are nearly useless.Or, e.g., with popularity voting for music, will end up with just the Top 40 or some such. And, note, how well they like the post can vary a lot depending on which of their interests they are considering.For this, popularity voting, etc. So, the problem is, how well will THAT blogger like THAT post for one of THEIR interests. have some fundamental, debilitating problems.Likely the biggest can be seen by putting yourself in the seat (uh, in ‘social media’ always try to put yourself in the seat of millions of other people!) of another blog reader/writer a long way away with very different background, interests, etc. Okay, guys, I can keep silent no longer!Popularity voting, ‘page ranking’, etc. Hopefully Disqus will give us more features like the ones I talked about earlier in this post to take the community powered moderation and rating and presentation to the next level. Now I've cut back and let the community do more of the talking. In the beginning, I was a huge part of the threads. I make up for some of that by liking comments a lot more.īut this community is following a pattern that all online communities follow. It used to be that out of a 100 comment thread, my replies might be 30 or more. But you may notice that I've cut back on the number of replies. I also want to make sure they aren't spam or hate filled crap. I continue to read every comment because it is important to me to see them all. The comment threads on this blog are now well over 100 comments on most days and get up to 300 or more comments on the most popular posts. Turning that job over to the community in its entirety is the obvious next step. I do a fair amount of that today helped out by our community bouncer Kid Mercury. The other benefit of this approach is the community can police the comment thread. And the comment thread and community will be better off for it. The anonymous commenter who leaves a hostile name calling piece of crap will be punished. The anonymous commenter who has valuable information but can't publish in their own name will be rewarded. Game mechanics will reward the kind of behavior the community wants and will punish the kind of behavior the community does not want. We need to introduce game mechanics into commenting systems and I think Disqus can and will be at the forefront of this effort. Some blogs are already doing this like Business Insider, Gawker, and Huffington Post. I think Disqus should offer blogs with a lot of comments the ability to run a window above the comment thread with the half dozen or dozen best comments that would be automatically calculated with the possibility of override by the blog author. Disqus does allow the comment reader to "sort by" most popular or "best rated" but that requires user action. I think anonymous comments should be subjected to some of those techniques.įor blogs and online publications that get a lot of comments, and this blog is on the cusp of that place, I think we need a way to highlight top comments for each post. Fortunately, there are a number of techniques that can be used to downgrade or even largely hide that behavior from the vast majority of users without taking it down. In the world of user generated content, you are always going to get posts that you don't want. There are enough examples out there of why someone would want to comment anonymously that I think it has a place in the online conversation. But I think anonymous commenting should be allowed and I allow it here. I think anonymous commenting leads to a lot of bad behavior and it should be discouraged. Tereza asked me to comment on the NY Times piece that ran this weekend on news sites' decision to move away from anonymous commenters.
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