【Just a Stranger】

A Norwegian media outlet is Just a Strangerspreading the love in an attempt to stop the hate.

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A tool public broadcaster NRK was using on their website to keep comments less angry and off-topic is now available to other sites.

It's a really simple concept. The tool is just a quiz with three multiple-choice questions about the article that a reader must take before posting anything in the comments section.

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Site editors said they built it to force people to take a breath and calm down before posting an angry rant.

Here's a quiz on a story posted Monday about fake news in the media industry. (This is translated by Google from Norwegian into English.)

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The comment quiz is now available on Github so any site or news outlet can force their readers to take a beat (or three) before writing something, no matter if was going to be mean, misinformed, total nonsense or insightful and brilliant.

Take that comments section trolls.

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