Chris Pirillo ruminates on the comment systems of Slashdot and Digg (and how both are broken).
Digg and Slashdot are both powerful in terms of driving traffic, but nobody has yet bothered to compare the quality of comments between the two services. Until now, that is. On any given day, Digg has far more innane comments from immature younger males with no life, while the innane comments on Slashdot tend to come from more technically-astute older males with no life…
Chris tends to view things in black-and-white. Certainly there are great comments on both systems. But in general are comment systems truly broken, as Pirillo suggests? Which is the bigger challenge: technology or sociology? And do his comments apply equally to the blogosphere?
Shame on me! I was verbally chastised by a friend for posting this without proper context. I’ve edited the original post to explain it a bit better. Now… post your opinion!
Shame on me! I was verbally chastised by a friend for posting this without proper context. I’ve edited the original post to explain it a bit better. Now… post your opinion!