"Those [social media] communities offer vibrant conversation and, importantly, are self-policed by participants to keep on the fringes those who would abuse the privilege of commenting," Reuters executive editor, Dan Colarusso ,wrote in his company's announcement. One of his rulings, in 2018, required judges to consider a defendants financial resources when setting bail. Accessed January 18, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/09/what-happened-after-7-news-sites-got-rid-of-reader-comments/. WATSONVILLE Sumiko Livin woke from slumber on New Years Eve as rain lashed her home in Watsonville. Heres how theyre all using social media to encourage reader discussion. Also on Yahoo, after a few months, they are turning on some comments. Were seeing the District Attorneys Office do a blanket challenge on Judge Kline for all new cases coming into the system, said Emily Goldman, managing attorney of the Youth Defender Unit in Public Defender Mano Rajus office, which represents many of the youths in juvenile court. You simply cannot allow dissent in the echo chamber. I have an I******* with a GEforce 1060 graphics card Dell Inspiration and SFGate.com freezes trying to load. Hard to imagine why anyone would ever subject themselves to this horrendous website. I think you actually need to establish norms of behavior that people will follow because they care about the space. Thats a much harder solution than were gonna build in down-rank buttons and shadow bans. An assortment of never-ending popup ads, autoplay videos and now ads inserted between every 4 sentences in an article. I know that Gawkers trying to develop a smart comments system. (as the site owner). SF Gate: Bravo Removes Racist Anti-Japanese Slur from New Show, Community gathers to honor Michelle Go one year later, AsAm groups call for firing of chancellor for mocking Asians, Man guilty of manslaughter. charges Russian founder of cryptocurrency firm, December retail sales fall 1.1% as inflation takes a toll. As more rain loomed Thursday stoking worries that floods might cut off access to nearby Monterey city workers and volunteers went door to door, assessing damage at scores of houses and helping elderly neighbors muck out their homes. And more than half of all comments submitted came from just a tiny group of shockingly prolific contributors who, it estimated, disproportionately tended to be middle-aged men. SFGate is the San Francisco Chronicle's website, chock full of irreverent headlines, weird news, and plenty of Bush-bashing. on work the Times has done in partnership with the Washington Post and Knight Foundation in an initiative called the. Costs generally prohibit adequate oversight of who can comment in most online forums, and what they can say. It's so insensitive and it's used a lot for Jewish American Princess. Conspiracy theorists freaked the holy hell out this morning over a piece penned by Phil Bronstein -- one that was critical of Gavin Newsom as California's next governor -- which was pulled. Weve seen our bounce rate nearly cut in half since we closed the comments. We're talking, Seeing as how the entire American Apparel-on-Valencia brouhaha was traffic gold -- and the Gate/Chron is on no financial position to turn down traffic -- it seemed like writing about the AA, Chronicle film critic turned amateur psychologist Mick LaSalle has a lot to say about those filthy peons known as commenters. Jenkins was appointed in July by Mayor London Breed to succeed District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who was recalled by the citys voters in June in a campaign supported by Jenkins, a former prosecutor in Boudins office. Last modified September 16, 2015. Which Bay Area city is best for you? Yaki sent a letter to Bravo and within days, Bravo executives responded by saying the term would be removed from both the promo and the show. Lauren Young runs them out of New York, and we do one a month right now. at age 97, it was still hard to fathom that he was gone. Thats what really scares me.. Nobody knows what it means, but it is a new felony! Were very happy. She imagined squash, zucchini, cabbage. .06 percent of all the visitors to NPR.org in a single month actually submitted comments at all. Ellis, Justin. It has a lot to do with the fact that Brooke Jenkins is running for office in November. Jenkins has taken a position to be tougher on juveniles. Raju is also seeking a new four-year term in November. Can comment sections contain (gasp!) For weeks, atmospheric rivers have dumped trillions of gallons of water on communities across California. No articles have comments enabled. [Social media] is just a better place to engage a smart audience thats not trolling. Things have changed; you have to change with them. Without "section 230," nobody (except for . 6 reviews for SF Gate, 1.7 stars: "Hit their "free" recommendation for a service, immediately asked for $5.99 for one time use. Taking bets on if it starts or not! City workers set up at the nearby Buddhist temple, plying tired residents with snacks and coffee and passing out flyers with information on how to begin their recovery efforts. Website comments are just one of all of these different places where people are responding to us. From @AAModelMinority via Twitter on racial slur used in Bravo show: "but white population will be patronizing and say "relax, am not racist it's just joke" or " I didn't mean offend ". Get all the latest & greatest posts delivered straight to your inbox. Heres how, The UMCA dilemma-Unintentional Misleading Cultural Authenticity. That will ultimately lead to our success, particularly in a world where, I think, everyone is super worried about off-platform publishing. A local online type is reaping heavy praise after the Pulitzer Prizes were announced this afternoon. It was all ruined: Watsonville retiree struggles to cope with flood devastation, Lightning strikes the Golden Gate Bridge as storm lashes Bay Area, Did sewage spill in your Bay Area neighborhood during the recent storms? Filming was del is back on but the price keeps rising, Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). Probably not, but the paper of record has moved some random amount of special content behind a for-subscribers-only paywall site at SFChronicle.com. Dummest article ever. Gavin Newsom to Klines former seat as presiding justice of Division Two on the First District Court in San Francisco, after serving alongside Kline on the court for eight years. As media are trying to improve their engagement with their audience, a paradoxical trend has been emerging in the last three years; many news websites are closing their below-the-line comments . Thats one part, just expanding how often were actually manually active on [social]. We hope the adventure is exciting, fun, helpful and informative.". Roger Serpa looks over flood damage to his home on Argos Circle in Watsonville. She told her neighbors to leave their trash on the sidewalk, that the city should deal with it. (!) A lot of comment sections were targeted by Russian troll bots to create arguments and division. Dude that was the best part of SFGATE. Nieman Journalism Lab. link in our bio!And stay tuned for more behind the scenes videos with Dr. Tyson. So thats a different level of people who pay to subscribe, theyre very different. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate. Apparently, you do this. So we try everything, we try to reach out in lots of ways. Even when he tried to clarify his comments, he made them worse.. "It's so awe-inspiring just to be here and see the amount of waterfalls. Plus: What people expect from podcasts as a form of journalism, improving reporting on suicide saves lives, and the important role of Google Knowledge Panels in cueing confidence in news organizations. To protest the Hearst Corporation's plan to shoulder San Francisco Chronicle employees with an additional health care burden, members of the Chronicle staff plan to step away from their desks at precisely 3: Notice anything different about SFGate.com today? Judge J. Anthony Kline, a 42-year judicial veteran, retired from the First District Court of Appeal last December, then agreed to serve for a year on the juvenile court in San Francisco, a term due to end in February. Commenting is now available on many more. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. People are shocked: Busy Santa Cruz beach obliterated Why this $40M home near Brad Pitt's castle hasn't sold. NPR found that only a very small and wholly unrepresentative slice of NPR's audience was taking advantage of the comments section, Jensen explained, noting the sharp increase in inappropriate content. Two doors down, Roger Serpa, 55, had been celebrating with his fiancee hed asked her the big question a week before when he looked outside. My husband never wants to leave, but I told him we have to, Rosa Clarn said. Divers discovered a shipwreck in Hawaii. I dont see how the D.A. Its fortuitous that Facebooks author tags have been rolling out. We are also very, very proud of what we built on Tumblr. Within seconds of us posting something on Facebook, the conversation is off and running. This older law allowed all of the innovations in online communications. We carefully select the stories that go up on Facebook. Good news: Misinformation isnt as powerful as feared! Updated to include drought zones while tracking water shortage status of your area, plus reservoir levels and a list of restrictions for the Bay Areas largest water districts. Yesterday, in an attempt to get Internet readers to click on something as many times as possible, SFGate.com ran a second edition of "You know you're a real San Franciscan if you. S.F. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Livin had promised her husband, who died a few months ago, that she would hold on to their Watsonville home, which has sustained flood damage in the recent storms. But, It's rumored that 20 newsroom-based Media Workers Guild employees at the San Francisco Chronicle will be involuntarily laid off today. She peeked outside to find the street flooded and water creeping up her driveway, threatening her house. Mainly, that they suck. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. We felt that, since so much of the. Email: stjohn.smith@sfchronicle.com. {{cite web Browse our lesson archive here. We have managed to keep some pretty vibrant discussions going; they just dont live on the article pages themselves. Same reason why r/Oakland and r/SanFrancisco are so heavily censored. What is the point of the comment section in the first place (I quasi-ironically posted in the comment section here)? We didnt have the time and didnt see the benefit of continuing with the comments. We love it, were thrilled. Neither the defense lawyer nor the judge has a right to object or ask for an explanation and the case is automatically assigned to another judge. I didn't know what "app" meant as I use PROGRAMS which are much more full. Our editors engage with readers on social media on a regular basis, particular Facebook and Instagram, the latter of which weve recently been using to ask for input on our content and for submissions as part of science imageryfocused contests. Though a few months had passed since he died Loony SFGate commenters are, of course, nutting over it as well. Huge piece of undeveloped Bay Area land just got much East Bay home buyers are getting pickier, trends show. When you're finished with a hot dish, such as a stew, the food safety priority is keeping it hot or cooling it fast. First came fosta / sesta. We blew our chance to use it. And an adventure it has been, but not so much a positive one. This had happened decades before, and the city had failed to learn its lesson. So, what do you do? Phone Soap 3 Sanitizing . Disease-causing bacteria readily grow in what experts call the "danger zone . Beyond Section 230: Three paths to making the big tech platforms more transparent and accountable. Final atmospheric river storm to hit Bay Area. We do a podcast now, which is really helpful. During that period, Breyer said, the office never blanket-challenged a judge.. [Social media] in its best form leads to really rich conversations. I think the only way it works is to use their "app" which I am learning that's what majority of people do now. Rebuilding our CMS and tweaking our article-level pages is about engagement. Retrieved January 18, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/09/what-happened-after-7-news-sites-got-rid-of-reader-comments/. You can't be serious. It was much more than just the place where 81-year-old Livin was spending her retirement it was the home she had lovingly built with her husband, Cleo, over the course of 35 years. Chortle. We have discussion for every article we post on Facebook, everything we post on Tumblr, everything that we tweet, really across any social channel that isnt the article page itself. Were not looking to start an argument; were looking to report the news. PopSci is lucky in that our community of readers and followers is very curious, positive, and interested in learning more about all sorts of subjects. Theyd had to evacuate abruptly. And more outlets are finding that their comments are falling far short of the goal of encouraging debate and civil discourse among a representative selection of users. Its not clear why comments are a particularly good part of the [website] experience, she said. Theyre a great way to reach out to people. In turn, they need to send us angry emails demanding our phone number. We use input from readers online (in the form of traffic analytics and emails) and in print (we still get a lot of handwritten letters) to gauge interest in our stories after publication. ", WW II structure falls 200 feet from cliff onto SF beach. The Investigative Journalism Foundation hopes to follow the money and leave the door wide open for other journalists. Piglet Pink was the hottest new color of 2022 and will continue to be popular in 2023. #pslovesneil (Thank you @fscottschafer @catchlight), A video posted by Popular Science (@popsci) on Aug 19, 2015 at 7:55am PDT. 230. That image was released . Nieman Journalism Lab. Why? We try other things. We are just happy to have an audience wherever we have it. One would think this story would appear on SFGATE but it was not. In certain posts, we chose to leave the comment thread on. Now, closing the comments section is not the only thing weve done. He credited the efforts with depressing turnout from Black and Hispanic voters. Watch Dr. @neildegrassetyson illustrate this concept for our new #HowToBeAnExpert guide by smashing a banana frozen with liquid nitrogen! Hit their "free" recommendation for a service, immediately asked for $5.99 for one time use. Remove this man, Democratic Sen. LaTonya Johnson, who is Black and from Milwaukee, said at a news conference. And why is SF Gate afraid of hearing their thoughts. As for audience behavior: When FTW removed comments in December 2013, it had 8 million monthly unique users. Response to @AAModelMinority on racial slur used in Bravo show: Some might, but I'm not comfortable with your generalizations. AS TRUMP WOULD SAY FAKE,,,, I don't want to give 1 star but zero not an option" Still, she said, it could have been much worse. | url = https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/09/what-happened-after-7-news-sites-got-rid-of-reader-comments/ Ellis, J. Theres nothing that can be said, theres no apology. TWO acts of congress that eroded those protections. The Bravo Network has removed a racist anti-Japanese slur from a new show following a protest from an Asian American member of the US Civil Rights Commission, reports SF Gate. SF Gate has a consumer rating of 1.67 stars from 6 reviews indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Brooke Jenkins is removing one of California's most veteran judges without explanation from new juvenile cases. Which Bay Area city is best for you? He filled a dumpster outside with flood-damaged debris, furniture and belongings he hadnt been able to save. I don't want to give 1 star but zero not an option, Tip for consumers:they advertised a "free" service, was immediately asked for $5.99 for one time use. President and Fellows of Harvard College, unless otherwise noted. I consider us to be in the age of engagement right now, in the sense that our social thrust has a very specific plan behind it. Those who don't want to remove ceramic tiles by hand or pay a lot of money to hire pros can rent a tile-removing . Rosa and Santiago Clarn, ages 75 and 79, drove up just after lunch. Meteorologist Gerry Daz explains what this storm is slated to bring to the Bay Area and if drier air will limit its impacts. For a short period at the end of 2014, it appeared that publishers had . gallery owner who sprayed homeless woman in viral video apologizes. Livin gets a hug in her flooded home from her friend, Stacey Cobarruvias. All the best things to do, to see, and discuss in the San Francisco Bay Area! They joined the ranks of other outlets, including The Chicago Sun-Times and Popular Science, that abandoned the practice in favor of letting users discuss stories on social channels instead. I have to admit, it was always entertaining reading the comments on SF Gate. People arent flying into stories they happen to see in their feed and leaving a comment and jumping out and starting chaos. Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief, and Helen Havlak, engagement editor: We didnt get rid of them, and that makes us a little different from everybody else you might be talking to. Democrats - with a 95-53 majority in the House, pending three special elections; and a 24-12 edge in the Senate - have several related bills pending, including an extension of the nearly three-year-old executive order that created a shutoff moratorium in the pandemic. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. 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