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Pauline Read on To comment or not to comment?
Over the last month NCFP have tried various comment systems and currently have settled with an amalgamation of two systems.
1 – No comments automatically showing, the reader chooses to open comments
2 – A like/dislike system where readers can vote to reduce a comment to a link only
In this way if there are abusive comments then no one has to read them unless they choose to. Additionally, if a reader chooses to read a comment and then finds that they dislike it they can vote to express this dislike. If the difference between like and dislike is 4 or more votes the comments can only be read by clicking a link. This forewarns them that it might be offensive. Because we have had over 6000 comments since launching it is too difficult to monitor them and so we would like to leave that to the reader. Vote in the poll below in order to help us understand your view in this matter.
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Point taken.
I’ve removed moderation for everyone except first timers or those who use a new email address. This is to stop spam filling up the pages. I’ve done this because access to all comments is now by a link. I know you like to comment YS but the vast majority of the readers are disinterested and this will be seen by the responses to the poll.
I put comments on with the intention that extra information would be added to the articles but, as Vaughan points out, it is been used as an off topic chat facility. I thought about closing comments down completely because I personally didn’t wanted to keep them but I thought I’d find out people’s views first.
If I closed comments down I would include a form to send comments to the editor who would then decide whether to publish them.
BTW, this is not a Forum it is an online newspaper
Malcolm says ‘If I closed comments down I would include a form to send comments to the editor who would then decide whether to publish them. ‘ .
This will be quite time consuming for editor, but in the mean time might improve the quality of language have been used here.
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