I would love to see a big site try to use Slashdot's old commenting system. Commenting felt like a privilege and so did moderation.
Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform
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#12I would love to see a big site try to use Slashdot's old commenting system. Commenting felt like a privilege and so did moderation.
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#13I would love to see a big site try to use Slashdot's old commenting system. Commenting felt like a privilege and so did moderation.
Slashdot's commenting system was 100% an echo chamber ;)
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#14I would love to see a big site try to use Slashdot's old commenting system. Commenting felt like a privilege and so did moderation.
Because it has been attacked and gamed by various troll armies over the years, the Slashdot comment system works about as well as any comment system out there. What's interesting about it is, if you really want to, you can see all the troll comments, but you have to specifically tweak all the comment knobs to unhide them.
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#15Are there any notable new techniques used here, whether social or technical?
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#16Can't speak for WaPo but the New York Times comments sections are absolutely dominated by a handful of designated 'top commenters' who rush to post on any major story. Sometimes their comments are good, but then there's the guy who writes a poem every single time, or 'Socrates' who posts the same cookie-cutter 'blame-the-GOP-all-the-way-back-to-bush' comment with the most dramatic rhetoric possible, trolling for like…
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#18After reading this article over and over I am still clueless.
What is this all about? Feature-wise it doesn't sound better than a comment system from HN, Reddit or StackExchange.
Besides, Mozilla is really lacking communicational skills. This blog post feels like the documentation at MDN, tedious and unclear.
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#19Any NRK-style pre-comment quizzes?
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#20Why should anyone care? I don't see anything technically novel or interesting in this. Edit: I'm not disparaging this, I'm asking a question...
I am happy to see an alternative to Facebook comments. > Talk doesn’t contain any tracking, or digital surveillance. > Talk is small — about 300kb — and lightweight Both are an improvement over FB IMHO
I realize that this could be considered lightweight by today's web standards, but to me this is still huge.