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The New York Times introduced a new system of comments for its Web site on Wednesday that will offer some readers a chance to earn a fast-track status that will exempt their submissions from moderation.
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The system of commenting at The Times owes much of its success to the human beings who actually moderate comments — read them, filter them and decide which ones to publish.
There was no mention in the communiqu?f President-elect Barack Obama's skeptical remarks about the system or of comments last month by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France that the missile defense system "would complicate things and make them move backward".
There was also discussion of a user tagging system for comments which might help surface the most relevant and interesting discussions alongside articles.
Reddit's system of up-voting comments and short, swift replies have helped the Q&As gain notoriety, but Murray's long, rambling answers were confusing users, with some claiming his remarks were "lost in translation".
Because this is probably going to draw a lot of submissions (and our typical system of asking for comments would get a bit unwieldy), we've worked with the folks at Wildfire to put together a proper structured sweepstakes.
On top of that, the system for comment moderation is handled differently in different parts of the balkanized Times empire.
You must be part of the Facebook system to comment on any profiles or pages.
If volunteers do a poor job or try to promote their own sites, they are out.Slashdot uses a complicated rating system to sift the thousands of comments posted every day.
Egan believes that the current system incentivizes a high quantity of comments over quality feedback, and the widely unwanted votes end up distracting the user base.
Chi square analyses show that there were no significant differences in the distribution of comments on system, content and service between both evaluation methods (χ = 3.57; p = .168).168
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