DrudgeTards

I don’t have a solution, but feel a need to point out the problem.

There is a growing problem that when Matt Drudge links to a web site for a story, if there is a comments section, it fills up with 100s or 1000s of highly inappropriate posts that are probably written by 11 year old boys – pretty similar to what you see in Youtube.   When this happens, regular readers of the web site tend to assume the posts are coming from Americans – I don’t know one way of the other, but it seems likely.   American children are unaware for the most part that British people spell words differently and use different words than Americans.

Since the Internet was made available to public around 1995, I’ve seen one forum after another disrupted and abandoned after unsupervised children invade – whose only goal seems to be to disrupt adults trying to have a conversation.   I think I’m describing a symptom here, not the problem.   Or maybe it is just the nature of children.