Disqus - Latest Comments for anonymous

Re: Stupid is as stupid does

anonymous — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:58:04 -0000

Zac - just went back and read the comments - was too frustrated to read them all the first time through. Yep - think Rex sums it up pretty well.

Re: Looking for multimedia judges

anonymous — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:58:54 -0000

Seth - you da man. I will get back to you with details.

Thanks

Re: Looking for multimedia judges

anonymous — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:05:21 -0000

@Will - thanks - much appreciated.

@Jody - I wish I had a PR campaign we needed judged. You would be perfect! :-)

Re: Selling the news without pandering

anonymous — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:02:53 -0000

Laura -

I don't think what we went with was pandering. But the guilt there is - did we leave some readership on the table by not going more tabloid with it. We are definitely not a tab - but building online readership certainly raises these newsroom questions more than it used to.

Re: Why I got into journalism

anonymous — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:24:04 -0000

Grant - one out of 4 is not bad. And of course I mean the money.

Re: Associated Press Newspaper Cancellations: Just Can’t Quit the AP

anonymous — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:46:32 -0000

Well - many of the papers that have given notice have begun to outline some 'replacement' options:

1) Regional sharing cooperatives
2) Alternative syndicates (probably several to fill the void)
3) Reducing wire content and tightening the newshole

I would guess all of the above will happen. On the other hand, if AP does drastically revamp their fee schedule who knows. I don't think anyone wants to have to make this work without AP so there is a lot of incentive for papers to work it out if they can.

Re: On the ideal of real names on story comments

anonymous — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:27:56 -0000

Kurt - we do use Disqus but not sure if you were implying we require 'real' names on http://www.nashuatelegraph.com? .

In fact we allow a mix of anonymous comments, screen names and real names. Our only requirement is that you may register a 'real' email address in order to avoid the moderation queue.

Verifying names may be logistically possible but it would not be practical or audience-friendly given our specific situation. In terms of scale we get about 300 comments per day and get probably dozens of new users per day. But, the problem is more related to the large number of registration points we already have for various internal and 3rd-party products. We would need to unify those authentication systems before name verification would have business value.

As we move to a new CMS this fall there is some consideration of creating a new level of commenter who would not only be registered/verified by email but would also gain additional privileges (a la submitting 'trusted' letters to the editor, possibly some moderator rights etc.) In order to gain that status we would verify name and identity by phone - much as we do for letters.

Thanks

Damon Kiesow