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Wait…I Can't Comment?
Posted on October 27, 2008 by jaywalk1 in Social Media10:06 AM today. The exact time my blood pressure went up becuase I couldn’t comment on a news story. This news story: When Your Kid Attacks…By Blog.
I caught this story on the source of all, Twitter, from @danschawbel. The title was interesting enough for me to follow the link and read the story. The article is definitely a nice piece and I wanted to tell the author so, in addition to asking for the blog address of the person who wrote this: “My Mom is about as subtle as a Tomahawk missile.” Anyone who put’s a phrase like that together needs to be my reader.
Here’s the thing. I scrolled down, filled out the form and then realized that there was no comment option. Here’s what I had to choose from.
I’m calm now, but I say shame on you Boston Globe web team and/or whoever is responsible for the lack of feedback options. Feel free to moderate comments but don’t go as far as completely leaving out the option to do so. I just wanted to be social…
7 Responses so far.
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James:
I have seen this on several newspaper websites, mostly for smaller outlets though. I assume it is to prevent spamming, or hate comments. Since so many papers are cutting their staff, I assume comment moderating on their website is not a priority.
I agree they should keep the discussion going, but it is just an old media establishment’s website. Perhaps a letter to the editor is in order?
Best,
@knightsicre
I hope Boston Globe isn’t feeling so much pain that they can’t take on adding a comments feature to their stories. A letter to the editor may be in order.
Thanks for commenting Alex.
Hey James,
As a frequent reader of the Globe (daily online version) I find they are not consistent in their use of the comment feature throughout their site. Several areas you are able to leave comments but some not. This is probably due to a site revamp they did about a year and half ago and my guess is they haven’t implemented the comment feature (which they added at that time) to their whole site. Not trying to make excuses for them and I agree you should be able to comment but being on the technical side of a large web site when you add features like this it is hard to roll it out everywhere all at once.
Keep up the good work on your blog – Ashley forwarded it to me.
Hi Mr. Larrimore,
Thanks for reading the blog! I was surprised that I couldn’t comment on that story. I guess expected the Globe to be completely on top of that feature. Good to know that they are working on rolling that feature out and that it’s available in some sections at least.
Hey James,
I must say: “My Mom is about as subtle as a Tomahawk missile” is quite the eye-catching title. My only question is, why I didn’t think of that title first.
Keep up the great work!
Joseph
interesting observation… comments are one of the truly valuable aspects of having articles online, I’m surprized that the Globe is inconsistent about this.
The best of intentions…foiled…