14 days ago
Andy Baio : YouTube Comment Snob, Firefox extension hides idiotic comments - customizable filter based on spelling errors, punctuation, and capitalization; the result is stark
Rod Begbie : YouTube Comment Snob - Firefox extensions which hides the most blatantly idiotic YouTube comments. Favourite filter: Uses Firefox's in-built dictionary to hide comments with too many spelling mistakes. [via] #
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1 month ago
Andy Baio : Derek Powazek's 10 Ways Newspapers Can Improve Comments - solid suggestions that would lead to a massive short-term decrease in comments, for the better
Richard Rutter : 10 Ways Newspapers Can Improve Comments - Good solid sense from the man Powazek. In particular: Participate… Get your writers involved in the conversation.
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2 month ago
deusx : innocentchild's Messages - Best, horribly vulgar, funniest comments on Valleywag evar.
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Linkorama : DeafVIDEO.TV - Enables comments by the deaf on YouTube videos, very cool
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4 month ago
deusx : benjamingolub.com » How To: Dynamic Slide Down Disqus Comments - "RSSmeme now has dynamically generated slide down Disqus comments for every story"
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4 month ago
deusx : Disqus | Developers - "Disqus provides an Application Programming Interface (API) for users to interact with the Disqus backend."
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5 month ago
philgyford : Gumbaby - Collecting comments left on vaguely-related websites by people thinking they're contacting a famous person. I still occasionally get comments left by people talking to Jamie Oliver.
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6 month ago
adamrg : Metafilter comments vs. Youtube comments - TLDR vs. TSDR
Andy Baio : Metafilter comments vs. YouTube comments - a random sampling [via]
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10 month ago
philgyford : spEak You’re bRanes - Amazing but depressing selection of comments left on the BBC 'Have Your Say' site. cf Mitchell & Webb's "You may not know anything about the issue, but I bet you reckon something." (via Ben Hammersley)
Rod Begbie : spEak You're bRanes - Highlighting the best of the right-wing hystericals who post to the BBC News "Have Your Say" boards. [via] #
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43folders : xkcd ["The Internet has always had loud dumb people..."] - "WHY NOT TELL LOUIS ARMSTRONG TO HIS FACE"
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deusx : Eminem Sues Apple for Music Rights - Best blog comment ever. Parody of Eminem
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14 month ago
nelson : Joel hates blog comments - I mostly agree with what he's saying
plasticbag : Joel Spolsky talks about the lack of value that anonymous comments (or maybe comments in general) offer the blogger - Allowing people to post without registering has been considered insane for online communities for a decade at least, and I've argued that comments are unnecessary because people can post on their own sites. But I'm not sure I'd go as far as Joel...
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14 month ago
Rod Begbie : The B-List: Hacking comments without hacking comments - Django project to bulk-up the built-in comments to make them less spammable. I did a bunch of this by hand -- good to see it implemented in a shareable manner. [via] #
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18 month ago
Linkorama : Call for a Blogger's Code of Conduct - Good guidelines for blogging literacy, but I wouldn't call it a code
jimray : Tim O'Reilly calls for a blogger's code of conduct - This will go over well...
Khoi Vinh : Tim O’Reilly: Call for a Blogger's Code of Conduct - Overview in today’s New York Times.
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Linkorama : Oort-Cloud - Oort-Cloud is a place that gives us a chance to present some fundamental ideas, get feedback about them from other people, and comment on events and concepts that are, or might be, relevant to what Oort-Cloud is all about.
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19 month ago
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: Smarties and Dumbells - "look at what makes one website seem jam-packed full of Smarties and the other packed full of Dumbells"
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19 month ago
Linkorama : The inbox | Economist.com - Open Letters to the Editor as Soical Media
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20 month ago
Rod Begbie : The B-List: Django tips: Hacking FreeComment - HOWTO hook Akismet (the anti-comment-spam service) into Django's built-in commenting. I think I should have commenting for groovymother live by the weekend. #
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25 month ago
Simon Willison : RSS CAPTCHA Prototype - Accessible captchas based on RSS feeds from friends' sites.
deusx : RSS CAPTCHA Prototype - "It's a prototype for mashing up publicly-available RSS feeds and using them as a sort of CAPTCHA."
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25 month ago
wearehugh : Workbench: Help! Help! You're Being Repressed! - "After a decade of publishing on the web, I finally reached my fuck-that moment regarding censorship"
deusx : Workbench: Help! Help! You're Being Repressed! - "Telling someone you have a right to free speech on their site is like walking into their house and demanding a ham sandwich." Right on!
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26 month ago
Rod Begbie : coComment blog » What’s new? - coComment adds features that actually make it, you know, _useful_. It now tracks all comments left after you or a variety of blogging packages, and the Firefox extension means you don't have to remember to hit the bookmarklet each time. [via] #
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27 month ago
philgyford : Solid Wall of Code: AutoBan - Movable Type plug-in that automatically updates an .htaccess file with IP addresses posting spam comments/trackbacks to your site, banning them.
Rod Begbie : Solid Wall of Code: AutoBan - MT plugin that adds "Deny" entries to your .htaccess file when someone's clobbering you with comment spam, saving you the CPU cycles. I've installed it -- if it works, I'll be giddy as a schoolgirl. [via] #
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28 month ago
Linkorama : Nofollow No Good? - Not only does it not work for wikis, but Nofollow has been more of a failure than success, IMHO
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31 month ago
deusx : Decentralized Commenting - "So I predict that some enterprising programmer will come along and write a plugin for WordPress or Typo that will duplicate coComment's functionality."
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