April 29, 2013
YouTube's comments section is one of the worst places on the web. On an Internet already full of nonsense no sane, intelligent person would want to spend their time reading, YouTube's comment section stands out. Whenever you're using YouTube, you might accidentally scroll down and see the stream of useless, nonsensical, and obnoxious comments. The people who left comments on bathroom stall walls in the days before the web seem to have migrated to YouTube.
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April 19, 2013
Google is battling Facebook comments by bringing its very own Google+ comments to Blogger blogging service. Google+ comments are currently only available within Blogger blogs, but can be a very useful feature for bloggers that use Google's platform for generating their content, opening up some interesting ways to interact with their reader base.
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March 27, 2013
No more messy comments? Facebook has made a significant step towards improving comments for Pages and famous users, by finally adding comment threading. Anyone who owns a Page on Facebook knows that the abundance of comments from users can get overwhelming. The ability to directly reply to comments can go a long way to keeping things more organized.
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October 31, 2012
We have covered trolls extensively here on MakeUseOf, with a three-part toolkit designed to help you deal with these online ne'er-do-wells the best starting place. However, trolls don't limit their presence merely to forums, comments sections, and social networks; a particular breed can be found playing video games online. This breed are known as griefers, and they get their kicks from setting out to intentionally wind other players up.
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September 21, 2012
Blogging is really hard work. There's no getting around that fact. Between the technical work involved in designing and maintaining a website, producing regular content on a frequent basis, and editing the work of any writers that you have working for you, the effort is massive. That effort really starts to pay off once you have a regular, steady flow of lots of visitors every day.
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July 6, 2012
Welcome to the third and final and article in this 3-post series. We’ve been looking at a number of different logical fallacies that Internet trolls sometimes use when trying to bully you into losing a debate, showing you how to win arguments in style (or at least raise their level). If you haven’t read the [...]
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July 6, 2012
Welcome back to the 2nd article in this 3-post series all about defeating Internet trolls in Internet arguments. By using this toolkit, you’ll learn to detect when someone is trying to fool you with porous logic. In Part 2, I’ll be showing you a number of logical fallacies that are based on emotions or intuition - arguments that may seem airtight on the surface but, in actuality, are unreasonable and unsound.
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July 3, 2012
How many Internet arguments have you witnessed? Or better yet, how many Internet arguments have you participated in? I visit a number of forums and communities on a daily basis, and I see arguments all the time. But what really bugs me are the people who make crappy arguments and think that they've won. You might know these kinds of people as "trolls" - people who will come up with any and all types of nonsensical logic.
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June 10, 2012
Livefyre has been featured on our Best of Wordpress Plugins list for a while now, but we've never looked at it in much detail before. Today I'd like to show you why I think this is the best commenting system you can run on your WordPress blog, and all the cool features it gives you.
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June 7, 2012
One of the most fascinating things about writing professionally on the Internet for nearly a decade now is the progression of "commenting" that has evolved alongside the blogosphere. I was first introduced to the whole concept of online "conversations" during my early days on Internet forums.
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April 15, 2012
By default, the WordPress commenting system is woefully inadequate. You could switch to a third party system like Livefyre or Disqus, but if you’d prefer to keep everything in house or some other kind of customization going on, then posting comments by AJAX is the least you should do.
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April 13, 2012
Managing social networks is becoming an increasingly hard task. Whether you’re an individual trying to consolidate a plethora of social networks, or a social network manager trying to keep up with multiple Facebook and Twitter accounts, you’ve probably noticed that this world is moving fast. The situation is further complicated if you’re also running a blog – now there are also comments to deal with.
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March 20, 2012
Discussion – it's the fuel that fires the Internet. How do you keep that flame going with your own blog? Even with the best articles possible, it can be tough for each and every writer out there. Maybe we should just take a second to think about how we can dive in and build some good conversation. What I have here are just five simple ways to keep the comments moving with your own blog.
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February 21, 2012
Besides being a faceless entity whose words you only read based on snazzy headlines, I'm also a part-time human being! With that being said, I actually do look through all the sorts of comments you leave me, emails you send, and places you share my work (I believe that my fellow authors can say the same). So with that being said, I just wanted to tell you the kinds of feedback that I like after folks read whatever blog post that I've written.
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January 20, 2012
Aidan Dwyer entered and won a science competition. What happened next is something that those of us that have been on the Internet for a long time now would not find very surprising. The story about the science competition hit the Internet, and everyone from PhD researchers to armchair scientists took a look at young Aidan's design, and the flaming began.
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