The perils and pitfalls of allowing, and moderating, online comments
Sky News this week has pulled the plug on its news discussion boards. … Read the full post »
Comment moderation
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.
Do your blog comments make a good impression?
There are many reasons people have for posting comments on this site or others: because they’ve got something to add to the conversation, because they want to correct an error, because they like taking part in a debate, because they’ve got a question to ask or a myriad of other reasons. … Read the full post »
Questions I’d like to know the answer to: why are YouTube comments so poor?
Comments posted on YouTube films are notoriously poor. … Read the full post »
Innovations in comment moderation
The New York Times has taken an approach to comment moderation similar to that of traditional letters page editors. … Read the full post »
The curious case of Iain Dale, the Daily Mail and the missing comments
Today’s Ephriam Hardcastle column in the Daily Mail made the sort of snide unpleasant comments about Iain Dale that you expect of homophobes. … Read the full post »
Moderating comments: lessons from the Daily Mail
Moderating comments is a pretty blunt instrument – either a comment appears or it doesn’t. … Read the full post »
Full disclosure: what should be disclosed and documented on a political website?
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. … Read the full post »
Do your blog comments make a good impression?
Commenting on other people’s blogs is a great way to have interesting discussions, learn from others – and publicize yourself and your own site. … Read the full post »
How should you moderate blog comments?
When I talk to elected politicians, trying to persuade them of the virtues of becoming a blogger, the two most common concerns are, “how much time will it take?” and “why do I want to do something that will attract lots of eccentric or rude comments?” … Read the full post »
Applying the broken windows theory to moderating comments
Interesting post at kottke.org about how the broken windows theory (i.e. low level crime and grot in turn encourages more serious crime) may apply to the quality of online debate. … Read the full post »