Nick Denton Talks About You at SXSW
At SXSW, Nick Denton and Anil Dash talked about the failure of comments.
I swear @anildash is wearing the same purple shirt he did at my SXSW gossip panel in 2008. #dentonint
Trolls and spammers not the problem. They can be dealt with by brute-force moderation. Real tragedy: triumph of mediocrity. #DentonInt #swsw
Impulse behind blogs was reporters talking about the story after publishing the article #sxsw #dentonInt- Gossip is just news that you really want as opposed to the news you are told you should read #sxsw #dentonInt
Blogs & social media are supposed to level the playing field & keep the reader as informed as the writer. -@nicknotned #dentonint
"Have you ever been to a place where everyone agrees? It sounds boring. Like San Francisco." #dentonint #SXSW
@nickdenton: the problem w/comments is scale. Tragedy of the commons. Quality deteriorates to a wasteland. #SXSW #ketchum #dentonint- Intimate audience = good conversation, Mass audience = mediocrity? #sxsw #dentonInt
- "It's the tragedy of the commons, or the tragedy of the comments." —@nicknotned #dentonint
- "If Dov Charney went into the Jezebel comments, he'd be torn limb from limb. And not just the limbs." —@nicknotned #dentonint
- The writer sets the tone for the commenters, but the commenters set the tone for the writers. #dentonint #SXSW
#dentonint: nicer comments => better sites => commercial success. Want to give everyone responsibility over comments #sxsw
Gawker to launch function for small groups of ppl to comment in isolation. Hopes is for better quality comments. #sxsw #DentonInt
"We don't believe in democratic process when it comes to decision making." -Nick Denton #DentonInt
"If you want to have interesting opinions, you can't afford to put it to a vote," Denton on upvoting systems in comments #dentonint- Gawker we do not believe in democracy because majority drowns out minority opinion #sxsw #dentonInt
- "For organizations like ours, which is trying in our fucked-up way to discover the truth, anonymity is critical." —@nicknotned #dentonint
'Enabling facebook comments leads to more polite but less interesting comments.' --Nick Denton #sxsw #dentonint- Anonymity is at the heart of the internet & discovery--it's critical for exposing painful but essential truths. @nicknotned #dentonint #sxsw
- The most interesting comments don't come from people with high Klout scores. No system exists to promote those comments. #dentonint
- @nickdenton: we don't care about volume of comments. I'd gladly have fewer, more valuable comments." #SXSW #ketchum #dentonint
- "We made a huge wrong turn with the gamification of comments." -Denton #dentonint #SXSW
