Scott Santens, “What I’ve observed since 2013 in the discussion about a basic income guarantee: How a BIG could be closer than we think” www.scottsantens.com. February 26, 2015.
Scott Santens, “What I’ve observed since 2013 in the discussion about a basic income guarantee: How a BIG could be closer than we think” www.scottsantens.com. February 26, 2015.
This commenting system is flawed. I’m going to break it by posting this comment over and over just so that it gets fixed. But I’ll leave some suggestions on how I think it should improve, because I want it to be good so that we get this movement going.
1. Allow for Facebook, G+, Twitter (and more) connect. Allow people to simply place a comment using their social media accounts. That way the comment will show on their feed and it will generate more traffic to the site and facilitate more discussion.
2. Get rid of all the current requirements for commenting. This is most likely a remnant of the past that just hasn’t been updated. There’s really no use in having people leave fake names, emails and websites (like I have done).
3. Not about the commenting but add a “share to reddit” button.
That’s all, you may read this comment on many articles. You may wish to block me instead of fixing the problem but I’ll just go through a proxy so you really can’t stop this.
I’m doing this because I love you.
I see that it also needs to be pre-approved… This is a really bad move if you want conversation to flourish.
TED.com (Ideas worth spreading) did exactly what you’re doing and 3.5 years later the had to shut their entire forum down because they couldn’t moderate it in a sufficiently good way.
Just flip it like reddit has. Allow users to post anything and others to report it. If needed delete it.
You’re trying to build a movement right? Now suffocate it because that’s what you’re doing when you have a system like this.