The Negative Analysis Of Meta Lurrower's Metafilter
The thought first occurred when I saw a friend’s post on Facebook. It is the one that we seem to encounter in daily basis in our news feed: a political statement that supports a popular notion within the country. The thing is, I’m not interested by the person’s statement nor the notion itself, but by the fact that bystander’s perceptions can be easily skewed by the amount of ‘likes’ the status and/or the comment has.
One seemingly convincing argument and people’s stances are set. After that, much of the discussions are more to prove the other side of the argument is wrong than to try to reach a desired common ground based on reasoning or evidence. From what I’ve seen, the high number of ‘likes’ from like-minded friends can raise the proponent’s …show more content…
Lurkers can read the entire site, but if they want to comment at some threads, they first need to pay $5 for lifetime membership. While it may fend off some potential content providers, in return, the quality of the discourse never subsides. Devoted users constantly keep posting thought-provoking links that might warrant discussion.
In this case, by setting a slightly higher threshold to manage a sheer number of upcoming users, MetaFilter preserves the quality of its content while still maintaining its inclusiveness. Authentication, as stated by Matt Thompson over Poynter, is one of the key aspect to enhance online commenting environments, “If you offer few barriers to posting a comment, you might get a lot of comments without much quality. But if the barrier to comment is too high, discussion might be anemic.”
Additionally, the whole site is highly moderated. Hence, whenever there’s a person who has a conflicting perspective over a particular issue, the community doesn’t move into political turmoil. They simply listen. Not only because they fear their posting rights to be revoked by the moderators if they act improperly, but also because they want to cultivate worthwhile discourse instead of just coming to make themselves heard. This is what makes MetaFilter a wonderful community and why people from historically underrepresented groups feel invited to engage with others. MetaFilter envisions to foster discussion within a diverse community and everyone has the equal opportunity to
One seemingly convincing argument and people’s stances are set. After that, much of the discussions are more to prove the other side of the argument is wrong than to try to reach a desired common ground based on reasoning or evidence. From what I’ve seen, the high number of ‘likes’ from like-minded friends can raise the proponent’s …show more content…
Lurkers can read the entire site, but if they want to comment at some threads, they first need to pay $5 for lifetime membership. While it may fend off some potential content providers, in return, the quality of the discourse never subsides. Devoted users constantly keep posting thought-provoking links that might warrant discussion.
In this case, by setting a slightly higher threshold to manage a sheer number of upcoming users, MetaFilter preserves the quality of its content while still maintaining its inclusiveness. Authentication, as stated by Matt Thompson over Poynter, is one of the key aspect to enhance online commenting environments, “If you offer few barriers to posting a comment, you might get a lot of comments without much quality. But if the barrier to comment is too high, discussion might be anemic.”
Additionally, the whole site is highly moderated. Hence, whenever there’s a person who has a conflicting perspective over a particular issue, the community doesn’t move into political turmoil. They simply listen. Not only because they fear their posting rights to be revoked by the moderators if they act improperly, but also because they want to cultivate worthwhile discourse instead of just coming to make themselves heard. This is what makes MetaFilter a wonderful community and why people from historically underrepresented groups feel invited to engage with others. MetaFilter envisions to foster discussion within a diverse community and everyone has the equal opportunity to