Comments on: Introducing our readers’ editor, your new pen pal at Crikey

By: stuart cox

stuart cox — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:39:25 +0000

In reply to stuart cox. That Grundle comment just didn't work, not much of that comment did it should be removed. It was frustrated, rushed and poorly aimed. , err sorry about that.

By: drastic

drastic — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 02:56:23 +0000

For me, whatever happened to Julia who wrote from the bush? Far more interest in that than the american news which is constant for god knows what reason but thankfully not so much here – zero would be better imo. PNG and NZ are neighbours, but no word? Never been on social media, so I don’t really want to pay for that; like giving money for cancer researchers to torture small animals. Media talking about media may be easy, and there’s been plenty of that here recently, but when a subject has been done to death, move on. Cheers.

By: Crystal Andrews

Crystal Andrews — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 02:45:46 +0000

In reply to MJM. Cam's given a good explanation of why comment moderation is that way it is for now, but I'll add that we're aware of the frustration and will be looking at ways we might be able to improve the on-site discussions later this year. It's a bigger project so will take some time, but know that we're not ignoring the feedback!

By: Crystal Andrews

Crystal Andrews — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 02:38:02 +0000

In reply to jayho. This is a fun idea! You're the first to suggest it that I know of, but someone's gotta be first right?

By: drastic

drastic — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 02:37:01 +0000

In reply to Cam Wilson. Perfectly. Life's too short to get aggro that MY comment (obviously SO important - not) has to wait.

By: stuart cox

stuart cox — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 02:17:12 +0000

In reply to stuart cox. And an edit button for Tourettes .

By: stuart cox

stuart cox — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 02:13:02 +0000

Think big Crystal, think bloody big , a national news/analysis/ idea development platform that presents itself as a community service aimed at competing directly with the oligarch owners of msm.
Run the hat around and think buying a license and going free to air., a similar demographic.
Advertise in all their mastheads in a conciliatory yet friendly competitive way by pointing out the bleeding obvious, they have a monopoly and need healthy competition to regain market share, handing them a target and a new audience to the pool.
Media outlets have huge influence and in this age of misinformation in all its guises the people will come in the hope of some clarity.
If the ABC does eventually remove the conservative political influence of the neoliberal duopoly of the day from its midst your market share will shrink, then its time to go back to small and the goal of a healthier media environment will have been achieved.
At some stage the firewall will have to be dropped to maximise influence anyway.
I don’t think many people here underestimate how manipulative the big mastheads are and how much they affect politics.
Start voluntary means tested subscriptions.
Ask the great writers /journos/pollies to write a piece that is close to their heart as a community service.
Use a category reference section that can be built on for educative purposes.
Use the community radio network for their people and development of ideas.
Pay for Grundles before and after therapy and get him on Q and A in a Maggie Tabberer inspired moomoo, replete with a nervous twitch, lisp or stutter or even late onset Teuret flare up, it will increase your audience.
Ask for a debate with Bolt the subject could be ” is it right that the ABC has to carry the can for everyone who isn’t neoliberal and although highly improbable , is it even possible ”
Politely point out when he has stated something illogical or irrelevant.

By: Jack Robertson

Jack Robertson — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 11:14:38 +0000

Welcome, Crystal, good luck. The only jobs I've done that are worst that moderator/comments editor on a political website are cleaning the sh*t out of luxury yacht toilet tanks, and advocating the community benefit of a local abattoir upgrade to a regional Greens party meeting. (Lot of cross-over skills in play there). So FWIW here's a few useful tips which might help you settle in.

All my comments are polished gems, every time and all of the time, and each one should be published in full, without delay.
This is solely for the benefit of other Crikey readers, who in the main are fragile, fey and foolish political progressives, in keen want of rigorous intellectual guidance and stern moral instruction from their socially conservative betters.
Those few among us readers who publish our comments under our real names are of a higher moral and intellectual quality than the anonymous riff-raff who skulk behind avatars, so we should probably get special treatment from Crikey. Free subscription, say, and a little flashing gold star emoji beside our names.
What do you think of the groovy internet meme 'Soft Pap Prog'? Huh? Huh? Pretty catchy, don't you think? It's gunna catch on more widely, I think. What do you think? Is it gunna catch on? More widely?
Just putting it out there, anyway. I mean, you could really think about it.
Don't take a backward step.
Like it or not, you're now God around here.
Good luck with that!

Really, good luck. It's a very, very good new role to see. This here internet thing is an e-Ferrari, and yet even after 30-odd years on the road it's mostly still being driven as if it's a steam-powered Volksie. Jam your stiletto to the floor and see what, epistemically, it can really do.

By: Peter Schulz

Peter Schulz — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 10:07:25 +0000

Welcome Crystal. Maybe you could start by decreasing the number of articles that have “All comments will be moderated before publication”. These articles significantly increase the workload of your moderators, and the moderators seem to cope with this by ignoring any comments added after a few days. Tough titty for any readers who wish to continue the discussion after this. We’re not all millennials with the attention span of a fly!

I’ve been trying to continue a perfectly respectful and innocuous conversation with another Crikey reader about an article published on 15 August, but any comment I’ve tried to add over the past week has just disappeared. Very annoying.

By: MJM

MJM — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 08:47:16 +0000

In reply to Cam Wilson. Yes we all understand the defamation problem and how expensive that can be. But a comment about the sound made by a penguin grieving the death of its mate, fits a risk profile?