As I was reading through all these comments I thought of something. For each/. article there can be between 50 and 200 posts on avereage. Within these say 150 posts there could be a lot of valuable information pertaining to the story.
Jane's IR article in reality may end up a summary article of all the comments posted on/.(I assume with permission though).
In the future there may be a lot of sites like/. relating to specialist topics like law, medicine, science. And like/. they could get hundred's of comments on each story. Now alot of people dont have the time to read each comment, they may do what I do and read through the first 25-50 comments and skip the rest. Sure I could use moderation to pick up the 'moderated up' comments but there may be those that were lost and were not moderated up as they should have been.
My point is that this sort of forum would be ideal for putting an idea out there and collecting the opinions and stories from alot of different people and collating them to make a story, such as that in Jane's IR. Even without them posting the original flawed story, just a bit of background and a few outline points to argue may have produced the same comments as posting the whole article.
I for one would probably more likely read the 'summmarised' version of the comments. Unfortunately with anything there is a downside. Writer bias as always would creep in, perhaps it should be created by whacking them all in a Word document and doing an AutoSummarise. Love to see how any anti-M$ threads would turn out.
You know what I find funny, most of the guys I work with would never do the porn thing at work, however I have seen more than one female colleague with naked men as their desktop background (until I pointed how unamused I was and the trouble they would get into) and looking through porn that was sent via email.
I think the tide has turned where men were the main offenders here with their 'girly' posters. I dunno perhaps it goes on elsewhere but I work in a large financial institution so I think thats mainstream enough.
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Thats why I read mine newest post first, flat
As I was reading through all these comments I thought of something. For each /. article there can be between 50 and 200 posts on avereage. Within these say 150 posts there could be a lot of valuable information pertaining to the story.
/.(I assume with permission though).
/. relating to specialist topics like law, medicine, science. And like /. they could get hundred's of comments on each story. Now alot of people dont have the time to read each comment, they may do what I do and read through the first 25-50 comments and skip the rest. Sure I could use moderation to pick up the 'moderated up' comments but there may be those that were lost and were not moderated up as they should have been.
Jane's IR article in reality may end up a summary article of all the comments posted on
In the future there may be a lot of sites like
My point is that this sort of forum would be ideal for putting an idea out there and collecting the opinions and stories from alot of different people and collating them to make a story, such as that in Jane's IR. Even without them posting the original flawed story, just a bit of background and a few outline points to argue may have produced the same comments as posting the whole article.
I for one would probably more likely read the 'summmarised' version of the comments. Unfortunately with anything there is a downside. Writer bias as always would creep in, perhaps it should be created by whacking them all in a Word document and doing an AutoSummarise. Love to see how any anti-M$ threads would turn out.
regards, reman
You know what I find funny, most of the guys I work with would never do the porn thing at work, however I have seen more than one female colleague with naked men as their desktop background (until I pointed how unamused I was and the trouble they would get into) and looking through porn that was sent via email.
I think the tide has turned where men were the main offenders here with their 'girly' posters. I dunno perhaps it goes on elsewhere but I work in a large financial institution so I think thats mainstream enough.
reman