[WikiEN-l] Googley comments

[Emily Monroe]

> As a casual reader on OPB (other people's blogs) I get annoyed if my  
> comment gets wiped or never appears.

Yeah, but see, the thing is, you don't "own" the blog. The person  
writing it does (well, technically, the blog hosting service does).  
They have the right to not have a comment show up. We could use the  
same argument on Wikipedia.

Emily
On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:39 PM, wjhonson at aol.com wrote:

> I think I like "Comment on this page" at the bottom, but I'm hesitant
> to endorse that creating a section on the discussion (Talk) page.  I
> have a reason for my hesitation.
>
> Sometimes readers comments on say "Patty Hearst" might be something
> like "Oh I remember when this occurred, I was in the seventh grade and
> had to do a report on her..."
>
> Now something like that is an interesting way for casual readers to
> spout off, but on a patrolled-article, comments of that sort get
> routinely purged as they don't really help us to improve the article.
> As a casual reader on OPB (other people's blogs) I get annoyed if my
> comment gets wiped or never appears.
>
> I wouldn't be adverse to moderated comments so we don't get "lick my
> ass!" and things like that.
>
> At any rate, anyone want to bring this to the general wiki community
> somewhere and gauge the reaction?
>
> Will
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Wed, Sep 2, 2009 6:58 pm
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Googley comments
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> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:07 AM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes. Wikinews does this - they have a "collaboration" page for  
>> editors
>> working on the article, but a "comment" page specifically for readers
>> to spout forth. Would be good.
>
> Yes, there's no good reason we should subject casual commenters to the
> horrors of wikitext. If they can even figure out that in order to
> comment they have to click a tiny little link marked "Discussion" (at
> the top of the page, not the bottom where every other site does it),
> then another tiny little link marked "Edit this page" or "New
> section".
>
> Simple suggestion: A big green button at the bottom of every page
> marked "Comment on this page" which creates a new section on the
> discussion page.
>
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