The experiment has been a positive one. We are now posting more diverse stories than ever to Facebook. We are no longer moderating a space with few controls. The impact on our web traffic has been marginal. The well-being of our staff has improved, according to an internal survey we conducted during the experiment.
My workplace has a very heavy Facebook presence and we just switched to disabling comments by default on all posts about three weeks ago. It's definitely hurt our engagement (and killed our...
My workplace has a very heavy Facebook presence and we just switched to disabling comments by default on all posts about three weeks ago. It's definitely hurt our engagement (and killed our ability to run ads, since you can't turn off comments on those) but we've been surprised that the number of shares for each post has gone up because instead of commenting, people will share the post to their timeline and comment there.
We've been very happy with the change. It's freed up a lot of our time so that we don't have to constantly monitor posts or comments.
I tend to be a bit more free speech oriented, but most website comment sections annoy me, and I agree with this decision. Full of ranting, zero-effort comments. Newspapers didn’t accept every rant...
I tend to be a bit more free speech oriented, but most website comment sections annoy me, and I agree with this decision. Full of ranting, zero-effort comments. Newspapers didn’t accept every rant to the editor. If websites want to publish feedback, they will do just fine highlighting a few letters to the editor.
I just finished watching the latest episode of a truly heartbreaking CBC mini-documentary called Generation Homeless on YouTube (which I will probably share here on Tildes once it's complete). But...
I just finished watching the latest episode of a truly heartbreaking CBC mini-documentary called Generation Homeless on YouTube (which I will probably share here on Tildes once it's complete). But what makes that relevant to this topic is that there was a comment on the episode from someone claiming they now refuse to watch all CBC content because of this Facebook decision, and also accusing them of "infringing" on people's "rights" to "criticize" their content. So apparently someone was so pissed off about this decision that they felt the need to go to YouTube, find the CBC's channel, click a random video totally unrelated to that decision, and type out said comment. 🤦
My workplace has a very heavy Facebook presence and we just switched to disabling comments by default on all posts about three weeks ago. It's definitely hurt our engagement (and killed our ability to run ads, since you can't turn off comments on those) but we've been surprised that the number of shares for each post has gone up because instead of commenting, people will share the post to their timeline and comment there.
We've been very happy with the change. It's freed up a lot of our time so that we don't have to constantly monitor posts or comments.
Here's hoping more people follow suit.
I tend to be a bit more free speech oriented, but most website comment sections annoy me, and I agree with this decision. Full of ranting, zero-effort comments. Newspapers didn’t accept every rant to the editor. If websites want to publish feedback, they will do just fine highlighting a few letters to the editor.
I just finished watching the latest episode of a truly heartbreaking CBC mini-documentary called Generation Homeless on YouTube (which I will probably share here on Tildes once it's complete). But what makes that relevant to this topic is that there was a comment on the episode from someone claiming they now refuse to watch all CBC content because of this Facebook decision, and also accusing them of "infringing" on people's "rights" to "criticize" their content. So apparently someone was so pissed off about this decision that they felt the need to go to YouTube, find the CBC's channel, click a random video totally unrelated to that decision, and type out said comment. 🤦