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- 4:18 PM
- Adrianne Jeffries turned on guest access
- [4:18 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: it's open
- tweet the link at 4:20
- https://www.hipchat.com/g3XT2Zrwp
- [4:20 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: @sarah https://www.hipchat.com/g3XT2Zrwp
- [4:20 PM] Sarah Emerson: got it
- [4:20 PM] HipChat: Hi @RachelPickGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:20 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: @RachelPickGuest you're first!
- what do you think of motherboard removing the comment section?
- [4:20 PM] HipChat: Hi @TedHanGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- 4:21 PM
- Adrianne Jeffries changed the topic to: comments about comment
- 4:21 PM
- Adrianne Jeffries changed the topic to: comments about comments
- [4:20 PM] Rachel Pick: i am a fan
- [4:20 PM] HipChat: Hi @SophieWeinerGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:21 PM] HipChat: Hi @colinjonesGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:21 PM] HipChat: Hi @NicholasWeaverGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:21 PM] HipChat: Hi @JunkieGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:21 PM] HipChat: Hi @hryGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:21 PM] HipChat: Hi @DarylGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:21 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: hey guests, we are talking today about why motherboard decided to close down comments, how you like the site, and what you would like to see there
- [4:21 PM] HipChat: Hi @BrendanMcGeeverGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:21 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: thank you for joining
- 4:21 PM
- Adrianne Jeffries changed the topic to: we are talking today about why motherboard decided to close down comments, how you like the site, and what you would like to see there
- [4:21 PM] HipChat: Hi @EricHolderGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:21 PM] HipChat: Hi @PhantomGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:21 PM] Sophie Weiner: so... why?
- [4:21 PM] Brendan McGeever: Why did motherboard decide to close down comments?
- [4:22 PM] HipChat: Hi @AlexisMadrigalGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:22 PM] HipChat: Hi @AJGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:22 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: they were full of spam and racism and we don't have enough resources to make sure they were good
- [4:22 PM] HipChat: Hi @BrianPaulGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:22 PM] HipChat: Hi @EdwardSnowdenGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:22 PM] Daryl: bring back IRC
- [4:22 PM] Rachel Pick: not to mention, most of the time we didn't get any comments at all!
- [4:22 PM] Brian Merchant: hey everyone
- [4:22 PM] HipChat: Hi @FelicityBootGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:22 PM] Brendan McGeever: Similar to the flame train that was the Verge comments section
- [4:22 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: i wish we had some full time moderators and a healthy comment section but we don't have enough people right now and we'd rather have them spend their time reporting and editing
- [4:22 PM] HipChat: Hi @DaveSternGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:22 PM] Sophie Weiner: that seems pretty legit. i wish everyone would shut down comments.
- [4:22 PM] Kari Paul: hi @BrianPaulGuest
- [4:23 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: either that or take it seriously
- [4:22 PM] Junkie: The Verge closed the comments during the summer, and now I'm maybe visiting it once a week... It conversation kept me there... And now is MB doing the same... I think it is a bad decsicion.
- [4:23 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: and put moderators on it
- [4:23 PM] Brian Merchant: 98% of comment sections are cesspools
- [4:23 PM] Brian Paul: SALUTATIONS @kari
- [4:23 PM] HipChat: Hi @ggGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:23 PM] HipChat: Hi @fullnameGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:23 PM] Edward Snowden: Hello friend hello
- [4:23 PM] HipChat: Hi @HarmonyLuGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:23 PM] Clinton Nguyen: @EdwardSnowdenGuest how ripped are you
- [4:23 PM] Phantom: Comment sections are a central area where everyone can discuss an article. De-centralizing it so there are pockets of discussion on social media (which already exist regardless) seems ridiculous. Why are so many left-leaning websites shutting down comment sections? I mean it is exclusively leftist sites. Are you afraid of #cyberviolence ????
- [4:23 PM] Sarah Jeong: hi @EdwardSnowdenGuest
- [4:23 PM] Brian Merchant: anyone who has ever read and/or written about climate change or gamergate loathes loading up those comments
- [4:23 PM] gg: ay so why was the comment section shut down?
- [4:24 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: they are also a place to harass writers which i'm sure any journalists in here understand
- [4:23 PM] HipChat: Hi @CRYOSLEEPKITTENGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:23 PM] HipChat: Hi @MatMcDermottGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:23 PM] Evan Rodgers: SUP INTERNET RANDOS?
- [4:23 PM] Derek Mead: i think that by moving to something that we all think is fun—letters—it gives us fresh perspective on what we would want comments to do
- [4:23 PM] Junkie: On the Dutch website Tweakers dot net there is a wonderful commenting system, with rating, hiding, promoting...
- [4:23 PM] Evan Rodgers: ilu so much
- [4:23 PM] Brendan McGeever: Sup
- [4:24 PM] Jordan Pearson: i get more constructive comments on twitter than i do the comments
- [4:24 PM] Phantom: Shut down the comments! MUHHH CYBER VIOLENCE!!!
- [4:24 PM] Jason Koebler: @JunkieGuest that's fair, but did you ever come to Motherboard for the conversation? We have never had a thriving comment section and when there was conversation it was racism or totally disjointed
- [4:24 PM] Jordan Pearson: i think its telling that people discussing comment shutdowns are doing it on twitter
- [4:24 PM] Nicholas Weaver: @dm So you are going to a letters to the editor format? Good
- [4:24 PM] Sophie Weiner: so you're going to have like a "letters to the editor" type thing?
- [4:24 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: @PhantomGuest and @ggGuest just said this before you got here but i will repeat
- [4:24 PM] Jordan Pearson: also i like emails
- [4:24 PM] HipChat: Hi @AssmasterGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:24 PM] Daryl: Evan how ripped are you
- [4:24 PM] Evan Rodgers: more like cheddar to the editor
- [4:24 PM] Kari Paul: I love comments personally
- but I dont have to moderate them so
- [4:24 PM] Evan Rodgers: holy fuck daryl is in here
- [4:24 PM] Kari Paul: i also love when people tweet at me
- [4:25 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: the comments were full of spam and racism and we don't have enough resources to make sure they were good. i wish we had some full time moderators and a healthy comment section but we don't have enough people right now and we'd rather have them spend their time reporting and editing. letters to the editor lets us get feedback and keep it at a higher level.
- [4:24 PM] Junkie: @JK Thats a bit true...
- [4:24 PM] Brian Merchant: yes! one thing we should have made clearer is that we will 100% publish letters to the editor
- [4:24 PM] HipChat: Hi @NcwhitecapGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:24 PM] Brian Merchant: when they are good and thoughftul
- [4:24 PM] HipChat: Hi @parkerhigginsGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:24 PM] Derek Mead: that's very clear @BM
- [4:24 PM] gg: fair play
- [4:24 PM] Daryl: Daryl is always watching
- [4:25 PM] Brendan McGeever: Go the twitch chat route. Only payed website subs can comment on articles #Kappa
- [4:25 PM] Brian Merchant: and they will be better than comments ever were
- [4:25 PM] Sophie Weiner: that seems smart
- [4:25 PM] HipChat: Hi @TylerGoldGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:25 PM] Brian Merchant: and especially when they disagree with us and are well-written
- [4:25 PM] Evan Rodgers: uhhhhh daryl no... these people are innocent...
- [4:25 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: we also had a trash comment system and if you're listening disqus, you are terrible
- [4:25 PM] HipChat: Hi @TheodoreManginiGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:25 PM] Edward Snowden: NSA is watching you
- [4:25 PM] Phantom: Can you define racism @AJ since lefitst consider literally any opposition to their viewpoint as racism? Hey look Obama bombed a hospital. RACIST!
- [4:25 PM] Derek Mead: if we could only have people comment in bitcoin i would vote for that
- [4:25 PM] Nicholas Weaver: I agree with that decision. Comment sections are awful, but letters to the editor forces the contributor to be better
- [4:25 PM] Derek Mead: @PhantomGuest have you read our website before
- [4:25 PM] HipChat: Hi @CreightonGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:25 PM] HipChat: Hi @SparkzillaGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:25 PM] HipChat: Hi @ColinRabyniukGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:25 PM] Clinton Nguyen: moreover the comments worth reading aren't elevated to the point where they need to be
- [4:25 PM] Derek Mead: i'm pretty sure you're talking about someone else
- [4:25 PM] Brian Merchant: i know @dm but to the people who just saw the tweet and blew up, which was like 70% of the controversy I think
- [4:26 PM] Derek Mead: oh
- [4:26 PM] HipChat: Hi @MrMGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:26 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: @phato
- [4:26 PM] HipChat: Hi @TiffanyZhongtzhonggGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:26 PM] Brian Merchant: @NicholasWeaverGuest please write us one!
- [4:26 PM] Tiffany Zhong @tzhongg: what is happening
- [4:26 PM] Creighton: I want to know why Derek Mead asked twitter about how much of a film you could make in 15 seconds
- [4:26 PM] HipChat: Hi @MarkDorisonGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:26 PM] Tiffany Zhong @tzhongg: hi @ER
- [4:26 PM] Daryl: Creighton wanna get brunch this weekend?
- [4:26 PM] HipChat: Hi @BillyGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:26 PM] HipChat: Hi @AdnanBouhamidiGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:26 PM] Derek Mead: @CreightonGuest it's for a secret project, you'll see it soon
- [4:26 PM] Evan Rodgers: sup @TiffanyZhongtzhonggGuest !
- [4:27 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: WELL @CreightonGuest i'm not sure if we can announce the answer yet but you can DM me
- [4:26 PM] Derek Mead: i'm not sure what the definition of "soon" is
- [4:26 PM] HipChat: Hi @ChristopherGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:26 PM] Brendan McGeever: If I want to read the reception to an article, people can still comment on the posts linking to the article on facebook.
- [4:26 PM] Creighton: Daryl, I always want to get brunch
- [4:27 PM] Brian Merchant: can i get in on that creighton
- [4:27 PM] Christopher: Wait -- I want to get brunch
- [4:27 PM] Nicholas Weaver: will when its is appropriate, but then again, half the articles I'd have a meaningful letter to write are ones where the reporter asks me something, so I tend to make sure that it gest right the first time. :)
- [4:27 PM] HipChat: Hi @jcoscoGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:27 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: lol @ whoever signed up as christopherguest
- [4:27 PM] parker higgins: i want people to know my opinion about articles i read
- [4:27 PM] HipChat: Hi @BenjaminHamblinPykeGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:27 PM] Tiffany Zhong @tzhongg: I've never used Hipchat before. This is so weird.
- [4:27 PM] Creighton: Adrianne / Derek I can wait.
- [4:27 PM] Rachel Pick: posts are also followed by a link to the author's twitter, so you can talk to us directly
- [4:27 PM] Creighton: We should all get brunch
- [4:27 PM] Brendan McGeever: Hipchat was too hip for me, this is new for me
- [4:27 PM] parker higgins: i have opinions about things
- [4:27 PM] Christopher: hip chat is fucking dope
- [4:27 PM] HipChat: Hi @EBregerGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:28 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: @NicholasWeaverGuest and we're very grateful for your responsiveness too
- [4:27 PM] Brendan McGeever: Lets do brunch, Creighton
- [4:27 PM] Creighton: I basically have a standing invite at Mud
- [4:27 PM] HipChat: Hi @CarlSpicemanGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:27 PM] Christopher: but i wish we were all talking over brunch now
- [4:28 PM] Daryl: Motherboard brunch: make it happen
- [4:28 PM] Nicholas Weaver: Outreach/broader impacts. NSF likes having researchers who try to talk to the press.
- [4:28 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: @parkerhigginsGuest i heard you have a blog
- [4:28 PM] Daryl: motherbrunch
- [4:28 PM] HipChat: Hi @HdkdnekeGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:28 PM] Christopher: maybs some avocado toast with some curry
- [4:28 PM] Sarah Jeong: for what it's worth I never read the comments on my articles and I almost always read what people tweet at / email to me, so if you want to take a crack at harassing me that's the best way
- [4:28 PM] Evan Rodgers: i would destroy some eggs right now
- [4:28 PM] Christopher: curry avocado????
- [4:28 PM] HipChat: Hi @AsterDreadGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:28 PM] HipChat: Hi @BradleyGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:28 PM] Christopher: one poached egg, lone in a bowl per person
- [4:28 PM] Kaleigh Rogers: I can second @SJ on that front
- [4:28 PM] Brendan McGeever: Motherbrunch, your source for breakfast conversation.
- [4:28 PM] Kari Paul: I read all the comments always
- [4:28 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: i used to read the comments at the verge which were good until they collapsed and turned into a lot of threatening the writers
- [4:28 PM] Aster Dread: Hello
- [4:28 PM] parker higgins: i blog about every article at motherboard but nobody reads it
- [4:28 PM] Tyler Gold: hey
- [4:29 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: the community moderators there were great
- [4:28 PM] HipChat: Hi @SavGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:29 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: the dev team built a tool so i could get alerts when i got new comments, even on old stories
- [4:28 PM] Nicholas Weaver: Which get the worst comment threads? Global Warming? Gamergate? Bitcoin?
- [4:28 PM] parker higgins: "this article was ok"
- [4:29 PM] HipChat: Hi @LeoEffGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:28 PM] Derek Mead: that sounds not fun
- [4:29 PM] Christopher: no for real though, fuck comments
- glad you turned them off
- [4:29 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: anything about women @NicholasWeaverGuest
- [4:29 PM] Jordan Pearson: usually anything to do with women
- [4:29 PM] Tyler Gold: when i used to work at the verge, moderating comments was my favorite and also least favorite thing to do
- [4:29 PM] Christopher: comments ruin everything
- [4:29 PM] full name: Disqus?
- [4:29 PM] HipChat: Hi @albeGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:29 PM] Kari Paul: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-does-in-flight-wi-fi-drop-over-new-mexico-due-to-government-res...this article had the best comments from anything ive written
- [4:29 PM] Sophie Weiner: i actually never read comments, but i did on my motherboard article, and they weren't horrible! that was one time though. and it wasn't something controversial.
- [4:29 PM] Kari Paul: wifi theories
- [4:29 PM] parker higgins: i think it's ok to get rid of comments but i worry about how sad it will make mathew ingram
- [4:29 PM] Creighton: I think I like sites more without comments.
- [4:29 PM] Derek Mead: disqus has terrible mod tools
- [4:29 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: disqus is terrible and a piece of trash @fullnameGuest
- [4:29 PM] Brendan McGeever: I remember Verge comments back when the site launched. Things were so constructive and nice. It's like a site is either niche/obscure or doesn't have a comment section now.
- [4:29 PM] Nicholas Weaver: @AJ Why am I depressed but not surprised.
- [4:29 PM] full name: I feel like pple are more likely to not be trolls if they have a history of what they say
- [4:29 PM] jcosco: When Vice had a comment section, did it also have community managers? What happened to the people whose jobs needed the comment section to exist?
- [4:29 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: @jcoscoGuest to be clear, vice still has comments
- [4:29 PM] Junkie: But you want to push the comments to other social networks? FB or Twitter?
- [4:29 PM] Kaleigh Rogers: Anyone who is unhappy with the decision: what are your concerns? What are you worried we will lose?
- [4:30 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: motherboard is one of >10 vice sites
- [4:29 PM] Evan Rodgers: they were killed, obviously
- [4:29 PM] Daryl: I am happy to moderate comments, I will destroy them all
- [4:29 PM] Brian Merchant: we never really had a community manager at MB
- [4:30 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: most of them have comments, except for broadly, the women's site
- [4:29 PM] Kari Paul: anything about gamergate worst comments
- [4:29 PM] Phantom: Comments already exist on social media
- [4:30 PM] Leo Eff: I think Vice articles in general have had such polarity in the comments sections. Tons of butthurt combatants and trolls, but some absolutely brilliant stuff too
- [4:30 PM] Aster Dread: I like reading the shitshow in the comments
- [4:30 PM] HipChat: Hi @DanielAxelrodGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:30 PM] Tyler Gold: once a site gets too large moderating becomes a lot of work
- [4:30 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: we have social media managers but not community managers
- [4:30 PM] Brian Merchant: right
- [4:30 PM] Christopher: comments are like some kind of black hole, there should be psychological studies into this shit
- [4:30 PM] Brendan McGeever: Does motherboard have a forums section?
- [4:30 PM] Aster Dread: Its like watching a carcrash
- [4:30 PM] Leo Eff: i am presuming, here, that they've been shut down because of gamergate fuckmouthed malcontent MRAs, right?
- [4:30 PM] HipChat: Hi @LauraBGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:30 PM] Brian Merchant: you're in it right now
- [4:30 PM] HipChat: Hi @SethCarsonGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:30 PM] HipChat: Hi @ChrisStokesGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:30 PM] parker higgins: now instead of leaving comments i just whisper to myself my opinion about what i just read, seems to work ok
- [4:30 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: no forums
- [4:30 PM] Evan Rodgers: wow you guys haven't told them about the secret forums?
- [4:30 PM] Brendan McGeever: lol
- [4:30 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: shush evan
- [4:30 PM] Jordan Pearson: the secret MB forum is dank
- i meanw
- what forum
- [4:30 PM] Christopher: vice should move to the dark web
- [4:31 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: i have literally suggested that
- [4:30 PM] parker higgins: *whispers* boy she really got that monkey-repping attorney good
- [4:31 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: for motherboard
- [4:30 PM] Brian Paul: That would be so edgy
- [4:31 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: high five parker
- [4:31 PM] Christopher: l;ol
- [4:31 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: self commenting
- [4:31 PM] Ross Neumann: it's sort of like self deporting
- [4:31 PM] Leo Eff: new rule: comments must be handwritten and mailed
- [4:31 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: faxed
- [4:31 PM] Leo Eff: for motherboard. for IRONY
- [4:31 PM] Christopher: @LeoEffGuest dig that
- [4:31 PM] HipChat: Hi @ColinGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:31 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: we read all our faxes
- [4:31 PM] Sav: You could create communities not built on comments, like power Facebook groups, twitter groups, etc for motherboard vips. Curated, by invite only. Gets the good folks close.
- [4:31 PM] Creighton: I would definately comment if I had to write and mail a letter
- [4:31 PM] Junkie: Can't we do a comment IRC chat? :p
- [4:31 PM] Christopher: for real
- [4:31 PM] Aster Dread: yeah letters to the editor
- [4:31 PM] Derek Mead: [image: /Applications/HipChat.app/Contents/Resources/file_type_image@2x.png]Screen Shot 2015-10-06 at 4.31.40 PM.png 6.5K
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- [4:31 PM] colin jones: potato comments
- [4:31 PM] Aster Dread: thats what old people do
- [4:32 PM] Creighton: You could do a weekly letters post.
- [4:32 PM] Derek Mead: @JunkieGuest i'm down with IRC
- [4:32 PM] Brendan McGeever: Like I said, monetize comments. The future of monetizing written pieces online. $4.99 a month for no ads and commenting privileges.
- [4:32 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: yes you have to mail your comment in on a potato
- [4:32 PM] parker higgins: *whispers* i liked the part where she napped
- [4:32 PM] Sarah Jeong: I can't believe Mathew Ingram didn't come to Hipchat
- [4:32 PM] Rachel Pick: we also do have a subreddit
- [4:32 PM] Sarah Emerson: i read all of your facebook comments and now i'm in therapy
- [4:32 PM] Leo Eff: i.......have to admit...i sorta liked the old Kotaku style, star-earning
- [4:32 PM] Brian Merchant: maybe he's here under a codename @SJ
- [4:32 PM] Ross Neumann: someone should @ Mathew on twitter
- and invite him
- [4:32 PM] Leo Eff: i know that's petty bullshit, but that could also help. dunno
- [4:32 PM] Rachel Pick: but a lot of the posts are about actual motherboards
- [4:33 PM] Leo Eff: comments must be submitted on breadboards?
- [4:33 PM] Jason Koebler: in all seriousness we should open up a fax number
- [4:33 PM] Harmony Lu: i think every now and then radio motherboard should have a call-in segment from the listeners
- [4:33 PM] Junkie: @CreightonGuest On the Dutch gaming website, Gamekings dot TV, they have a letter-monday video, every week. That is also a fun to watch.
- [4:33 PM] colin jones: I'll tweet at him
- [4:33 PM] Kari Paul: I thought the comments on the stories themselves were better than the facebook comments
- [4:33 PM] HipChat: Hi @gGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:33 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: i like that idea @HarmonyLuGuest
- [4:33 PM] Phantom: The UN thanks you for deleting comments. We couldn't limit speech and #cyberviolence without you
- [4:33 PM] Daniel Axelrod: where is F. Randall Farmer when you need him?
- [4:33 PM] Jason Koebler: @HarmonyLuGuest i'm down to do that
- [4:33 PM] Kari Paul: I still want a newsletter of the worst comments @sarah
- [4:33 PM] Brian Merchant: i hereby pledge to publish every hand-written letter i am sent with a comment on it
- [4:34 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: did everyone listen to the podcast where jason gave out his cell phone number
- [4:33 PM] Brendan McGeever: a system that takes comments and translates them to one of those old timey morse code receivers
- [4:33 PM] Jason Koebler: I've left my cell phone number on two different radio motherboards and have talked to some listeners
- [4:33 PM] Creighton: @JunkieGuest I think this is a good idea.
- [4:33 PM] Leo Eff: I hereby pledge to send hand-written letters
- [4:34 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: in the hopes that elon musk would call
- [4:33 PM] HipChat: Hi @LGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:33 PM] Leo Eff: where do they get sent to? address?
- i'm like 85% serious
- [4:34 PM] Sarah Jeong: I always wanted to do a YouTube channel where I read terrible comments out loud
- [4:34 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: 90 N. 11th Street Brooklyn, NY 11222
- [4:34 PM] Sarah Emerson: @kari i want to do this and call it shitboard
- [4:34 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: remember it has to be on a potato
- [4:34 PM] Leo Eff: bet
- [4:34 PM] Derek Mead: @PhantomGuest hashtags don't work in here
- [4:34 PM] Sophie Weiner: molly soda did that
- [4:34 PM] Leo Eff: oh it's potato post-only?
- [4:34 PM] Kari Paul: pls
- [4:34 PM] Sophie Weiner: she read comments for 10 hours
- [4:34 PM] Sarah Jeong: nice
- [4:34 PM] Leo Eff: does the potato have to be fried?
- [4:34 PM] Junkie: @dm Making a dedicated IRC channel, so people can visit the channel and dump a comment or something. And one day a week (video) post with user-letters. :D
- [4:34 PM] Sophie Weiner: or tumblr asks i guess
- [4:35 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: no just regular idaho potato
- [4:34 PM] Brian Merchant: i will accept all notes written on tubers
- [4:34 PM] Brendan McGeever: a comment section that only accepts animated gifs
- [4:34 PM] Derek Mead: i'm into it
- [4:35 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: this is also how we feed the interns
- [4:35 PM] Leo Eff: fuck that's genius
- [4:35 PM] Tyler Gold: i look away for 2 minutes and suddenly potatoes
- [4:35 PM] HipChat: Hi @AndrewLosowskyGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:35 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: that could be bad @BrendanMcGeeverGuest
- there are some bloody gifs
- [4:35 PM] Sarah Jeong: hi @AndrewLosowskyGuest
- [4:35 PM] Creighton: @AJ LOL
- [4:35 PM] Andrew Losowsky: Hi @SJ
- [4:35 PM] Rachel Pick: they all have to be like, real housewives gifs or some shit
- [4:35 PM] Leo Eff: all comment potatoes are photographed, then sent to developing nations
- [4:35 PM] HipChat: Hi @HipchatsterGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:35 PM] parker higgins: *whispers* i learned a lot of things today about copyright and lenny kravitz
- [4:35 PM] HipChat: Hi @MikaelThalenGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:35 PM] parker higgins: *whispers* and his dong
- [4:35 PM] HipChat: Hi @HipHapGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:36 PM] Jordan Pearson: lmao
- [4:36 PM] Sarah Emerson: why is @TedHanGuest busy
- [4:36 PM] Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai: we don't write about dongs here @parkerhigginsGuest , we only write about serious stuff
- [4:36 PM] Jordan Pearson: i write about dongs
- [4:36 PM] Leo Eff: ok wait, i got one more
- [4:36 PM] Leo Eff: based on an xkcd comic, i think
- [4:36 PM] Evan Rodgers: only shark dong
- [4:36 PM] Sarah Jeong: i only sometimes write about dongs
- [4:36 PM] HipChat: Hi @UnicoleUnicronGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:36 PM] Ted Han: on a call
- [4:36 PM] Jordan Pearson: sarah and i write about dongs
- [4:36 PM] Leo Eff: every comment must be typed, then read outloud and recorded, before being submitted
- [4:36 PM] Jordan Pearson: motherboard.vice.com/read/actually
- [4:36 PM] Leo Eff: that would probably curtail a bunch
- [4:36 PM] Sarah Emerson: oh my b
- [4:36 PM] Rachel Pick: i wrote about a dong study once
- [4:36 PM] Sarah Jeong: if i share a co-writing credit on a dong piece, does that mean i write about half-dongs
- [4:36 PM] HipChat: Hi @JohnQSmithGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:36 PM] Leo Eff: tea for dong?
- [4:37 PM] HipChat: Hi @TheRealPsyduckGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:37 PM] parker higgins: *whispers* wow, bitcoin, huh
- [4:37 PM] HipChat: Hi @HotDogGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:37 PM] John Q. Smith: I heard this is where motherboard trolling happens
- [4:37 PM] HipChat: Hi @ethanGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:37 PM] Sarah Jeong: @TheRealPsyduckGuest who the fuck
- [4:37 PM] Unicole Unicron: I would like 2 c more articles couched in positivity rather than fearful negativity or relative disdain
- [4:37 PM] Brendan McGeever: the people keep coming
- [4:37 PM] The Real Psyduck: excuse me, I would like to file a complaint with your employee, Sarah Jeong
- she has relentlessly appropriated my identity
- [4:37 PM] HipChat: Hi @iforgetGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:37 PM] HipChat: Hi @otnldGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:37 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: @parkerhigginsGuest your self comments are very posi
- [4:37 PM] HipChat: Hi @BGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:37 PM] John Q. Smith: at HipChat
- at HipCHat
- at HIPCHAT
- [4:37 PM] Leo Eff: ok i'm done
- [4:38 PM] John Q. Smith: at hipchat
- [4:38 PM] Junkie: blub
- [4:38 PM] parker higgins: @AJ that is true
- [4:38 PM] Brendan McGeever: HipchaT
- [4:38 PM] Leo Eff: expect a handwritten potato
- [4:38 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: @UnicoleUnicronGuest motherboard is doom and gloom, sorry. we like to keep it 9-1 dystopia to utopia
- [4:38 PM] Andrew Losowsky: This may already have been addressed: but did you get many emails about closing comments to the letters@ address?
- [4:38 PM] Leo Eff: you peeps do good work
- [4:38 PM] Ted Han: i'm kind of lurking :) watching this is fascinating
- [4:38 PM] Brendan McGeever: All comments must be carved into soapstone.
- [4:38 PM] Unicole Unicron: As a powerful journalistic news source you have profound power to affect your end user
- [4:38 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: thank you @LeoEffGuest (goldstar)
- [4:38 PM] John Q. Smith: i'd like to note this channel has a Real Names (TM) policy
- [4:38 PM] parker higgins: has anybody at motherboard written about https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/chinas-nightmarish-citizen-scores-are-warning-americans
- [4:38 PM] HipChat: Hi @ChrisGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:38 PM] Unicole Unicron: I understand the audience responds to dystopia lol but if you start with that and ease into positivity you can change their minds/hearts/the world
- [4:38 PM] Hot Dog: This is my real name
- [4:38 PM] Junkie: Anymore input needed?
- [4:38 PM] John Q. Smith: Ted Han is busy
- [4:38 PM] ethan: https://slack.com/ just sayin'
- [4:38 PM] John Q. Smith: but doing what?
- [4:39 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: @AndrewLosowskyGuest i haven't figured out how to log into the letters@ address yet but once i do we will do a reaction post
- [4:39 PM] HipChat: Hi @monstersGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:39 PM] John Q. Smith: what is a reaction post?
- [4:39 PM] Andrew Losowsky: lol @AJ
- [4:39 PM] Leo Eff: oh wait, one more thing
- [4:39 PM] John Q. Smith: does it involve reagents in a beaker?
- [4:39 PM] Junkie: @ethanGuest What is Slack?
- [4:39 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: a post with responses to the uncommenting
- [4:39 PM] Leo Eff: the first motherboard article i ever peeped
- [4:40 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: yes definitely @JohnQSmithGuest
- [4:39 PM] Leo Eff: was an awesome interview with Sid Meier at a gamejam
- [4:39 PM] John Q. Smith: i would enjoy more reagents in a beaker on my motherboard
- [4:39 PM] Leo Eff: and it was awesome
- [4:39 PM] Andrew Losowsky: Thanks @AJ - looking forward to that.
- [4:39 PM] Brendan McGeever: comment section using twitter/# as a platform
- [4:39 PM] Unicole Unicron: shout out though, motherboard has some of the best news on the web
- [4:40 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: don't get @dm started about beakers
- luckily he's on the phone
- [4:40 PM] Leo Eff: that is all
- [4:40 PM] Andrew Losowsky: Did you get much response at all otherwise?
- [4:40 PM] HipChat: Hi @KobeBryantGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:40 PM] Brendan McGeever: nah, that doesn't fix anything
- [4:40 PM] Derek Mead: i love erhlenmayer flasks
- [4:40 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: aw thank you @UnicoleUnicronGuest
- [4:40 PM] HipChat: Hi @KevinMarksGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:40 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: i'm only kidding about the doom and gloom we try for a balance we just have darkness in our hearts so it's tough
- [4:40 PM] HipChat: Hi @JonathanFisherGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:40 PM] monsters: why no comments and not just authenticated comments?
- [4:40 PM] Evan Rodgers: guys
- [4:40 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: @AndrewLosowskyGuest we got a ton of response because people think it's all of vice
- [4:40 PM] monsters: so you can ban people.
- [4:40 PM] Brendan McGeever: how do you authenticate
- [4:40 PM] HipChat: Hi @JRAGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:40 PM] Brendan McGeever: effectively
- [4:40 PM] monsters: but, of course, we know of fake accounts etc...
- [4:41 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: we don't have the resources @monstersGuest
- [4:40 PM] monsters: facebook.
- [4:40 PM] Unicole Unicron: hahah well cynicism is the first step on the path 2 joy. Up next is hopefulness. Hopefulness is edgy now. U can b a trend setter.
- [4:40 PM] Evan Rodgers: did you get cyberhacked in the t-mobile / patreon breach?
- [4:40 PM] HipChat: Hi @NormanGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:40 PM] Kobe Bryant: I h8 niggers
- [4:40 PM] Andrew Losowsky: Oh weird, @AJ
- [4:41 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: @mos
- [4:41 PM] HipChat: Hi @dellwuzhereGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:41 PM] Norman: Hi everyone! :)
- [4:41 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: @monstersGuest we don't have the people or development resources to improve the state of comments with technology or moderation
- [4:41 PM] Brian Merchant: hey norm
- [4:41 PM] Unicole Unicron: <3
- [4:41 PM] Sarah Jeong: well that took 22 minutes
- but we got there
- [4:41 PM] Junkie: why not a commenting system that works with bitcoin... :D You need to pay a XXX mBTC to comment...
- [4:41 PM] Jonathan Fisher: interesting that you are allowed to exist as an autonomous site and you don't have to fall in line with Vice policy
- [4:41 PM] John Q. Smith: technology is expensive
- [4:41 PM] HipChat: Hi @ChrisChafinGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:41 PM] Rachel Pick: aaaaand thats why comments are closed
- [4:41 PM] Ross Neumann: haha
- [4:41 PM] John Q. Smith: and comments are cheap
- [4:41 PM] HipChat: Hi @POIOLOPGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:41 PM] John Q. Smith: just put the comments in the trash
- problem solved!
- [4:41 PM] JR A: Bonjour tout le monde!
- [4:41 PM] Brendan McGeever: @RachelPickGuest payed comment sections
- [4:41 PM] Kobe Bryant: Adrianne go fuck yourself
- [4:41 PM] Brian Merchant: thanks kobe, we were waiting for a teachable moment
- [4:42 PM] Unicole Unicron: lol
- [4:42 PM] Kevin Marks: we have some open standards options that might help
- [4:42 PM] Brendan McGeever: @KobeBryantGuest that's not nice
- [4:42 PM] John Q. Smith: i remember when Kobe was a raper in Colorado
- [4:42 PM] Evan Rodgers: did you know that everyone can comment any time?
- [4:42 PM] John Q. Smith: if weed was legal
- [4:42 PM] MikaelThalen: So the real question is... should I buy a BlackPhone...
- [4:42 PM] Evan Rodgers: on the open web, you can have your own blog
- [4:42 PM] John Q. Smith: Kobe wouldn't be a raper
- [4:42 PM] Kaleigh Rogers: bonjour @jr ca va?
- [4:42 PM] dellwuzhere: /giphy 420
- [4:42 PM] John Q. Smith: legalize it!
- [4:42 PM] dellwuzhere: ugh
- [4:42 PM] Evan Rodgers: like on neocities
- [4:42 PM] Brendan McGeever: Colorado is way cooler than the stuff we get featured in the news about
- [4:42 PM] Kaleigh Rogers: @JRAGuest
- [4:42 PM] Brendan McGeever: we're more than school shootings and weed
- [4:42 PM] HipChat: Hi @MattanIngramGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:42 PM] The Real Psyduck: is nobody else concerned with blatant identity theft among motherboard staff
- [4:42 PM] Unicole Unicron: I think it's an interesting call 2 close comments and open letter 2 editor. I am looking forward to seeing what people write.
- [4:43 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: @KevinMarksGuest we don't have the resources even to implement open standards. we have a few hours of dev time a week from a very overworked team and our site is very old and crabby
- [4:42 PM] Andrew Losowsky: @AJ Was it a difficult decision? Or was everyone just tired of the comments by now?
- [4:43 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: @AndrewLosowskyGuest it took a year
- [4:42 PM] JR A: @KR très bien et toi? ;)
- [4:43 PM] HipChat: Hi @StephenPGreenwoodGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:43 PM] John Q. Smith: consensus is hard
- consesnsus is latent
- [4:43 PM] Kaleigh Rogers: bien, merci @JRAGuest
- [4:43 PM] Kobe Bryant: 💯💯💯👀👀👀🔥👌👌👌👌👌
- [4:43 PM] Kevin Marks: do you plan to look at comments on twitter and facebook and medium? or just emails
- [4:43 PM] Leo Eff: would you guys consider adding "starred" commenters?
- [4:43 PM] John Q. Smith: consensus is a difficult distributed engineeering challenge
- [4:43 PM] Junkie: Can anybody do a barrel roll?
- [4:43 PM] Creighton: @AJ it took a year?! Man. Good work.
- [4:43 PM] Leo Eff: then you can hide all "un-starred" ones?
- [4:43 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: we'd love to @LeoEffGuest but at the moment we don't have the ability to implement any changes technically
- [4:43 PM] HipChat: Hi @SomeoneGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:43 PM] Brendan McGeever: medium seems to pull off 'nicer' comments
- [4:43 PM] HipChat: Hi @BigstanGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:43 PM] Unicole Unicron: haven't comment sections gotten dramatically better in the last year though?
- [4:43 PM] Kevin Marks: what is your site built in?
- [4:43 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: @TheRealPsyduckGuest i'm very concerned about identity theft, did you see my t mobile story?
- [4:43 PM] HipChat: Hi @FruzsinaEordoghGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:43 PM] HipChat: Hi @readerGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:44 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: @KevinMarksGuest php
- [4:43 PM] Andrew Losowsky: @AJ Oh, that's interesting. Why a year? What were the blockers?
- [4:44 PM] Unicole Unicron: like they're still nightmarish but I feel like the tide is turning
- [4:44 PM] The Real Psyduck: it was great, @AJ
- [4:44 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: @KevinMarksGuest custome CMS, idk what else
- @KevinMarksGuest but it's from 2009 with a couple updates on top and held together with string
- @AndrewLosowskyGuest bureaucracy mostly
- [4:44 PM] Unicole Unicron: @AndrewLosowsky idk just a random amount of time
- [4:44 PM] Junkie: Im going to bed, have fun everybody. ;) And I hope MB thinks about that suggestion of weekly post with letters. Or an IRC channel where we can jump in to give some comments or discuss.
- [4:44 PM] Andrew Losowsky: (Declaring an interest: I'm project lead on The Coral Project, working on new open source tools for all kinds of contributions to news sites including comments)
- [4:45 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: @JunkieGuest thank you! we will
- [4:44 PM] Brian Merchant: we're planning on it @junkieGuest, thanks
- [4:44 PM] Brendan McGeever: i'd down for an irc room i can lurk in
- [4:45 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: @UnicoleUnicronGuest i don't think so re comment sections, the verge's got worse
- we have subreddit run by a fan
- [4:45 PM] HipChat: Hi @ShelbyHartmanGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:45 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: maybe we should turn that into a forum
- [4:45 PM] Leo Eff: ok question
- [4:45 PM] Andrew Losowsky: @AJ *nods* Do you know if other parts of the Vice world are coming to similar conclusions/having similar problems.
- [4:45 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: right now it just has posts about motherboards on it from confused people
- @AndrewLosowskyGuest
- [4:45 PM] Leo Eff: if the potato only says "FIRST!!!!!111" on it, will it be read?
- [4:45 PM] Brendan McGeever: the internet has a comment section problem
- [4:45 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: broadly, the newest site has no commnets
- not sure about the others
- @LeoEffGuest
- it will be read and tweeted
- [4:45 PM] HipChat: Hi @AaronPareckiGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:45 PM] Brian Merchant: it will be photographed and posted @LeoEffGuest
- on twitter
- [4:45 PM] Leo Eff: got it
- [4:45 PM] Brendan McGeever: that new reddit news site will be comment-less
- [4:46 PM] Brian Merchant: and responded to
- thoughtfully
- [4:46 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: but still has upvotes right @BrendanMcGeeverGuest ?
- [4:46 PM] HipChat: Hi @alertStringfromCharCode888383Guest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:46 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: oh god is that user name a zero day hipchat exploit
- [4:46 PM] HipChat: Hi @MikeMasnickGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:46 PM] reader: lol
- [4:46 PM] Kevin Marks: so you have time to read emails and moderate them?
- [4:46 PM] reader: nah
- [4:46 PM] Andrew Losowsky: Definitely makes sense that Broadly wouldn't have. It would just be a lightening rod for bad behavior.
- [4:46 PM] Rachel Pick: @AndrewLosowskyGuest i was so relieved
- [4:47 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: @KevinMarksGuest we will see, i hope so. we get some emails now to editor@motherboard.tv, which is our public address, and we read all of them
- [4:47 PM] Brendan McGeever: @AJ If it works like that, it kind of reminds me of how old Digg used to work.
- [4:47 PM] Rachel Pick: every time i scroll down on broadly and then remember they don't have comments, its a relief
- [4:47 PM] Brian Merchant: this is really a ploy to revisit community-produced content. once we have enough good letters to the editor coming in, we will just publish them continuously and retire to baja and become part-time community managers
- [4:47 PM] HipChat: Hi @ConnorGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:47 PM] Aaron Parecki: Would you consider reading a reply that is a blog post that someone sent a link to via email?
- [4:48 PM] Leo Eff: @AaronPareckiGuest great question
- megacomments
- [4:48 PM] Brian Merchant: if it is explicitly a response to our post, yes
- [4:48 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: @AaronPareckiGuest if it's sent on good faith and is not a pitch, then yeah i would read it
- [4:48 PM] Andrew Losowsky: @RachelPickGuest Definitely agree.
- [4:48 PM] Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai: @AaronPareckiGuest that sounds like a phishing attempt
- [4:48 PM] HipChat: Hi @OtherGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:49 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: we have posted things before that were rebuttals to stories
- [4:48 PM] HipChat: Hi @RonTallicaGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:48 PM] HipChat: Hi @VishReddyGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:49 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/fix-discriminatory-attitudes-and-broken-sidewalks-not-humans
- was a response to this
- http://motherboard.vice.com/read/in-the-transhumanist-age-we-should-be-repairing-disabilities-not-si...
- [4:49 PM] Brian Merchant: that was a great example
- [4:49 PM] Jordan Pearson: i pay way more attention to reader emails than comments, personally
- [4:49 PM] Rachel Pick: or twitter dms
- [4:49 PM] Jordan Pearson: because this person took the time to put their thoughts together and send me a message
- [4:49 PM] Jason Koebler: also for the record: I find our articles posted on Reddit, and hackernews, and slashdot, and facebook, and twitter, and I see what people are saying about it
- [4:49 PM] Aaron Parecki: Here's an example of what I'm thinking. Original post: http://www.ollysco.de/2015/09/in-search-of-perfect-url.html my reply: http://aaronparecki.com/replies/2015/09/19/1/
- [4:49 PM] Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai: same. and even readers @ mentioning me on twitter.
- [4:49 PM] Kaleigh Rogers: I never get reader emails. Send me emails, guys!
- [4:50 PM] Jason Koebler: the comments are better on every other site besides ours
- [4:50 PM] Brian Merchant: the common thread with those
- [4:50 PM] Leo Eff: @AJ had not read that before, it's a great response
- [4:50 PM] Kaleigh Rogers: I do that too, and there are really lively discussions on those sites
- [4:50 PM] Brian Merchant: is that there is a community there that folks want to keep a good face forward in
- [4:50 PM] Jason Koebler: I obsessively find what people are saying about my articles
- yes
- they are sites built entirely on comments
- [4:50 PM] Andrew Losowsky: @JK Why do you think comments are better on other sites?
- [4:51 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: hacker news has the best comments
- [4:50 PM] Brian Merchant: nobody has a 'motherboard persona' so they are free to dump garbage into our comments
- [4:51 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: because of a lot of technology and a heavy handed moderation
- [4:51 PM] Kaleigh Rogers: yes @AJ !
- [4:51 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: and an inherently smart readership
- [4:51 PM] monsters: this is why i've used FB login in the past, to give us a persona, and to be able to block/mediate
- [4:51 PM] Leo Eff: burn
- [4:51 PM] JR A: @JP
- [4:51 PM] Brian Merchant: gawker media has solid comments, actually -- because they spend a lot of time and development bucks building a system built around that
- [4:51 PM] Brendan McGeever: would these posts sent directly back to the author/site be republished? it could be, like, how video responses used to work in youtube. i like your article, here is my counter article. would still need curation/moderation, though. still more work.
- [4:51 PM] Jordan Pearson: hello yes @JRAGuest
- [4:51 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: gawker had best comments when it was smaller
- [4:51 PM] Jason Koebler: Because disqus is a broken tool full of spam, and if my articles are posted on a small subreddit then they are commented on by people who care very much about the subject they're talking about. If it's posted on a large subreddit then the trash is (usually) voted down
- [4:51 PM] Leo Eff: @BM i think gawker's old style was better, in that respect
- [4:51 PM] HipChat: Hi @UnMexaGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:51 PM] monsters: you can also escalate, that they need to have x approved comments, and an FB account older than Y. OR you can just ditch commetns, which i respect
- [4:51 PM] Derek Mead: i loved gawker comments when there were stars
- [4:52 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: if there is any takeaway from this conversation for anyone, please let it be that disqus sucks
- [4:51 PM] Brian Merchant: it's still better than most, but I agree
- [4:51 PM] Kevin Marks: hm, hacker news has a bit of a groupthink problem though; certain topics get toxic fast
- [4:52 PM] Leo Eff: back then there was actually a vibrant community. i lost connection with it after the change
- [4:52 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: they did not respond to my emails about how they suck
- also the chicago manual of style sucks
- and did not respond to my emails
- [4:52 PM] HipChat: Hi @RockyGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:52 PM] Leo Eff: @dm yeah i agree, but apparently stars are not an option here
- [4:52 PM] JR A: @JP Thanks for your comment about emails, I would never have guessed that you read them.
- [4:52 PM] monsters: poutine without proper curds sucks
- [4:52 PM] Kevin Marks: oxford commas suck
- [4:52 PM] Andrew Losowsky: Has anyone seen Newsvine, an NBC system used by MSNBC? Its UI is horrible imo but there's something interesting there.
- [4:52 PM] Brian Merchant: lol yes
- sorry disqus
- [4:52 PM] Ron Tallica: oxford commas, suck, ,
- [4:52 PM] Brendan McGeever: oxford commas are awesome
- [4:52 PM] Leo Eff: the chicago manual of style has an email?
- [4:52 PM] monsters: eats, shoots and leaves
- [4:52 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: i think most of motherboard staff has their emails on twitter
- [4:52 PM] Andrew Losowsky: It creates different parallel forums around an article.
- [4:52 PM] Jordan Pearson: @JRAGuest if you put in the time to reach out i'll put in the time to read what you have to say
- if it's abuse or whatever, then i might not answer
- [4:52 PM] HipChat: Hi @kerrypleauGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:52 PM] Jordan Pearson: but i'll read it
- [4:53 PM] monsters: @HipChat
- [4:53 PM] HipChat: You can ask me about:
- • video - Call your teammates with HipChat Video
- • files - Share files or images
- • search - Search your messages
- • emoticons - Use emoticons in your messages
- • mentions - Mention specific teammates to get their attention
- • apps - Get HipChat on your phone or your desktop
- • advanced - Power tips for power users
- • integrations - Connect HipChat with other applications
- • tour - Replay the initial sign-up welcome tour
- • help - Print this message again
- [4:53 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: that's interesting @AndrewLosowskyGuest although i'm surprised that msnbc is using a thing like that
- [4:53 PM] HipChat: For example, try typing "@HipChat video."
- [4:53 PM] Brendan McGeever: the internet is becoming tv
- [4:53 PM] Kevin Marks: why does hipchat do that in the channel?
- [4:53 PM] monsters: @HipChat emoticons
- [4:53 PM] Andrew Losowsky: @AJ It was bought by NBC so I suspect it was a corporate decision.
- [4:53 PM] UnMexa: I have no idea why I'm here!
- [4:53 PM] monsters: hm.
- [4:53 PM] HipChat: Having trouble expressing yourself with just words? We've got you covered with emoticons.
- You can add emoticons to your chat messages by typing keywords in parentheses.
- Lunchtime? Try typing (chompy)
- Celebrating a victory? Try (success).
- [4:53 PM] John Q. Smith: i think this channel is a QUANTUM INSERT
- faux
- a ruse!
- [4:53 PM] Brendan McGeever: (chompy)
- thanks, @HipChat
- [4:53 PM] monsters: (toilet)
- nope.
- [4:54 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: okay guys we have to get back to work so we're going to wind down this discussion in six minutes
- [4:54 PM] John Q. Smith: i tried to check the SSL certificate in observatory
- it's fraud
- [4:54 PM] HipChat: Hi @AdrianFernandezGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:54 PM] John Q. Smith: also, warning in my URL bar
- [4:54 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: listen to the motherboard podcast
- send us letters to the editor
- [4:54 PM] John Q. Smith: everything is pwned
- !!!!
- [4:54 PM] monsters: observatory ?
- [4:54 PM] Kevin Marks: so, there is a model for receiving comments from other sites known as webmentions
- [4:54 PM] HipChat: Hi @AbcdefghijklmnopGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:54 PM] Andrew Losowsky: Thanks Motherboarders.
- [4:54 PM] John Q. Smith: even the pinning is broken
- [4:54 PM] HipChat: Hi @Choppa1Guest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:54 PM] Andrew Losowsky: @KevinMarksGuest Is that related to Indieweb?
- [4:54 PM] John Q. Smith: we're all getting bot'net'ed
- [4:55 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: hey new guys, we're shutting this thing down in five minutes but welcome!
- [4:54 PM] Kevin Marks: yes
- [4:54 PM] HipChat: Hi @PeterMolnarGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:54 PM] Abcdefghijklmnop: @HipChat wtf
- [4:54 PM] HipChat: I'm still learning and can only tell you about a few awesome things in HipChat. (hipster)
- [4:55 PM] HipChat: You can ask me about:
- • video - Call your teammates with HipChat Video
- • files - Share files or images
- • search - Search your messages
- • emoticons - Use emoticons in your messages
- • mentions - Mention specific teammates to get their attention
- • apps - Get HipChat on your phone or your desktop
- • advanced - Power tips for power users
- • integrations - Connect HipChat with other applications
- • tour - Replay the initial sign-up welcome tour
- • help - Print this message again
- [4:55 PM] HipChat: For example, try typing "@HipChat video."
- [4:55 PM] JR A: @JP of course. I was thinking about emails to further discuss/debate an article. Sorry for my English, je suis français.
- [4:55 PM] John Q. Smith: Adrianne says gig is up
- gotta fade to black
- [4:55 PM] Jason Koebler: Yeah, here's a bit of a PSA: Derek and Brian and I talked about commenting on the podcast this week
- [4:55 PM] Brendan McGeever: time to make tumblr an integrated commenting platform
- [4:55 PM] John Q. Smith: before the line can be traced
- 4:55 PM
- Adrianne Jeffries changed the topic to: five minute warning: motherboard hipchat closes at 5
- [4:55 PM] Jason Koebler: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/radio-motherboard/id946704646?mt=2
- which is here
- I am uploading it currently
- [4:55 PM] John Q. Smith: shit just got real
- [4:55 PM] HipChat: Hi @AJBluejayGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:55 PM] Kevin Marks: and a couple of services that implement it so you can just use js to see them
- [4:55 PM] Jason Koebler: you can hear our real voices talking about things
- [4:55 PM] Andrew Losowsky: Thanks @JK
- [4:55 PM] Brian Merchant: how does it sound @JK
- [4:55 PM] Jason Koebler: i'm listening now
- you sound lovely
- [4:55 PM] Brian Merchant: thank you
- [4:55 PM] Abcdefghijklmnop: Kapps
- [4:55 PM] Jason Koebler: it's a special Tuesday edition of the podcast
- [4:55 PM] John Q. Smith: Krebs has been notified
- [4:55 PM] Derek Mead: cheers friends
- [4:55 PM] Abcdefghijklmnop: Kappa
- [4:56 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: podcst
- going
- up
- [4:55 PM] Jason Koebler: ^^^
- [4:55 PM] John Q. Smith: there will be a long form piece on this abuse of my computer
- [4:55 PM] Kevin Marks: webmention.herokuapp.com and webmention.io
- [4:55 PM] Brian Merchant: nice tie-in, folks
- [4:55 PM] Derek Mead: also you all have a subscription to motherboard premium
- motherboard.vice.com/premium
- [4:56 PM] Brian Merchant: this stunt was really an ad for our podcast
- [4:56 PM] Brendan McGeever: i recommend the new vox policy podcast, also. not enough of those on the internet
- [4:56 PM] Derek Mead: i don't know what the URL
- [4:56 PM] Brian Merchant: also follow us on twitter
- [4:56 PM] John Q. Smith: Brian says this organizer has ties to Russian Business Network subsidiaries
- [4:56 PM] Jason Koebler: why didn't we write this article
- [4:56 PM] John Q. Smith: i trust Krebs over this URL bar
- [4:56 PM] Jason Koebler: https://twitter.com/VICE/status/651501200714498050
- Twitter
- [image: http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/650107685220716544/7VwOKsxI_normal.jpg]
- This guy spent two years writing one article about how the Star Wars prequels didn't suck http://t.co/2slAwnbKL0 http://t.co/kUNZCaAzAK
- – VICE (@VICE) via TweetDeck
- [4:56 PM] Kaleigh Rogers: motherboard.club @dm
- [4:56 PM] Derek Mead: oh yeah
- http://motherboard.club
- [4:57 PM] Kevin Marks: they may be an answer as they are (so far at least) much less full of crap
- [4:57 PM] HipChat: Hi @AndresAlmeidaforrealdoeGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:57 PM] Brendan McGeever: it was fun! thanks for the convo
- [4:57 PM] HipChat: Hi @DavidErwinGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:57 PM] John Q. Smith: i can't quarantine this trojan
- [4:57 PM] HipChat: Hi @MathewIngramGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:57 PM] John Q. Smith: thanks motherboard21
- !
- [4:58 PM] Brian Merchant: @MikeMasnickGuest do you have any thoughts
- [4:58 PM] Mike Masnick: i have lots of thoughts! but you guys are shutting this down in 2 minutes. :)
- [4:58 PM] John Q. Smith: it used the heap spray technique effectively to arbitrary exeuction
- [4:58 PM] Kevin Marks: we can move it elsewhere?
- [4:58 PM] HipChat: Hi @JonathanFranzensAlterEgoGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChatand I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:58 PM] Brian Merchant: write a letter to the editor?
- [4:58 PM] HipChat: Hi @AGuest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:58 PM] John Q. Smith: motherboard has to explain the cooption of their brand for cyber espionage
- [4:58 PM] Matthew Braga: @JohnQSmithGuest c'mon
- [4:58 PM] Choppa#1: i'm late to the party; just want to say i always enjoy the articles... great work all. ciao
- [4:59 PM] Brian Merchant: i am genuinely curious
- thanks @Choppa1Guest
- [4:59 PM] Andres Almeida, for real doe: Ugh, I missed it all.
- [4:59 PM] John Q. Smith: Matthew the fingerprints don't lie
- [4:59 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: i will make a post on reddit where we can continue the discussion
- [4:59 PM] John Q. Smith: this is public key cryptography
- [4:59 PM] JR A: @JohnQSmithGuest what?
- [4:59 PM] John Q. Smith: serious bizness!
- [4:59 PM] Jordan Pearson: cyberfingerprints
- [4:59 PM] Kaleigh Rogers: Reminder that you can also email reporters individually
- [4:59 PM] HipChat: Hi @Chippy1337Guest! Welcome to Hipchat. You can @-mention me by typing @HipChat and I'll tell you what HipChat can do!
- [4:59 PM] Chippy1337: hi
- [4:59 PM] Jordan Pearson: referring to PGP fingerprints as 'cyberfingerprints'
- [4:59 PM] Other: @JohnQSmithGuest--
- [4:59 PM] Brian Merchant: hi @MathewIngramGuest
- [4:59 PM] John Q. Smith: don;t you lecture me on mathemantical integrity
- [4:59 PM] Jordan Pearson: from now on
- [4:59 PM] David Erwin: Coming in late. A summary of topics and conclusions would be greatly appreciated!
- [4:59 PM] Kaleigh Rogers: Click on our faces in a story, we have contact info on our author pages
- [4:59 PM] Other: (boom)
- [4:59 PM] Jordan Pearson: also we now have VERY EASY buttons at the bottom of every article @KR
- [5:00 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: okay let's move to reddit
- [5:00 PM] Mike Masnick: i can understand dumping the comments if you didn't think they were adding value, but we've found it's not too hard to get really really valuable comments without that much effort (but, yes, a little effort)
- [5:00 PM] Jordan Pearson: dont even need to click our faces
- [5:00 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: https://www.reddit.com/r/Motherboard/comments/3nr8ep/were_replacing_comments_with_something_better/
- [5:00 PM] Chippy1337: @SJ i hear you have questions
- for me
- [5:00 PM] Brian Merchant: @DavidErwinGuest everyone loves our new policy and thinks we're pioneers and innovators
- [5:00 PM] Jonathan Franzen's Alter Ego: Has anyone ever read a good internet comment on any site
- [5:00 PM] Brian Merchant: is the short version
- [5:00 PM] Sarah Jeong: lol
- [5:00 PM] Kevin Marks: yes, lots
- [5:00 PM] Fruzsina Eordogh: ahhhhh Chippy1337 guest in here.... did anyone every explain to Sarah J what that meme is about?
- [5:00 PM] Kaleigh Rogers: oh snap my scroll button was broken @JP
- [5:00 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: hey guys thanks for joining! we have to power down and go back to wor
- work that is
- [5:00 PM] Kevin Marks: though fewer recently
- [5:00 PM] Adrianne Jeffries: join us on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Motherboard/comments/3nr8ep/were_replacing_comments_with_something_better/
- let's keep talking
- thanks all!
- [5:00 PM] Kaleigh Rogers: Thanks all!
- [5:00 PM] Chippy1337: i will remain a mystery
- 5:01 PM
- Adrianne Jeffries turned off guest access
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