zinfamous
No Lifer
- Jul 12, 2006
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News sites should have the equivalent of "letters to the editor". You can't just shout instant feedback at a newspaper and have a comment appear magically on the printed page, but you can write to the editor on a story, and have it published.
I don't see why online sites can't operate the same way. Have a send comments to the editor entry, and have an editor (or team of people, whatever) pick comments to display on the site. It could simply happen much faster than with a newspaper article, and of course weed out most of the obvious trolls, most of whom would probably get bored as soon as their comments stopped appearing.
I agree with this, and it is often the most ...entertaining section in certain small-circulation rags.
The print version, at least, of the Berkeley Daily Planet is always a nice source of local yahoo flavor