was first posted. But I think it is unfair if the users or readers will leave a positive comments just because of incentives.

We finally figured this out a couple months ago:
--People love to voice the negative, but the minority voice the positive. 

It has to be encouraged, and the environment you create for them has to help it come out.

Give incentives, awards or simply ask them. You'd be surprised at how easy it is to get positive reviews by just asking :)

- Dwayne
Albany Oregon Real Estate Agent
http://www.valleyoregonhomes.com/linn-county/albany-oregon-homes-and-real-estate/

Very interesting concept -  most forums at the moment implicitly reward those who post the most, eg with post counts or classifications which get more "senior" as the post count rises. So, I guess you get a negative spiral where the vocal are encouraged and the quiet feel ever more excluded.

That probably accounts for some of the extreme polarisation you often see, too - the more thoughtful section of the population are maybe just not getting represented!

Kate 
 RM Social Media Ltd 

Good article. Never ceases to amaze me how people behave in commenting sections. 

I am doing a little research at the moment on the differences between commenting and Q&A platforms. Have you ever come across an article / report that covers the psychology behind commenting v's Q&A platforms? Why people use them? What are their real motives? What are the differences?

From the user behaviour on our Q&A platform for colleges, we see some very obvious differences. But I would like to see if this is supported by independent research.

Any advice / recommendations:

email: john@learnpipe.com
web: http://www.learnpipe.com 

Thanks, John

yeah.Never overreact for a negative comment.And Never remain silent too for a negative comment..Try to answer the member with a positive attitude saying that he could be wrong or sincerely apologize him if it is really mistake from our side.Always try to be a better Manager not by your degree but by your Attitude..

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