Comments on: Comments are not just for comments http://ash10.com/2009/10/comments-are-not-just-for-comments/ Pete Ashton helps you understand how the Internet works. Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:10:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: LS http://ash10.com/2009/10/comments-are-not-just-for-comments/#comment-10936 LS Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:41:48 +0000 http://ash10.com/?p=739#comment-10936 It was a very good gig, one of three in the UK not two though. My daughter was babbling about these comments on the way to the gig, I was concentrating on driving and assumed she was referring to a forum on the KoC site. Coincidentally I got a response from Birmingham Academy via Twitter yesterday where a previous email failed to get a reply. It was a very good gig, one of three in the UK not two though. My daughter was babbling about these comments on the way to the gig, I was concentrating on driving and assumed she was referring to a forum on the KoC site. Coincidentally I got a response from Birmingham Academy via Twitter yesterday where a previous email failed to get a reply.

]]> By: Jake Grimley http://ash10.com/2009/10/comments-are-not-just-for-comments/#comment-10933 Jake Grimley Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:19:18 +0000 http://ash10.com/?p=739#comment-10933 Thanks for writing this Pete, we were delighted when we noticed this breaking out on Warwick Arts. Comments on events started out as the more savvy alternative to moderated 'send a review' forms, but on The REP, you'd commonly see people ask pre-gig questions, which could then be answered by the comms team. For every one who asked the question perhaps ten people who didn't got the answer. So yes -- even a flat comment stream can foster an ad-hoc community. And this is just even better. Perhaps because moderation has been switched off altogether.<br><br>Perhaps one are where we're missing out is by not promoting the comment stream onto the home page. Then you wouldn't even need to know about Kings of Convenience to twig that something interesting was going on. Thanks for writing this Pete, we were delighted when we noticed this breaking out on Warwick Arts. Comments on events started out as the more savvy alternative to moderated 'send a review' forms, but on The REP, you'd commonly see people ask pre-gig questions, which could then be answered by the comms team. For every one who asked the question perhaps ten people who didn't got the answer. So yes — even a flat comment stream can foster an ad-hoc community. And this is just even better. Perhaps because moderation has been switched off altogether.

Perhaps one are where we're missing out is by not promoting the comment stream onto the home page. Then you wouldn't even need to know about Kings of Convenience to twig that something interesting was going on.

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