Comments on: Topix – A One-Stop Website for News, Job Postings, and Drug Deals?

By: celebrities news

celebrities news — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:55:40 +0000

I have been browsing online more than 3 hours today, yet I never
found any interesting article like yours. It’s pretty worth enough for me. Personally, if all webmasters and bloggers made good content as you did, the internet will be much more useful than ever before.

By: Katharyn

Katharyn — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:49:02 +0000

I would like to see this article and information about Topix updated. I have grown familiar with this evil, evil site after friends were attacked. The only way to try and get them to remove anything is to go on their sick website and use their feedback. No big surprise when the libel has continued to stay on the website. I read on a Facebook page and I am not trying to badmouth the man, but the CEO of Topix said “Speech is normally more important than the victim.” That says it all for me. When it is libel, defamation or something else illegal then speech is NOT more important than the victim especially private citizens.

By: Stef

Stef — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:29:24 +0000

I am convinced Topix is the worst site on the internet. I understand there is no way to stop cowardly bullying entirely, but they do absolutely nothing. I have had friends attacked on there and reported it to them through their joke of a feedback and it was never removed. I next tried to call them and of course the number said their mailbox was full. I tried for days, so I suspect it is never checked or there are so many complaints it falls on deaf ears. I debated emailing the CEO of Topix but from what I understand if he does respond it is usually to justify how immoral Topix is and to criticize the person who has emailed him. Topix crosses a line and then some. To me, it has no redeeming qualities and shows how far our country has fallen.

By: Lose the Pampers

Lose the Pampers — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:39:18 +0000

I’m going to be the devil’s advocate here and say Topix is neither good nor bad in itself…it’s the USERS who make it so. Any website can be used to bully or engage in illegal activity. All this talk of “parents’ organizations” is disgusting. What “parents” need to do is teach their kids right and wrong; and more importantly self esteem! There aren’t enough content filters in the world to shield your precious babies from all the dangers of the real world, of which Topix is only a microcosm. While you’re busy blogging and petitioning, you could be spending time with your child teaching him/her to make good decisions on his OWN. But no. It’s much easier to blame your child’s pain or bad behavior on the internet, rap music, violent video games, the schools, the drugs, “cyberbullying” (gag me) and any other buzzword that comes along.
If your kids are not intelligent and moral enough to know better than to engage in this crazy online madness, they have no business using a computer or leaving the house.

By: aza

aza — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:37:10 +0000

TOPIX.COM the latest site for drug dealers and drug buyers, as I’ve read. It superceeeded Craigslist.

By: john

john — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:32:48 +0000

i agree totaly with you on this as i myself has been targetted by an ex claiming to be a drug dealer which is so untrue!!

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 06:30:53 +0000

Topix doesn’t understand with speech comes responsibility. That site needs to make some serious changes because it has managed to destroy just about every community it touches and to the original poster of the article, yes kids use it unfortunately.

By: Matthew Walters

Matthew Walters — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 10:05:31 +0000

Thank you for this article. Media and parent organizations are gradually becoming aware of the destructive force of Topix unmoderated anonymous forums.
However, Topix has done nothing to move towards reform. Although they no longer are known for being a news aggregator but for being a destination for libel, abuse and cyber bullying they continue along unchanged, defending their constitutional right to shield abusive internet abusers.
The question is, once we are all aware of the issue, how are we going to change it since Topix refuses to act ethically of their own volition. I believe that Topix knows that eventually there will be no trust or confidence left in them and they are just milking their current profit until it crashes down on them.
We need to get the word out but we need lawmakers to please take notice.

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:10:58 +0000

You would not believe the amount of damage that site has done in my community and many of the attacks are on kids. Parents pay close attention. More kids use it then you think.

By: Blake

Blake — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:45:20 +0000

There is no defense for the Topix website and I am going to respectfully disagree with the writer of the article in one area. More and more kids are using Topix. In fact, I have heard it said that many use it as their own kind of “slambook.” If you look at many of the forums it is attacks on teenagers so it is growing in popularity among the teenage crowd and the reason is simple. Topix takes no pride in their site. It is just one attack after another and what they do is aggregate a handful of actual newsstories to try and justify the fact they are a gossip site. The appeal of that site is because it is one of the easiest cyberbullying sites on the internet to bully someone. They have next to no moderators and don’t require any kind of registration process so you can attack within a few seconds. That site is becoming a real problem and Topix is now claiming they even want to enter the political arena from what I understand. Can you imagine a site like that doing political commentary? All it will take is for someone like the guy who killed all those people to post something on a site like Topix, and people encourage him or her to injure innocent people. The site is that bad.