Is
it just me, or is Treehugger being flooded by anti-environmental
commenters? It seems like every article I look at or comment on there
are way more people than before that are belligerent and don't care
about the environment... Yet they are visiting this site and taking the
time to make negative comments.
And I do mean way more... It
used to be that most of the comments were encouraging about being
green, maybe some tidbit about how individual people were applying
environmentalism in their own lives... Now I see many comments that
denounce the "belief" in global warming, how democrats are stupid, and
republican leaders make so much sense...
I hate to sound
conspiracy-y... But I'm worried that either there happen to be enough
backwards FOX-viewing, environment-hating individuals that happen to
enjoy posting negative comments on Treehugger.com that don't make
sense... Or what seems more likely (because this alternative wouldn't
be by chance) there's a group that is trying to skew what is apparently
the public opinion on the site. I'm reminded of recent stories where
fake grassroots organizations were funded by groups that profited from
the destruction of the environment...
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/08 ... energy.php
Again,
I don't want to sound conspiracy-y (Not that there isn't precedent for
this sort of thing)... But I just wanted to throw that out there.
Perhaps Treehugger IT people can do IP traces on all these negative
commenters? I dunno... I just don't want to stand by while our beloved
site gets overrun by backwards, reason-hating, global warming deniers,
especially IF they represent a concerted effort.
I MAY just be paranoid, but has anyone else noticed this trend?
