Today’s awesome pun
The tragedy of comments. Yes, a community regulated comment system. What could possibly go wrong?
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March 13th, 2012 at 11:50 am
Slashdot did a really excellent job with their community comment moderation system.
In my opinion you can’t get much better than that with a community moderated system, of course it still suffers from a number of problems, but you can only do so much when the average number of comments on a story is in the hundreds and can sometimes reach 1000 or more.
March 13th, 2012 at 1:29 pm
There’s a lot of parallels to this in .gov. Taken to it’s logical end, it becomes the Gestapo’s “denunciation” tactic. Don’t like your neighbor? Write a damning letter and they “disappear”.
Yeah, we’re not talking about government, here, but JNap’s “if you see something, say something” is dangerously close to that. Especially when you see the absurdly benign video at http://www.dhs.gov/files/reportincidents/see-something-say-something-public-service-announcements.shtm (first video).
No matter, though. .gov already jump the shark long ago. At least the .net can’t disappear you.
March 13th, 2012 at 1:43 pm
I thought they rolled this out on Gizmodo a couple of years ago, and it was kind of a disaster?
March 13th, 2012 at 2:29 pm
Isn’t that the system that killed packing.org? I know that I stopped commenting there after this system went into effect.
March 13th, 2012 at 8:27 pm
I hope it wasn’t something I said.