A comment on something like a news story page, is a conversation with the author about the article pretty much.
Conversations that take place without threading are tricky to follow without additional tools.
I'd prefer ontopic comments. Interesting conversation can errupt from interactions though.
My biggest issue with online comments is that there are just too many. cap amount of posts, or cap posts by author?
Some people hang around the comment sections and just can't help but post. And some just repeat what others have already said and bring nothing new. But I'm not surprised that people haven't waded and read through every comment before they comment.
My local online newspaper has the same small collection of people regurgating their predictable opinions on pretty much every article posted, and it's very tiresome, and puts off other people commenting. They are a negative and contrary bunch.
I understand the want to hang out in a particular internet locale (I do it on two forums, my online haunts), but people could do with holding themselves back. On one forum I'm a member I've postend about 400 comments, and I could probably boil that down to about 5 themes. If I had time it would be worth me whittling them all down. Less is sometimes more.
A comment on something like a news story page, is a conversation with the author about the article pretty much.
Conversations that take place without threading are tricky to follow without additional tools.
I'd prefer ontopic comments. Interesting conversation can errupt from interactions though.
My biggest issue with online comments is that there are just too many. cap amount of posts, or cap posts by author?
Some people hang around the comment sections and just can't help but post. And some just repeat what others have already said and bring nothing new. But I'm not surprised that people haven't waded and read through every comment before they comment.
My local online newspaper has the same small collection of people regurgating their predictable opinions on pretty much every article posted, and it's very tiresome, and puts off other people commenting. They are a negative and contrary bunch.
I understand the want to hang out in a particular internet locale (I do it on two forums, my online haunts), but people could do with holding themselves back. On one forum I'm a member I've postend about 400 comments, and I could probably boil that down to about 5 themes. If I had time it would be worth me whittling them all down. Less is sometimes more.