Cleveland.com Embraces It's Anonymous Commenters

"Virtually every news Web site invites reader comments, but few embrace the garrulous members of their audiences the way Cleveland.com does. The online home of The Plain Dealer and Sun News actually treats its best commenters not only as news consumers but also as news makers."

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I did a double-take when I saw this pop up on Poynter.org's twitter feed. No actual Indians stuff in the article, but I figured it would be of interest here.

9 months ago TonyH 13 comments 0 recs |

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I’m not sure what the meaning of “best” is in this context…

by still ill on Aug 18, 2011 1:37 PM EDT reply actions

Most frequent?

Most rabid?

Farthest removed from reality?

by JulioBernazard on Aug 18, 2011 2:30 PM EDT up reply actions

its

by Jay on Aug 18, 2011 2:12 PM EDT reply actions 3 recs

Here's your visual.

by YoDaddyWags on Aug 18, 2011 4:03 PM EDT up reply actions

No, that would be “It’s.”

by Jay on Aug 20, 2011 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions

We had him leave out the apostrophe for this shot.

by YoDaddyWags on Aug 20, 2011 6:09 PM EDT up reply actions

I’ve asked a number of times for all of cle.com’s “Comment of the Day” and pieces from “Starting Blocks” to be omitted from their RSS feed as “articles”.
Unsurprisingly, my requests have fallen on deaf ears.

by The DiaTriber on Aug 18, 2011 2:20 PM EDT reply actions

Since I no longer work for the company that did it, I suppose I can now note that I did a bunch of work on the backend of cleveland.com a couple of years ago, and as such I hereby apologize for enabling all those awful commenters.

It is entirely possible that my login there still works & I can go in & delete things to my heart’s content, but probably unwise to push it. But man is it tempting.

*sigh*

by zempf on Aug 18, 2011 2:49 PM EDT reply actions 3 recs

Come up with what your possible negative financial exposure is so we can consider Hannahan-flighting you.

OCab is no longer my bête noire.

by stuart dean on Aug 18, 2011 6:57 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

I think it would be tough to prove damages.

by Jay on Aug 19, 2011 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs

wow

by stuart dean on Aug 20, 2011 3:53 PM EDT up reply actions

A few years ago, I wrote a script to hide all comments on cle.com. You can still find it on userscripts.org. No idea if it still works. I figure if there’s anything newsworthy on that site, I’ll find out about it eventually.

by FredOx on Aug 18, 2011 3:33 PM EDT reply actions