Interhacktive Reading: 18/10/12

Some community-related links, mainly for my community and social media module students at City University – but shared for the betterment of all…

• Daily Record suspends comments on football articles – classic scale problem, letting a culture problem go unresolved for too long.
• The vexing issue of managing football comments – Martin Belam addresses the same issue from his own experience at the BBC and Guardian.
• Journalist suspended for personal attack on social media – somebody explain to me why some journalist seem to lose all sense when they encounter social media
• An announcement about Gawker links in /r/politics – compare and contrast the announcement and the comments.
• In defence of trolls – a rather alternative view
• We are indeed less willing to agree on what constitutes truth – Clay Shirky: “Now, and from now on, journalists are going to be participants in a far more argumentative sphere than anything anyone alive has ever seen. The question for us is not whether we want this increase in argumentation — no one is asking us, and there is, in fact, no one who could ask us — but rather how we adapt ourselves to it as it unfolds. “
• Creepy comments and favourites on Flickr – a challenging, passive community problem – people inappropriately sexualising images on Flickr, through Favouriting and comments.
• What comments do readers down vote?  – some interesting Ars Technica anlaysis