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Other fascinating bits from that archived post: 1. It's amazing how many more comments there were on TechCrunch before Twitter sucked them all away. 2. It's a
by brandnewlow 15y ago
Other fascinating bits from that archived post:
1. It's amazing how many more comments there were on TechCrunch before Twitter sucked them all away.
2. It's amazing how many oddball bloggers there were back in 2006. All mostly gone and moved to Twitter/FB.
- hristov 15y agoI don't think it is Twitter, I think it was the requirement that people log in with their facebook account that destroyed Techcrunch comments. I personally saw the number of comments drop off greatly as soon as they put in the facebook login.
- brandnewlow 15y agoGood point. Another thing that's changed since 2006 is that I think publisher thinking about commenters has evolved to where they no longer see them as adding business value. Gawker made great attempts to court and build a commenting community on its sites from 2006-2009 only to decide that the commenters weren't really creating much value and were more trouble than they were worth. Now commenting is almost an afterthought on their sites and they don't really care to make it more readable. i.e. Facebook comments might be a great fit for Techcrunch. They're dangerless and require little to no moderation.
- dreamdu5t 15y agoI agree with this. I stopped posting for that very reason. I wouldn't post here if it was a requirement.
- johnx123-up 15y agoActually Facebook comments reduced spams and sockpuppets. Previously most comments were outsourced PR noise from sockpuppets.
- SkyMarshal 15y agoBy 'destroyed', do you mean reduced the number of comments, or reduced their quality? I'm not a TC regular, but I've never been much impressed by their comment quality, either before or after the adoption of FB comments.