commenters

The Atlantic closes its comments - and makes them more important, too Members Public

The Atlantic joins many other sites in turning off comments - but that doesn’t mean its abandoning reader commentary.

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audience engagement

Commenting life behind the paywall Members Public

Douglas Boulton [http://dougbolton.co.uk], one of this academic year’s crop of Interactive Journalism students at City, has just finished a couple of weeks as Ben Whitelaw’s personal coffee tabledoing shifts on The Times‘s community desk [http://www.interhacktives.com/2014/12/31/how-to-comment-online-without-being-a-jerk/] , and he’

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commenters

Why "real names" commenting isn't a panacea Members Public

Cory Doctorow explores the disaster that YouTube’s switch to Google+ commenting [http://boingboing.net/2013/11/13/vi-hart-cramming-g-into-yout.html] has been: > The promise of G+ in the beginning was that making people use their real names would incentivize them to behave themselves. It’s abundantly clear now that

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anonymity

Comments: we're talking about the wrong thing Members Public

Daniel Ha, CEO of Disqus, writing for WIRED [http://www.wired.com/insights/2013/02/anonymity-isnt-the-problem-with-web-comments/] : > But for too long, the debate about online discussion has been about the commenters. We need to move away from pointing the finger at pseudonyms or anonymity as the sole problem, because it’

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commenters

Why comments matter: conversation Members Public

> The purpose of writing on blogs, community sites like Comment is free, and much of social media is to start or further a conversation – not to share a few writerly pearls of wisdom. The great majority of writers on this site (and the New Statesman, for that matter) are

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commenters

Kill your antiquated article structure not your comments Members Public

David Higgerson published an interesting meditation on comments under articles yesterday [http://davidhiggerson.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/here-come-the-angry-brigade-are-comments-on-stories-more-hassle-than-they-are-worth/] . “Are comments under articles worth doing?” he asks, and flirts with the answer “no”, without coming to a definitive conclusion. The post, and the comments underneath (ironically) are well worth reading.

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Adam Tinworth
articles

The BBC's revamped blogs are a road crash Members Public

I’ve been watching the revamp of the BBC’s blogs [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2011/05/our_next_step_in_news_blogging.html] with a mix of horror and awe. It feels as if they’ve decided to go back and make all the mistakes that

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BBC

Science Online: Bloggers, Commenters and the Reputation Game Members Public

This slideshow requires JavaScript. I dropped into one of the unconference sessions, looking at engaging with your readers (of obvious interest to me). The panel did a sterling job of giving a beginner’s guide to managing comments and commenters, from different scales (personal blogs to Ars Technica). I thought

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Blogging