h1. Prediction about comment sections for 2016

Dec 2015

http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/12/time-to-rebrand-comments/

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It’s time to stop using the c-word. “The comment section” has moved in people’s minds from being an empty box on a website into a viper-filled pit of hell. We need to start again. We need to do better.
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Indeed because *your* "viper-filled pit of hell" is *YOUR* fault. 

It's not the fault of the idea of comments or user-contributed content.

It's not even the fault of trolls and flamers because they are simply being themselves. 

As always, 100 percent of the blame for nasty comment sections belongs to the site owners who failed to innovate a way to make comments work.

bq. July 2011 dashes.com post : "If your website is full of assholes, it's your fault":http://dashes.com/anil/2011/07/if-your-websites-full-of-assholes-its-your-fault.html

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If you run a website, you need to follow these steps. if you don't, *you're making the web, and the world, a worse place. And it's your fault.* 

Put another way, *take some goddamn responsibility for what you unleash on the world.* And people who make communities on the web have to moderate them.
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"Moderate" could mean many things, in my opinion. I don't believe that it simply means approving comments or flagging and deleting comments.