About a third of bots, the company argues, are malicious, but thanks to Google's Penguin update making comment spam relatively useless as an SEO technique, the number of spam bots has decreased from 2percentt in 2012 to just 0.5percentthis yearar.
(Negative comments were relatively rare; three-quarters of the postings in a subsample were either positive or mixed).
John Denham, the shadow business secretary, launched a withering attacking, saying that Cable's career was hanging by a thread, but Cable brushed his comments aside relatively easily.
The comments received relatively little coverage, as they were caught up in the maelstrom of debate and coverage of the fallout of the Liberal leadership spill, the defeat of the carbon pollution reduction scheme legislation in the senate and the global disappointment in Copenhagen.
But Beth Rigby, deputy political editor of the Financial Times, said the Environment Agency chairman's comments were "relatively innocuous".
Direct feedback can only come in the form of written comments (a relatively high barrier of effort) and it's diminished by spam and vocal trolls these days.
At first the comments were relatively benign and quizzical.
Specific comments, all relatively minor, are below.
All of my comments are relatively minor (but still important): 1) The table is easy to understand when reading the text, but hard to follow on its own.
Otherwise, the reviewers' comments are relatively minor, but appear to be eminently doable and worth addressing in revision, and they have been included below (together with the complimentary prefatory remarks!).
