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They'll study this forever, but they'll never add a comment section to their websites.
by amadeuspagel 4y ago
They'll study this forever, but they'll never add a comment section to their websites.
- uniqueuid 4y agoWrong, ARD, the second largest German PSB has had a very lively comment section for ages [1]. Part of the reluctance in setting up comment sections in general is that media orgs are liable for postings there and manual moderation costs a lot of money, unless you outsource that to underpaid, traumatized semi-slaves as Facebook does. [1] https://meta.tagesschau.de/ https://meta.tagesschau.de/
- amadeuspagel 4y ago> Wrong, ARD, the second largest German PSB has had a very lively comment section for ages. These comments aren't even linked from the articles on the tagesschau.de website. > Part of the reluctance in setting up comment sections in general is that media orgs are liable for postings there and manual moderation costs a lot of money. Whatever makes media orgs reluctant to have a comment section (and to show it prominently) also applies to any other public space, so if they can't even handle that, there's no point in having initiatives to think about other public spaces.
- ta1243 4y agoBBC has had comments on its site for over 2 decades
- amadeuspagel 4y agoDoes it still have comments?
- motogpjimbo 4y agoIt does, but it turns them off on any article that is even remotely controversial.
- switchbak 4y agoCBC had a comment section, and it make the YouTube comment section look civilized in comparison.