![]() ![]() Hopefully Disqus will give us more features like the ones I talked about earlier in this post to take the community powered moderation and rating and presentation to the next level. Now I've cut back and let the community do more of the talking. In the beginning, I was a huge part of the threads. I make up for some of that by liking comments a lot more.īut this community is following a pattern that all online communities follow. It used to be that out of a 100 comment thread, my replies might be 30 or more. But you may notice that I've cut back on the number of replies. I also want to make sure they aren't spam or hate filled crap. I continue to read every comment because it is important to me to see them all. The comment threads on this blog are now well over 100 comments on most days and get up to 300 or more comments on the most popular posts. Turning that job over to the community in its entirety is the obvious next step. I do a fair amount of that today helped out by our community bouncer Kid Mercury. The other benefit of this approach is the community can police the comment thread. And the comment thread and community will be better off for it. ![]() The anonymous commenter who leaves a hostile name calling piece of crap will be punished. The anonymous commenter who has valuable information but can't publish in their own name will be rewarded. ![]() Game mechanics will reward the kind of behavior the community wants and will punish the kind of behavior the community does not want. We need to introduce game mechanics into commenting systems and I think Disqus can and will be at the forefront of this effort. Some blogs are already doing this like Business Insider, Gawker, and Huffington Post. I think Disqus should offer blogs with a lot of comments the ability to run a window above the comment thread with the half dozen or dozen best comments that would be automatically calculated with the possibility of override by the blog author. Disqus does allow the comment reader to "sort by" most popular or "best rated" but that requires user action. I think anonymous comments should be subjected to some of those techniques.įor blogs and online publications that get a lot of comments, and this blog is on the cusp of that place, I think we need a way to highlight top comments for each post. Fortunately, there are a number of techniques that can be used to downgrade or even largely hide that behavior from the vast majority of users without taking it down. In the world of user generated content, you are always going to get posts that you don't want. There are enough examples out there of why someone would want to comment anonymously that I think it has a place in the online conversation. But I think anonymous commenting should be allowed and I allow it here. I think anonymous commenting leads to a lot of bad behavior and it should be discouraged. The proceeds from this race will continue to support a family who has been ravaged by loss.Tereza asked me to comment on the NY Times piece that ran this weekend on news sites' decision to move away from anonymous commenters. This has meant that Kevin’s youngest siblings, Jaden (13) and Merdea (16), are now dispersed among close family members. This year though, we are even more driven to host this event because, in one of the saddest possible twists of fate, Kevin Malcolm's Mother, Theresa Jules, passed away tragically in a vehicular accident on the 22nd of January 2020. In addition to honoring Kevin’s memory, this race has become a premier community event encouraging the maintenance of an active lifestyle and supporting the Kevin Malcolm Memorial scholarship fund. He remained strong and charismatic and never lost his sense of humor throughout his illness but sadly, on June 4, 2014, Kevin lost his battle with cancer. Unfortunately, at the tender age of twenty-one, Kevin was diagnosed with bone cancer. He was passionate and an active member of the Grass Street Youth and Sports Club. Kevin Malcolm was a popular young man with great character who was held in high regard by his peers and adults alike. This race is held in honor of the late Kevin Malcolm. This event will be a professionally organized, community-focused, fun-filled activity combating sedentary lifestyles and giving patrons an opportunity to honor their loved ones who have passed on. The Grass Street Youth and Sports Club of Mon Repos will be hosting the sixth running of its Annual Kevin Malcolm Memorial 5K Run/Walk and Kids Half-Mile Dash on December 17, 2022. ![]()
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