Data were collected and analyzed after the Web site administrators arbitrarily voted positively or negatively (or not at all) as the first comment on more than 100,000 posts.
an initiation of a topic when a post is uploaded (I), a comment by a citizen (C), and. a response by a party representative (R) or. a comment–response by another citizen on the same thread as the first comment (C R).
Participation was scored as the first comment by a member discipline on a patient; additional comments by a member of the same discipline on the same patient were not scored; participation of the resident physician leading rounds was assumed and not scored.
On Tuesday, after the site posted the story of the lawyer's description of Breivik as "insane," the first comment to follow was this: "I really feel for the guy.
As a root comment is understood as a participant's first comment for a particular feedback topic, a participant could have as many as five or six root comments depending on the number of feedback topics in the case.
The problem is the apparent indifference of many people to this clearly unacceptable behaviour, as typified by the first comment on the Ask Bossy post: "Seriously is this really even an issue to write about?
In Conditions 2 and 4, the participants could see a given discussion thread only after having made a root comment, a root comment being understood as a participant's first comment for a particular feedback topic.
I love his dopey "Oop...oop" noise after the first comment above, as if imitating the reaction of the great unwashed.
As explained above in your first comment, and explained in the first paragraph of the Results, this was presented in our previous work: Klose, S., Flores-Benitez, D., Riedel, F., and Knust, E. (2013).
The first comment?... 'Nooooooooooooo.'".
Write your first comment.
