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Re: NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments

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Post by dublinben »

michaelbuddy wrote: post #2

Their left leaning narrative can't take facts at this point. The sheer amount of lean really comes out of their choice of what to cover. They know it's easy to just offload comments onto another service. Any news source w/o comments is basically propaganda at this point.

Thanks for demonstrating better than I possibly could, exactly why this is a positive change for NPR. Their online comments were only a detraction from their stories.

Re: NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments

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Post by jchendy »

lazyjones wrote: post #11
MollyR wrote: post #5

With all the sites getting rid of comments. I wonder if a market is opening for something like hackernews in other niches ?

> I wonder if a market is opening for something like hackernews in other niches ? ... or perhaps for a browser plugin that allows comments on any web page.

> perhaps for a browser plugin that allows comments on any web page.

Genius sort of does this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/genius-web-annotat...

Re: NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments

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Post by minimaxir »

MollyR wrote: post #5

With all the sites getting rid of comments. I wonder if a market is opening for something like hackernews in other niches ?

You still need people to moderate the comments (at minimum, to remove spam). That doesn't scale at all without an absurd number of volunteers (e.g Reddit).

Re: NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments

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Post by vectorpush »

brandonl222 wrote: post #20
Cacti wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is exactly the type of nonsense comments they're trying to avoid.

Yes, the truth does have a way of ruining a narrative...

Don't you feel a little disingenuous making a flippant deceleration of what is true without substantiating it?

Re: NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments

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Post by formula1 »

I think the fact this is a government service (or at least funded by gov) makes this choice far more interesting. It effectively sets a standard for services to avoid providing a open forum where the users can speak to one another, service providers and managing parties. Instead they are not bound to provide anything above and beyond their initial services. I dont think it is necessarilly wrong from them to do mass censorship nor think its right for them to suffer through caustic commentary. But the solution they are setting as a president is one of "Fuck you, gov still pays me". They do not need to adhear to the peoples wants so long as they can fet funding

Edit: I should clarify 'partially funded' but I will keep this comment as is because I believe it has stirred up the emotions which is why this move is controversail.

Re: NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments

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Post by afarrell »

unethical_ban wrote: post #8

Their argument is bogus. It's either cost or a laziness in moderation. The ability to discuss specific articles and topics regarding specific source material is valuable. Having to search for the hashtag or article link on reddit or twitter to try to debate a topic is much, much less engaging, and is much more separated from the NPR writers and ombudsmen.

The argument that it is a very small minority of users who are commenting on the site itself, seems correct. I've visited npr.org fairly frequently over the years and I've read the comments every so often over the years. while I've not taken a statistically rigorous sample, the comments invariably had a lot of the same users and were generally poor quality.
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