"We respect people’s time. That’s a core journalistic value."

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Fargo Forum editor Matthew Von Pinnon, talking about why his forum turned away from unmoderated commenting.

MinnPost - Braublog: Newspapers take renewed aim at the comment cesspool

Respecting people’s time is not anything approaching a core journalistic value. What’s more, turning off comments has nothing to do with respecting people’s time. Idiotic comments can waste people’s time; if people CHOOSE to read them. You can read a story and comments and skip the ones you disagree with or are stupid or inflammatory.

(via jamiek)

I would argue that there is a difference between moderating comments and managing the community of comments, the later fostering good discussion, the former slapping hands and encouraging commenters to try sneaking something by.

Source: jamiek
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