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By: In Defense Of the Long Form — The AboutUs Weblog

In Defense Of the Long Form — The AboutUs Weblog — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 01:36:15 +0000

[...] Joshua Taylor digs deep into the subject, John Rainsford mentions that it might be better than inline comments, Christopher Cashdollar also supports the long form, and finally, Thibaut Sailly makes good [...]

By: Niels Matthijs

Niels Matthijs — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:20:59 +0000

It’s a long-standing issue. Some two years ago I wrote a little post about it myself, fearing that old-fashioned commenting would be removed as too “web 1.0″. Luckily, things haven’t gotten to that point (yet). For reference, here’s the post: http://www.onderhond.com/blog/onderhond/killing-blog-comments

As for Twitter comments, I never even understood how that’s supposed to work. I’d need about 10-20 tweets for just posting this comment here. Or blog this comment (as if such a small text would fit in my article list). Or just shut up if I can’t do either.

Spam and trolls are just lame excuses. There are good solutions to both of these problems, so I still don’t really get why the current comment system can’t just be improved rather than reinvented in ways that allows for less freedom and options for the user.

At least it is good to read there are still people out there who object to these half-arsed alternative (like using Twitter).

By: Natalia Ventre

Natalia Ventre — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:14:28 +0000

Everything depends on the audience, if all your readers are on Twitter, and their conversations happen there, why bothering with a comment system?

Disqus is the better of both worlds, you can leave long comments and tweet them, but I guess that if you have a strong opinion about a subject, it’s more appropriate to write a post in your own blog and just tweet the link.

By: Some links for light reading (14/10/10) | Max Design

Some links for light reading (14/10/10) | Max Design — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:31:26 +0000

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By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:47:51 +0000

@Josh— I’m not sure what you mean by increasing the page column width and line-height. Page zoom works correctly in Safari as far as I can tell.

Broken text zoom does appear to be an a side-effect of fixing iOS text size with the CSS property “-webkit-text-size-adjust.” Thanks for bringing that to our attention.

By: Josh Bryant

Josh Bryant — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:42:47 +0000

I really wanted to read this article, but the type is a bit small for my eyes on my 17″ MBP. And somehow you’ve set it so that my browser’s (Safari) zoom feature does not increase the type size but only the page column width and line-height? I didn’t even know it was possible to break that.

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:00:13 +0000

Greg, echoing Nate’s point, thanks for being open to and even promoting dissension on this topic. It takes a lot of cojones to do something brazen, then use your megaphone to trumpet the protests. On the topic itself, as I said to @HappyCog on Friday, Cognition sparks a healthy debate about accountability in commenting. What we’re asking is, do the ends justify the means?

Jason, that comment was perfectly tweet-sized. There’s even room for a shortened URL link back to our post. Way to play along.

By: Jason Carlin

Jason Carlin — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:40:20 +0000

Beginning an article with “Excuse our ignorance” is a great way to get me to not finish the article.

By: Comments as a tool in debate | Anisky.net

Comments as a tool in debate | Anisky.net — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:41:37 +0000

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By: Cognition Comments Considered Dangerous | Mike Industries

Cognition Comments Considered Dangerous | Mike Industries — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 06:43:19 +0000

[...] Happy Cog’s new commenting system, but the sage minds at Full Stop interactive beat me to it. You should read Nate’s whole post. It’s [...]