Comments on: Ditching comments on stories. It’s time.

By: The Triumphant Return of Commenting - Stephanie Romanski

The Triumphant Return of Commenting - Stephanie Romanski — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:50:59 +0000

[...] May of 2009, I wrote about theindependent.com shutting down commenting completely. I had high hopes that the [...]

By: viper swim fins

viper swim fins — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:52:54 +0000

KEEP UP GOOD WORK! I think we will help you to make best community here

By: cat litter

cat litter — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:57:30 +0000

intensedebate is a really nice commenting cms, but it think using something as easy as this one will only attrackt spammers trying to make comments. But commenting is really good to create nice discussions on articles and news. I'm doing it as a daily task!

By: catalin

catalin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:42:56 +0000

I don't think that ditching comments is a very good idea. For me as an example, to post comments and to interact with other regarding some news is the most important because you can share opinions this way. If you take away this option I don't know how the users will react. If you keep high quality content the number might not drop at all, but again, that depends on peoples reaction.

By: Forex

Forex — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:43:50 +0000

comments are good…they give some new additions to the article

By: Stephanie Romanski » Commenting revisted – Facebook Connect?

Stephanie Romanski » Commenting revisted – Facebook Connect? — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:39:22 +0000

[...] newspaper removed commenting altogether. I want to bring it back but I’m facing several [...]

By: Steph

Steph — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:26:06 +0000

"hire a full time community manager" would be totally spiffy if I worked for a company that was fully on board with all of this stuff. But they're just not there yet and when our reporters/copy editors are down to bare bones, it's difficult to ask them to hire someone to manage community stuff. I'm not meaning to say that I'm not down with commenting. I wish we could devote the time and care necessary to cultivate a great community. We just simply cannot with our skeleton staff, and the restrictions dictated by our corporate folk.

But i guess I mean to say that I'm not against commenting and I would like to bring it back at some point. But our limitations at this time mean that we had to go this route.

By: Howard Owens

Howard Owens — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:08:00 +0000

You may have drawn the wrong conclusion from my post. Newspapers that drop comments are hurting themselves more than helping. The thing the newspaper needs to do is hire a full-time community manager, not kill comments. Ask yourself why The Batavian gets tremendous traffic, tremendous comment traffic, but doesn't have an issue with comments? Why can I run this one site largely by myself, do all the news and all the ad sales, and not have the problem with comments that many newspapers have, why it isn't a hassle for me? Comments for me are a joy, not a chore.

By: marykay7 (Mary Kay McFarland)

marykay7 (Mary Kay McFarland) — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:02:16 +0000

RT@stephromanski Ditching story comments. Opting for other options for interaction instead. http://is.gd/zzQ6

By: mathewi (Mathew Ingram)

mathewi (Mathew Ingram) — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:01:37 +0000

@stephromanski says her paper is getting rid of comments: http://tinyurl.com/qlhcme [disagree with the rationale but respect the decision]