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June 20, 2005
Bloggers Could Have Told Them It Would Be a Problem
Frank Barnako relates that:
“The Los Angeles Times' experiment with readers' comments on editorials came to a crashing halt over the weekend. Trouble occurred soon after the newspaper, owned by Tribune Co. (TRB), posted an editorial about the Iraq war, and opened it for comments, additions and corrections. "Unfortunately, we have had to remove this feature, at least temporarily, because a few readers were flooding the site with inappropriate material," said a message on the Times' Web site. Michael Kinsley, the newspaper's editorial and opinion editor, was pleased that hundreds of people did respond to the invitation to add their two cents to the paper's opinion. However, he added, the mischief was "quite a strange thing."
At SCO, like many other blogs, we know all about inappropriate commenters spamming up our site.
Posted by Jim at June 20, 2005 01:41 PM