Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform
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Re: Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform
#2Why 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...
Re: Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform
#3As a DC-area resident and frequent reader of the Washington Post, the biggest problem with their comments section is the commenters. I'm not sure how this helps.
Re: Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform
#4Can'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 likes of course.
Having said that, I'm pretty satisfied with the Times comment system, everyone does get a voice even though the top comments are absolutely fixed.
Re: Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform
#5As a DC-area resident and frequent reader of the Washington Post, the biggest problem with their comments section is the commenters. I'm not sure how this helps.
> "I'm not sure how this helps."
Better tools to filter out trolls leaves more space for healthy debate.
Re: Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform
#6Why 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
Re: Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform
#7As a DC-area resident and frequent reader of the Washington Post, the biggest problem with their comments section is the commenters. I'm not sure how this helps.
> "I'm not sure how this helps." Better tools to filter out trolls leaves more space for healthy debate.
> Better tools to filter out trolls leaves more space for healthy debate.
The very nature of US political discourse itself leaves no space for healthy debate. I'm sceptical that removing the trolls is going to be sufficient to fix that.
Re: Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform
#8Why 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...
The really hard problems in this area aren't technical. They're social. Any attempt to make comments sections useful again is a welcome step.
Re: Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform
#9Why 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
Wyatt from the Coral Project here. It's all about the news rooms owning the data of the comments, not social networks like Facebook. We're using tech like GraphQL to make the experience possible on multiple platforms through our extensible and pluggable API.
Re: Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform
#10As a DC-area resident and frequent reader of the Washington Post, the biggest problem with their comments section is the commenters. I'm not sure how this helps.
> "I'm not sure how this helps." Better tools to filter out trolls leaves more space for healthy debate.
Not sure how you could ever hope to have productive debate on say an article about global warming. It's not a local topic, it's a difficult topic, there's millions of regular people and trolls around the world waiting to blab about something they don't have any clue about.
It's hard for me to imagine what a comment on a Washington Post article could add to the article or to anyone's knowledge. It's user involvement for the sake of user involvement. "Healthy debate" is maybe unobtainable at that scale.
HN can get pretty ignorant and off in the weeds (hey we're all guilty) fairly often, and that is despite being topical, relatively small, having relatively informed users and active moderators.