Comment

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Comments are user-created responses to other users' content. In Steem, it is used as one of the possible content types, which includes posts.

As explained on Steemit FAQ, comments that are upvoted can earn rewards just like posts.[1] There is also a 20 second wait time in between comments to limit spam.[2]

Purpose

Comments are often created to express opinions or reactions to other users' content, such as posts or other comments. Comments can enrich the value of their parent content via follow-up questions or adding insights to facilitate further discussion. At times, discussions within the comments section can even prove to be more valuable than their parent content.

Mechanics

To create a comment, the user must click on the Reply button, add content, and click Post. To edit a comment, the user must click on the Edit button, perform the desired modifications, and click Update Post. Note that this only works on comments created by the user, not by other users. To flag inappropriate comments, the user must click on the flag icon, then click Ok. As of this writing, flagging is the equivalent of downvoting, and will reset curation rewards for the content in question.

Conversations, online communities and social media

David Weinberger, american writer and technologist described the beggining of the internet: while removing the central control points, the Web enabled a self-organizing, self-stimulated growth of contents and links on a scale the world has literally never before experienced. The result was a loose federation of documents - many small pieces loosely joined.[3] Then, in 1999, he signed the Cluetrain Manifesto that pointed: a powerful global conversation has begun. Through the Internet, people are discovering and inventing new ways to share relevant knowledge with blinding speed. As a direct result, markets are getting smarter, ...and getting smarter faster than most companies. These markets are conversations. Their members communicate in language that is natural, open, honest, direct, funny and often shocking. Whether explaining or complaining, joking or serious, the human voice is unmistakably genuine. It can't be faked.[4]

In 2006 the computer scientist Jakob Nielsen published “The 90-9-1 Rule for Participation Inequality in Social Media and Online Communities”, defending that in most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.[5] Even with this small participation, some open conversations in corporate and meda companies websites brought some issues. In 2010, the CNN called attention about the reining in nasty user comments. They warned: user comments on news sites, while vital to interactive storytelling in the digital age, often read like scribblings on a bathroom stall: anonymous, offensive and full of hate.[6]


References

  1. Can I earn digital tokens for commenting? Published on Steemit FAQ, retrieved in March 6th, 2018
  2. How often can I comment? Published on Steemit FAQ, retrieved in March 6th, 2018
  3. Small pieces loosely joined - Preface Written by David Weinberger and published in Smallpieces.com in April 2012
  4. The Cluetrain Manifesto Written by David Weinberger, Rick Levine, Christopher Locke and Doc Searls and published in Cluetrain.com in 1999
  5. The 90-9-1 Rule for Participation Inequality in Social Media and Online Communities Written by Jakob Nielsen on Nielsen Norman Group website in October 9, 2006
  6. News sites reining in nasty user comments Written by Stephanie Goldberg on CNN in July 19, 2010

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External links

  • Oxford Dictionary : Comment Retrieved in 7/13/2017

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