Tag Archives: comments
Two ways to keep track of comments
A couple of observations on two comment apps that I'm finding useful. 1. I sometimes bounce around commenting on various sites then forget who or where they are, which means I can't check back later to find out how the conversation's progressing. Some blog sites have an option to receive an email whenever a new comment is added to the thread, but most don't. Enter Backtype, which showed up in a Google alert a couple of weeks ago and looks promising.
Tips on managing blog comments
UK blogger Martin Belam has been running a series on making the most of comments on blogs. It's quite wide-ranging and I'm finding it useful (especially in reinforcing my intention to move on from Blogger at some stage to a platform with more functionality). In this post he talks about how to engage with people commenting on blogs.
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BoingBoing makes moderation policies fun
Anyone writing a moderation policy for a news website - and there must be a few of you doing just that at the moment - might want to check out BoingBoing moderator Teresa Neilsen Hayden's Q&A on their moderation policy.
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WashPo trials a visual commenting system