Comments for Charmed Particles http://staging.charmedparticles.com A blog about groups, people, and the communications and media that tie them together Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:12:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on On Newspapers And Monetization by Web Design Palm Beach http://staging.charmedparticles.com/?p=31#comment-4 Web Design Palm Beach Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:12:21 +0000 http://staging.charmedparticles.com/?p=31#comment-4 <strong>Web Design Palm Beach</strong> Another web 3.0 topic worth discussing in detail. Web Design Palm Beach

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]]> Comment on ‘Working The Critics’ in the White House. by Anonymous http://staging.charmedparticles.com/?p=17#comment-3 Anonymous Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:09:30 +0000 http://staging.charmedparticles.com/?p=17#comment-3 Not to get political, but a guy writing for the NYT is hardly a critic. That's responding to a loyal customer who is somewhat dissatisfied. While the response by itself is good, I think it is hardly indicative of reaching out to its actual critics, such as Rush Limbaugh. In that case they seem to the opposite (imagine MS attacking a well-known Mac evangelist like that!) No, to me the excessive response some negative feedback seems to be based on extreme insecurity "oh David, please like us! We mean so well". Granted, I am highly biased, but taking business lessons from a guy who has never ran a business and so far has showed very little executive leadership doesn't seem like a good idea. I recommend using another example for your presentation, Not to get political, but a guy writing for the NYT is hardly a critic. That’s responding to a loyal customer who is somewhat dissatisfied. While the response by itself is good, I think it is hardly indicative of reaching out to its actual critics, such as Rush Limbaugh. In that case they seem to the opposite (imagine MS attacking a well-known Mac evangelist like that!)
No, to me the excessive response some negative feedback seems to be based on extreme insecurity “oh David, please like us! We mean so well”.
Granted, I am highly biased, but taking business lessons from a guy who has never ran a business and so far has showed very little executive leadership doesn’t seem like a good idea. I recommend using another example for your presentation,

]]> Comment on Quality as a Community Metric by voidmstr http://staging.charmedparticles.com/?p=14#comment-2 voidmstr Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:06:44 +0000 http://staging.charmedparticles.com/?p=14#comment-2 I think you're absolutely correct. In my time moderating the blog comments at JewishJournal.com, I felt it necessary to limit certain members to X number of comments per day. These were the nitpicking pedants who were quick to attack spelling mistakes, grammar, typos, etc. as well as the trolls and haters who apparently enjoyed online flame wars as a recreational activity. The throttling of 'power posters' helped the tone of the discussion immensely, although the immediate, short-term effect was a decrease in activity. The long-term effect -- before my efforts were over ruled by ignorant higher ups -- was to elevate the discussion and make the blog comment space more welcoming, nurturing and interesting. I think you’re absolutely correct.
In my time moderating the blog comments at JewishJournal.com, I felt it necessary to limit certain members to X number of comments per day.
These were the nitpicking pedants who were quick to attack spelling mistakes, grammar, typos, etc. as well as the trolls and haters who apparently enjoyed online flame wars as a recreational activity.
The throttling of ‘power posters’ helped the tone of the discussion immensely, although the immediate, short-term effect was a decrease in activity.
The long-term effect — before my efforts were over ruled by ignorant higher ups — was to elevate the discussion and make the blog comment space more welcoming, nurturing and interesting.

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