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How does Facebook avoid a scary reputation? Turns out they run a comment screening program, which can sometimes backfire.
How best to shape online communities is a problem as old as the internet. Facebook has been taking some steps to keep itself looking as clean as possible: the real names policy, the overdone privacy system, and now an automated anti-badness algorithm. Let's see how this works over the next year.
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Huffington Post still does manual screening, perhaps with automated assistance. I just had a comment rejected that would pass any automated filter. In an article on new year's resolutions for others, I suggested this resolution for the HP commenters: "Give priority to replies so as to make the HP comment mechanism more interactive" - they censored my resolution! Unbelievable!
Posted by: Jim Williams | December 30, 2012 at 20:01
I meant to say "HP Comment screeners" rahter than "HP commenters"
Posted by: Jim Williams | December 30, 2012 at 20:10
They censored your resolution? How lame. Or how invested they are in the current setup.
Posted by: Bryan Alexander | January 01, 2013 at 18:37