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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 return of Google's comment bar? by pecosdave · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Remember the comment bar plugin Google had for Firefox back before the Chrome days? It let you comment on ANY webpage? Anyone who had the plugin could see you comment. Side Wiki or something? I can't recall the name.

    Yeah, this sounds a little like that.

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    1. Re:A return of Google's comment bar? by Ozoner · · Score: 3, Informative

      Some further info on Side Wicki

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

      "A good substitute could be the Google Chrome Extension: "Plus Comments" or "Site Comments":

  2. Core competency by LordLucless · · Score: 4, Funny

    Web browser maker decides to create a disqus competitor, instead of working on their web browser.

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  3. 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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  4. 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 Richard_at_work · · Score: 4, Funny

      How is that any different from Slashdot at any point over the past 15 years?

    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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  5. All this... by ilsaloving · · Score: 4, Interesting

    At a time when news organizations are shuttering their comment sections?

    One news agency after another are realizing that comments actually *hurt* readership because there are enough asshole commenters out there posting crap, that it's actually turning off readers from their service entirely.

    1. Re:All this... by RivenAleem · · Score: 5, Funny

      Aww man, I started to read that in "Epic Movie Trailer Guy" voice.

      "At a time when news organizations are shuttering their comment sections, one news agency took a chance to engage with it's readers. This summer watch how The Washington Post turns the tables on big media. Clint Eastwood reprises his role as the pilot of the Firefox (*cut to scene of him clicking on a hyperlink*). From the Director of Mozilla vs Mothrasoft. Commenting will never be the same."

    2. 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!