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That certainly puts a very different angle on how this will be used, and what use cases it's targeted towards. From prior experience, Vox outlets are extremely
by Fellshard 7y ago
That certainly puts a very different angle on how this will be used, and what use cases it's targeted towards.
From prior experience, Vox outlets are extremely stringent about what they permit in their comments: specifically, only people who agree or can extend the arguments of a given article further are preserved; or quibbles about minor details. No true discussion is allowed outside the article's bubble.
- andrepd 7y agoSource? Those are pretty serious accusations.
- ggm 7y agoFunny, I don't see these as accusations, I see these as curated engagement. The upside is there, if you know up-front its the basis of the engagement. If its applied retrospectively it sucks, for a number of people. But curation is not always bad. "it depends"
- Noos 7y agoThere's no "engagement." It just ends up with banal "I agree" posts that add nothing to the article. And it doesn't add many to them, Polygon's comment sections tend to be tiny and not worth reading, for example. You get better news and engagement on reddit.
- Fellshard 7y agoThey used to be larger, and I believe that restrictive, inconsistent moderation drove people away, but that's merely a guess of one probable cause.
- Fellshard 7y agoPersonal anecdote. Vox itself removed comments after a time, probably because this bubble could not reasonably be preserved in response to the majority of their articles. The Verge is somewhat more open, depending on the topic and whether it is technical or political in nature. Polygon's Ben Kuchera is a caustically aggressive moderator, and is the primary one I saw behaving in this manner, in addition to antagonizing commenters who disagreed with an article's premise; doubly so if he himself wrote the article.
- wmf 7y agoSince it's decentralized, maybe someone could create an alt-right instance that allows only the highest-quality and most ideologically-correct comments. Then we could see how long it would take for Vox to distance themselves from the project.
- camdenlock 7y agoIsn’t this what Vox and friends already do, just with s/alt-right/leftism/ ?
- Fellshard 7y agoI believe that is their point.