The tool that forces you to take a quiz before commenting is now available to everyone
A Norwegian media outlet is spreading the love in an attempt to stop the hate.
A tool public broadcaster NRK was using on their website to keep comments less angry and off-topic is now available to other sites.
It's a really simple concept. The tool is just a quiz with three multiple-choice questions about the article that a reader must take before posting anything in the comments section.
Site editors said they built it to force people to take a breath and calm down before posting an angry rant.
Here's a quiz on a story posted Monday about fake news in the media industry. (This is translated by Google from Norwegian into English.)
The comment quiz is now available on Github so any site or news outlet can force their readers to take a beat (or three) before writing something, no matter if was going to be mean, misinformed, total nonsense or insightful and brilliant.
Take that comments section trolls.
Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.
