And the most popular blog post in 2022 was…
Since this site started in 2009, I’ve been tracking each year which was the most popular blog post. Let’s take a trip down memory lane. … Read the full post »
Read my blog posts about the different approaches to moderating comments on websites or blogs, and in particular the move by many sites to remove commenting due to concerns over the quality of comments and/or a desire to move audience reactions over to social media.
Since this site started in 2009, I’ve been tracking each year which was the most popular blog post. Let’s take a trip down memory lane. … Read the full post »
When commenting before about the successful use of Reddit by the Bernie Sanders campaign, I highlighted how much moderation of the community by volunteer moderates was central to its success. … Read the full post »
A South African news site is turning off comments – the latest in a trend which has included Reuters and Bloomberg, and long before that Sky. … Read the full post »
We wanted to see what level of support the comments would get if we took some famous pieces of Nazi propaganda and changed the word ‘Jew’ with ‘migrant’… … Read the full post »
Tablet magazine is taking an unusual step to deal with sometimes unruly commenters: charging readers who want to submit or even view comments on their site. … Read the full post »
Bloomberg Business – the new home for all content from bloomberg.com and businessweek.com – was given a “soft” launch on Tuesday night, with no facility to comment on published articles. … Read the full post »
Earlier this month Reuters axed the comments threads on its website. This was no idiosyncratic whim but rather part of a wider trend. … Read the full post »
Popular Science is closing comments on its articles. Citing “trolls and spambots”, the 141-year-old American magazine has decided that an open forum at the bottom of articles “can be bad for science”. … Read the full post »
Letters pages used to be there primarily for the readers, and hence the use of editorial selection looking for interesting or amusing, high quality letters. … Read the full post »
Sky News this week has pulled the plug on its news discussion boards. … Read the full post »