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Use Facebook-authenticated comments. Requiring people to use their real names usually alleviates this kind of problem.
by doorty 15y ago
Use Facebook-authenticated comments. Requiring people to use their real names usually alleviates this kind of problem.
- AndrewDucker 15y agoGoogle announced recently that it didn't. They thought it would, but it turns out that people are perfectly happy to behave awfully under their real name (or, in some cases, throwaway accounts).
- simonsarris 15y agoThis stopped 90% of the insane comments on my local newspaper (they moved from disqus to facebook). It also cut the average comments for an article in half or more.
- finnw 15y agoInteresting - are Facebook users really better-behaved than average blog commenters? Or was it just that the lazier trolls gave up when their old cookies stopped working?
- DanBC 15y agoLook at sensationalist TV (eg, Jerry Springer or Jeremy Kyle or similar) to see people who are more than happy to have their real world identity tied to extremes of behaviour.
- ugh 15y agoFacebook comments are incredibly boring and meaningless. There is little trolling or flame wars but there is equally little meaningful content. I’m not sure why everyone is obsessed with somehow finding a way to enable comments. Many websites are much better without them.
- nsxwolf 15y agoI have not found this to be the case at all. I just read a story yesterday about a pilot who chopped his head off trying to hand-prop his plane. There were many terrible comments, one from a man laughing at his predicament and nominating the pilot for the Darwin Award and such, and mocking family and friends who were commenting to pay their respects. The commenter's first, middle, and last name appeared right next to a picture of himself with his kids.
- pnathan 15y agoNot really. Take a look at WSJ comments. Lots of real names, tons of flames.
- dredmorbius 15y agoStarting with the unsigned editorials.