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Karl Bode
Karl Bode
@karlbode.com@bsky.brid.gy  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

news websites made a mistake when they killed on-site comment sections and outsourced all audience interaction to hyper-scaled, badly-run trash fires like Facebook

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Whoops, Websites Realize That Killing Their Comment Sections Was A Mistake

So for years we pointed out how the trend of news websites killing off their comment section (usually because they were too cheap or lazy to creatively manage them) was counterproductive.…
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Karl Bode
Karl Bode
@karlbode.com@bsky.brid.gy replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

when I was writing about this subject a decade (!) ago I really came to enjoy the weird platitudes media execs and editors would spew about how much they LOVED community, which is why they HAD to ban on-site conversation and drive everybody into Mark Zuckerberg's lap

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The Trend Of Killing News Comment Sections Because You 'Just Really Value Conversation' Stupidly Continues

Over the last year, there has been a tidal wave of websites that have decided to close their news comment sections because the companies are no longer willing to invest time and effort into cultiva…
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