Monday, April 12, 2010

Anonymous comments in websites

Some websites may required commenters to give their identity. Read this article.

My view.
This is a good move as it makes the commenters more truthful and accountable.

2 comments:

  1. come together, over meApril 12, 2010 10:50 PM

    I like the idea too, but identity does not guarantee honesty.

    For example, I take with a big scoop of salt listening to the MIW
    and yes, we know their identity.

    I have to hand it to them, it takes a 'special talent' to speak with fork tongue and feel no shame about it. hehe

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  2. And identity doesn't guarantee constructive comments as well.

    There's no stopping people from spewing rubbish online as there's no consequence.

    A better way is to foster a constructive community. Have a way for people to make useless ramblings invisible. A good example will be the Hacker News community which revolves mainly around technology and business topics. The readers are incredible constructive and useless comments are always voted down.

    When people realise no one wants to read their useless comments, they'll leave eventually.

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