Interhacktive Reading: 18/10/12

Some community-related links, mainly for my community and social media module students at City University - but shared for the betterment of all... 

• Daily Record suspends comments on football articles - classic scale problem, letting a culture problem go unresolved for too long.
• The vexing issue of managing football comments - Martin Belam addresses the same issue from his own experience at the BBC and Guardian. 
• Journalist suspended for personal attack on social media - somebody explain to me why some journalist seem to lose all sense when they encounter social media
• An announcement about Gawker links in /r/politics - compare and contrast the announcement and the comments. 
• In defence of trolls - a rather alternative view
• We are indeed less willing to agree on what constitutes truth - Clay Shirky: "Now, and from now on, journalists are going to be participants in a far more argumentative sphere than anything anyone alive has ever seen. The question for us is not whether we want this increase in argumentation -- no one is asking us, and there is, in fact, no one who could ask us -- but rather how we adapt ourselves to it as it unfolds. "
• Creepy comments and favourites on Flickr - a challenging, passive community problem - people inappropriately sexualising images on Flickr, through Favouriting and comments. 
• What comments do readers down vote?  - some interesting Ars Technica anlaysis