Friday, January 13th, 2012
Pseudonymous commenters aren’t so bad after all
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Disqus has released an infographic of some analysis they’ve done on their comments to compare pseudonymous, eponymous (real name) and anonymous commenters. They looked at both quantity and quality and found that pseudonymous commenters are better for a community than either eponymous or anonymous commenters. To save you from having to wade through a rather pointless infographic, here are the key facts:
Disqus measured Quality and Quantity:
Quality
- Positive measures
- Number of times a comment is liked
- Number of times a comment is replied to
- Negative measures
- Number of times a comment is flagged
- Number of times a comment is
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