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RE: Comments (was Re: WWP Late Edit and Final Push - 360+?)
Wheaton, Simon 2007-Jan-03 01:10:00
Self-moderation? Make it so that the comments have to either be approved
by the WWP contributor of the pano that the comment relates to, or that
the WWP contributor can delete unwelcome comments.
I agree that having a comments area for each pano would be a great
improvement, similar to what they have on photo hosting sites like
Flickr.
The comments could either be visible on the preview page, or with
another link to a similar preview page that has the comment area instead
of the other information.
Simon
Canberra
AUSTRALIA
-----Original Message-----
From: Landis
Sent: Wednesday, 3 January 2007 8:43 AM
We are considering some changes in the near future, but the idea of
'comments' really needs to be fleshed out.
As I see it the comment system can be extremely detrimental. Take a
look at the comments on YouTube or Google Video. Obviously the WWP
isn't ever going to be as popular as those sites, but they seem to
really bring out the worst in people. I used to think that after
people got over the excitement of "seeing their name in pixels"
they'd get bored posting nasty, baseless, or plain useless comments.
That never happened and it's just gotten worse over time. We'd need
to have a way of patrolling comments, people spending time as
moderators for all these comments, etc. This was all well outside
the original scope of the WWP. Now that we're going into our 4th
year, however, we can consider things like this, but it's not
something that is just easy to turn on and make everyone happy. In
fact, it could drive participation away.
In a somewhat related vein, the idea of ratings also has a large
downside that needs to be considered. We really don't want to turn
this into a competition and/or popularity contest.
Any ideas?
-Landis
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