I was reading through Roger Johansson’s latest journal post on Comments. It got me thinking back to the comments post written by an artist whose blog I read. It was along the lines of AOL-isms, hearing “You’re Great” is good, hearing Why is better and hearing “How You Can Improve” is gold. For given values naturally.
In Roger’s article he mentions that once a comment gets on Digg, civility goes out of the window. Made me think about AOL’s “Me Too” and Digg’s site addition/ ranking system.
Perhaps alongside Comments there should be a Kudos/Dekudos option? So that instead of a bunch of “Me Too”s and “You Suck”s taking up comments space, there could be a # of Kudos and a # of Dekudos attached to the post, and you can click them to see who Kudoed or Dekudoed? That way people can “Me Too” without feeling stupid, adding their voice of support/ derision to the whole thing, but without having to struggle with English to get their idea ahead. I know that a lot of the time I’ve wanted to comment, but after reading all the other comments I haven’t had anything fresh to over rather than wanting to add my voice to the approving masses.
Comments adjustment?
November 24, 2006
((Crossposted to my personal Journal))
I was reading through Roger Johansson’s latest journal post on Comments. It got me thinking back to the comments post written by an artist whose blog I read. It was along the lines of AOL-isms, hearing “You’re Great” is good, hearing Why is better and hearing “How You Can Improve” is gold. For given values naturally.
In Roger’s article he mentions that once a comment gets on Digg, civility goes out of the window. Made me think about AOL’s “Me Too” and Digg’s site addition/ ranking system.
Perhaps alongside Comments there should be a Kudos/Dekudos option? So that instead of a bunch of “Me Too”s and “You Suck”s taking up comments space, there could be a # of Kudos and a # of Dekudos attached to the post, and you can click them to see who Kudoed or Dekudoed? That way people can “Me Too” without feeling stupid, adding their voice of support/ derision to the whole thing, but without having to struggle with English to get their idea ahead. I know that a lot of the time I’ve wanted to comment, but after reading all the other comments I haven’t had anything fresh to over rather than wanting to add my voice to the approving masses.
Thoughts?
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