More on comments
Thursday, October 8th, 2009 07:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charmianFrom the same guy who was talking about whether empty (tho positive) comments are really desirable, on how to foster online commenting communities (for blogs. If you are posting on the net in different ways or w/ different goals, this may not be relevant)
I found the part about participation equality interesting: the more you lower the barrier to participation, the more people participate and feel like they've contributed. This is why low pressure, easy stuff like rating something on a scale of ten is helpful.
Anyway, in the previous discussion on comments, the issue of "dogpiling" was brought up. Some claimed it was caused by people with a "blogging" mentality, while others claimed it was actually also consistent with a social networking mentality. But since no one can control the actions of a bunch of unknown people, can anything be done about unwanted comments from a group of people who are previously unknown to the poster?
I think there are solutions beyond the obvious "lock the post." Comments can be turned off, or screened, or only a whitelist (the access/friends list) can post them. Perhaps more would be useful? For example, there could be "throttling" where after a certain # of comments, all comments from non-trusted people would be screened?
I found the part about participation equality interesting: the more you lower the barrier to participation, the more people participate and feel like they've contributed. This is why low pressure, easy stuff like rating something on a scale of ten is helpful.
Anyway, in the previous discussion on comments, the issue of "dogpiling" was brought up. Some claimed it was caused by people with a "blogging" mentality, while others claimed it was actually also consistent with a social networking mentality. But since no one can control the actions of a bunch of unknown people, can anything be done about unwanted comments from a group of people who are previously unknown to the poster?
I think there are solutions beyond the obvious "lock the post." Comments can be turned off, or screened, or only a whitelist (the access/friends list) can post them. Perhaps more would be useful? For example, there could be "throttling" where after a certain # of comments, all comments from non-trusted people would be screened?
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Date: 2009-10-12 02:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-12 03:18 am (UTC)Heh, and that usually comes with an increase in the size of the town.