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The feature I want is, as a site user, to apply my own set of filtering and moderation criteria. E.g. "I don't want to see comments posted by user XYZ, or cont
by unescape 9y ago
The feature I want is, as a site user, to apply my own set of filtering and moderation criteria.
E.g. "I don't want to see comments posted by user XYZ, or containing regexp W. Any comments by user ABC, or upvoted by ABC, or containing regexp D, go to the top. I trust the moderation of site trollblocker.com"
I don't see these kinds of ideas represented in the user engagement research.
- wyattjoh 9y agoOne of the features offered by Talk is the ability to ignore comments from a specific user [1]. It is designed just as you described it here. As mentioned in a previous comment, our server api's should be sufficient for you as a site administrator, to write a plugin that would allow users to do exactly what you described. The idea with Talk is that we hand control to the newsroom, so they can enable or create the plugins that they like. [1]: See a demo GIF on https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ask-the-post/wp/2017/09/06/changes-to-washington-post-comments-early-september-update/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ask-the-post/wp/2017/09/...
- unescape 9y agoThis is a step in the right direction, but why hand control to the newsroom as opposed to the user?
- s73ver_ 9y agoIt is the newsroom's site.
- unescape 9y agoThen this is evidence that comments should not be on the site. It's not the place of the newsroom to control discussion.
- s73ver_ 9y agoThen don't comment on their site? I mean if you're looking for discussion online, there are thousands of places to go. But this is specifically about the comment sections they provide. It seems entirely reasonable that a room they provide should be subject to their rules, and one violating those rules should be shown the door.
- unescape 9y agoMy observation is that Mozilla Talk does nothing to advance the decentralized Web, so why is it a good thing?
- s73ver_ 9y agoJust because something doesn't advance your pet cause doesn't mean it's not good. The decentralized web does nothing to advance universal health care, so why is it a good thing?
- unescape 9y agoI'm just going to point out that Mozilla and the NSF recently offered $2M for ideas to decentralize the web. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/06/21/2-million-prize-decentralize-web-apply-today/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/06/21/2-million-prize-dec...
- TwelveNights 9y agoThey never said that Talk was aimed at moving that goal further along, however. They're trying to use it instead to allow better curation tools to make comments manageable.
- unescape 9y agoIt seems that their goal is to help sites move away from 3rd-party comment management services such as Facebook and Disqus. Based on this discussion, I think federated (not site-owned) comments are the way to go long-term. Maybe Talk can eventually be adapted to help with decentralized comment moderation.