Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Anonymous Comments

Our local online newspaper just added a comments feature. Great move. They are accepting anonymous comments and have a "lite" gate keeping function. Smart.

Here's a typical reaction:

"This is great feature. I’ve seen websites with name (or at least a pen name) required and others that are 100% anonymous. I find that over time, the quality of submissions are very similar, but the latter type of websites seems to get a greater volume of quality submissions. So, I would go with the latter. A gatekeeper is definitely necessary at least in the short term just to make sure a good thing does not turn into a bad thing."

Exactly right!

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