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Building and maintaining a high quality comment community is a difficult thing to do,
and I’m not sure the
sysopblogger has as much control over it as he thinks he does. Finding a good one is also difficult. I look at LGF, MM and Hot air, Whittle’s community, and of course many of the forums and smaller blogs, and all I can say is ‘one man’s comment is another man’s slur’. There are some places I rarely go anymore and when I do I don’t look at the comments… they’ve gotten so out of control and overrun by trolls it just isn’t worth it. It’s a big internet and there are plenty of places yet to see. No sense spending time watching food fights and pissing matches/BillH, Free In Idaho! More here.
Question: How important is the Huckleberries Online comments feature to you?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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JeanieSpokane on February 03 at 11:45 a.m.
I love the HBO comments feature but I agree that sometimes it’s like being in a bar with a lot of highly stuffed egos belting back brewskies while belching out their one-up-isms.
MichaelStrickland on February 03 at 2:19 p.m.
Yup.