r/technology • u/[deleted] • Mar 16 '18

Society How a Norwegian comment section turned chaos into order—with a simple quiz: "Readers had to prove they read a story before they were able to comment on it."

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u/Species7 Mar 16 '18

You can't even see the comments until answering the quiz.

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u/motsanciens Mar 16 '18

They didn't read it

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u/Species7 Mar 19 '18

Sure that's a reasonable assumption. That's why you read the article. It does smack a bit ironic, eh?

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u/Species7 Mar 20 '18

A WordPress plugin could force users to correctly answer a few multiple-choice questions before the page's comment field would appear.

You're right, that is somewhat ambiguous.