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Mozilla Working On a New Website Comment System

Posted by samzenpus on from the fight-the-trolls dept.

sfcrazy writes Mozilla is working on developing a content and commenting platform in collaboration with The New York Times and The Washington Post. The platform aims to be the next-generation commenting and content creation platform which will give more control to readers. Mozilla says in a blog post, “The community platform will allow news organizations to connect with audiences beyond the comments section, deepening opportunities for engagement. Through the platform, readers will be able to submit pictures, links and other media; track discussions, and manage their contributions and online identities. Publishers will then be able to collect and use this content for other forms of storytelling and spark ongoing discussions by providing readers with targeted content and notifications.” The project is being funded by Knights Foundation.

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  1. A thousand times no by drinkypoo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Single sign-on is a fine thing. But let's encourage people to run their own message bases, because I'm tired of having to figure out which domains I need to permit scripts from, and because I don't really want one company aggregating all my comments without even having to work for them.

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  2. Re:Core competency by Hognoxious · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Given how increasingly shite recent versions of firefox have been, that's probably a good thing.

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  3. The Slashdot comment system by wiredog · · Score: 3, Insightful

    is probably the "least bad" one I've seen. It would be nice if multiple ratings could be applied to a post, ("+1 funny, +1 insightful, -1 Troll") but it is fairly good at reducing the trolls and flamage.

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    1. Re:The Slashdot comment system by Thanshin · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The system is overrated because of the user composition.

      If Slashdot was a forum about games, movies and cars we'd have posts from five year olds with +5 insightful and infantile internet memes with +5 funny.

    2. Re:The Slashdot comment system by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Some of the subreddits are very good.

      However the rest of the site is full of emo redditards who downvote by group-think just because they "disagree" with the status quo.

      Reddit is the 4chan of /.

    3. Re:The Slashdot comment system by Quirkz · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I've often wanted +0 "inciteful" - a combination of insightful and flamebait, for those posts that blend useful information with a barrage of unnecessary name-calling.

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    4. Re:The Slashdot comment system by gbjbaanb · · Score: 1, Insightful

      not to mention a -1 "just plain incorrect". for supposedly factual statements made that turn out to be misguided, common myth, or at worst deliberately intended to mislead.

  4. Re:All this... by bjdevil66 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    At the same time, I have found that comments on news sites were actually some of the best information out there - just like here on Slashdot. Yes, there are ahole trolls and idiots, but there aren't as many as some make it out to be - and there are usually sides to a story that aren't being told by the story itself where commenters fill in the blanks.

    To be fair, though, the quality of comments overall - including here at Slashdot - has declined, simply because people don't spend the time typing up large treatises anymore. More people want a Twitter-like soundbyte more than information, and won't read comments more than a few lines long. They have better thing to... squirrel!