A VC - Latest Comments in Comment Length

Re: Comment Length

r4i software — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:50:23 -0000

well...i never thought about this stuff. I am always asking or suggesting in comments. I never think about length of comment. How anybody decide the length of it. it always depend upon the subject and the person's thought and knowledge. i

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Emeri Gent [Em] — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:00:17 -0000

I have read short comments that are attention harakiri by comma and death by paragraph full stop.

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Roger Toennis — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:31:26 -0000

Wow! What a great idea for brain stimulation.

This made me immediately think of the Supertramp's "Even in the Quietest Moments" cut "Fool's Overture" where Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies trade vocals with cuts from Winston Churchill's "We Shall Fight On The Beaches" speech.

My thought - The ability to summarize effectively requires one to dive deeply into the deepest waters of the darkest pools of complexity and then return to the surface with illusive truths you found in those depths firmly clenched between your teeth.

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Roger Toennis — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:17:26 -0000

Though I Tweet extensively you can't distill every human concept to Cliffs Notes and hope to retain its full character. As human life goes through periods of complex social evolution so do the depth of the thought processes necessary to navigate it. Though the Cliffs Notes of "A Tale of Two Cities" are fine its also worth going back and actually reading the book for an experience not available from a skim of the Wikipedia summary.

This situation is not an either/or choice but a polarity to be managed. Balance in this polarity is the ability to appreciate both the incisive 140 character distillation of a concept as well as the ability to dig in and appreciate a deep investigation of a topic.

We should all challenge ourselves and our mental capacities in balancing our appreciation of the two approaches and not reject one or the other.

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ShanaC — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:11:34 -0000

Thanks to someone here, I may have gotten an invite, even though I signed up the first day after the talk....

Online or offline review?(Not that I am not behind on those already) Consumer or for companies? You know me when I kvetch about products, and I already have certain suspicions about the Googleplex based off their design orientation.

Re: Comment Length

rick gregory — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:27:35 -0000

But why restrict the length of a comment? The storage space for a comment is negligible as is the bandwidth used to deliver the comment when someone views the page. I can't see any reason for someone to restrict how other people comment aside from a need for control.

Re: Comment Length

fredwilson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:15:26 -0000

That's one difference between us. I'm a permabull with some exceptions

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Lukas Mathis — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:00:50 -0000

I don't compare YouTube to MetaFilter. The conclusion that longer comments tend to be better is based on the MetaFilter data alone. Quoting myself:

"Looking at MetaFilter comments, there seems to be a clear correlation between comment quality and comment length."

Re: Comment Length

Lukas Mathis — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:57:24 -0000

Yeah, I'm following the thread here. Good points. I especially like the xkcd strip :-)

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kidmercury — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:21:49 -0000

lol, well boss, it all starts with 9/11 truth. like i told albert when he tried to beef with me on kookology, we can't discuss eugenics if we are still living in ignorance of 9/11 truth.

also as you know i was a permabear before it was hip and trendy. the ability to see the economic crisis coming came not from special powers but from paying attention to real news, i.e. kookology.

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fredwilson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:53:35 -0000

I'm so glad you stopped by and joined the conversation Lukas. You started a really good one here as you can see

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fredwilson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:53:22 -0000

Great point.

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fredwilson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:53:08 -0000

Have you tried Wave yet shana? I have not but it may have some promise for you

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fredwilson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:53:08 -0000

Idle chatter is rarely idle

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fredwilson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:52:45 -0000

I wonder if Pfff would have done the trick here Yule. That was good

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fredwilson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:48:17 -0000

I can't subscribe to any of this kookery but I am happy that you share it with us kid. I'm waiting for the moment that I slap my forehead and say 'that kid is right'. Hasn't happened yet

Re: Comment Length

fredwilson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:48:10 -0000

All flattering comps for sure

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fredwilson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:48:09 -0000

That's an interesting assertion carl. How exactly do the new media channels suss out pomposity?

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fredwilson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:48:08 -0000

I read every comment eventually. But it is true that as the discussion dies down, I tend to engage less

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fredwilson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:48:08 -0000

I am now. That say I posted this was a crazy day from the minute I hit publish to when I hit the pillow, I literally had no time to look at my blackberry and wade into the comments. It bugged me all day

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fredwilson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:48:01 -0000

I wonder if they'll be too zoned out to tag at that moment

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fredwilson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:47:53 -0000

This is the second time a comment thread turned into a marketing brainstorming session for disqus

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P. K. — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:34:17 -0000

This reminds me of this: http://xkcd.com/406/ .

Re: Comment Length

dcilea — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:13:47 -0000

We live in a 140 character world. I prefer comments to be brief. If one is compelled to wax poetic, they may want to consider posting something more indepth on their blog with the appropriate link attribution.

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reece — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:42:46 -0000

ha, never mind, figured it out. do you mean 'Disqusing' is awfully close to disgusting?

i hear a marketing line in here... maybe: Sometimes discussions get disgusting. No longer with Disqus.