Poynter Online: Washington Post’s new ‘WebCom’ comment system
September 3rd, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Newspapers, Social media and blogging
Washingtonpost.com has developed a new commenting interface, ‘WebCom,’ that displays comments in a web – based on which ones are most-liked by readers and create the most discussion, Patrick Thornton reports at Poynter Online.
“Some commenting systems allow users to vote comments up or down. Some let users respond directly to each other and display the threads of discussions. But on most sites, comments are presented in the same basic way: chronological or reverse-chronological lists. Those lists don’t do much to help users find the best comments, especially when hundreds of people have responded to a single post.”
Patrick Thornton describes WebCom in the video below:
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