Adding comments to our articles (1 Viewer)

[David Dodds]

Everyone,

Lots of people have asked us to provide a way to add comments to our articles. We are debuting the "Intense Debate" add-on today. It requires you to create an ID with the site Intense Debate, but then you can add comments to any of our articles (free or pay). This is a good way to ask the writer of the article's author a question directly as well.

We have debuted this on just this article for today: Interview with Joe and David

If all goes well in this demo, we will add this to all articles in the coming days.

Please feel free to kick the tires here. Thanks.

 

[Joe Bryant]

This is something we've looked at doing for a long time. I'm super interested to see how it goes - please let us know what you think.

J

 

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Torn,

Nice to have the area to debate but hate that its moving the discussion away from the forums. Likely a net gain, however.

 

[Ramblin Wreck]

Torn,Nice to have the area to debate but hate that its moving the discussion away from the forums. Likely a net gain, however.

This. Cool idea but not much interested in another login/password.

 

[Pickle Rody]

I think it's a little odd that a post has to be approved by a site administrator before it goes public. Who actually sits there and approves all the posts?

 

[krsone21]

Everyone,

Lots of people have asked us to provide a way to add comments to our articles. We are debuting the "Intense Debate" add-on today. It requires you to create an ID with the site Intense Debate, but then you can add comments to any of our articles (free or pay). This is a good way to ask the writer of the article's author a question directly as well.

We have debuted this on just this article for today: Interview with Joe and David

If all goes well in this demo, we will add this to all articles in the coming days.

Please feel free to kick the tires here. Thanks.

This is a great idea. I have been wondering why you didn't have a section below an article where people couldn't discuss it.

 

[Joe Bryant]

Torn,Nice to have the area to debate but hate that its moving the discussion away from the forums. Likely a net gain, however.

That's me exactly, Icon.I've been hesitant on this for a long time as I'm honestly not sure what it'll do to the forums. But we've had so much feedback from people wanting to be able to comment and discuss each article (plus the fact that this style seems to be the way the world is going) that we wanted to give it a try and see how it goes.I personally am more comfortable with the forums for this stuff. But I also realize not everyone is like me and we wanted to listen to our customers on this. J

 

[Joe Bryant]

I think it's a little odd that a post has to be approved by a site administrator before it goes public. Who actually sits there and approves all the posts?

Yeah, that's just for this first one I think. J

 

[David Dodds]

I think it's a little odd that a post has to be approved by a site administrator before it goes public. Who actually sits there and approves all the posts?

I don't think we fully understand the settings yet. It might also be because everyone has new Intense Debate IDs. But the plan is to make this happen automatically (and that is how we think we have it set)

 

[massraider]

Zero desire to read comments after an article. If the people want it, cool. But reading comments after online articles in the past has never been worth it for me. It's one step closer to bathroom graffiti, IMO. Usually really inane one liners, and seems to bring out the lowest common denominator.

 

[Jason Wood]

Torn,Nice to have the area to debate but hate that its moving the discussion away from the forums. Likely a net gain, however.

Unfortunately the forum activity, and therefore the quality of the overall debate, is way down in the last year or two. Also, it's always been difficult for people to discuss specific articles even in the Shark Pool because of restrictions we place on sharing subscriber content in free areas.

 

[Joe Bryant]

Zero desire to read comments after an article. If the people want it, cool. But reading comments after online articles in the past has never been worth it for me. It's one step closer to bathroom graffiti, IMO. Usually really inane one liners, and seems to bring out the lowest common denominator.

I agree that tons of sites are like that. It's our hope that we can up the quality and get some real discussion about the article. It'll really be up to you guys and how good you want to make it. Just like the forum.J