Regardless of whether my comment is my copyright or the public's, I wish new sites would focus on creating their own content, rather than recycling old comments from another source.
Don't get me wrong, I do like the idea of a user checking a box next to his/her comment, which would make it available to the public. It would then be useful to allow developers the option to download all "public comments" in one click. Either a CSV file or XML would allow easy integration into whatever database system is being used.
However, I just hope that future web projects will focus more on the creation of their own, new content, rather than re-hashing and re-filtering material from another site. Just as we don't need a links page pointing to another links page, we don't really need comments from comments.
There's plenty of code out there to easily build your own Slashdot. So hopefully developers will think "new content" first, and "import content" second.
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Regardless of whether my comment is my copyright or the public's, I wish new sites would focus on creating their own content, rather than recycling old comments from another source.
Don't get me wrong, I do like the idea of a user checking a box next to his/her comment, which would make it available to the public. It would then be useful to allow developers the option to download all "public comments" in one click. Either a CSV file or XML would allow easy integration into whatever database system is being used.
However, I just hope that future web projects will focus more on the creation of their own, new content, rather than re-hashing and re-filtering material from another site. Just as we don't need a links page pointing to another links page, we don't really need comments from comments.
There's plenty of code out there to easily build your own Slashdot. So hopefully developers will think "new content" first, and "import content" second.
As long as Microsoft exists they will be issuing security patches just so that they can claim a new "innovation" each time.