Archive for category: Why your site doesn’t need comments

Reasons why your site doesn’t need comments

The dumb Millennial’s guide to ‘Xtra’    (2015.08.24)

Toronto’s bien-pensant media intelligentsia want Xtra’s “pink” newspaper boxes back. What they don’t want is the task of investigating Xtra. Good thing I’m here

The endless moral repugnance of Joe Jervis    (2012.05.04)

Grizzled positoid Joe Jervis again warns commenters on his site that their comments might be used by anti-gay forces. Oblivious to the harm he is causing, Jervis shows endless moral repugnance

DailyXtra.com    (2012.01.07)

Xtra threatens to launch a new daily-news site. What odds do you give they’ll do everything wrong?

Journos unable to diagnose why gay blogs lose money    (2011.12.05)

Of course gay blogs don’t make money. Their owners don’t know their own industries, have bad taste, and suicidally insist on doing what is known not to work. Journos covering the topic are just as baffled

Designing for kindness    (2011.09.11)

Your online commenting system, like every online commenting system, induces people to cause harm to others. There’s only one way to solve the problem, and you don’t have the balls to do it.

Also: When my dog died, I cried

‘I don’t really care what other viewers think’    (2011.07.10)

Tyler Brûlé: “I don’t really care what other viewers think. I just want to hear what the correspondent on the ground has to say”

The amorality of anonymous comments    (2011.03.10)

At some point, you’re going to have to snap out of your denial. Comments are a proven failure on news sites and are a minefield of personal harm everywhere

I’m not the only one who thinks comments are harmful on news sites    (2010.12.14)

Ask Ben Hammersley: Chasing “the conversation” is “actually almost a cultural crime”