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• 30 Jun 09
  

  Andrew Nachison

  A very old conversation resumes: how to moderate online forums. Given that the problem of nasty comments has been around as long as there have been online forums, maybe Scoble is right: there is no solution. On the other hand, there is an expensive alternative: intense, heavy-handed human moderation. Nasty comments are crushed before they appear. Some automation could lower the cost - but human moderators would still be needed. Tech bloggers complain about "trolls" - but the nastiness in those discussions can pale compared to the racist and politically-charged invective found in news forums.

• 29 Jun 09
  

  Hutch Carpenter

  Perhaps what we need is a rating system for the personalities of community participants. Think of it like eBay's "star" ratings, but instead of grading a seller on how quickly an order was shipped, etc., you'd rate each others' contributions to a community.

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  Michael Sean Wright

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  Sunny Sullivan

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  katarina peovic

  The pseudo-anonymity of the internet - or at the very least, the ability to write something cruel without having to face the person eye-to-eye - often leads people to express themselves in ways that are far from how they would behave in real life. In the

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  • The pseudo-anonymity of the internet - or at the very least, the ability to write something cruel without having to face the person eye-to-eye - often leads people to express themselves in ways that are far from how they would behave in real life. In the past, this typically led people to hide behind pseudonyms and screen names so they could post whatever they wanted without fear of repercussions.
  • That's why I recently proposed that some communities put an end to online anonymity,
  • Everything a blogger writes, we're held accountable for. Why shouldn't other community contributors be treated the same?
  • . It's not really anonymity that's to blame for the troll-like behavior we're seeing in online communities, it's the lack of accountability.
  • That's why (some) people seem comfortable posting mean-spirited comments on sites like FriendFeed using their real name and their real identities to do so.
  • So although the comment is attached to a real name, it's a single needle in a haystack of opinion.
  • FriendFeed itself (or Digg or YouTube for that matter) are to blame for this shameful aspect of human behavior.
  • Perhaps what we need is a rating system for the personalities of community participants

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  Martin Weigert

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