Tag Archives: moderation

Who’s your community site manager in the newsroom?

Questions I have coming out of the first session: For newspapers with community sites, like Bakersfield and Raleigh, who is the go-to person in your newsroom for managing threads, policing comments, and general cheerleading for the site? Do you have … Continue reading

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Crowd wisdom, some assembly required

Scott Karp points out the difficulty in waiting for the monkeys to write Shakespeare and Ian King reminds us all that free content requires filtering that costs time and money. Both are talking about the NYT bit on Heinz’s ketchup-stained … Continue reading

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Don’t fear the user-created content?

Do online news sites need to reinvent uploading and editing tools to gather user-created content? Steve Outing says no, making the case that YouTube, Google Video, and myriad third place finishers do the heavy lifting, hosting the video and spitting … Continue reading

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How to moderate online newspaper comments and forums while staying sane and not getting sued

Like Slashdot. Okay, so maybe I don’t read it anymore, and maybe I never read it much to begin with, but when I just logged in to see what the comments look like these days, I was offered a chance … Continue reading

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