No comments: Addressing commentary sections in websites' analyses

Removing or extracting the commentary sections from a series of websites is a tedious task, as no standard way to code them is widely adopted. This operation is thus very rarely performed. In this paper, we show that these commentary sections can induce significant biases in the analyses, especially in the case of controversial Highlights bullet Commentary sections can induce biases in the analysis of websites' contents bullet Analyzing these sections can be interesting per se. bullet We illustrate these points using a corpus of anti-vaccine websites. bullet We provide guidelines to remove or extract these sections.