http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/09/youtube-tries-to-rescue-its-terrible-commenters-from-themselves/
> YouTube tries to rescue its terrible commenters from themselves > > YouTube comments are awful, but still not bad enough for Google to go nuclear. > YouTube has announced plans to reformat its presentation of comments below > its videos to turn them from some of the Internet’s worst dreck to relevant > and—even more daringly—useful content. Rather than the chronological > organization that the site has always used, comments will now consist of a > mix of comments from YouTube personalities, “engaged conversations,” and > friends on Google+. .... > The Internet’s comment problem is not a secret; most large online > publications are dealing with it daily one way or another. Where some see a > system for encouraging discussion and surfacing new perspectives and > information, others see an echo chamber of bad grammar, unchecked stupidity, > and the constructive interference of emotions that blow up “problems” like > whether a camel is funnier than the E-Trade baby or whether a commenter is a > lesbian. > > Gawker developed its own system, Kinja, that recasts each commenter’s > contributions in the form of a blog. Its comments are also integrated with a > voting system. Popular Science recently announced that it was doing away with > comments altogether, arguing that comments are “undermining bedrock > scientific doctrine." Comments that may advance the discussion aren't worth > the ones that derail it, PopSci says. ... > (Comments) were born into a world of small online communities that didn’t > cross paths with each other for the most part. ... > The study that Popular Science uses to justify doing away with comments > proves that hostile and polemic comments negatively affect the reader’s > perception of the article they appear under. But the study doesn’t address > how civil or informed comments might improve a reader’s perception of an > article. -- Kim Holburn IT Network & Security Consultant T: +61 2 61402408 M: +61 404072753 mailto:[email protected] aim://kimholburn skype://kholburn - PGP Public Key on request _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
