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By: Electronic Civil Disobedience « //engtech

Electronic Civil Disobedience « //engtech — Wed, 02 May 2007 18:08:35 +0000

[...] to what they want (and in being careful how you build your community). Anyone who has seen a Digg comment thread in action knows that anarchy rules and this kind of chaotic behaviour is to be expected. Where [...]

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Motorcycle Guy — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:19:24 +0000

Someday the web will grow up. But can digg every grow up? I would assume it’ll be hard work.

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Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:55:08 +0000

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By: Bret

Bret — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:37:01 +0000

Great post on a important problem for Digg. I’m not certain, however, the proposed fixes will actually work. I think the suggestions might backfire. Another possible solution, not mentioned, is to simply remove comments altogether. Many of the articles on Digg are actually blog posts which already enable a comment system (this post here is one such example). Doesn’t it make more sense for the article discussion to take place beneath the article at the home of the article’s source?

I’m a Digg fan. Unfortunately the comment system is seriously flawed. Personally, my fix for the problem is to NOT read the comments. I usually just follow the link, read the article, and make my own judgment. If I’m so moved, I usually just leave a comment in the article’s comment thread (such as I’m doing now). Honestly, I guess that is my “real” suggestion to the problem: Don’t read Digg comments and don’t participate in the comment system.

By: Digg ranks, comments - no simple fix at Pat’s Point

Digg ranks, comments - no simple fix at Pat’s Point — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:39:50 +0000

[...] speech, how to you impress responsibility on a horde hidden behind user names and bad avatars? The Engtech blog suggested 5 possible solutions. Among these are automatic bans if the comment score gets too [...]

By: engtech

engtech — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:44:00 +0000

Spolsky has some good stuff on designing a message board to avoid flaming on http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/1414/joel-spolsky-the-famous-blogger-on-software-productivity at 21 min mark.

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Akkam’s Razor — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:21:55 +0000

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Top Posts « WordPress.com — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:58:08 +0000

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By: The TekTag Blog

The TekTag Blog — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:58:17 +0000

Great Ideas for Effective Comments

Some great ideas from the engtech blog about ways to fix broken comment systems. It caught our attention, since we are in the beginning phases of adding comments to TekTag. We were going to just do the usual, but this