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Dealing With Venom on the Web

Posted by Zonk on from the not-the-guy-with-the-symbiont dept.

theodp writes "In a world where nastiness online can erupt and go global overnight, BusinessWeek finds Corporate America woefully unprepared and offers suggestions for how to cope, including shelling out $10,000 to companies like ReputationDefender.com to promote the info you want and suppress the news you don't. And in what must be a sign of the Apocalypse, BW holds Slashdot's moderation system up as a model for maintaining civility in message boards."

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  1. Re:Well... by MMC+Monster · · Score: 4, Informative

    For a while we had some backslash articles (not to be confused with slashback articles), in which the editor went through all the +4/5 posts and created some sembelence of a new article based on all the information.

    It's actually a nice way to bring closure to a topic or to restart discussion at a much more advanced level.

    Of course, you would probably have to hire a serious amount of editors to do that to every article on /.

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  2. Re:NO! by hab136 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Some stories get 300 +1-rated posts and another 80 0-rated ones: what would go wrong in displaying these extra 80?

    Slashdot does display 0-rated posts, just not by default. What would go wrong? Spam. If people have to go out of their way to view an anonymous post, then fewer anonymous trolls will bother, because their posts will get modded down before they get seen. If 0-rated posts were seen by default, there would be 300 +1-rated posts and 2,000 0-rated posts.
    0-rated posts that are worth anything get modded up.
    You're free to browse at 0, by the way.