On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Matthew Flaschen
<mflaschen(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
That's sad to hear. I don't doubt that the
effect they identified can
occurred. But it's unfortunate that they couldn't find any solution to
address it satisfactorily. Of course, this is an old problem, and there
are many solutions that have been tried:
* Straight up moderation (e.g. by an employee/employees of the newspaper,
or a small list of trusted people) before posting appears (fails, mainly
due to the time required and resulting lag).
* Real-name comments (my understanding is people are less likely to be
rude if using their real name, though I don't think it magically solves the
whole problem)
* Meta-moderation - Let readers and active participants moderate, and
let/require other active participants check whether they're doing a good job
The public policy problem they discussed (everyday people suddenly
thinking they're expert scientists and that real scientists don't know what
they're talking about) is also real and worrisome.
Yeah how does all this compare to your experience with comments on
StackOverflow Matt?
(For those who don't know Matt is a big time StackOverflow contributor.)
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