Re: How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your OnlineCommunity
On May 17, 2007, at 5:18 PM, Bob Morris wrote:
Big blogs like crooksandliars have several people that moderate
comments. There’s no other way to do it but moderation that I know of.
Gawker invites people to be commenters, or confers commenter status
if you submit something witty or interesting. And every week they
fire about 4 or 5 commenters - they used to be called ritual
executions, and be illustrated with a photo of a guillotine, but
after the Va Tech massacre, they renamed them commenter redundancies.
The comments are still mostly not so good, but that does provide some
quality control.
Doug