Thursday, January 14, 2010

Why I'm moderating comments more closely now

From a recent interview with inVocus, which chronicles North American media. In an e-mail Q&A, I told the website why I'm moderating reader posts more aggressively than in the past:

"The comments left by readers had grown very angry. Some of that was to be expected, given the thousands of layoffs across the company over the previous 12 months. But I feared that some readers were getting turned off by the too-many personal attacks on each other. With this re-launch, I decided to lower the ‘temperature’ by moderating comments more aggressively."

2 comments:

  1. Thank You.

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  2. I'll bet I'm rejecting no more than 5% of the comments that readers post, and most of those are commercial spam: get-rich-quick schemes, etc.

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Jim says: "Proceed with caution; this is a free-for-all comment zone. I try to correct or clarify incorrect information. But I can't catch everything. Please keep your posts focused on Gannett and media-related subjects. Note that I occasionally review comments in advance, to reject inappropriate ones. And I ignore hostile posters, and recommend you do, too."

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