Archive for comment moderation

Innovations in comment moderation

7 October 2009 , , , ,
Last month I wrote about some of the ways to make comment moderation more nuanced than a simple publish / don’t publish decision, such as the way in which Labour List tags some comments as trash – and it is then up to the site visitor to decide whether or not to read such comments. [...]

The curious case of Iain Dale, the Daily Mail and the missing comments

1 October 2009 , , , , , ,
Today’s Ephriam Hardcastle column in the Daily Mail made the sort of snide unpleasant comments about Iain Dale that you expect of homophobes. It’s generated a lot of hostile comment around the internet, including this post from Stephen Glenn, people being encouraged by Kate Bevan via Twitter to complain to the Press Complaints Commission and [...]

Moderating comments: lessons from the Daily Mail

27 September 2009 ,
Moderating comments is a pretty blunt instrument – either a comment appears or it doesn’t. For some people and some sites, that is fine because it suits their site and moderation preferences. However, it doesn’t suit everyone. For example, suppose you want to encourage discussion on complicated or sensitive issues but your threads are dominated [...]

Full disclosure: what should be disclosed and documented on a political website?

31 July 2009 ,
I’ve been asked by someone creating a new website to give some advice on what legal and other text they should have on the site. Imprint – obviously. Reference to data protection and, it being a Lib Dem site, being covered by the party’s data protection registration for petition data and so on. Also a [...]