Feed Comment Exporter

[jjhunter]

Title:
Feed Comment Exporter

Area:
Feeds

Summary:
Ability to export one's comment on a feed directly to the original without leaving DW. Co-develop with 'Feed Ghost Comments'?

Description:
One drawback to using feeds on DW to track posters on sites such as LiveJournal is the activation energy required to go comment on the original post. An option to export (not cross-post) one's comment on the DW feed to the original would increase the overall response rate to that original post.

Possible complications: if it isn't possible to view the comments on the original post through the DW feed, this would give a negative incentive to disregard the /comment/ context into which one is commenting. See suggestion 'Feed Ghost Comments' for possible fix.

Tools in the same family: x-posting (could use variant to export comment & 'post' it under one's username on that other site); comment importing when moving journals.

Poll #2557 Feed Comment Exporter

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Should be implemented as-is.
3 (10.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
19 (63.3%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (26.7%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[kyrielle]

I think the alternate idea on the other suggestion would address this, but technically I'd expect this to be very difficult. The mechanism for posting comments to other sites will vary depending on the site code (in fact, some don't support it at all; even for LJ, comments could be disabled) and may require response to a captcha. It would be better to simply route the users to the post on the original site and not provide misleading/distracting links that only lead to the DW-based comments.

[jjhunter]

Thanks for the feedback; you make excellent points.

I do find it a bit odd that, as the system stands, one can comment on the feed itself, and presumably have a full conversation at a remove from the original post and the original poster's comment restrictions/moderating.

ratcreature's suggestion provides a non-misleading/distracting way of addressing that, but it might be worth just turning off the ability to make comments on feeds altogether from an ethical point of view.

[susanreads]

Also, the posts on the feed, together with any comments made on them, disappear after 14 days, so I don't see the point of being able to comment there; it's just confusing.

[denise]

The ability to comment on feeds (or rather, the reason LJ never turned off comments on feed accounts) came from the fact that many of the popular feeds on LJ don't have comments turned on at the original posting location.

[kyrielle]

But then when you have a feed that can, you've got two discussions. When you have a feed that can't, you're ignoring the original creator's wishes about commenting - and you have comments that will get trashed in two weeks.

I'm not sure it needs to be turned off, but I'm not sure it's right to be on either; just...playing devil's advocate and exploring the ideas.

[denise]

Oh, I have zero opinion one way or the other, just sharing why it's like that. (Every time turning off comments on LJ feeds was mentioned, there was massive protest from the people who liked to have discussion in, say, the XKCD feed.)

[kyrielle]

That makes sense and is good to know. I just didn't want to come across as feeling strongly about it, when I'm also just floating thoughts. I can see the argument the other way, especially for feeds that lack comments not because the writer doesn't want comments but because a) the site fails to bother or b) the writer doesn't want to have to moderate/be emailed/see the comments. Feed comments don't cause problems in those cases....