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Google SideWiki Brings Comments To Everyone
Rophuine writes "Google has launched a product called SideWiki. It takes the form of a plug-in to Firefox and Internet Explorer which allows users to mark up the web by adding comments which can be seen by anyone else running SideWiki."
Google's version joins a long line of attempts to impose a layer of comments on the Web, including
Microsoft's Smart Tags and Third Voice.
Before this can be truly successful, there needs to be a feature which blocks all comments which can be traced back to active members of 4chan or Youtube.
Oh god.... what's going to happen in the Sidewiki comments on YouTube?
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the enemies of trolls are legion, and trolls are under siege. however, recent technological research has uncovered an entirely new parallel dimension of troll content overlaying the entire web, without any of the typical anti-troll technology in place
a fertile, virgin land, a new world, ready for colonization and plenty of glorious trolling like "no, u stfu!" and "This web page sounds like typical Obama style fascist socialism"
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
It's just a comment system, with no way to amplify the signal vs the noise.
Yo dawg, we'll just put a comment system in the comment system so we can comment on the comments on the web page while we comment on the web page.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
the stupid will become so dense that it will create a singularity.
Then don't install it. I will though, and I'm going to write "I THINK THIS SITE SUCKS" on every web site I see that runs any kind of advertising. :D
By the way, I think this site sucks.
Seriously, has anyone seen anything about a way to turn this off for your site?
Block FF, IE, and Chrome from accessing your site.
I had an idea once. It was a mat. With different conclusions written on it. That you could jump to.
Everyone worthwhile, then.
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I used to have comments enabled on my Flickr photos, but jokers kept on leaving suggestive remarks about my wife (she's pretty hot, IMHO).
Link, PLEASE!
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
This would make the World of Warcraft forums even more illegible.
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This will be awesome.
The first iteration will have everybody posing unmoderated, and anon. The 4chan guys will quickly demonstrate to Google the foolish error of it's ways.
The second iteration will allow moderation via some sort of community ranking or tagging. This will seem awesome until the spammers write bots to boost their spam postings to the top of the moderation heap. Google will be shamed again.
The third iteration will allow people to create accounts, and track their karma. Users will be able to filter out comments below a certain level, and moderate statements they disagree with as 'trolls'.
It then will be the perfect system.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
Dear Google,
Bringing Digg to the whole Internet is NOT a Good Thing.
- The Internet
Snide wiki?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."