Earlier quoted context omitted.
Like reddit?
Isn't Reddit trying to get rid of comments, too?
No? That would be absurdly stupid for Reddit in terms of engagement.
NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments
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Re: NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments
#72I 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 c…
In 2012 federal funding accounted for 10.9% of revenue for Public Radio.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR#Funding
Alternate sources:
1. http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/dont_forget_the_facts_abo... It contains some handy pie charts for both Public Radio stations and NPR.
[2] http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/13/taxpayers-provide... An analyst claims that 25% of NPR's funding is from taxpayer sources. This claim is disputed by NPR's public relations spokesperson.
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#74With all the sites getting rid of comments. I wonder if a market is opening for something like hackernews in other niches ?
So something like a multi-niche thing?
Where each niche gets it own page, with posts and comments?
Might catch on. We can those pages subreddits...
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#75You don't agree with it, so it's nonsense. Anything the left doesn't like has to be painted as absurdist. Better downvote him as well, so he can't downvote anyone with leftist views, keep that point distribution strong.
I wasn't referring to the OPs opinion, I was referring to the fact that all their comment contained was a generic and useless complaint that we've all heard about 10 million times about "the media." If you or anyone actually wants to post a comment that has a substantiative content to it, feel free. I'm sure if it's so obvious as to how NPR is slanted that there's plenty of objective resources you can draw on to enli…
Your comment is strictly speaking, a generic and useless meta-complaint.
Is the OP correct or are they not? If we want to have a discussion, let's start there.
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#76Their 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.
Given that the column notes that only 0.6% of visitors comment, but that the costs can run to twice what is budgeted, they seem to explicitly and transparently acting on that you mistakenly claim are being hidden by "bogus" arguments.
I suppose the charitable assumption would be that the parent is a subtle meta comment, designed to call into question the notion that discussion is valuable.
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#77I see comment moderation as one of the 'unsolved problems' left in this generation of the web. When I worked at Foreign Policy we worked hard to integrate new commenting tools and encourage power users, but we were just buried by the threats, spam, and low-value noise. Web technology scales, journalism scales (poorly, but a relatively small publication can pull big traffic), but right now there's just no substitute f…
I agree, this is an unsolved problem for the web.
Unfortunately at least 90% of internet comments are trolling, vitriolic, ignorant, generally useless, poorly written, unhelpful, add nothing to the topic, and basically serve as web pollution.
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#78We don't need to be able to comment on EVERYTHING. Unless you actively plan to use the comments for something, I think most sites should just remove them.
It's fine to give people a outlet, a place for them to let their voice be heard. It often just misused and not a core feature for most sites. Even Youtube barely need comments.
What I believe we need is a revival of the forum sites. Give people place beyond Reddit and Facebook to debate. More 4chan and less Disqus.
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#80Their 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.
With automated troll armies it's hard to have a reasonable comments section.
This is actually a very good point. There was an article a few months ago about Twitter bots influencing the Brexit vote (can't find it atm...)